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Harrison County, Indiana Obituaries
Contributed by Marsha Belty
April 2005
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Death of Mrs. Polly Ann
Mitchem
May 2,
1928
Mrs. Polly Ann Mitchem, widow of Isaiah
Mitchem, died quite suddenly and
unexpectedly at her home seven miles south
of Corydon. Death
was caused from a severe hemorrhage.She was
ninety one years of age. She came to this
county from Kentucky where she was a slave.
Her
husband's family settled in this community
more than a century ago, but Mrs. Mitchem
came about fifty years later. Funeral
services were the
following Wednesday and burial was in the
Mitchem cemetery. She is survived by eight
children. Mrs. Kate Jackson and Marinda
Bray, of
Louisville, Whitcomb Mitchem, of Cinncinati,
Mrs. Ellen Skinner, James and Bladroch
Mitchem, all of this county.
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Death of Isaiah Mitchem
Rep. March 11, 1920
Isaiah Mitchem, an aged and well known colored
citizen, died at his home six miles south of
Corydon last Monday night.
Mr. Mitchem had a good farm and a comfortable
home and was an industrious and worthy man. His
age was eighty-eight years and he is
survived by his aged companion, Aunt Polly and
nine children. He was a son of the late Dr.
Lyttleton Mitchem, who practiced medicine
for many years and was recognized as a man of
fine intellect. Like his father, Isaiah was
gentlemanly in his bearing and his relations
with
others were marked by exceptional courtesy and
pleasantness. He had many friends both white and
colored and all who knew him held
him in the highest regard. Burial was at Cedar
Wood yesterday.
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Mary Ann Mitchem
April 19, 1928
Death has removed another member of the
Mitchem family, early colored pioneers in
the community seven miles south of Corydon.
Mary Ann Mitchem, widow of Isaiah Mitchem,
died suddenly and unexpectedly at her home
near Cedar Wood last evening about
five o'clock following a severe hemorrhage.
Her age was ninety-one years. The Mitchem
family settled in this county more than
a century ago but Aunt Mary Ann, or Polly
Ann, as she was commonly called, came about
fifty years later. She was
from Kentucky and
had been a slave.
Her surviving children are Mrs. Kate Jackson
of Louisville, Mrs. Dora Cobin, of this
county, Alex Mitchem, remaining at
home, Mrs. Marinda Bray, of Louisville, Mrs.
Ellen Skinner, now at home, James and
Shadrach Mitchem, of this county,
and Whitcomb Mitchem, of Cincinnati.
Interment was in the family burying ground
on the Mitchem homestead Wednesday
afternoon.
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