PRUITT, Bertha (Cobb)
Date of death: 10 Mar 1891 – Edinburg, Johnson County, Indiana
The Franklin Democrat, Friday, March 13, 1891,
Volume XXXI Number 38, page 6 column 2
FROM OVER THE COUNTY.
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NINEVEH.
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We are very sorry to learn of the sad death of Mrs. Pruitt of Edinburg, formerly of this place which occurred Tuesday morning.
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Notes: The Johnson County Indiana WPA Death Index, 1882-1920, page 163, referencing Book H-25, page 22, records that Bertha Pruitt, a 16 year old white female, died 10 Mar 1891 in Edinburg.
Johnson County, Indiana.; Marriage Records 1875–1901 Volumn 3, D. A. R., transcribed by Edna Thompson Bice, records on page 64 that Elmore Pruitt married Bertha Cobb on 10 Feb 1891.
The US Federal Census for Williamsburg, Johnson County, Indiana records fifty-seven-year-old, Kentucky-born farmer Wesley Cobb, his thirty-seven-year-old, Indiana-born wife Elizabeth Cobb, their five-year-old, Indiana-born daughter Bertha Cobb, and Jacob’s Indiana-born step-daughters, eighteen-year-old Sadie McCaslin and fourteen-year-old Carrie McCaslin.
Submitted by Mark McCrady, Cathea Curry and Lois Johnson