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Surnames: shrout, weyer
Classification: Query
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I think there are some problems with who the obituary is written about. I do not think it
is for Rebecca Shrout the wife of Henry H Weyer for the following reasons. First, the
death date of Rebecca Shrout Weyer is Sept 24, 1897 not July 23 1897 as in the obituary.
Second, Rebecca Shrout and Henry H Weyer did not have a son James. Third, the obituary
says Henry Weir's wife was one of the oldest members of the Bloomfield Church, and
Rebecca Shrout Weyer was only 40 years old when she died. Fourth, there was a Henry S
Weir that appears on the 1850 and 1870 census with a son James and wife Mary. This Mary
Weir wife of Henry S Weir would have been 79 years old in 1897 when the obituary was
written and this is a better fit for the subject of the obituary. The 1880 census of
Greene county, Indiana, Cass township has a James F Wire (thank you census takers for more
confusion) age 36.
So, I think this obituary is about Mary Weir the wife of Henry S Weir.
Some of the problems may occur because of an error on the marriage return where for Henry
Weyer and Rebecca Shrout. Henry Weyer last name is spelled Weir. Rebecca Shrout Weyer is
buried at Kentucky Ridge Cemetery in Greene County.