KERR, Laura Ann (Shipp)

Date of birth:  1842 ‐ Taylor County, Kentucky
Date of death: 3 Dec 1899 – Blue River Township, Johnson County, Indiana

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, December 8, 1899,
Volume XL Number 22, page 6 column 5

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AMITY.

Mrs. Kerr, whom we have mentioned several times as being sick, died Sun­day evening. The funeral was held Monday at the church conducted by Rev. Waggoner.

Link to Laura Ann (Shipp) Kerr’s grave

Note: Indiana, Death Certificates, 1899–2011, Johnson County Indiana Record Book, page 135, records that fifty-six-year-old Laura Ann Kerr died from metastasized uterine cancer at 6:30 p.m. on 3 Dec 1899 in Blue River Township, Johnson County, Indiana. She was born in Taylor County, Kentucky to James Shipp and Cassie Hoagland, both born in Kentucky. She was buried in Blue River Township, Johnson County on 4 Dec 1899, undertaker E. G. Barnhizer.

Submitted by Mark McCrady, Cathea Curry and Lois Johnson