SMYSER, Henry
Date of birth: About 1847
Date of death: 9 May 1890 – Hensley Township, Johnson County, Indiana
Date of death: 9 May 1890 – Hensley Township, Johnson County, Indiana
The Franklin Democrat, Friday, May 23, 1890,
Volume XXX Number 48, page 5 column 2
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Henry Smyser, a life-long democrat of Hensley township, died of consumption of the 9th inst. [of this month], after a lingering illness. He would have been forty three years old today had he lived. He was a member of the Christian church and also of Trafalgar Masonic Lodge by whom he was buried with Masonic honors.
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Note: The Johnson County Indiana WPA Death Index, 1882–1920, page 192, referencing Book H-16, page 3, records that Henry Smyser, a forty-one-year-old white male, died 9 May 1890 in Hensley Township.
Submitted by Mark McCrady and Cathea Curry