FISHBACK, Rachel (Burgett)

Date of birth:  22 Apr 1839
Date of death: 28 Mar 1899 – Johnson County, Indiana

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, March 17, 1899,
Volume XXXIX Number 36, page 6 column 5

FROM OVER THE COUNTY

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TRAFALGAR.

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Mrs. Fishback, a sister of Mrs. Musselman, who came here last week to wait on her sick sister, had a stroke of paralysis last Saturday and has been unconscious ever since. When these items were sent in she was thought to be dying. Her children have all been summoned to her bedside.

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, March 31, 1899,
Volume XXXIX Number 38, page 1 column 5

Local and Personal.

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Mrs. Fishback was buried at Hope­well Thursday morning, March 30.

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, March 31, 1899,
Volume XXXIX Number 38, page 6 column 5

FROM OVER THE COUNTY

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TRAFALGAR.

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Mrs. Fishback, who has been ling­ering very poorly for some time here at her sister’s, caused by a stroke of par­alysis, died last Tuesday evening.

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Link to Rachel (Burgett) Fishback’s grave

Note: Johnson County, Indiana.; Marriage Records 1851–1875 Valume 2, D. A. R., transcribed by Edna Thompson Bice, records on page 26 that Thomas L. Fishback married Rachel Burgett on 9 Oct 1867.

Submitted by Mark McCrady and Cathea Curry