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State of Florida.
Oounty ot st. LUoie.
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Personally. appeared before me Dan Putoh who after being duly sworn says that he is ov-
er t~ age of UYenty one yesrs, and that he is and haB been a resident of at. Looie and
Brevard Oounties for more than thirty year. last past, and that he knew John W. Zellers, th,
owner of th, North Half of Government Lot 2, Seotion 36 !4wnahip 34 3o~th Range 40 East in
~ his lite time and knows that he is dead, that the sald John W. Zellera was generally believ-
ed in the oommunity to have oommitted suioide at Titusville. Brevard County. Florida,
during the years 1893 or 1694.
D~ Futoh
Sworn to and 8ubsorlb~d before
..:I me this th e 15th day 0: Augu.q t. 1923.
A. K. Fultz Taylor
Notary Publio, .dtate at Large, l.ly
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Filed and reoorded this 15th day o~ugust,
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A. D. 1923.
P. C. b1dred. Clerk Circuit Court.
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S~te of ~lor ida,
Oounty of st. Lucie.
Personally sppeared before me Beatrice H. Middlebrooks who being duly sworn says
, that ahe knew ~jamin ~. Darling in his life time and 4new his family; that the said
'T":.U '.. Darling lived on his homestead Lot 1 and South half of Lot 2, Jection 36, Town-
. .hip 34 South, Rsnge 40 East aoross the river from Fort Pierce up to the time of his death;
that the wife of the Baid JenJamdn F. Darling is now desd, and that Ira Darling died with-
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out wife or children and is buried in Fort Pieroe cemetery; that Willie or William Darling
was in a houae-boat which \'1a3 reported to have capsized during a gale that ooculed during
the oonatruotion of Key West Railway eztension; that there were six oocu~ants of the said
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: HO~8eboat and it ~s said U.at none of the men or the hOUBElboet have ever been seen since, and
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j that th.e deathj\ol' the Usaid Willie or William Darling was eatnbl1shedto the aatiafaction of
adtnaurance cOO1pany ~o. tha~ the insurance o~ his l~fe was.oollected by the beneficiariea of
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Affiant :fu% ther says tr.at the only heira surviving tlle said Benjamin F. Darling on or
after Ootober 1912 were Jennie Bath. at one time known as Jennie Ruwson, Katie u. Miohelsen,
8IId Jame 8 .,.
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))lrline,. Affiant fur ther 8a;lli that she knew the family history particularly
said Katie Darling lfiohelsen Vlaa praotically adopted by her siater, 1Ira. Ditt-
with whom affiant li\"ed during their life time and Katie Darling llioha1-
member of their family for sOlIe years and was known as Katie Dittmar
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j-tbll the 16th dB;? of August, 1923.
: Fred ~ee
i Notary Publio, State at Large, ).ly
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P. O. KLDR.IID, -Clerk CiXouit Court.
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