This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: EANS, LOCKWOOD, STROPES Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Ci.2ADE/4443 Message Board Post: THE BLOOMFIELD DEMOCRAT, Bloomfield, Greene County, Indiana, Thursday, April 5, 1900, Volume XXXII, Number 5, Page 3, Column 5, “OBITUARY—EANS.” [Transcribed 27 Mar 2002 from Bloomfield-Eastern Greene County Public Library’s IHS Microfilm Records.] Mrs. Abigail EANS of Terre Haute came down here recently to visit her brother J. L. STROPES, and took sick and on Monday died, age seventy-seven years and sixteen days. Rev BLANKENSHIP conducted the funeral services at the residence of Mr. STROPES Tuesday afternoon and her remains were interred in the Bloomfield Cemetery. Her maiden name was STROPES and her girlhood days were spent in Bloomfield. — NOTES—RLJ: (1) DEATH RECORDS OF GREENE COUNTY, INDIANA, Health Department, East Spring Street, Bloomfield, IN, Book H-6, Page 9: Abigail EAUS, age 77, born in Bloomington, IN, died 2 April 1900 in Bloomfield. Father was Adam STROPES, b. VA; Mother was Phoeby LOCKWOOD, b. NY. — Link to the Obituary of her brother Jeremiah Lockwood STROPES: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=message&r=rw&p=localities.northam.usa.states.indiana.counties.greene&m=2430 —