Tuesday, February 7, 2017

Tombstone Tuesday - J.M. and Ettie Mitchell




Father
J.M.
Mitchell
Mar. 21, 1837
Jan. 19, 1919




Ettie
Wife of
J.M.
Mitchell
Died
Feb. 26, 1917
Aged
74  yrs.

Buried Leeper Cemetery, Livingston County, Kentucky. Tombstones photographed 19 February 2014.

John M. and Etta Mitchell are last enumerated on the 1910 Livingston County census. They were living on Lower Smithland-Dycusburg Road. Also in their household were Henry Mitchell, age 32, and Mack Mitchell, age 30.

According to Kentucky death certificate #23937 (1919), John Mitchell was the son of John Mitchell, born Virginia,  and Elizabeth Bennett.

The 1917 Kentucky death certificate (#14909) of Etta Mitchell gives her birth date as 27 February 1841 and her parents as William Harp and Sallie Linley, both of whom were born in North Carolina.  Etta first married Reuben F. Marshall 24 December 1856 in Livingston County and then married John M. Mitchell 1 December 1878.

Published 7 February 2017, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog, http://wkygenealogy.blogspot./



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