CUNNINGHAM, Leon “Lee”

Date of birth:  About 1872
Date of death: 20 Sep 1894 – Rocklane, Johnson County, Indiana

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, October 12, 1894,
Volume XXXV Number 14, page 1 column 6

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Leon Cunningham whom we reported as being dangerously sick with typhoid fever, died at the residence of his father, September 20th. Funeral services conducted by Elder Chas. A. Stevens, at the Christian church. In the death of Leon, the community has lost a bright and promising young man, his neigh­bors a true and faithful friend, the father an obedient son and the mother her only boy. “Whom the Lord loveth he chastenth.” Let us hope that in this loss we all may be made better and meet Leon in the bright beyond.

Note: The Johnson County Indiana WPA Death Index, 1882–1920, page 45, referencing Book H-17, page 24, records that Lee Cunningham, a twenty-two-year-old white male, died 20 Sep 1894.

Submitted by Mark McCrady, Cathea Curry and Lois Johnson