Individual Notes

Note for: Edith Lewis, - Index

Individual Note:
FOLKS WE KNEW WHILE IN THE K.U. by Marie McCready: Edith Lewis

Individual Notes

Note for: Frank S. Lewis, 3 JUL 1869 - 7 DEC 1945 Index

Occupation:   Telegrapher & Accountant for Barren-Collier Organization in Everglades
     Date:   AFT 1923

Occupation:   Bookkeeper & Treasurer of K.U.
     Date:   BET 1944 AND 1945

Occupation:   Telegrapher

Residence:
     Date:   DEC 1943
     Place:   Estero, Lee, Florida

Event:
     Type:   Arrived in Florida
     Date:   1922

Event:   Tamiami Trail Blazer
     Type:   Trail Blazer
     Date:   BET 4 APR 1923 AND 21 ??? 1923

Event:   Tamiami Trail Masonic Lodge in Everglades
     Type:   Organizations

Burial:
     Date:   DEC 1945
     Place:   Estero, Lee, Florida

Individual Note:
     THE KORESHAN UNITY MEMBERSHIP LIST by Claude J. Rahn: Frank S. Lewis; Born: 1869; Died: 7 Dec 1945; Married.

FOLKS WE KNEW WHILE IN THE K.U. by Marie McCready: Frankie Lewis.

THE AMERICAN EAGLE; October 1990; Vol. 75; Page 5: Koreshans Made Trek; "On April 4, they picked up four men at Estero. They were: Koreshans Frank S. Lewis (the only Trail Blazer to keep a daily record of their cross-the-Everglades odessy), Alfred Christensen, Charles Hunt and Allen Andrews, editor of The American Eagle, the Koreshan newspaper. Lewis and his wife, Anna, later retired to the little white bungalow just north of the Koreshan Library/Museum.......

BURIAL: Koreshan Unity Cemetery--lot 40; Inscription: Frank Lewis; 1869-Dec. 1945.

FLAMING SWORD, Community Current Events by Adah Price, January 1946: "Brother Frank S. Lewis died at Lee Memorial Hospital, Ft. Myers, Friday, Dec. 7. The deceased was born in Port Dickinson, a suburb of Binghamton, N. Y., July 3, 1869. He became a telegrapher by profession, serving first with the Lehigh Valley Railroad, and several years later with the Western Union Telegraph Co. in New York City with whom he remained until coming to Florida in 1922. In 1923 he participated in the now historic Tamiami Trail Blazing trip with a
party of men who took the first cars across from Ft. Myers to Miami before the Trail was completed. Shortly thereafter he became associated with the Barron Collier organization at Everglades, serving as telegrapher and accountant in the general offices until he retired and moved to Estero in December 1943. He was also secretary of the Tamiami Trail Masonic Lodge in Everglades. For nearly two years past he had served as bookkeeper and treasurer of The Koreshan Unity at Estero. He left no immediate family, other than his widow, Mrs. Anna Lewis. Mr. Lewis was a man of genial and kindly disposition whom to know was but to admire, and leaves a host of friends to mourn his loss. Burial was in Estero."

Individual Notes

Note for: Olive Newcomb, ABT 1915 - Index

Graduation:
     Date:   1 JUN 1933
     Place:   LaBelle High School/Pres. of her class

Individual Note:
     THE FLAMING SWORD; Community Current Events by Alafae Stephens; July 1933: Sisters Vesta Newcomb and Cora Stephens, Brothers Claude Rahn and Laurie Bubbett, and the writer motored to LaBelle on June first to attend the high school graduation exercises. Miss Olive Newcomb, niece of Sister Vesta, was one of the charming graduates. Olive was the president of her class."

Individual Notes

Note for: Miles Emerson Barager, 30 AUG 1898 - JUL 1981 Index

Individual Note:
Vital Record; Social Security Death Index, 1937-1998: Miles Barager; Date of birth: 30 Aug 1898; Social Security applied for in Washington; Date of death: July 1981; Residence: Seattle, Washington 98115; SS#: 531-01-0788.