ENNIS, Clarence R.

Date of birth:  7 Mar 1899 – Johnson County, Indiana (calculated from age at death)
Date of death: 14 Aug 1900 – Union Township, Johnson County, Indiana

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, August 17, 1900,
Volume XLI Number 7, page 3 column 1

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PROVIDENCE.

John Ennis’ little child died with whooping cough last Tuesday.

Link to Clarence R. Ennis’ grave

Note: The 1900 US Federal Census for Union Township, Johnson County, Indiana records thirty-year-old J. R. Ennis, his thirty-year-old wife Effie Ennis and their three children, eight-year-old Omer, seven-year-old Joseph and one-year-old Clarence Ennis.

Indiana, Death Certificates, 1899–2011, Union Township, Johnson County, Certificate and Record of Death, Health Officer’s Record Number 15, page 85 records that Clarence R. Ennis died at about 4 o’clock a. m. on 14 Aug 1900 in Union Township, Johnson County from brain fever of three days’ duration, caused by pertussis of fourteen days’ duration, aged one year, five months and seven days. He was male, white and single, born in Johnson County, Indiana. His father’s name was John Ennis and his mother’s maiden name Effa Flake, both born in Morgan County, Indiana. The informant was W. Flake. Clarence was buried in the Flake Cemetery [Morgan County] on 15 Aug 1900, Covert & Covert, undertaker.

Submitted by Mark McCrady, Cathea Curry and Lois Johnson