Kinexxions Obituaries
The majority of the obituaries posted here are of individuals with a Whitley County
connection. However, there are some from my family files with no ties whatsoever to
Whitley County! And, there are some that I just found interesting.
Approximately 100 of the obituaries are from the documentation submitted for the First
Families of Whitley County and Pioneer Families of Whitley County. These are programs
of The Genealogical Society of Whitley County (GSWC) that honor the early settlers of
the county and their descendants. The certificate number issued is included in the
contact information at the end of the obituary. Information on these two programs as
well as a listing of the approved ancestors and applicants can be found on the GSWC
website at First Families of Whitley County
and
Pioneer Families of Whitley County.
A big "Thank You" goes to Barbara Lacy who helped transcribe these for a book that was
published by the GSWC.
A notation of "the Scrapbook" in the source section indicates that the obituary came
from a scrapbook that was started by my 2nd Great Grandmother
Sophia Dunfee Wise who lived in Troy Township.
Embossed on the back cover of the scrapbook is "PAT MARCH 1876". After her death in 1916,
the scrapbook was passed on to another family member who added a few more articles to
it. One of my aunts now has the original scrapbook. There are 30 pages covered on
both sides with over 300 newspaper articles, the vast majority are unidentified. Cemetery
or other records have been used, where possible, to help provide a clue as to the date
of death if none was included in the obituary. For these entries, rather than
transcribing the full obituary, they were scanned and abstracted; a link to the
scanned copy of the obituary is included for each of these entries.
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