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Surnames: Moore, Smith, Mullis
Classification: Query
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I have recent information on the death of a Susannah Moore, age 47, in Delaware County on
December 16, 1899, and I believe this was my long-lost grandmother. Her first name was
actually "Savannah" but records repeatedly listed her name as Susannah. Her
husband's name is listed as Allen Moore which was the name of my grandfather.
Whe was the daughter of Thomas J. Smith and Ellen Jane Mullis Smith and she was born in
Indiana ca 1852. She married Allen D. Moore on January 13, 1881 in Howard County,
Indiana. Allen and Savannah had three children who survived infancy. They were Alice
(born in 1882) Walter Dean (probably born in 1886) and Edith, born in 1890.
The circumstances of Savannah's death were unusual, and at the time she died it was
thought she was murdered, but her death was probably caused by accidental poisoning.
Savannah's mother, Ellen Jane Mullis Smith (who always used the name Jane) and her
mother are my solid brick walls. I have no real information that they were ever in
Delaware County, but research shows that wherever Savannah was, they were not far away.
The Smith's had seven children. Besides Savannah, there was George, William, Martin,
Anderville, Jackson and another daughter whose name is hard to decipher, but appears to
be "Ernine."
Jane Mullis married Thomas Smith in Fayette County, Indiana in 1848 or 1849. Her
mother's name was Nancy Mullis and the only information I've been able to find on
her indicates that she was either widowed or divorced. So I've never been able to
find out her maiden name.
Any information at all on Savannah (especially regarding her death) or particularly the
deaths of either Jane Smith or Nancy Mullis would help me break through this wall.
I've spent years searching for their death records, and the recent information that
places Savannah's death in Delaware County (I never knew they had any connection to
Delaware County) leads me to believe that the Smith/Mullis family members may also have
been there.
Additional information places Jane Mullis Smith's birth in North Carolina about 1830,
and Nancy Mullis was born somewhere in Tennessee about 1810.
Thank you.