Miguel Guerrero, also spelled Gerrero, a Menorcan sailor born in 1817, established a fishing rancho at Boots Point in 1848 on the site of a prehistoric Indian village. In 1856 he met Frederica Kramer, born in 1830, the niece of Julia Atzeroth, who had come from Bavaria to help in the Atzeroths' store, and although they could not speak each other's language, they married on March 15, 1856. They lived nearby in a palm-thatched fisherman's hut and built a log cabin after the first of their five children was born. Miguel served in the Florida Mounted Militia in the 3rd Seminole Indian War, and during the Civil War he enlisted on March 5, 1862, in Co. K, 7th Florida Infantry, then was discharged for disability at Knoxville on March 9, 1863. He filed for homestead on April 3, 1868. In June 1868 a fever killed their sons Michael, age 11, and Frederick, age 9. Soon afterward Miguel went on a fishing trip, and when he returned home sick with fever, he found Frederica dead, holding baby Mary, while the two younger sons were wild with shock. Asa Bishop came by, helped bury Frederica, and took Miguel and the children to his home. Miguel died on July 4, 1868, at Bishop's Point. Christopher, age 4, and Mary, age 6 months, were adopted by Edmund and Electa Lee, but Mary died shortly afterward; Christopher was baptized Edmund Miguel Lee. Robert, age 2, was adopted by Capt. John and Mary Fogarty and baptized Robert Gerrero Fogarty. The Guerrero sons left a great family legacy passed on for generations.