Henry Downer SHEETS

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Richwood Gazette, 26 April 1917 - (causes of death) Living within a mile and a half of one another, four cousins of Wm H and Alfred Lake passed away during April. On the 5th, Arthur Sheets died after a short illness of pneumonia; Solomon Sheets died on the 10th of April of grip, being ill only a few days; three days later Henry Sheets fell a victim of cancer; and on April 17th, Emma Sheets Blain, a niece of the three men and a cousin of the Lakes, died suddenly of uremic poisoning. All four lived on farms near Kilbourn in Delaware County. Emms, the last of the four to die, had attended the funerals of her three uncles.


Name: Henry Downer Sheets
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Death date: 14 Apr 1917
Death place: Delaware, Delaware, Ohio
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Estimated birth year: 1854
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Age at death: 63 years 7 months 22 days
Gender: Male
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Burial date: 16 Apr 1917
Burial place: Kilbourne Demetery
Cemetery name: Kilbourne Cemetery
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Father name: Henry Sheets
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Mother name: Margaret Downer
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GSU film number: 1984010
Digital GS number: 4021562
Image number: 2510
Reference number: fn 25220
Collection: Ohio Deaths 1908-1953

Henry married Nannie Elizabeth ROBINSON, daughter of George ROBINSON and Anna Marie PALMER, on 26 Nov 1884 in , Delaware, Ohio.⁶⁶ (Nannie Elizabeth ROBINSON was born on 31 Dec 1868 in Dublin, Ireland, died on 31 Jan 1942 in Delaware Co., Ohio, United States and was buried in Green Mound Cem., Kilbourne, Delaware, Ohio, USA.)