Funeral Card Friday: Florence Marie (Smith) Logsdon

Marie Logsdon 1919 - 2000

Marie was the daughter of James Ignatius and Emma Josephine (Ray) Smith. She was the third wife of my husband's father, J. Harvey Logsdon and stepmother to his four children: Anita, Rose, Buddy, and Mike. They were married 38 years when Harvey preceded her in death in 1988. Marie had no children of her own.

Florence Marie (Smith) Logsdon circa 1950s

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Funeral Card Friday: Lawrence E. Runyan

 LAWRENCE E. RUNYAN

born St. Patrick's Day 1893 

died November 23, 1978

My maternal grandfather

son of Robert Noah Runyan and Mary Elizabeth Darling

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Funeral Card Friday: Quaker Roots

Jane Woollen Whiteley 1820 - 1896

Jane Woollen was born in Dorchester County, Maryland in 1820. Her parents were Jacob and Nancy Cochran Woollen. She married Robert H. Whiteley in Maryland in 1837.  She joined the Methodist Church at the age of 13.  In 1848 she and her husband joined the Friends [Quaker] church.  She and her husband lived in Milton of Wayne County, Indiana but lived the greatest part of their life on the farm northest of Spiceland in Henry County, Indiana. The farm was located at what is today Interstate 70 and Highway 3.  She and her husband are buried in Circle Grove Cemetery in Spiceland.

Jane and Robert were my third great grandparents. Their daughter Frances Ann Whiteley married Michael B. Runyan; their son Robert Noah Runyan married Mary Elizabeth Darling; their son Lawrence Everett Runyan married Mary Fern Newby. Lawrence and Fern were my maternal grandparents. 

This funeral card was a very lucky eBay find for me just two weeks ago!

Spiceland Friends Church

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