DUNN, Jessie (Overbay)

Date of birth:  About 1866
Date of death: 2 Apr 1890 – Franklin, Johnson County, Indiana

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, April 11, 1890,
Volume XXX Number 42, page 1 column 6

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Mrs. Jessie Dunn, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David Overbay, died at her home in West Franklin on last Wed­nesday night, after a lingering illness of consumption, age twenty-four years. She leaves a husband and a two-year old son to mourn her death. The funeral took place from the residence of her parents on Friday afternoon, the class of ’84 of which she was a member, acting as pall bearers. She was a Christian lady and a member of the Presbyterian church.

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Note: The Johnson County Indiana WPA Death Index, 1882–1920, page 60, referencing Book H-16, page 20, records that Jessie O. Dunn, a twenty-four-year-old white female, died 2 Apr 1890 in Franklin.

Submitted by Mark McCrady and Cathea Curry