JOLLIFF, Rufus

Date of birth:  1881
Date of death: 18 Sep 1898 – Samaria, Johnson County, Indiana

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, September 23, 1898,
Volume XXXIX Number 11, page 6 column 5

FROM OVER THE COUNTY

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SAMARIA.

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Rufus Jolliff, after a long spell of typhoid fever, died at Samaria Sunday week. He was followed to his resting place at Friendship by a long pro­cession of relatives and friends. He was respected by all.

Link to Rufus Jollif’s grave

Note: The Johnson County Indiana WPA Death Index, 1882–1920, page 106, referencing Book H-18, page 33, records that Rufus Jolliff, a seventeen-year-old white male, died 24 Sep [sic] 1898 in Samaria. [Obituary date is 23 Sep 1898]

Submitted by Mark McCrady and Cathea Curry