Tuesday, August 29, 2017

Tombstone Tuesday - John A. Sullenger




John A.
Sullenger
May 10, 1864
Mar. 21, 1932
All is Dark Within Our Dwelling
Lonely Are Our Hearts Today
For the One We Loved So Dearly
Has Forever  Passed Away

Buried Watson Cemetery, Crittenden County, Kentucky. Tombstone photographed 8 May 2017.

According to his death certificate, John A. Sullenger was born 2 May 1864 in Crittenden County. His parents are listed as Thomas E. Sullenger and Martha Porter, both of whom were born in Crittenden County.[1]

John A. Sullenger married Miss Flora A. Belt 3 December 1891.[2] In 1920, they were living in Williamson County, Illinois with their eight children. Sullenger was a butcher.[3]




[1] Kentucky Death Certificate #8339 (1932), Ancestry.com, accessed 25 May 2017.
[2] Brenda Joyce Jerome, Crittenden County, Kentucky Marriages 1887-1899, Vol. III, (Evansville, IN: Evansville Bindery, 1993) 51.
[3] 1920 Williamson County, Illinois Census, Roll: T625_418; Page: 16B; Enumeration District: 158; Image: 409, accessed 25 May 2017.

Published 29 August 2017, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog, http://wkygenealogy.blogspot.com/

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