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Franklin Zetlis “Frank” Ashley

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Franklin Zetlis “Frank” Ashley

Birth
Buckingham, Lee County, Florida, USA
Death
1 Dec 1921 (aged 20)
Burial
Stuart, Martin County, Florida, USA Add to Map
Plot
Lot 14
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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 Warren "Joe" Ashley & Lugenia Clay
Brothers: John Hopkins, Juluis Edward "Ed", William Sidney "Bill" & Robert Harris
Sisters: Mary Alice, Lola Rebecca, Daisy Mae & Eva Jeanette 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 Warren "Joe" Ashley & Lugenia Clay
Brothers: John Hopkins, Juluis Edward "Ed", William Sidney "Bill" & Robert Harris
Sisters: Mary Alice, Lola Rebecca, Daisy Mae & Eva Jeanette Ashley

Body lost at sea.

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