HENRY, Margaret Atkinson (Roberts) Henry
Date of death: Date of death: 20 Aug 1900 – Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana
The Franklin Democrat, Friday, August 24, 1900,
Volume XLI Number 8, page 1 column 6
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DEATH OF MRS. WM. E. HENRY.
Mrs. Margaret Atkinson Roberts Henry, wife of State Librarian W. E. Henry, died at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Roberts, in Park Avenue, at 4 o’clock Monday morning, after an illness of four weeks. Although her illness had been of alarming character, her immediate death was not expected.
Mrs. Henry was twenty-eight years old. She was married five years ago to Mr. Henry and for a time lived at Franklin where Mr. Henry was a professor in Franklin College.—News.
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Link to Margaret Atkinson (Roberts) Henry’s grave
Note: Indiana, Death Certificates, 1899–2011, Indianapolis, Center Township, Marion County, Certificate and Record of Death, page 47 records that Margaret R. Henry died at about 4 o’clock a. m. on 20 Aug 1900 at 2023 Park, city, from exhaustion caused by pancreatic carcinoma, aged twenty-eight years, four months and eleven days, born in Galesburg, Illinois. An autopsy was performed. She was female, white, married and a wife. Her father’s name was Junius Roberts, born in Morton, Illinois and her mother’s maiden name Nancy Gillette, born in Hartford, Vermont. Margaret was buried on 22 Aug 1900 in Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana, P. G. Kiegels, undertaker.
Submitted by Mark McCrady, Cathea Curry and Lois Johnson