Individual Details

Benton H. Shriner

(12 Jan 1845 - 5 Jun 1937)

Benton H. Shriner, 91, retired, 401 University Ave., died at 4 a.m. Saturday following an extended illness. He was the father of Albert B. Shriner of Muncie and Howard B. Shriner, assistant secretary of the Merchants Trust and Savings Company.

Mr. Shriner was born at Summitville, Ohio, January 12, 1845. He came to Muncie from Liberty, Ind. He retired in 1913. Mr. Shriner was the last of a family of six children.

Mrs. Shriner died four years ago this month (June 2, 1933). Surviving besides two sons living here are two daughters, Mrs. M.A. Stevens of Centerville, Ind., and Mrs. F.H. Hughes of Huntington, Ind.; eight grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held Monday at 3 p.m. at Meeks Mortuary. The Reverend Arthur W. McDavitt, pastor of St. John's Universalist Church of which Mr. Shriner was a member, will be in charge. Entombment will be in the Elm Ridge Mausoleum. Friends may call at the mortuary after noon Sunday.

Events

Birth12 Jan 1845Summitville (Historical), Miami, Ohio, United States
Residence1850Liberty, Union, Indiana, United States
Marriage20 Apr 1880Union, Indiana, United States - Laura Evangeline Blose
Occupation1910 - 1911owner of a Grocery and Meat Market - 318 Meeks Ave, Muncie, Delaware, Indiana, United States
Residence1910Center, Indiana
Death5 Jun 1937from cerebral hemorrage - Muncie, Delaware, Indiana, United States
Burial7 Jun 1937Elm Ridge Cemetery, Muncie, Delaware, Indiana, United States

Families

SpouseLaura Evangeline Blose (1857 - 1933)
ChildOlga Shriner (1890 - 1979)
ChildHoward B. Shriner (1894 - 1964)
FatherHenry Shriner (1818 - 1887)
MotherPhoebe Ann Garrison (1823 - 1912)
SiblingWatson C. Shriner (1842 - 1927)
SiblingIndiana Shriner (1849 - )
SiblingTheodore G. Shriner (1852 - 1935)
SiblingMary C. Shriner Sharp (1854 - 1915)
SiblingOlive Pruella Shriner (1855 - )
SiblingElla Shriner (1856 - )

Notes

Marriage

Source CitationUnion County, Indiana; Marriages 1860-1918, Part I Grooms Part II Brides Compiled by Ruth M Sl; Book: F; Page: 31Source InformationAncestry.com. Indiana, Marriage Collection, 1800-1941 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.Original data:Works Progress Administration, comp. Index to Marriage Records Indiana: Indiana Works Progress Administration, 1938-1940.Jordan Dodd, Liahona Research, comp. Electronic transcription of marriage records held by the individual counties in Indiana. Many of these records are on microfilm at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Death

Death certificate lists a Jane Sumter as his mother. I show no record of this at all.. not in his birth record of his father's will

Endnotes

1. , "United States Census, 1910," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MKGD-RLH : accessed 15 Aug 2014), , Center, Delaware, Indiana, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 20, sheet 4B, family 94, NARA microfilm publi (N.p.: n.p., n.d.).

2. , "Benton H. Shriner (1845 - 1937) - Find A Grave Memorial." Benton H. Shriner (1845 - 1937) - Find A Grave Memorial. N.p., n.d. Web. 27 Feb. 2015.. (N.p.: n.p., n.d.).

3. , "Laura Evangeline Blose Shriner ( - 1933) - Find A Grave Memorial." Laura Evangeline Blose Shriner ( - 1933) - Find A Grave Memorial. N.p., n.d. Web. 27 Feb. 2015.. (N.p.: n.p., n.d.).

4. , "United States Census, 1910," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MKGD-RLH : accessed 15 Aug 2014), , Center, Delaware, Indiana, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 20, sheet 4B, family 94, NARA microfilm publi (N.p.: n.p., n.d.).

5. , "Benton H. Shriner (1845 - 1937) - Find A Grave Memorial." Benton H. Shriner (1845 - 1937) - Find A Grave Memorial. N.p., n.d. Web. 27 Feb. 2015.. (N.p.: n.p., n.d.).

6. , "Benton H. Shriner (1845 - 1937) - Find A Grave Memorial." Benton H. Shriner (1845 - 1937) - Find A Grave Memorial. N.p., n.d. Web. 27 Feb. 2015.. (N.p.: n.p., n.d.).