GITHENS, George

Date of birth:  About 1860
Date of death: 11 Aug 1894 – Franklin, Johnson County, Indiana

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, August 17, 1894,
Volume XXXV Number 6, page 1 column 2

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George Githens of this place, after a long and painful illness from cancer of the stomach, died Saturday morning. He was thirty-four years of age and leaves a wife and three small children. The funeral services occurred at the house Sunday afternoon, conducted by Rev. L. P. Marshall. The deceased was a member of the I. O. O. F. lodge under whose auspices the funeral services took place. A number of Odd Fellows from Trafalgar, where Mr. Githens for­merly lived, attended the funeral.

Link to George Githens’s grave

Note: The Johnson County Indiana WPA Death Index, 1882–1920, page 76, referencing Book H-17, page 23, records that Geo. Githens, a thirty-four-year-old white male, died 11 Aug 1894 in Franklin.

Submitted by Mark McCrady, Cathea Curry and Lois Johnson