ECCLES, Ellen Jane (Custer)
Date of death: 15 Nov 1899 – Whiteland, Johnson County, Indiana
The Franklin Democrat, Friday, November 17, 1899,
Volume XL Number 19, page 3 column 5
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WHITELAND.
Mrs. Ellen Eccles is still alive at this writing but her death is momentarily expected.
The Franklin Democrat, Friday, November 24, 1899,
Volume XL Number 20, page 1 column 5
Local and Personal.
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Mrs. D. P. Eccles, age seventy years, whose death occurred last week at Whiteland, was buried Friday. Funeral services at the house were conducted by Rev. M. L. Pearson.
Link to Ellen Jane (Custer) Eccles’s grave
Note: Indiana, Death Certificates, 1899–2011, Page No. 84, records that sixty-nine-year, three-month, sixteen-day-old Ellen Jane Eccles died from gastro-intestinal enteritis, duration three weeks, at 4:30 p.m. on 15 Nov 1899 in Whiteland, Pleasant Township, Johnson County, Indiana. She was female, white and widowed, a housewife, born in Virginia. Her father’s name was Josiah Custer and her mother’s maiden name Mary Helis [sic]. Both were born in Pennsylvania. The informant was Edward Eccles. She was buried in Franklin, Indiana on 17 Nov 1899, undertaker E. G. Barnhizer.
Submitted by Mark McCrady, Cathea Curry and Lois Johnson