HALSTEAD, Elizabeth (Raper) Swinney
Date of death: 8 Oct 1899 – Blue River Township, Johnson County, Indiana
The Franklin Democrat, Friday, October 13, 1899,
Volume XL Number 14, page 1 column 1
Local and Personal.
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Mrs. Elizabeth Halstead, living two miles north of Edinburg with her son, Albert Halstead, died Sunday evening, age 82 years.
Link to Elizabeth (Raper) Swinney Halstead’s grave
Notes: Indiana State Library Genealogy Database; Marriages through 1850 records that John Swinney married Elizabeth Raper 6 Oct 1833 in Decatur County.
Indiana State Library Genealogy Database; Marriages through 1850 records that Alexander Halstead married Mrs. Elizabeth Seving [sic] 16 Aug 1849 In Johnson County.
The 1850 US Federal Census for Blue River, Johnson County, Indiana records sixty-year-old, New York born Alexander Halstead, his thirty-three-year-old, Kentucky-born second wife Elizabeth Halstead, his Indiana-born children by his first wife, eighteen-year-old Marion and twelve-year-old David Halstead, and Elizabeth’s two Indiana-born children by John Swinney, nine-year-old John W. and five-year-old Mary E. Swinney.
The 1860 US Federal Census for Blue River, Johnson County, Indiana records seventy-year-old, New York born Alexander Holsted [sic], his forty-three-year-old, Kentucky-born wife Elizabeth Holsted [sic], and their two Indiana-born children, ten-year-old Albert and eight-year-old Josephine Holsted [sic].
The Johnson County Indiana WPA Death Index, 1882–1920, page 83, referencing Book H-19, page 1, records that Elizabeth Halstead, an eighty-two-year-old white female, died 8 Oct 1899 in Blue River Township.
Submitted by Mark McCrady, Cathea Curry and Lois Johnson