| Katherine "Katie" Henderson |
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A dispatch received this morning from Mr M L Barnhizer announces the death of Mrs Katie Henderson last night. Mrs Henderson was formerly a resident of this county. Her remains will be brought to this city this afternoon and taken to Wheeling for interment. She was advanced in years and died at Mrs M L Barnhizer's, her daughter's residence, No 18 Morrison Stree, Indianapolis. There are many of our older citizens, particularly in the vicinity of Wheeling who will remember Aunt Katie Henderson. She has one daughter living a few miles north of Wheeling, Mrs John Curtis. The dispatch does not state whether the burial will take place today or to-morrow. |
A dispatch from Mr M M Barnhizer, Indianapolis, this morning to L A Kirkwood, of this city, announces the death of Mrs Katie Henderson, last night, at the residence of her daughter, Mrs Sally Barnhizer, No 18, Morrison street. Mrs Henderson was formerly a resident of this county and is well known on the vicinity of Wheeling, where her remains will be taken for interment. She has a daughter, Mrs John Curtis, living north of Wheeling besides other relatives in that locality. She was well advanced in years at the time of her death. Her remains will arrive in this city this afternoon and afterward be taken to their final resting place in the cemetery at Wheeling where her husband and other relatives are buried. |
The funeral of Mrs Katie Henderson, of Indianapolis, took place at Wheeling on Monday about noon. She died at Indianapolis on Sunday night about half past nine o'clock. Her seventy-sixth birthday occurred on Friday before her death. She was the daughter of Robert Saunders, who died March 31, 1861, aged ninety-four years and whose tombstone in the Wheeling cemetery bears the following inscription: "This patriot and pioneer served three years in the arduous Indian Campaign of Wayne and among the first settlers of Indiana." Two sons Abner and Coleman Saunders, and two daughters, Mrs McVickers and Mrs Reasoner, survive the sister that just passed away. Mrs Henderson has three married daughters, to living in the state and one in Missouri. Mrs M L Barnhizer lives at No 19 Morrison Street Indianapolis, with whom her mother was living at the time she died. Mrs John Curtis lives on a farm near New Cumberland, Ind. The Rev E F Hasty attended the funeral and conducted a brief religious ceremony. |