LEWIS, Elizabeth “Lizzie” (Turpin)

Date of birth:  About 1851
Date of death: 23 Apr 1898 – Franklin, Johnson County, Indiana

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, April 29, 1898,
Volume XXXVIII Number 42, page 1 column 3

LOCAL and PERSONAL.

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Mrs. Lizzie Lewis, age 47 years, died Saturday at the home of her father, Enoch Turpin, in this city, of cancer of the stomach. Deceased lived in Louis­ville and came here Tuesday prior to her death. Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon from the residence, conducted by Rev. O. R. Hudson.

Note: The Johnson County Indiana WPA Death Index, 1882–1920, page 119, referencing Book H-18, page 9, records that Elizabeth Lewis, a forty-six-year-old white female, died 22 Apr 1898 in Franklin.

Submitted by Mark McCrady and Cathea Curry