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Miscellaneous info, Queries, and recent Nuggets (by States, alphabetical order) |
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Indiana: 1881, Putnam County |
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[obituary] Dorcas McAninch / Mrs. Dorcas Burk, wife of Daniel McAninch, |
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died of old age, Nov 27, 1881, aged 80 years, 11 months and 2 days. |
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Mrs. McAninch had been a resident of Marion Township, Putnam County for 55 years, |
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she having come to this county from Kentucky, her native state, and settled on entered land, |
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on which she lived until her death. |
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She had been a faithful and consistent member of the Christian Church for forty years. |
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Her religious life made of her an exemplary member of society, a devoted wife and an |
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affectionate mother. |
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She met and encountered the duties of life with her aged, bereaved consort for 60 years. |
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They had born to them 9 children, seven of them living to adult age, six of whom are still living |
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to mourn, with their venerable father, their sad, but we can not say untimely, bereavement. |
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The mortal remains of Mrs. McAninch were interred in the cemetery at Stilesville on the |
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28th inst., preceding which the funeral sermon was preached by Elder O. P. Badger. |
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Her life companion, now on the verge of the grave, and her surviving children have the |
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heartfelt sympathy of all their neighbors and friends in this their greatest earthly sorrow and loss. |
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Source: |
Greencastle Star (newspaper), Dec. 3, 1881, p.1; found at DePauw University, |
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Greencastle, Indiana (Putnam County), found June 2009 by Connie Norheim, |
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Fargo, North Dakota, a descendant of Daniel and Dorcas (Burks) McAninch |
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Notes: |
This Daniel McAninch (b.ca.1798, Kentucky) was the son of the original |
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Daniel McAninch (b.ca.1750, d.ca.1822), one of the two McAninch pioneers |
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in Lincoln County and Casey County, Kentucky. The younger Daniel married |
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Dorcas Burks, 8 Jan. 1822, Mercer County, Kentucky, and, in 1828, they moved |
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north to Mill Creek Township, Hendricks County, Indiana (now Putnam County). |
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Daniel lived another ten years, and died at the end of August, 1891; Daniel and |
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Dorcas are buried in Stilesville Cemetery, Stilesville, Hendricks County, Indiana. |
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Iowa: 1881, Cedar County marriage |
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“Clarence O. Cobb” and “Elma E. McAinch” [sic], married 15 Dec. 1881 |
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1881 Marriages, Cedar County: http://iagenweb.org/cedar/1881_marraiges.htm [sic, marraiges] |
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Marriage entry found by Michelle ‘Mikki’ (Kintner) McAninch, Afton, Iowa |
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Elma (Alva?) is believed to be a daughter of Samuel James and Mary Jane (Baker) McAninch. |
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McAninch Family History NL v.XVII n.4 / October 2009 / Copyright Frank McAninch / page 2009-26 |