MIDDLETON, Eliza

Date of birth:  2 Apr 1812 – Ireland
Date of death: 22 Oct 1899 – Franklin, Johnson County, Indiana

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, October 27, 1899,
Volume XL Number 16, page 1 column 3

Local and Personal.

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Mrs. Eliza Middleton, age eighty-seven years, died Sunday at her home in Franklin after many months of de­clining health due to advanced age. She was born in Ireland and came to Amer­ica when twenty-three years old. She formerly resided near Nineveh. Her daughters, Misses Hannah and Florence Middleton, for a number of years have conducted a millinery store in Franklin. Funeral services were held Tuesday af­ternoon at Nineveh, conducted by Rev. John C. Miller.

Link to Eliza Middleton’s grave

Note: The Johnson County Indiana WPA Death Index, 1882–1920, page 127, referencing Book H-19, page 1, records that Eliza Middleton, an eighty-six-year-old [sic] white female, died 23 Oct 1899 [sic] in Franklin.

Submitted by Mark McCrady, Cathea Curry and Lois Johnson