WILKES, Nellie

Date of birth:  2 May 1886
Date of death: 2 Feb 1891 – Trafalgar, Johnson County, Indiana

The Franklin Republican, Friday, February 6, 1891, page 1

Grim Death’s Deeds

The funeral of a young child of Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Wilks [sic] occurred at First Mt. Pleasant, on Tuesday.

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, February 6, 1891,
Volume XXXI Number 33, page 5 column 1

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A small child of John Wilks [sic], of Trafalgar, died of scarlet fever on Monday. Six of his family [have] been down with the disease.

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Link to Nellie Wilkes’s grave

Note: The Johnson County Indiana WPA Death Index, 1882–1920, page 230, referencing Book H-16, page 7, records that Nellie Wilkes, a four-year-old white female, died 2 Feb 1891 in Trafalgar.

Submitted by Mark McCrady and Cathea Curry