ALEXANDER, Minerva (Smyser)

Date of birth:  24 Jan 1865 – Samaria, Johnson County, Indiana
Date of death: 17 Oct 1899 – Hopewell, Johnson County, Indiana

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, October 20, 1899,
Volume XL Number 15, page 1 column 4

Local and Personal.

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Mrs. Matt Alexander after eight weeks illness from typhoid fever, died Tuesday afternoon at 5 o’clock at her home in the Hopewell neighborhood. Deceased was a daughter of John and Mary Smyser and was born at Samaria January 24, 1865. She was married to Matt Alexander August 16, 1893. She leaves a husband and two small chil­dren, a son and daughter. Funeral ser­vices were held yesterday morning at the Christian church in Franklin, con­ducted by Rev. William Mullendore. Burial at Greenlawn.

Link to Minerva (Smyser) Alexander’s grave

Note: The Johnson County Indiana WPA Marriage Index, 1882–1920, referencing Book 7, page 17, records that Minervia [sic] A. Smyser married Madison O. Alexander 16 Aug 1893.

Submitted by Mark McCrady, Cathea Curry and Lois Johnson