SIMS, Mary L.

Date of birth:  abt 1855 – Indiana
Date of death: 22 Jul 1898 – Edinburg, Johnson County, Indiana

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, July 29, 1898,
Volume XXXIX Number 3, page 1 column 2

LOCAL and PERSONAL.

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The funeral of Miss Mary L. Sims whose death occurred at Edinburg last Friday, took place Sunday afternoon at the Methodist church, conducted by Rev. Charles Wilson.

Note: The 1880 US Federal Census for Edinburg, Johnson County, Indiana records twenty-five-year-old, Indiana-born single Mary Sims as living in the household of her forty-three-year-old, Virginia-born saloon keeper brother-in-law, Joseph Hughes and her thirty-eight-year-old, Indiana-born sister, Palmyra Hughes.

Submitted by Mark McCrady, Cathea Curry and Lois Johnson