FORSYTH, Angeline “Lina” (Hibbs)
Date of death: 4 Feb 1891 – Johnson County, Indiana
The Franklin Republican, Friday, February 6, 1891, page 1
Grim Death’s Deeds
Mrs. D. M. Forsyth died at her home southwest of Franklin on Wednesday morning. The funeral service and burial occurred yesterday afternoon, at Nineveh. Elder J. C. Miller preached the sermon.
Mrs. Forsyth was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Hibbs, and was an excellent Christian lady. Her little babe preceded her to the Better Land only three days before. Deep sympathy is expressed for her surviving husband and other relatives.
The Franklin Democrat, Friday, February 6, 1891,
Volume XXXI Number 33, page 1 column 6
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Mrs. D. M. Forsyth died at her home southwest of this city on Wednesday morning. The death of her small infant occurred only last Sunday. The funeral was held yesterday, Rev. J. C. Miller conducting the services.
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The Franklin Democrat, Friday, February 13, 1891,
Volume XXXI Number 34, page 4 column 1
FROM OVER THE COUNTY.
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TIMOTHY RIDGE.
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Lina Forsyth and infant daughter have died since our last report. Burial at Nineveh.
The Franklin Democrat, Friday, February 20, 1891,
Volume XXXI Number 35, page 4 column 3
FROM OVER THE COUNTY.
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TIMOTHY RIDGE.
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Mrs. Lina (Hibbs) Forsyth was born December 4th, 1863, near Lick Spring, Johnson County, Ind., and died at her home on Timothy Ridge, Johnson County, Feb. 4th, 1891, being 27 years and 2 months of age at the time of her death.
She was the second daughter of Oliver P. and Clara (Botsford) Hibbs and the second child of six to die. She leaves a husband, mother, father, one brother and three sisters to mourn her loss. She went for miles in all kinds of weather to school in order to gain an education sufficient to teach in the public schools of the county which position she attained quite young, and held with honor to herself and satisfaction to both pupils and patrons until her marriage with Dan M. Forsyth, September 22, 1885. She was the mother of a daughter whose birth and death were Feb. 1st, 1891, living only long enough to awake the mother’s love and cause her to weep at its departure. During her last sickness she talked of the future and seemed to hope to live and be happy. I often think of what she once said when singing, ‘I would not live always’ she said, ‘I would like to live always if I could, there is nothing that would ever make me want to leave this world.’ She had seen none of the bitter but all of the sweet. She loved and was dearly loved by those who knew her. The doors of the death house are closed, the furniture distributed and there is mourning, such as but few know; yea, one has gone and left a vacant chair which cannot be filled and aching hearts whose only comfort is to know what she was and hope to meet her again in that blissful land where there is no more sorrow nor death.
Link to Angeline “Lina” (Hibbs) Forsyth’s grave
Notes: The The Johnson County Indiana WPA Death Index, 1882–1920, page 70, referencing Book H-16, page 7, records that Lina Forsythe, a twenty-seven-year-old white female, died 4 Feb 1891 in Nineveh Township.
The 1870 and 1880 US Federal Censuses for Nineveh, Johnson County, Indiana record Angeline Hibbs (born in 1863) as living in the household of her parents, Oliver and Clara Hibbs.
Submitted by Mark McCrady, Cathea Curry and Lois Johnson