SMILEY, Samuel B.
Date of death: 31 Jan 1892 – Franklin, Johnson County, Indiana
The Franklin Democrat, Friday, February 5, 1892,
Volume XXXII Number 33, page 3 column 1
DEATHS.
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S. B. SMILEY.
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S. B. Smiley died Sunday afternoon at his home on East King Street of pneumonia. He was a teamster and contractor and took a heavy cold while putting up ice recently, which resulted in pneumonia, causing his death. The funeral occurred Monday at one o’clock at the residence, conducted by Rev. L. P. Marshall, and the remains taken to the Smiley cemetery for burial.
Link to Samuel B. Smiley’s grave
Note: The Johnson County Indiana WPA Death Index, 1882–1920, page 188, referencing Book H-16, page 28, records that S. B. Smiley, a fifty-two-year-old white male, died 31 Jan 1891 in Franklin
Submitted by Mark McCrady and Cathea Curry