RECORDS, Elcy (Harvey)

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Mrs. Elcie [sic] Harvey Records, mother of Franklin S. Records, died last week evening at the home of her son in Franklin, of old age.

Deceased was born in New York in 1806, and was in the ninety-first year of her age at the time of her death.

She moved to Shelby county in 1835, and had been a resident of near Mt. Auburn since 1848.

Mrs. Records was the mother of seven children who are living, F. S. Records, Mrs. Lewis [Harriet Eldridge] Mullendore, Sr., Mrs. Depeu†, Mrs. Thomas [Surrilda Jane] Clark[e], [Mrs.] John [Ethel Linda] Clark[e], Quincy Records and Mrs. L. Kirtley.

She had been a member of the Christian church for sixty years, and was a devout Christian woman.

The funeral took place Thursday at 12 o’clock, at the Mt. Auburn Church. Elder J. C. Miller, officiating.

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Submitted on findagrave.com by Denica.

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, January 8, 1897,
Volume XXXVII Number 26, page 4 column 1

FROM OVER THE COUNTY.

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UNION.

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It is with no small degree of sadness that we announce the death of Grandma Records. She has been very ill for several years and has long felt that she had but a short time to remain here. Tuesday afternoon, Jan. 6, death’s welcome angel came and beckoned her to join her many friends who had already crossed the river to that home beyond where she now awaits her friends left behind. She was 93 years of age.

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Link to Elcy (Harvey) Records’s grave

Notes: The Johnson County Indiana WPA Death Index, 1882–1920, page 167, referencing Book H-25, page 38 and H-18, page 27, records that Elcy or Elcey Records, a 90 year old white female, died 5 Jan 1897 in Johnson County.
Indiana State Library Genealogy Database; Marriages through 1850 records that William P. Records married Elcy Harvey on 14 Mar 1826 in Shelby County.
†Possibly Huldah A. Records Deuprey, d. 1855.

Submitted by Mark McCrady, Cathea Curry and Lois Johnson