SHOEMAKER, James, Sr.

Date of birth:  1 Jun 1846 – Indiana
Date of death: 8 Dec 1894 – Indiana

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, December 14, 1894,
Volume XXXV Number 23, page 6 column 1

FROM OVER THE COUNTY.

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LICK SPRINGS.

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Died—James Shoemaker, Sunday mor­ning. Burial at Mt. Olive, Monday.

Link to James Shoemaker, Sr.’s grave

The 1870 US Federal Census for Hensley, Johnson County, Indiana records twenty-four-year-old, Indiana-born farmer James Shoemaker, his eighteen-year-old Indiana-born wife Susan Shoemaker, and their two-year-old Indiana-born son Walter. The Johnson County Indiana WPA Death Index, 1882–1920, page 184, referencing Book H-17, page 10, records that Jas. Shoemaker, a forty-eight-year-old white male, died 7 Dec 1894 in Indiana.

Submitted by Mark McCrady, Cathea Curry and Lois Johnson