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Surnames: BENJAMIN, SHOUSE, WHITE,
Classification: Obituary
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THE BLOOMFIELD NEWS, Bloomfield, Greene County, Indiana, Thursday, March 24, 1938,Volume
LXII, Number 21, Page 8, Column 4, “William A. Shouse Dies at Worthington.” [Transcribed
January 31, 2004 from microfilm of the original newspaper on file in the
Bloomfield-Eastern Greene County Public Library.]
Word has been received here of the death of William A. SHOUSE, father of Pearl SHOUSE, a
former Bloomfield resident. He died at his home in Worthington at the age of eighty-five
years from complications resulting from old age.
Mr. SHOUSE was born a Johnstown, just north of Worthington on March 31, 1853, and he lived
there all of his life with the exception of a few years which he spent at Worthington. On
January 31, 1875, he was married to Mary Ann BENJAMIN. They had recently celebrated their
sixty-third wedding anniversary.
Survivors are the widow; the son, Pearl; a daughter, Mrs. Lulu WHITE, of Worthington and
six other sons, Dora, John, L. Bert, William E, Ben and Harley, and many other relatives.