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PAM COOPER’S PATHWAYS: Trying to solve mystery of burial plot in Fellsmere (Part 2) Previously, we learned that Thomas Benton Ohio. The family moved to McLean County, Kelly may be an imposter buried in the Fellsmere Illinois, where Stark joined the Army in May 1875. cemetery. His age does not correspond with Stark deserted in August 1875. After that date he historical events and records. disappeared. The first time Thomas Benton Kelly The 1912 Fellsmere newspaper article states appears in the records was when he married in that he “knows all about the old Forty-niners, Ozark County, Missouri in 1887. for he was in California during that exciting Years later, Ben R. Kelly, the great grandson of Pam Cooper period.” We know that is impossible if he was Thomas Kelly inherited a Family Bible. It revealed born in 1851. Mr. Kelly is looking suspicious. Kelly was born in 1851 in Ohio and he had a It became apparent many men across the United States brother called John and his father was a Stark. DNA tests falsely claimed to be on the USS Monitor. The U.S. Naval later proved that the descendants of Thomas Benton Kelly Institute checked their records and they were not able to were genetically related to members of the Stark family. locate Kelly. The trail of evidence that Ben Kelly followed is an amazing Next records to check are cemetery, probate, land, story in itself. death, marriage and descendants. There has to be a Arriving in Fellsmere in 1912, Thomas Benton Kelly mistake somewhere. At Ancestry.com, descendants of may have found another place to hide, but 100 years later, Kelly posted a family tree. Not surprisingly, they too I believe he has been discovered. came to a dead end. One family member found a possible Pam Cooper is supervisor of the Archive Center & Genealogy Department at the connection to David Franklin Stark of Highland County, Indian River County main library. Lemmon Drop Special 10% Off Coupon Expires December 31st,2016
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The 10 driest Februarys on record (since 1942), based on inch es of precipitation : 1) 2001: 0.0 4 2) 1945: 0.0 5 3) 1944: 0.1 2 4) 2009: 0.1 6 5) 1985: 0.3 2 6) 2011: 0.3 3 7) 1948: 0.5 5 8) 1976: 0.6 1 9) 1977: 0.6 9 10) 1996: 0.8 6
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improvements,” Bill said. Bill and Mary are great ambassadors for shooting sports. Bill surprised me when he said he and Mary don’t hunt. “We don’t kill anything,” he said. Their hobby is shooting at clay targets. “There are no fixed targets here,” he said. “Everything here is a moving Russ Lemmon target.” A few years ago, Mary didn’t have any interest in shotgun shooting. But a woman let her borrow a shotgun at a shooting range, and Mary was hooked. “It’s addictive,” she said. The year’s biggest event at Indian River Shooting Sports, located at 5925 82nd Ave., is the Caribbean Classic. The event, expected to draw 200 competitors from around the
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world, is scheduled from Feb. 11-16. If you’ve read my column through the years, you know I become a registered Republican every other year so I can have a meaningful vote in the August primary. The rest of the time, I’m an NPA (No Party Affiliation). Well, because I’m fascinated by the race for the Republican nomination for president, and the role Donald Trump is playing in it, I decided to become a registered Republican earlier than normal this year. Florida’s Presidential Preference Primary is scheduled for March 15. Thanks to Cathy Boyle, an election specialist at the Supervisor of Elections office, for making the switch so painless. “A Chorus Line” is now No. 6 on Riverside Theatre’s list of all-time most popular plays. The play ended its three-week run on Jan. 24. Look for Riverside’s all-time Top 15 list on Page 3 sometime this month. A text from Rosie Livings: “It took you 201 countdown
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songs to make it to one I like – ‘Wichita Lineman’!!” A follow-up to last week’s column on the volunteer at the Used Book Depot who found $380 in a book that had been donated: Thanks to the efforts of volunteer Verity Minahan, the money was returned to JoAnn Joule. (There’s a photo of the women on LemmonLines.com.) JoAnn’s husband, Bill, died in May. JoAnn’s daughter-in-law is Cindy Carson, who owns Dragonfly Designs. In going through Bill’s books, Cindy had the opportunity to take the book with the $380 inside, “Alexander the Great’s Art of Strategy: Lessons from the Great Empire Builder,” but passed. It was on top of a big stack. This week’s “Good Sport Award” goes to Bevelon Theriault for allowing me to take a photo of her while underneath a hair dryer at Cuts ‘N Such Hair Salon. I had to take it – she was reading a certain newsletter. The photo is on the Lemmon Lines page on Facebook – it’s a good one! Super Bowl prediction: Denver 27, Carolina 24.
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starts in the summer. She travels the state looking for vendors who would be a good fit. There will be about 90 vendors at this year’s event. “We have tried to stay green,” Barbara said during our conversation at C.J. Cannon’s. The exclamation point has been there from That is, no vendors sell clothes, jewelry, oils or crafts. Barbara Russell the beginning. Saturday is the big day at Gardenfest! Attendance Gardenfest!, now in its 15th year, has proven worthy of is typically twice that of Sunday. the mark usually used for sentence-ending punctuation. “Saturday morning are the ‘real’ gardeners,” she said. (Jeb!, on the other hand, doesn’t seem to reflect the “Saturday morning, at 9, they’re standing at the gate.” personality of presidential candidate Jeb Bush.) A pop quiz for gardeners from Barbara: Usually held the same weekend as the Super Bowl, which “Do you know the secret of growing an orchid? Leave it alone.” is the case this year, Gardenfest! draws about 20,000 people Barbara says the Garden Club usually adds a few members to Riverside Park in Vero Beach. following Gardenfest! The club currently has about 220 Barbara Russell has been a co-chair of Gardenfest! – the members. It has been around for 87 years. signature event of the Garden Club of Indian River County If you’re interested in becoming a member, call – for the last 14 years. She says preparation for the event 772-567-4602.
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Top 500 countdown
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Russ Lemmon, who loves music (and lists), spent a lot of time putting together his Top 500 favorite songs of all-time. For the next few years, Lemmon Lines will be counting ‘em down. 296. “Joy to the World” (1971) Three Dog Night Memory: Hokey lyrics, but you can’t help but sing along.
February temperature extremes in Vero Beach … All-time high temperature in February: 89 (set on Feb. 6, 1943; Feb. 22, 1997; Feb. 28, 2001; Feb. 22, 2003; Feb. 23, 2008; and Feb. 24, 2012). All-time low temperature in February: 28 (set on Feb. 24, 1989). – Source: National Weather Service
295. “People Got to be Free” (1968) The Rascals Memory: As the story goes, this song was written after band members were threatened by a bunch of rednecks when their tour bus broke down in Fort Pierce.
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294. “Thank You” (2000) Dido Memory: The perfect love song. All the songs thus far in the countdown can be found on LemmonLines.com.
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