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Surnames: Chandler-Shehane
Classification: Query
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Thank you for the offer Wilma. I have an original that my grandmother clipped for the
family bible which I now have.
A Chandler cousin (descended from Elmer Owen Chandler brother of Maoma Chandler Shehane)
found a baby picture of John Wesley Shehane's daughter, Myrtle Leona Shehane Bruner
(sp)(m. Harry Bruner) in the thrift shop that burnt in Aurora, Dearborn Cnty., IN shortly
after her find last year.
Unfortunately, many musical instruments owned by the Shehane family, with the exception of
an oboe, along with Thomas Shehane's original musical scores, disappeared after the
death of John Wesley Shehane. Some think it disappeared after the death of Harry Bruner
as he and Leona had no children and the estate was allegedly "boought out."
Others believe John Wesley's wife, Laura Tinker Shehane, simply burned much of it.