BREWER, Mary H. (Wheat)
Date of death: 9 Apr 1897 – Hopewell Township, Johnson County, Indiana
The Franklin Democrat, Friday, April 16, 1897,
Volume XXXVII Number 40, page 1 column 4
LOCAL AND PERSONAL.
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Mrs. Mary Brewer died Friday night at her home in the Hopewell neighborhood from cancer of the stomach. Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at 2 o’ clock at her late residence, conducted by Rev. J. H. Bright. Three daughters survive her.
Link to Mary H. (Wheat) Brewer’s grave
Notes: The Johnson County Indiana WPA Death Index, 1882–1920, page 20, referencing Book H-18, page 27, records that Mary J. Brewer, a fifty-three-year-old white female, died 16 Apr 1897 in Johnson County.
Johnson County, Indiana.; Marriage Records 1851–1875 Valume 2, D. A. R., transcribed by Edna Thompson Bice, records on page 7 that Benjamin Brewer married Mary Wheat on 20 Feb 1863.
The 1880 US Federal Census for Franklin, Johnson County, Indiana records forty-year-old, Indiana-born farmer Benjamin E. Brewer, his thirty-six-year-old, Indiana-born wife Mary H. [Wheat] Brewer and their Indiana-born children, 15-year-old Cora M., ten-year-old Anna L. Brewer and six-year-old Susie D. Brewer.
Submitted by Mark McCrady, Cathea Curry and Lois Johnson