Extracted chiefly from the newspapers, Marion Monitor (MM) and Egyptian Press (EP)
October 1879
Deaths:
Joe Burns, the barber, died at residence of Josiah Davis near Union Grove last Monday.
William Wagoner, age 98, died 22 Sep at residence of Elder Willis Corder…. born in Kentucky and came to this county at early age, helped open road from Sarahsville to Frankfort…. became helpless and an inmate of the poor house, but the Baptist at the Prairie Church, five miles east of Marion, of which he had for years been a member, agreed to support him and moved him to the residence where he died. MM 2 Oct 1879
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