McALLISTER, Martha Freelove (Butterfield)

Date of birth:  17 Oct 1815 – Jefferson County, New York
Date of death: 7 Dec 1897 – Needham, Johnson County, Indiana

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, December 10, 1897,
Volume XXXVIII Number 22, page 2 column 3

FROM OVER THE COUNTY

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PROVIDENCE.

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Widow McColister [sic] fell one day last week and broke her hip. She suf­fered for two days when death relieved her of her sufferings last Thursday evening at 1 o’clock. Burial at the Deer cemetery at one o’clock Saturday.

Link to Martha Freelove (Butterfield) McAllister’s grave

Notes: Indiana State Library Genealogy Database; Marriages through 1850 records that James A. McAllister married Freelove Butterfield on 9 Apr 1840 in Morgan County.

The Johnson County Indiana WPA Death Index, 1882–1920, page 137, referencing Book H-18, page 29, records that Freelove McCalister [sic], an eighty-two-year-old white female, died 2 Dec 1897 in Providence.

Submitted by Mark McCrady, Cathea Curry and Lois Johnson