SANDERS, Elizabeth (Cutsinger)

Date of birth:  About 1799 – Kentucky
Date of death: 10 Mar 1893 – Johnson County, Indiana

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, March 17, 1893, page 1 column 6

Elizabeth Sanders died at her home three miles northeast of Edinburg last Friday at the advanced age of 94 years and four days. She was the mother-in-law of Squire W. H. Barnett and was the oldest of the pioneer in that section of the country having come from Kentucky and settled near her late home in 1821, one year before Johnson county was organized. Death resulted from a fall on the ice received last January in which the hip bones were fractured. For fifty years Mrs. Sanders was a member of the Methodist church at Jollity. The funeral was held Sat­urday, burial at the Brockman cemetery.

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, March 17, 1893, page 6

FROM OVER THE COUNTY.

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EDINBURG.

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Elizabeth Sanders aged ninety five years, residing north of this place, died Friday from a broken leg and was buried at the Brockman cemetery on Saturday.

Link to Elizabeth (Cutsinger) Sanders’ grave

Submitted by Mark McCrady and Cathea Curry