QUINN, George

Date of birth:  1854 – Kentucky
Date of death: 19 Feb 1892 – Edinburg, Johnson County, Indiana

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, February 26, 1892,
Volume XXXII Number 36, page 6 column 2

FROM OVER THE COUNTY.

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EDINBURG.

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George Quinn who survived his wife [Malvina Quinn] only a few days was buried at Edinburg cemetery on the 17th. The funeral services were con­ducted by Rev. D. S. Slaughter of In­dianapolis.

Link to George Quinn’s grave

Notes: The Johnson County Indiana WPA Death Index, 1882–1920, page 164, referencing Book H-25, page 25, records that George Quinn, a forty-year-old colored male, died 19 Feb 1892. The same page records his wife, Malvina Quinn, a thirty-eight-year-old colored female, who died 10 Feb 1892 in Edinburg.
The 1880 US Federal Census for Edinburg, Johnson County, Indiana records twenty-six-year-old, Kentucky-born George Quinn, his twenty-two-year-old, Kentucky-born wife Melvina [sic] Quinn, and their children, seven-year-old, Kentucky-born John, five-year-old, Kentucky-born William, three-year-old, Kentucky-born Walter and four-month-old, Indiana-born unnamed male infant. All are recorded as black.

Submitted by Mark McCrady and Cathea Curry