Harry grew ferns and shipped them in cases (30 bunches of 50 sprays) packed with 50 pounds of ice to New York City for floral arrangements. When this proved unsuccessful, Harry started keeping bees on his own and other people's property and by 1920 had 600 colonies of bees from Deerfield Beach to Hobe Sound. This business proved to be the most profitable of all his enterprises, especially during the sugar shortage during World War I. Harry shipped his honey by rail in 50-gallon barrels to Jacksonville , Philadelphia , and New York .
Harry died of pneumonia, a side-effect of his pernicious anemia, on March 14, 1924 , on the Bahama bed in his living room. [Pernicious anemia results when the stomach lacks a protein substance called "intrinsic factor" needed to absorb vitamin B-12.]
SUSAN MARGARET SANDERS DuBOIS (1876-1977
Susan, born January 29, 1876 , was the daughter of Henry Sanders (1841-1934) and Susanna Simpson (d. 1899). Henry was born in England and at the age of 14 came to America with his sister and brother, Tom. The young men joined the Union cavalry and were sent to Kansas . After the war, they homesteaded there and married sisters. Henry was a farmer. His son, Will (died 1976, aged 99) married Hattie Gale, whom he had met in college in Manhattan , Kansas . At age 16, before attending college, Hattie had been the first school teacher in Dade County , and after graduation she returned to teach in the newly built (1886) Little Red School House in Palm Beach . She was the daughter of the Rev. Eldridge Gale, a Lake Worth pioneer. Will followed in 1890 and became the captain of a tugboat. He wrote to his father in Kansas of the great possibilities in southeast Florida , and in 1891 Henry came, having made the journey from Jacksonville by schooner. Susanna remained in Kansas and never saw Florida . The family was musical: Henry played bass horn and tuba in local bands and Will and Susan both played piano.