Finding references to Ella Garner Taylor's home in Sharpes, Florida led to another set of news clippings which provide some color to the time spent escaping the New Jersey winter. Several of these also mention Ella's "charming daughter" Luella, who would have been in her early-mid 40s, enjoying several months a year in Florida while her husband William was traveling to film motion pictures.
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| Florida Today (Cocoa, FL), 17 Mar 1921 |
The summer picnic mentioned above would have been just before Luella and William departed New York for Europe.
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| Florida Today, 1 Mar 1923 |
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| Florida Today, 31 May 1923 |
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| Florida Today, 25 Oct 1923 |
The clipping above provides a bit more detail about the wealth enjoyed by Ella Taylor in her later years. She made the journey from New Jersey to Florida (near Cocoa, Florida and the modern day Kennedy Space Center) in a new Cadillac.
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| Florida Today, 17 Jan 1924 |
This article shows that Ella was visited by the family of her older brother Charles E. Garner (not Gaines as above). Mrs. W. P. Smith would have been May Garner Smith, Mrs. C. E. Garner would have been Katherine Garner. Ella's brother Charles had died in 1915.
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| Florida Today, 9 Oct 1924 |
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| Florida Today, 6 Nov 1924 |
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| Florida Today, 16 Apr 1925 |
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| Florida Today, 5 Nov 1925 |
Ella returned to Sharpes again in September 1926 and winter 1927. She traveled north to Keansburg in April 1928, presumably for the last time before her death in 1930. Luella and William visited friends in Sharpes over Thanksgiving 1934.
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| Florida Today, 22 Nov 1934 |
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