BONE, Mary E. (Smith)
Date of death: 26 Feb 1897 – Marion County, Indiana
The Franklin Democrat, Friday, March 5, 1897,
Volume XXXVII Number 34, page 1 column 4
LOCAL AND PERSONAL.
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Mrs. R. L. Bowen [sic] died at Marion of heart disease. Deceased was a former resident of Franklin. The remains were brought here Saturday and funeral services, conducted by Rev. W. T. Vancleave, at the home of her mother, Mrs. Minerva Smith. Burial at Greenlawn. Wm. Smith, of Princeton, Geo. Smith of Jeffersonville, Mrs. Jennie [sic Tennie] Huston, of Louisville, and Mrs. Peters of Martinsville attended the funeral.
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Link to Mary E. (Smith) Bone’s grave
Notes: The 1860 US Federal Census for Franklin, Johnson County, Indiana records forty-seven-year-old, Kentucky-born farmer George S. Smith, his forty-year-old, Kentucky-born wife Manerva [sic] Smith and their children, twenty-one-year-old Mary E., 20-year-old William, 17-year-old Nancy, 14-year-old Esaballa, twelve-year-old Manerva [sic] D., eight-year-old George C. five-year-old Tennessee and three-year-old Lilly M. Smith. Mary, William, Nancy, Isabella and Manerva were born in Kentucky. George, Tennessee and Lilly were born in Indiana.
Johnson County, Indiana.; Marriage Records 1851–1875 Valume 2, D. A. R., transcribed by Edna Thompson Bice, records on page 6 that Robert L. Bone married Mary E. Smith on 3 Oct 1864.
The 1870–1880 US Federal Censuses for Franklin, Johnson County, Indiana record Ohio-born Robert L. Bone (born abt 1840), his Kentucky-born wife Mary E [Smith] Bone (born abt 1839) and their Indiana-born daughter Nellie Bone (born abt 1868)
Submitted by Mark McCrady, Cathea Curry and Lois Johnson