The first of two Gainesville cabins built in same spot 143 years apart -- The remarkable story of the pioneer potter who built a life and a cabin in the frontier of Gainesville in the 1880s

The first of two Gainesville cabins built in same spot 143 years apart -- The remarkable story of the pioneer potter who built a life and a cabin in the frontier of Gainesville in the 1880s

This 1903 photo shows pioneer settlers John DeLoss Lawrence and his wife Eliza (Zimmerman Garfit) Lawrence, far right, in front of the cabin they built on homesteaded land a couple miles north of Gainesville. Five of their seven children are also pictured. They are, from left: Harry DeLoss, Ruth Ellen, Alice May, Edith Mable and Isabel Lawrence. Not pictured are their two other sons, Mose and Frank Garfit, from Eliza’s first marriage and who Joh…