SHANNON, Alexander

Date of birth:  1832 – Pennsylvania
Date of death: 5 Oct 1893 – Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, October 13, 1893,
Volume XXXIV Number 14, page 6 column 5

FROM OVER THE COUNTY.

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MORGANTOWN.

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Alex Shannon died at the insane hospital Thursday and was brought here for burial Saturday. Mr. Shannon was a member of the M. E. church, was an excellent citizen and was much res­pected by all who knew him. He had been in the asylum but a short time. His wife and children have the entire sympathy of friends and neighbors.

Link to Alexander Shannon’s grave

Notes: The Marion County Indiana WPA Death Index, 1882–1920 referencing Book H-5, page 57, records that Alexander Shannon, a sixty-one-year-old white male, died 5 Oct 1893 in Marion County.
The 1880 US Federal Census for Hensley, Johnson, Indiana records forty-eight-year-old, Pennsylvania-born Alexander Shannon, his forty-one-year-old, Indiana-born wife Aria [sic Arah] Shannon and their Indiana-born children, seventeen-year-old Samuel W., fifteen-year-old Cordelia and twelve-year-old William R. Shannon.

Submitted by Mark McCrady, Cathea Curry and Lois Johnson