SHEETS, Franklin E^{[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]}

1880 - 1945  (65 years)

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• Name	SHEETS, Franklin E  [4]
  Birth	25 Mar 1880	Willshire T., Van Wert, Ohio   [1, 3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Death	27 August 1945	Wren, Van Wert County, Ohio, United States of America   [5]
  Burial	Van Wert, Van Wert County, Ohio, United States of America   [5]
  Notes	From the Decatur Daily Democrat, Adams County, Indiana; Tuesday, August 28, 1945: "ELIAS FRANK SHEETS DIES MONDAY NIGHT - Funeral Services Thursday Afternoon Elias Frank Sheets, 65, retired carpenter, died at 9:30 o'clock Monday night at his home in Wren, O., after a year's illness of carcinoma. A lifelong resident of Wren, he was born there March 25, 1880, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Sheets. He was a member of the Radical U. B. church at Wren. Surviving are the wife, Zulah (sic); one son, Harlen Sheets of Van Wert, O.; one sister, Mrs. Ada M. Harr of Tulsa, Okla., and two brothers, Dr. Oscar Sheets of Los Angeles, Calif., and Lawrence Sheets of Willshire, O. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at the residence and at 2:30 o'clock at the church, with the Rev. Argo Sudduth officiating. Burial will be in the Woodlawn* cemetery at Van Wert. The body will be removed from the Gillig & Doan funeral home and may be viewed at the residence after 7:30 o'clock this evening." Obituary courtesy of contributor #47469179. *Is not buried in the Woodlawn Cemetery but Woodland Cemetery/mpgenroots*
  Person ID	I422434698639	Ancestry dot com tree
  Last Modified	22 Oct 2025

  
  

  Father	SHEETS, Oliver,   b. Oct 1850, Ohio, USA
  Mother	FRISINGER, Lucina,   b. 9 February 1854   d. 7 November 1914, Fort Wayne, Allen County, Indiana, United States of America (Age 60 years)
  Marriage	19 Mar 1874	Adams   [3, 8, 9, 10]
  Family ID	F10622	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	WOODS, Tulah,   b. 29 Mar 1886, Ohio d. Nov 1980 (Age 94 years)
  Marriage	29 Jan 1910	Van Wert, Ohio, USA   [6]
  Children	+ 1. SHEETS, Harlen LeDoit,   b. 4 Sep 1918, Wren, Ohio d. 26 December 2007, Decatur, Adams, Indiana, USA (Age 89 years)
  Family ID	F10563	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	22 Oct 2025

  
  

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