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i'i liti ---'r- glades." Laura was the girlfriend the "moll" of John Ashley, perhaps the most notorious gangster in the history of Palm Beach County and the Treasure Coast. One report described Laura as "a large woman with dark hair, a deep suntan, and wore a revolver strapped to her waist." She allegedly helped plan crimes for the gang. Devastated by Ashley's death in 1924, she later ran a small store in Canal Point. During an argument with a customer over change, she grabbed a bottle of cleaning fluid from a shelf and drank it; she was dead in minutes. guide as well as a heavy equipment operator who, in the 1930s, helped build the big dike around Lake Okeechobee.

He moved to West Palm Beach in 1930 and ran a deep sea charter boat out of Riviera Beach. In 1944, he was elected to the office now called the Supervisor of Elections. He started the permanent registration system, helped modernize the office, and was first president of the state's association of supervisors. He stepped down in 1961 in a failed State Senate run. In later years, he ran a fish camp in tiny Buck-head Ridge, southwest of Okeechobee.

He died at age 82 in March 1982 Dewitt's brother, J.W. "Woody" Upthegrove, meanwhile, was a longtime police officer and made four failed attempts at Palm Beach County sheriff. Then there was their sister, Laura Upthegrove, "Queen of the Ever Eliot Kleinberg Post Time Our July 16 column on the history of Okeechobee prompted a note from Marilyn Miller in Palm Beach Gardens, who once was acquainted with the Upthegrove family and asked about the origin of the southeast Okeechobee County settlement called Upthegrove Beach. The family for which it's named is one forever linked to both community service and personal shame. The original name was Op Den Graef, which roughly translates to "by the descendant Sheldon Upthegrove of West Palm Beach.

He DeWitt Upthegrove pilots his skiff through a narrow Lake Okeechobee trail. As a child he was the yard boy for Thomas Edison's grounds. In1944, he was elected to the office now called the Supervisor of Elections. CONTRIBUTED tam William Hendry Upthegrove, who'd fought with General Sherman, came to the Gainesville area in 1865. In 1912, (D 4 miles Lake Okeechobee Upthegrove Beach STEVELOPEZSTAFF son Roger established the settlement, which lies on the northeast corner of the Lake Okeechobee shoreline, about 10 miles south of Okeechobee.

A brother, John, was the father of Clarence Dewitt Upthegrove, born Aug. 26, 1899. As a child, Dewitt was a yard boy for inventor Thomas Edison's grounds in Fort Myers. He was a commercial fisherman and a proof of identity, we must see your: U.S. driver's license; State-issued non-driver identification card; or U.S.

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