Ingliss Frederick Roundtree (1912-1976)
Introduction
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A native of Quincy, Florida, “English” Roundtree moved to Jacksonville Beach in his late teens and spent the rest of his life in the bar and restaurant industry, first as a waiter at the Copper Kettle in Jacksonville Beach and later as a bartender and a club manager on Shetter Avenue.
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Alphonso Roundtree pedaling a toy car behind the Homestead in the late 1930s.
Backstory and Context
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A World War II veteran, Roundtree was married to Maurice Sanders, a cook whom he first met in the 1930s while living in a boarding house turned restaurant on Beach Boulevard known as The Homestead. Roundtree had a son named Alphonso Ingliss Roundtree who also cooked at the Homestead restaurant when he was 16. Alphonso, who died in 1978, is pictured pedaling a toy car behind the Homestead in the late 1930s. Before his death at age 64, Roundtree worked as a waiter at the Ponte Vedra Inn & Club. His government-issued headstone in Lee Kirkland Cemetery lists his Army military rank.