THEY CALLED HER ROE

THEY CALLED HER ROE

She was not afraid to try anything. She swam in the creeks or rivers, avoiding the alligators, pumped handcars racing along the railroad tracks, and loved to fly. At 12 years old, she rode one of the first trains to travel from Plant City to Tampa, accompanied by her father, James Taylor Evers, a prominent Plant City merchant. In 1925, she flew from Paris to London with her sister and landed unexpectedly in a cow pasture where the pilot repaired…