LEGATE, Susan (Sanders)

Date of birth:  Jan 1801 (estimated from age at death)
Date of death: 26 Dec 1889 – Edinburg, Johnson County, Indiana

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, January 3, 1890,
Volume XXX Number 28, page 1 column 6

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Mrs. Susan Legate, an old and highly respected lady of Edinburg, died on the 26th ult., at the age of eighty-seven years. Her funeral took place on Satur­day from the residence of her daughter, Mrs. E. T. Keightley, and was very largely attended.

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Link to Susan (Sanders) Legate’s grave

Notes: The Johnson County Indiana WPA Death Index, 1882–1920, page 118, referencing Book H-15, page 32, records that Susan Legate, an eighty-seven-year-old white female, died 26 Dec 1889 in Edinburg. The date on her tombstone is 29 Dec 1889.
The Indiana State Library Genealogy Database; Marriages through 1850 records that Ivory H. Legett [sic] married Susan Sanders on 22 Jun 1828 in Shelby County.

Submitted by Mark McCrady, Cathea Curry and Lois Johnson