McCLAIN, Eliza (Devore)

Date of birth:  4 Nov 1831 – Kentucky
Date of death: 23 Jul 1897 – Johnson County, Indiana

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, July 30, 1897,
Volume XXXVIII Number 3, page 6 column 3

FROM OVER THE COUNTY.

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HUSTLE TOWN.

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Last Friday about 12 o’clock occur­red the death of Mrs. Eliza McClain. The funeral was held at the Shiloh church Sunday at 2 p.m. conducted by Rev. Marshall of Franklin. Burial at the Devore cemetery. Deceased was 65 years of age and the mother of fifteen children, of whom three sons and seven daughters survive.

Link to Eliza (Devore) McClain’s grave

Notes: Indiana State Library Genealogy Database; Marriages through 1850 records that Mathis McClean [sic] married Eliza Devore on 30 Aug 1848 in Johnson County.

The 1870 US Federal Census for Franklin, Johnson County, Indiana records forty-year-old, Indiana-born farmer Mathis McClain, his thirty-eight-year-old, Kentucky-born wife, Eliza [Devore] McClain and ten of their fifteen children.

Submitted by Mark McCrady, Cathea Curry and Lois Johnson