CONRAD, Julia (Rankin)

Date of birth:  About 1859
Date of death: 27 Dec 1891 – Johnson County, Indiana

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, January 1, 1892,
Volume XXXII Number 28, page 6 column 1

FROM OVER THE COUNTY.

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GREENWOOD.

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Mrs. Henry J. Conrad, aged thirty-three years old, died last Sunday night. She leaves a husband and son.

Link to Julia (Rankin) Conrad’s grave

The date of 27 Dec 1892 on Julia Rankin Conrad’s headstone is incorrect. She died 27 Dec 1891 per her obituary.

Notes: Kentucky Marriages, 1785–1979, database, records that Henry J. Conrad married Julia Rankin on 30 Nov 1884 in Harrison County, Kentucky (Reference FHL microfilm 1690281, page 147). The same source records that Henry J. Conrad next married Hattie May Monson on 9 Mar 1893 in Harrison County, Kentucky (FHL microfilm 1690275, reference page 103).
The 1900 US Federal Census for Covington Ward 2, Kenton, Kentucky records thirty-three-year-old, Kentucky-born Henry J Conrad (born Nov 1866) and his twenty-six-year-old, Kentucky-born second wife Hattie (Monson) Conrad (born Feb 1874). They have been married seven years (1893) and Hattie has born one child who is living, However, there are two children in this household, twelve-year-old, Kentucky-born Morton (born Dec 1887) and six-year-old, Indiana-born Ada (born Apr 1894). Morton cannot be Hattie’s child.
The Commonwealth of Kentucky, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Certificate of Death State File No. 24839 records that Morton L. Conrad, born 4 Dec 1887, died 27 Oct 1942 in Booth Hospital, Covington, Kenton, Kentucky. His parents are recorded as Henry Conrad and Julia Rankin, both born in Kentucky.

Submitted by Mark McCrady, Cathea Curry and Lois Johnson