The Oldest Graveyard In Orlando - Sad & Bizarre Stories Of Greenwood Cemetery / Florida History
Greenwood Cemetery Orlando
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city of Orlando Florida the city
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beautiful it's nickname look at the
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storm drain
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here there's a little man
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hle right here along this
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road brick
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road we visiting Greenwood
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Cemetery never been in here to this
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property
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before the oldest one in Orlando
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dating back to the
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1880s the very first
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one welcome everyone Adam the woo here
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as the recording of this Monday May 20th
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2024 let's see what I can find see what
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I can
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learn and just have a
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day here in downtown Orlando the city
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beautiful Greenwood
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formerly the Orlando cemetery and they
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changed the name years later join
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me as I walk through shall you now I am
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somewhat familiar with Orlando some of
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the notable
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names so I would
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imagine a lot of them are laid to rest
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here probably a lot of the headstone I'm
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going to recognize some of the names I'm
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either familiar
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with the locals from back in the day
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mostly based on city not city street
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names here in the
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city and a lot of the original street
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names of any any City are usually based
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on the
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original people that were in the town
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Andor City when it
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started see what I can find
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angel now walking in here I don't really
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know a whole lot of INF about it so I'm
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kind of researching as I go I saw this
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maum here so I looked up the name on the
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top Wilmot and discovered a sad story of
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a grandmother that took her grandson
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out on the lake and it ended tragically
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grandson
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drowned and she was so distraught over
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it it kind of plagued her the rest of
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her life this is the family
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plot where the boy is laid
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and the mother and his father are here
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in the Wilmont
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maalum you have the tree in front here
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with the hanging
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moss really the most noticeable thing
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when I first walk started walking up the
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side of the
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Hill stands out in comparison to the
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other headstones
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just because of the size of
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it you can see where there used to be
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staircase
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here leading up to that section stairs
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are still here but really nothing at the
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top of them
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Starbucks come to think of I don't know
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if I've ever met anyone with the last
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name of Starbuck but here is the
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family plot there Catherine Lincoln
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headstone sper family
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plot Charles Julia Mary
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Frank margia Pratt spey this one's back
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dating back to
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1935 Elanor
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Gibson born in 1895
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graveyards you know for a lot of folks
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back in a different time this is really
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the last
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relic of anyone from current state or in
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the
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future to see that they
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existed weren't a lot of photos back
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then obviously no videos of people and
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there were some news articles you could
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probably dig up on a lot
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of info on some of the
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names but really if they didn't
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have like JM tenel here passed away in '
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08 I wouldn't know who that was unless I
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just walked by and saw his headstone
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there JM
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tinnel The Headstone has been broken
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off her Wesley
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busk passed on in
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1888
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wow that was 8
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years after they built this place his
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cross has fallen here of course over
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time some of them are so weather warn
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you can't even see the names well around
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this side you can kind of make it
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out
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1912 wow look at this one it's cracked
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open new headstone but definitely
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original brick work
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there put the crack in it okay recognize
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this this is Joe Tinkers
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that's pretty
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cool tiker field of course named after
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him here in town this is the family
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section clay Mundy and
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Tinker a few baseballs have been placed
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here got the Cubs emblem famous is a
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member of One of baseball's greatest
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double play combinations from Tinker to
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Evers to
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chance a big leager from two 1902 to
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1916 with the Chicago Cubs and the
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Cincinnati Reds the Chicago feds manager
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Cincinnati
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1913 and Chicago National League 1916
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Short Stop on the Cubs team that won the
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pennet in 1906 07 08 and
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1910 and I've always heard the name and
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passed by tinker field many many
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times here he is in fact here's the
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original headstone
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that is pretty neat and then behind
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there is delmare s Nicholson nickname
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radio Nick passed away and I'm going to
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see who radio Nick is he very
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interesting one of the things he was
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known for was a big advocate of helping
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animals and he went on to really be the
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front runner of promoting that there
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should a zoo in the
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area very interesting
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right I come to think of it I don't know
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if I've ever
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seen what looks to be a
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mosquito on a headstone before or
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possibly a
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wasp ingrained in there
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see the little small plane there
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Landing we're not too far from The Milk
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District and there's a
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small community airport over near there
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too this is also
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slightly different than what you'd see
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for
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recovering Chef Teddy is off
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duty the Heaven's
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manager this is very
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sweet just say the fragrance of a flower
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she still lingers when it's gone the
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beauty that was hers alone and thoughts
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is with us still and the hearts that
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love her she lives on and always will
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you'll always be
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remembered I sojourned well I journeyed
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well and while I lie at rest
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wi at the
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fair win at teddy
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bear wow this is also very interesting I
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did not realize there was enough of a a
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hill and a burm here that you could see
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downtown
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Orlando from the top of this just
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learned something new this area is very
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flat but up here you could almost get a
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little higher up perspective downtown
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my first job I ever had was at Publix
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worked a lot of grocery retail worked at
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Walmart grocery in the Super Center in
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St Cloud Florida I worked at wind Dixie
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so I know the name TG Le dairy products
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very well anyone that lives in the
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central Florida or Florida area has
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probably either seen or consumed one of
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this gentleman's products TG Lee Thomas
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never never realized his first name was
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Thomas Thomas G Lee and his wife
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Elizabeth right here in the underneath
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this little palm
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tree very
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beautiful with the airplane flying over
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landing at the little airport next to
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the Milk District Man known for his milk
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and I didn't realize this so I looked up
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some info on him he was honored at the
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temporary
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Resort for his for
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contributing to the
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Florida try to draw it a blank on the
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word for contributing to to the Florida
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Enterprise business Enterprise if you
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will I don't know why I have trouble
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thinking of what to say with that but
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yeah back in
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75 contemporary would have only been
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four years old they had a huge ceremony
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article I was reading said there was 8
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or 900 people in attendance he was a
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very well-loved
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man TG
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Lee know that name very well from work
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in grocery retail all right the more I
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wander around the more I think of
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different notable names cannot forget
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about Bob
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Carr the mayor of Orlando up until 1967
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in fact he was the mayor from
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56 until 67
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Bob Carr Performing Art Center I believe
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he has that named after
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him so he was the mayor when they
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announced that they were going to be
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building Walt Disney World in fact he
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would have been the mayor I guess that
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would have been his tenure when Walt was
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here announcing the Florida project over
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on lakeola with the
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governor as well now he passed away
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before 71
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when well Disney World
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open the mayor that took over after him
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would have been the
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one let me see where he is see if he's
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here
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too very
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interesting Bob car Robert S
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car did a lot for the
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ganes
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car very
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fascinating and TG Lee is right over
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there so it's in the same general area
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another notable name over here
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mayor if you're from this area certainly
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will recognize this
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name Milan never know how to pronounce
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this first name m a l o n passed away in
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1916 born in
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1887 no 1837 I stand correct 1837 he
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was definitely much older than being
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born in 87
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1837 till June 27th of
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1916 came here started off in the
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newspaper business from what I was
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reading and
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then became the
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though he also started a church here in
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town the First
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Unitarian him and his
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wife
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Josephine and Amelia
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it's interesting that
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neither Amelia or
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Josephine have any dates on theirs but
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he
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does Mr
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Langford and Marietta Perkins lford his
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wife beautiful flowers
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here they passed on in
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2011 6 years prior to him she passed
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away he was mayor from 67 to 198 let
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this sink in
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1967 to
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1980 so wdw was being built then of
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course magic can of Walt Disney World
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open in 71 so for nine years after it
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opened he got to see this
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area grow considerably and
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nothing that he probably could have
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imagined since he pass on an 80 for how
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much it has grown but he saw the
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formidable years of the explosion of
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Central Florida this man right here Carl
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T Langford who was the
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mayor of
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Orlando and when I was was over here
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looking for this I walked from way over
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there I passed another notable name that
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I had forgotten about and I saw their
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little little plot over there family
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plot so I'm going to walk over there and
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show that too just everywhere you walk
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through here if you're familiar with
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Central Florida you'll notice a lot of
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names this entire area belongs to the
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bumes well the bumes and the
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others beloved local journalist and
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historian Dean Ys
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there's also Ella West
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bumby and of course the most probably
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famous I don't even know famous is the
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word but the most most people would
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know is Joseph bumby Joe
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1843 till February 11th of
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1911 and Mary flowers El
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Mary flowers elderen who was his
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wife she was born in 1846
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1917 I mean it's just kind of hard to
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wrap your head around that Joe bumby has
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been
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gone for
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113
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years but his name lives on around these
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parts among doing a lot of things for
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the community created and owned and ran
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one of the first and largest hardware
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stores in the area him and his wife had
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nine
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kids nine children which was reading
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this online came to be known as the
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bumby
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boys amazing how you know accessible
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information is now you can go into
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something not planning on it just kind
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of going with the flow and then you find
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something you just look it up and you're
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like it's pretty neat and you kind of
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fact check it a little bit read other
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articles like the bumby boys never knew
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about the bumby boys knew about Mr bumby
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not about the bumby
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boys and then occasionally you'll get a
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placard was not expecting to see a
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placard here see what this
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says members of the EPs and shine
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families descendants of President Thomas
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Jefferson what the heck the author of
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the Declaration of Independence and
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statute of Virginia for religious
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freedoms members of the
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families continue to other
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side the shines were among Orlando's
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earliest civil minded families Civic
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minded Civic minded
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families in 1879 Thomas built a home on
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Orange Avenue with the first indoor
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bathroom in
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Orlando he named the cross street
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Jefferson Street in honor of his wife's
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family
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Jefferson look at
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this got a little Thomas Jefferson there
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etched in there
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of
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such is the Kingdom of Heaven that's
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what that
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1842 laid to rest on Easter
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Day the sun has gone
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down while it was yet day but unto the
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upright there is can't tell what that
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says there is something to the light of
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Gardens Harry
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Lou and Mary Harry and Mary I never
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realized his wife name was Mary
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Harry
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PE I've been to those Gardens quite a
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few times for different occasions
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events very enjoyable little walkr
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okay evidently there are three of these
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sections
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here this being the
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third this little section in the
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middle so the interesting thing about
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this
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here which is a little different because
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they're not with their family they're
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with
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bracket So reading a little bit kind of
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looked it up
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and they were saying that the parents
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found or those in relation to them maybe
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not necessarily the parents but family
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of them found comfort in that fact that
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they were
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amongst other babies
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I really don't know if I've ever seen
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anything quite like this before
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so I was looking on a
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map and said that this area was for the
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Sunnyland
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hospital but you'll notice there's
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really not a whole lot there's only a
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few and then when you get over to the
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newer section over there there
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definitely is a lot more and I'm
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noticing on these the dates on these
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only go to about 19
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30 Giver tag here's one from
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29 so I believe I have found the right
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section for the Sunny Land section but
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there is no designation there's no
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placard for
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this just a few scattered through
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here Sunnyland Hospital I remember many
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years ago was sitting abandoned
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31 mod L Herring
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1931 George Frost
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32 or a Mosley
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32 this one is unlegible
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AR vasara and
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M osavi
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oh look this one up Fred S weeks born in
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1839 got to love the Ed
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webs can look anything up and I can't
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guarantee this is true but as the tale
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goes of Fred
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weeks what is now this property way back
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in the day he was traveling through this
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area and there was some fires going on
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he wanted to buy some land this is just
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kind of paraphrasing what I was reading
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purchased the land but he couldn't see
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the back section of the land because of
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the fires he returned later on down the
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road to see his property and realized it
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was all just nasty swamp land he had
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been duped so at the portion of his
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property as a
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joke he put this quote on a piece of
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stone out in front and it said a certain
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man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho
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and fell among Thieves
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basically in honor or homage or to draw
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attention to the fact that he had been
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cheated for buying some swamp land and
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then many years later when he passed
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away here in this maum he had the same
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quotation put on the door however does
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not
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have his end date on
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it and as the story goes as I was
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reading his wife did not want to have
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her name on there either but I believe
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she's probably in there she didn't
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really like the amusement of the joke I
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don't see it that being that much of a
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joke though it makes sense to me it's
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got some moss on it a little weather
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worn 1848 to
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1901 it's really interesting if you
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just take the time
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to peruse around a place and necessarily
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has to be a cemetery
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but this one's got a squirrel on it
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this is an older section also you can
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tell by the
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headstones looks like there's another
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placard over there oh actually no I've
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looped back to where I just was that's
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the Thomas Thomas Jefferson clot family
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plot
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had a pretty good pretty good day today
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without really having a game plan ahead
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of time again I'll probably return here
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in the future I'm sure there's a lot
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more that I can see
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cover and
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learn from in this place but this is my
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first
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time first time coming in here
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we start heading out
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now thanks for
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watching that's going to do it for
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today see you in the next video the