1258) Edgar J. Watson

Edgar J. Watson (1855 - 1910). American outlaw. He had supposedly gotten into trouble in Columbia County in northern Florida, to which his parents had migrated sometime after 1870, and had then gone out to the Indian territory (later known as the Oklahoma Territory) where he allegedly killed Belle Starr, herself allegedly an outlaw. He then returned to Florida and killed a man in Arcadia, apparently in self-defense. After that Ed Watson moved to the Ten Thousand Islands area, then part of Monroe County, where he bought a claim on the Chatham Bend River and began raising vegetables.
Locals began to notice that each season, a new crop of farm workers would arrive at Watson's plantation, but then disappear, only to be replaced by different ones the following year. Maybe, some began to theorize, Watson was killing them all at the end of the season so he didn't have to pay them.
In the autumn of 1910, two men and a woman, all employees of Watson, were found murdered on his property. By this time everyone instantly knew to suspect Watson. Watson, for his part, blamed yet another local outlaw - a man named Leslie Cox - and asked the sheriff of Fort Myers to deputize him so he could hunt Cox down. The sheriff didn't believe Watson's story, and denied the request.
Watson visited Smallwood's Store and purchased ammo which he loudly admitted he planned to use to assassinate Cox. According to legend, the woman at the store deliberately sold him ammo that had been ruined by flooding during the hurricane. When Watson showed up at the boat dock, he found a posse of locals who were fed up with him. Watson, not knowing his ammunition was wet, fired into the crowd and the gun wouldn't go off. He dropped the rifle and reached for his revolver, but he was too slow. The posse immediately shot back and gunned him down on the spot.

- "He was extremely tall, red-headed, and possessing, they say, of unnaturally small hands and feet."  http://floridazone.blogspot.com/2015/03/edgar-watson.html

- "Over 6 feet, unusually tall for the time, and extremely strong, Watson’s appearance was additionally distinctive in that he had red hair and beard, and hands and feet that seemed visibly too small for a man of his size."  https://americanhandgunner.com/…/the-lessons-of-edgar-wats…/

- "He knows Watson’s great-granddaughter, Edith, he says, who lives nearby and “has a head of red hair like E. J. Watson.”  https://www.oxfordamerican.org/…/695-the-legend-of-chokolos…

- "He was a two-hundred-pound, red-headed man, with a quick and sometimes quirky temper."  https://www.coastalbreezenews.com/…/the-killing-of-mr-wats…/

- "Watson was a ruggedly good-looking man with red hair and a beard..."  https://books.google.nl/books…

1257) Marguerite Clark

Helen Marguerite Clark (1883 – 1940). American stage and silent film actress. As a movie actress, at one time, Clark was second only to Mary Pickford in popularity. With the exception of five films, most of her films are considered lost.
In 1918 she married New Orleans plantation owner and millionaire businessman Harry Palmerston Williams, and retired to be with him. Williams died the following year (on May 19, 1936) in an aircraft crash.

- "... buoyant, tiny, very, very feminine, always dressed in excellent style and beautiful with auburn hair and hazel eyes."  https://books.google.nl/books…

- "She is still tiny and demure and her red brown hair is worn in a single bob..."  https://books.google.nl/books…

- "... her eyes are brown, her hair is a reddish brown--almost titian--"  http://www.silentera.com/taylorology/issues/Taylor91.txt

1256) Aggie Herring

Agnes "Aggie" Herring (1876 – 1939). American character actress. She appeared in 119 films between 1915 and 1939. She was born in San Francisco, California and died in Santa Monica, California.

- "She was five feet four inches tall with red hair and weighed 165 pounds"  https://books.google.nl/books…

1255) Silvia Rosenberg Mann

Silvia Rosenberg Mann (1913 - 2008). American singer, dancer and patron of the arts, who worked in Broadway under the name Silvia Nelson. In 1932 she went to Philadelphia with the Earl Carroll Vanities and was noticed by Fredric R. Mann, an industrialist and patron of the arts who helped finance music centers in Philadelphia and Tel Aviv. They married shortly afterwards and had five daughters. Mann's mother was poet Paula Nelson Rosenberg, of Spanish-Portuguese descent.

- "The Russian-born Mann, making his fortune in the paper business, was taken with the red-haired beauty..."  https://www.inquirer.com/…/20080808_Silvia_Mann__widow_of_c…

- "For years after his death, Mann’s widow attended every concert, easily recognized by her flaming red hair."  https://theculturalcritic.com/the-man-behind-the-mann/

1254) Aneta Corsaut

Aneta Louise Corsaut (1933 – 1995). American actress and writer. She is best known for playing Helen Crump on The Andy Griffith Show (1963–1968).
She began her acting career in New York City in the mid-1950s. In 1958, Corsaut and Steve McQueen made their film debuts in the independent cult horror film The Blob. On television, in 1961-1962 she portrayed Irma Howell on the CBS sitcom Mrs. G. Goes to College.
Corsaut first appeared on the long-running Griffith show in 1963 as schoolteacher Helen Crump, who later became the Mayberry sheriff's wife on the first episode of the spinoff Mayberry R.F.D.
Corsaut later had a continuing role as policeman Bumper Morgan's pawn-shop-owner friend on the 1975-1976 series The Blue Knight. In the series Adam-12, Corsaut portrayed Officer Pete Malloy's girlfriend Judy. She had a supporting role too as Head Nurse Bradley in the 1980s sitcom House Calls, and she appeared in several episodes of Matlock with star Andy Griffith. In addition, Corsaut played the role of nurse Jesse Brewer in 1977 on the long-running ABC soap opera General Hospital when long-time portrayer Emily McLaughlin was too ill to work.
As a writer, she coauthored The Mystery Reader's Quiz Book.

- "Pretty, auburn-haired actress Aneta Louise Corsaut was born in Hutchinson, Kansas on November 3, 1933."  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0181080/?ref_=nmls_hd

- "Despite having left the screens for more that two decades now, the pretty, auburn-haired Aneta sill lives in the hearts of many film lovers."  https://answersafrica.com/life-and-death-of-aneta-corsaut-w…

1253) John Lennon

John Winston Ono Lennon (born John Winston Lennon, 1940 – 1980). English singer, songwriter and peace activist who gained worldwide fame as the founder, co-lead vocalist, and rhythm guitarist of the Beatles. His songwriting partnership with Paul McCartney remains the most successful in history. In 1969, he started the Plastic Ono Band with his second wife, Yoko Ono. After the Beatles disbanded in 1970, Lennon continued as a solo artist and as Ono's collaborator.
Controversial through his political and peace activism, after moving to New York City in 1971, his criticism of the Vietnam War resulted in a three-year attempt by the Nixon administration to deport him. In 1975, Lennon disengaged from the music business to raise his infant son Sean, and in 1980, returned with the Ono collaboration Double Fantasy. He was shot and killed in the archway of his Manhattan apartment building by a Beatles fan, Mark David Chapman, three weeks after the album's release.

- "But the one “same” Epstein could not conquer was John’s vivid auburn hair. John, like his mother, Julia, was a redhead."  http://www.rebeatmag.com/9-myths-about-john-lennon-and-the…/

- " His hair was very, very red, I remember being struck by that–because up til then, I wasn’t clear from pictures how red his hair was.”  https://www.tumblr.com/…/beatles%20hollywood.%20john%E2%80%…

1252) Julia Lennon

Julia Lennon (born Stanley; 1914 – 1958). Mother of English musician John Lennon, who was born during her marriage to Alfred Lennon. After complaints to Liverpool's Social Services by her eldest sister, Mimi Smith (née Stanley), she handed over the care of her son to her sister. She later had one daughter after an affair with a Welsh soldier, but the baby was given up for adoption after pressure from her family. She then had two daughters, Julia and Jackie, with John 'Bobby' Dykins. She never divorced her husband, preferring to live as the common-law wife of Dykins for the rest of her life.
She was known as being high-spirited and impulsive, musical, and having a strong sense of humour. She taught her son how to play the banjo and ukulele. She kept in almost daily contact with John, and when he was in his teens he often stayed overnight at her and Dykins' house. On 15 July 1958, she was struck down and killed by a car driven by an off-duty policeman, close to her sister's house at 251 Menlove Avenue. Lennon was traumatised by her death and wrote several songs about her, including "Julia" and "Mother". 

- "At the Trocadero club, a converted cinema on Camden Road, Liverpool, he first saw an "auburn-haired girl with a bright smile and high cheekbones"; Julia Stanley."  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Lennon

- "He can still picture her red hair blowing in the wind."  https://davidabedford.com/…/15th-july-1958-julia-lennon-is…/

- "Julia Stanley Lennon’s auburn hair was one of her best features..."  http://www.rebeatmag.com/9-myths-about-john-lennon-and-the…/

- "Julia Lennon had long auburn hair and an attractive face."  https://books.google.nl/books…

 - "Julia Stanley - red-haired, exuberant, musical and headstrong - was only 14 when she began seeing a hotel bellboy, Alfred Lennon, to her parents' chagrin."  https://www.independent.co.uk/…/john-lennon-what-really-hap…