SMITH, Fred R. “Freddie”

Date of birth:  27 Oct 1895 – Johnson County, Indiana
Date of death: 29 Oct 1900 – Mattoon, Coles County, Illinois

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, November 16, 1900,
Volume XLI, Number 20, page 2 column 4

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ROCKLANE.

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Fred, little son of J. A. Smith died of membranous croup at Mattoon, Ill., last week. The body was brought home and interred in the Rocklane cemetery.

Link to Fred R. “Freddie” Smith’s grave

Note: The Johnson County Indiana WPA Birth Index, 1882–1920, referencing Book H-4, page 34, records that Fred Smith, a white male infant, was born to John A. Smith and May R. Dorral on 27 Oct 1895.

Submitted by Mark McCrady, Cathea Curry and Lois Johnson