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On June 2, 2023, in Ocala, Florida, 35-year-old Ajike "AJ" Shantrell Owens [1] was shot and killed by her neighbor, 58-year-old Susan Lorincz. Owens was knocking on Lorincz's door after altercations occurred between Owens' children and Lorincz in a field nearby.
Summers struck out in his only at bat in the 1984 World Series, which also wound up being his last major league at bat. Over his eleven-year career, Summers hit for a .255 batting average with 54 home runs and 218 RBIs. Summers died in Ocala, Florida at age 66 of kidney cancer. [4] He was buried at the Florida National Cemetery in Bushnell ...
Eliza Pearson Moody in the 1880s. Slomon remarried for a final time to Eliza Pearson, the daughter of a Confederate Captain named John William Pearson in 1870. [17] Pearson died in the Civil War when he was leading Company B of the Ninth Infantry Florida, then part of Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, through a cornfield at the Battle of Globe Tavern.
The East Florida Banner was sold to George W. Wilson in 1881 and was renamed The Florida Banner-Lacon when it merged with The Florida Lacon. In 1883, the name was changed to The Ocala Banner. In 1890, The Ocala Banner became a daily newspaper. In 1895, the Ocala Evening Star surfaced as a rival to the Ocala Banner.
The year 1873 marked the renaming of Watula, Long Hammock, to Whitesville, in honor of Charles H. White, located just three-quarters of a mile west of what is now Summerfield, along the northern shores of Summers Lake. Fletcher Fink, owning the land north of Whitesville, rebuffed a 1880 railroad request for a right of way through his property.
Silver Springs Shores is located at (29.101279, -82.012439 It is 10 miles (16 km) southeast of the center of Ocala, the county seat.. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 15.1 square miles (39 km 2), of which 14.9 square miles (39 km 2) are land and 0.2 square miles (0.5 km 2), or 1.42%, are water.
Glenn Edsel Summers (February 19, 1925 – February 16, 2020) was an American attorney and politician in the state of Florida. [1] Summers was born in Bristol, Florida. He was a veteran of World War II and served in the United States Navy. Summers received his bachelor's and law degrees from University of Florida. Summers practiced law in ...
Wilbur Summers (August 6, 1954 – November 1, 2019) was an American football punter. He played for the Detroit Lions in 1977. [1] [2] He died on November 1, 2019, in Louisville, Kentucky at age 65. [3]