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Hannah Jane (Lewis) Sheets
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JENNIE B. SHEETS BURIED TUESDAY
Brief Illness Fatal To Warren County Native On Saturday
Following a heart attack suffered several days ago, Mrs. Jennie Beel Sheets,
aged 71, died Saturday night at her home on East Silver street. She was
a lifelong Warren county resident.
Funeral services were held Tuesday at 2 p.m., at Oswald Funeral Home here
in charge of the Rev. Ransom Ebersole. Burial was in Lebanon
Cemetery.
Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Clara Hance, Lebanon; eight grandchildren,
two sisters, Mrs. Carrie Drake and Mrs. Mollie Pence, both of Lebanon;
a brother, John Lewis, Greenville, and a half brother, Elbert Lewis, Lebanon.
Source: unnamed paper dated 27 October
1949
Copy from the Obituary Collection at the Warren
County Genealogical Society,
406 Justice Drive, Lebanon, OH 45036-2349, (513) 695-1144 - WCGS@co.warren.oh.us
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MRS. JENNIE SHEETS
Mrs. Jennie Sheets passed away October 22, 1949, after a three week illness.
She was 71 years 10 months and 3 days old. Born December 19, 1877, in
Darke county to William and Hannah Jane Graham Lewis, she was the youngest
of eight children. She came to Warren county to live with an uncle, John
Throckmorton, at the death of her mother, when she was nine months old.
October 21, 1896, she was united in marriage to Albert F. Beel, who died
April 28, 1931. To this marriage were born a son, Bernard William, who
died in 1914, and a daughter, Clara, who with her family resides in Lebanon.
She remarried December 28, 1932, to Elmer Sheets, who died January 16,
1948.
Mrs. Sheets is survived by one daughter, Clara Hance, and eight grandchildren;
also one daughter-in-law. She leaves two sisters, Mrs. Carrie Drake and
Mrs. Frank Pence of Lebanon; one brother, John Lewis of Greenville, Ohio,
and one half-brother, Elbert Lewis of Lebanon.
Mrs. Sheets was a good Christian woman loved and respected by all her
friends.
Source: unnamed paper dated 10 November
1949
Copy from the Obituary Collection at the Warren
County Genealogical Society,
406 Justice Drive, Lebanon, OH 45036-2349, (513) 695-1144 - WCGS@co.warren.oh.us
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by
Arne H Trelvik
5 June 2008 |
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William Sheets
SPRINGORO’S LAST WAR VETERAN DIES
SPRINGBORO, March 9. –
Death Last night, claimed Springboro’s last surviving civil
war veteran, William Sheets, age 86 years, passing
away at his home near here. He died at 8 p.m.
Mr. Sheets is survived by three sons, William and Gus
of Springboro and Carl of Dayton, and eight grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday from the late residence,
Rev. Shilling officiating. Burial will be made in Springboro
cemetery.
Source: unnamed & undated paper
Copy from the Obituary Collection at the Warren
County Genealogical Society,
406 Justice Drive, Lebanon, OH 45036-2349, (513) 695-1144 - WCGS@co.warren.oh.us
NOTES:
Believed to be John William Sheets
who married Cornelia E. Alexander 31 Dec 1867 and had
sons Karl Milton Sheets 15 Jul 1875 in Clearcreek Twp
and son Willie Worne Sheets 3 Sep 1878 in Clearcreek
Twp. He is listed in the 1880 census as William J. Sheets,
age 38, with wife Cornelia and children Gussie,
Lola, Carl & William." |
by
Arne H Trelvik
25 April 2007 |
