Yesterday's post quoted a 1914 letter from Mrs. Ollie Tinney in which she explained how Pompano got its name. In another excerpt from the same letter, she discussed two of Pompano's pioneer settlers.

J. A. Saxon [was] one of the first settlers here after the F.E.C. Railroad came through. He was a section master at that time, and is one of the largest property owners here now. L. R. Smoak of Fairfield, with his family, is also one of the first settlers here, and lived in a palmetto shack the first year, 'til he could raise a little crop. Then in the summer time he went out on the ocean beach and picked up the drift lumber and made himself a more comfortable house. When the time came to farm, he would try again, year after year lifting himself a little higher, until now he has a comfortable home, and is still growing his crops year 'round.

Mrs. Tinney's letter was written less than twenty years after the beginning of the settlement and the arrival of the railroad.