What happened to frances fannie taylor rosewood?

Fact: The 12 or so adult black males in Rosewood likely all worked full or part-time at the sawmill operations in the neighboring community of Sumner (about 3 times the population size of Rosewood, which apparently did have some blacks - no way of knowing how many). read more

Rosewood is Much Different Today. The events that took place in January of 1923 forever changed the town of Rosewood and Levy County as a whole. After Rosewood was destroyed, the African American residents of the town never returned and the Saw Mill Fannie Taylor’s husband was employed at burned down. read more

Fannie Taylor's story The Rosewood massacre occurred after a white woman in Sumner claimed she had been assaulted by a black man. Frances "Fannie" Taylor was 22 years old in 1923 and married to James, a 30-year-old millwright employed by Cummer & Sons in Sumner. read more