AMSDEN, Mary (Gaughan)
Date of death: 2 Feb 1891 – Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana
The Franklin Democrat, Friday, February 6, 1891,
Volume XXXI Number 33, page 5 column 1
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The wife of Geo. A. Amsden, a nephew of Clerk [David] Fitzgibbon, died at Indianapolis on last Monday evening.
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Note: The Marion County Indiana WPA Death Index, 1882–1920, referencing Book H-4, page 33, records that Mary Amsden, a twenty-eight-year-old white female, died on 2 Feb 1891 in Indianapolis.
Indiana Marriages, 1780–1992, database, records that when thirty-two-year-old Geo. Amsden married twenty-seven-year-old Mary Gaughan on 12 Feb 1890 in Marion County, he stated that his parents were George Amsden and M. Fitzgibbons. Mary stated that her parents were John Gaughan and Cath. Heinhan.
The 1880 US Federal Census for Franklin, Johnson County, Indiana records sixteen-year-old, Indiana-born Mary Gaughan in the household of her parents, forty-two-year-old, Ireland-born John Gaughan, and forty-year-old, Ireland-born Catherine (Heinhan) Gaughan.
Johnson County, Indiana.; Marriage Records 1851–1875 Valume 2, D. A. R., transcribed by Edna Thompson Bice, records on page 2 that George W. Amsden married Ann Mariah Fitzgibbon on 3 Aug 1855.
The 1860 US Federal Census for Jeffersonville, Clark, Indiana records four-year-old, Indiana-born George Amsden in the household of his parents, thirty-nine-year-old, New York-born Geo. W. Amsden and his twenty-six-year-old, Maryland-born wife Myria [sic] (Fitzgibbon) Amsden.
The 1850 US Federal Census for Blue River, Johnson County, Indiana records fifty-six-year-old, Ireland-born Thomas Fitzgibbon, his forty-six-year-old, Ireland-born wife Ellen Fitzgibbon and their children, twenty-six-year-old Jerrald [sic], nineteen-year-old Ann M., seventeen-year-old Ellen M., seven-year-old David P., five-year-old Margaret F., three-year-old Morris, and new-born Agnes C. Fitzgibbon. The oldest three children were born in Maryland; the younger four were born in Indiana.
History of Johnson County, Indiana by Elba. L. Branigin (B. F. Bowen & Co., Inc., Indianapolis, 1913) records on page 106 that David Fitzgibbon was Johnson County Clerk of Court from 1888-1891.
Submitted by Mark McCrady and Lois Johnson