ABBOTT, Rebecca (Hankins) Ware
Date of death: 19 Nov 1897 – Franklin, Johnson County, Indiana
The Franklin Democrat,The Franklin Democrat, Friday, November 19, 1897,
Volume XXXVIII Number 19, page 1 column 4
LOCAL and PERSONAL.
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Mrs. Abbott, wife of the late James Abbott, died Wednesday night at the home of James Ware, her son, in the northeast part of town. Deceased was about 70 years old. Funeral services occur this afternoon at two o’clock, conducted by Rev. T. G. Cocks. Burial at Greenlawn.
Link to Rebecca (Hankins) Ware Abbott’s grave
Notes: The Johnson County Indiana WPA Death Index, 1882–1920, page 1, referencing Book H-18, page 8, records that Rebecca Abbott, an eighty-year-old white female, died 19 Nov 1897 in Franklin.
Notes: Indiana State Library Genealogy Database; Marriages through 1850 records that William Ware married Rebecca Hankins on 26 Jun 1836 in Johnson County.
Indiana State Library Genealogy Database; Marriages through 1850 records that James Abbott married Mrs. Rebecca Ware on 18 Oct 1849.
The 1850 US Federal Census for Franklin, Johnson County, Indiana, taken 9 Sep 1850, records twenty-eight-year-old, Kentucky-born farmer James W. Abbott, his thirty-one-year-old, Kentucky-born wife, Rebecca [Hankins Ware] Abbott and her three Indiana-born children by William Ware, eleven-year-old Mahala J., six-year-old Hannah E. and one-year-old James W. Ware.
Submitted by Mark McCrady, Cathea Curry and Lois Johnson