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(Acton Campground) located 3 miles to the west, or could she have been a ghost from the lost pioneer cemetery that resides approximately 200 yards east north east of the accident site?
A little known but interesting piece of information is that the picture of Victorian era women’s clothing that was used in the UNSOLVED MYSTERIES web page was donated by Velma Fendler Reedy to the Franklin Township Historical society. Her aunt (The woman to whom the dress originally belonged) lived approximately 200 yards south, south, east of the accident site. Interstate 74 divided the Fendler property.
I lived across the fields from the Fendler Farm House. When I was a child I would watch a woman dressed in Victorian dress hang clothes on a line at the Fendler homestead. One Sunday while playing with a grand Nephew, Mike Shearer (His mother was a Fendler) I attempted to speak with his aunt (the woman who wore the Victorian style dress) Mike simply said “Don't try to talk with her. She won’t speak with you.”
My family once owned the area surrounding the nearby Lost Pioneer Cemetery. I attempted a number of times to identify the exact location of the cemetery but members of the Franklin Township Historical Society would not answer my letters. I wonder: was Mrs. Fendler still living at the Fendler farm in June of 1980?Edited by Philip Woolman philip.woolman1@gmail.com April 13, 2014.