DUNHAM, Emily A.

Date of birth:  18 Jun 1841
Date of death: 21 Sep 1899 – Nineveh, Johnson County, Indiana

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, September 29, 1899,
Volume XL Number 12, page 1 column 4

Local and Personal.

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Mrs. Dunham, wife of Samuel Dunham, died last Thursday morning at her home in Nineveh, from cancer of the stomach, after a long illness. Funeral services were held Saturday morning at 10 o’clock, conducted by Rev. John C. Miller. She leaves a husband and four children, viz: John Dunham and William Dunham of Mis­souri; A. M. Dunham of Columbus, and Miss Laura Dunham, who lived with her parents. Mrs. Dunham was a most excellent woman and the bereaved family has the sympathy of a large cir­cle of sorrowing friends in the loss they have sustained.

Link to Emily Dunham’s grave

Note: The Johnson County Indiana WPA Death Index, 1882–1920, page 59, referencing Book H-18, page 17, records that Emily Dunham, a fifty-eight-year-old white female, died 21 Sep 1899 in Nineveh.

Submitted by Mark McCrady and Cathea Curry