WILLIAMS, Susan (Ruckle)
Date of death:14 Sep 1897 – Johnson County, Indiana
The Franklin Democrat, Friday, September 17, 1897,
Volume XXXVIII Number 10, page 1 column 2
LOCAL and PERSONAL.
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Mrs. Susan Williams, age eighty-five years, died Tuesday at the home of her son, Ben Williams, south of town. Funeral took place yesterday morning at 10 o’clock at Tennessee church.
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The Franklin Democrat, Friday, September 24, 1897,
Volume XXXVIII Number 11, page 6 columns 3–4
FROM OVER THE COUNTY
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YOUNG’S CREEK.
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Susan Williams died last Tuesday at the home of her son and was buried Thursday at this place. She was eighty years old. She was loved by all her many friends. Thus one by one the old pioneers pass away.
Link to Susan (Ruckle) Williams’ grave
Notes: Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007, database with images, records that Jonathan Williams married Susan Ruckle on 6 Aug 1839 in Rush County, Indiana.
The 1850 US Federal Census for Franklin, Johnson County, Indiana records fifty-year-old, Kentucky-born cabinet maker Jonathan William, his thirty-five-year-old, Ireland-born wife Susanna Williams and their Indiana-born children, eighteen-year-old Sarah Ellen, fourteen-year-old Rebecca, nine-year-old Francis M, seven-year-old Rue, five-year-old Benjamin, three-year-old Byron, two-year-old Marshal M, and two-month-old Alice.
The 1860 and 1870 US Federal Censuses for Franklin, Johnson County, Indiana record Jonathan Williams (born abt 1800 in Kentucky), Susan Williams (born abt 1816 in Ireland) and their children.
The 1880 US Federal Census for Franklin, Johnson County, Indiana records the birthplace of sixty-two-year-old Susannah Williams as Limerick, Ireland.
Submitted by Mark McCrady, Cathea Curry and Lois Johnson