Parents Joe and Lugenia Ashley’s eight children be apart of the radical, ruthless Ashley Gang. The notorious John Ashley, the self-described “Swamp Bandit”, utilized the Florida Everglades as his escape for their numerous crimes in the 1910s and ‘20s. The Ashley Gang would commit several different styles of criminal activity such as, murder, bank robberies, train robberies, rum running and even kidnapping. The head, John Ashley, was born in Buckingham Florida near Fort Myers March 19th, 1888. The Ashley family would move around the east coast starting in 1904 before settling in Hobe Sound in 1911. John would originally work for The Flagler Railroad cutting lumber, his father farmed and hunted in the swamps of Okeechobee, this is likely where