SISCO, Cora Josephine

Date of birth:  1873
Date of death: 28 Oct 1889 – Franklin, Johnson, Indiana

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, November 1, 1889,
Volume XXX Number 19, page 1(b) column 4

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Our community is in sad sympathy with the family of Moses Sisco, who have been so sorely afflicted with sickness and death during the past few weeks. About four weeks ago his son Lon sickened and died from typhoid fever, since which sad event, four other children were strickened with the same dread disease. On last Monday evening his eldest daughter Cora, a bright young girl of sixteen, died. Her funeral took place on Wednesday afternoon from the Methodist church and was largely at­tended. A younger daughter is laying very low with the fever with scarcely any hope for her recovery. The remain­ing son is thought to be convalescing.

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Link to Cora Josephine Sisco’s grave

Note: The Johnson County Indiana WPA Death Index, 1882–1920, page 187, referencing Book H-15, page 24, records that Cora J. Sisco, a seventeen-year-old [sic] white female, died 29 Oct 1889 [sic] in Franklin.

Submitted by Mark McCrady, Cathea Curry and Lois Johnson