HICKS, Julia Ann (Vandivier)
Date of death: 27 Feb 1891 – Franklin, Johnson County, Indiana
Source: The Franklin Republican, March 6, 1891, page 3
Mrs. Henry Hicks died suddenly at her home near First Mt. Pleasant on last Friday. She was a daughter of Strother Vandiver, deceased. Her disease is supposed to have been dropsy. She weighed close to three hundred pounds. The funeral took place at Mt. Pleasant Saturday afternoon, Rev. J. C. Rhoades conducting the exercises.
The Franklin Democrat, Friday, March 6, 1891,
Volume XXXI Number 37, page 1 column 6
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Mrs. Henry Hicks, daughter of the late Strather [sic] Vandivier, and twin sister of W. G. Vandivier, died suddenly at her home near First Mt. Pleasant on Friday morning of last week, at the age of about forty years. Mrs. Hicks was a lady of unusual size and at the time of her death weighed over three hundred pounds. Her death is attributed to an attack of dropsy but at the time of death she was thought not to be seriously ill and her sudden demise caused surprise and pain to her many friends over the county. The funeral took place from the First Mt. Pleasant church on Saturday evening, the services being conducted by Rev. J. C. Rhodes, and the remains were interred in Mt. Pleasant cemetery.
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Link to Julia Ann (Vandivier) Hicks’s grave
Note: The Johnson County Indiana WPA Death Index, 1882–1920, page 94, referencing Book H-16, page 23, records that Julia A. Hicks, a forty-year-old white female, died 27 Feb 1891 in Franklin.
Submitted by Mark McCrady, Cathea Curry and Lois Johnson