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Julius Edward “Ed” Ashley

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Julius Edward “Ed” Ashley

Birth
Monroe County, Florida, USA
Death
1 Dec 1921 (aged 40)
USA
Burial
Stuart, Martin County, Florida, USA Add to Map
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...In 1921, however, he was arrested again while delivering a large load of liquor near Wauchula. Ashley's incarceration may have been one of the luckiest days of his life. In just a few months after his capture, his brothers Ed and Frank vanished at sea while on one of their trips to the Bimini Islands. They had continued their bootlegging operations without him and on a dark night in October 1921, made one more trip crossing the Gulf Stream. It would be their last...

Paretns: Julius "Joe" Warren & Lugenia Clay Ashley
Sisters: Daisy Mae, Mary Alice, Lola Rebecca & Eva Jeanette
Brothers: John Hopkins, Robert Harris, William Sidney "Bill" & Franklin "Frank" Zetlis Ashley

Body lost at sea.
...In 1921, however, he was arrested again while delivering a large load of liquor near Wauchula. Ashley's incarceration may have been one of the luckiest days of his life. In just a few months after his capture, his brothers Ed and Frank vanished at sea while on one of their trips to the Bimini Islands. They had continued their bootlegging operations without him and on a dark night in October 1921, made one more trip crossing the Gulf Stream. It would be their last...

Paretns: Julius "Joe" Warren & Lugenia Clay Ashley
Sisters: Daisy Mae, Mary Alice, Lola Rebecca & Eva Jeanette
Brothers: John Hopkins, Robert Harris, William Sidney "Bill" & Franklin "Frank" Zetlis Ashley

Body lost at sea.


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