McKEEHAN, Elizabeth M. (Midcap)
Date of death: 11 Aug 1894 – Edinburg, Johnson County, Indiana
The Franklin Democrat, Friday, August 17, 1894,
Volume XXXV Number 6, page 1 column 4
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Mrs. Elizabeth McKeehan, of Edinburg, died at her home there Saturday, after long years of suffering. She was the mother of 13 children, ten of whom are now living, the youngest being 42 years of age. Her remains were interred in the city cemetery at Vernon.
Link to Elizabeth M. (Midcap) McKeehan’s grave
Note: The Johnson County Indiana WPA Death Index, 1882–1920, page 143, referencing Book H-25, page 33, records that Elizabeth McKeeha, an eighty-five-year-old white female, died on 11 Aug 1894.
Note: The Indiana Marriages, 1811–2007, database with images, records that George McKeehan married Elizabeth Midcap on 22 Aug 1826 in Jennings, County, Indiana.
In the 1850 US Federal Census for Geneva, Jennings County, Indiana, fifty-one-year-old, Pennsylvania-born George McKeehan and his forty-one-year-old, Kentucky-born wife Elizabeth (Midcap) McKeehan have eleven of their thirteen Indiana-born children in their household.
Submitted by Mark McCrady, Cathea Curry and Lois Johnson