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III. C. Isabelle McAninch, and Samuel McAninch, not Ernest McAninch |
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Some of the markers in the cemetery were very hard to read, which probably accounts for two of the errors on the original hand-written ‘short list’ [3a1]: |
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[1] 16. Isabelle McAninch, wife of Enoch G. McAninch: |
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Isabelle (Ridpath) McAninch, wife of Enoch George McAninch -- an eroded “Eno” could have been |
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mis-interpreted as “Jno”, hence John, and the erroneous statement “wife of John McAninch”, instead of the correct “wife of Enoch G. McAninch” [4a2, photo] [4b, letter], and |
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[1] 15. Samuel McAninch, not Ernest McAninch: |
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Samuel McAninch – the ‘Phillips Estate’ [1] and Johnson list [2] both show “Samuel”, which is correct, |
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and Louise McAninch could read part of the first name as “- a - - e l” in 1963 [4a5, photo] [4b, letter], |
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and she could read the footstone “S- Mc”, confirming the first letter ‘S’ [4a4, photo] [4e, letter]. |
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However, the (unknown) author of the original hand-written ‘short list’ [3a1] apparently guessed at another given name, “Ernest”, that appears to fit the same general pattern of eroded letters -- |
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first letter ‘S’ (or ‘E’?), then ‘a’ (or ‘r’?), then ‘m’ (or ‘r’n’ pair?), ‘e’ (or ‘s’?), and then the last letter ‘l’ (or ‘t’?) at the end of the name could all be very hard to differentiate on a well-worn gravestone. [4a5, photo]. |
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The next section presents information on Samuel McAninch (1789-1859), Hendricks County Pioneer. |
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“Old Pleasant Hill Methodist Cemetery”, Copyright 2003, by Frank McAninch page 14 of 68 |
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