Joe Pelot, I have researched your paternal gr gf, John Francis Pelot of Ocala. On the 1870 U. S. Census from Ocala, Marion Co., FL, he is listed as a photographer. Indeed, within the last three years some of my cousins pulled two photos with his name on the back. The best we can estimate is circa 1869 when the two pictures were taken by John Francis Pelot. Both pictures are online at www.fivay.org Hernando site. This is the URL:

http://fivay.org/images/ghs2914.html During the Civil War, David Hope ran a "salt works" in today's Pasco Co., FL near the coast and Port Richey.

Is it possible that you might have more pictures of unknown Floridians?
Charles