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Frank Emerson Carlisle

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Frank Emerson Carlisle

Birth
Death
28 May 1929 (aged 66)
Burial
Mooresville, Morgan County, Indiana, USA Add to Map
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Carlisle
First Name: Frank
Middle Name/Initial: Emerson
Date of Death: 05/28/1929
Birth Date: 08/08/1862
Spouse: Iralue Lawrence in September 1895
Survived By: Daughter, Irene; son, Milford; sister, Mattie Goff.
Other: Age 66. Son of William [and Delilah] Carlisle, Sr. Attended school in Mooresville, Ind. until his father died in 1877. At the age of 15, Frank went to work caring for horses and working on various farms. Moved to Omaha, Nebraska at the age of 24. Later returned to Indiana; had a furniture business in Anderson and New Castle. In 1895, he moved back to Mooresville and established other businesses, a furniture store and undertaking. He was the first person in Mooresville to lay down cement walks in front of his business. Town treasurer, school board member, and county commissioner. Died shortly after he retired. Buried in the Lawrence/Carlisle family plot, Mooresville Cemetery. His oldest son, Milford, then took over the funeral business. Milford's oldest son, George, went into the funeral business in 1967. Then his son Sam entered the funeral business and began running the Carlisle and Son Funeral Chapel.
Cemetery: Mooresville Cemetery
Obituary Source: Mooresville Times, May 31, 1929
Source Information: Cemetery index
Carlisle
First Name: Frank
Middle Name/Initial: Emerson
Date of Death: 05/28/1929
Birth Date: 08/08/1862
Spouse: Iralue Lawrence in September 1895
Survived By: Daughter, Irene; son, Milford; sister, Mattie Goff.
Other: Age 66. Son of William [and Delilah] Carlisle, Sr. Attended school in Mooresville, Ind. until his father died in 1877. At the age of 15, Frank went to work caring for horses and working on various farms. Moved to Omaha, Nebraska at the age of 24. Later returned to Indiana; had a furniture business in Anderson and New Castle. In 1895, he moved back to Mooresville and established other businesses, a furniture store and undertaking. He was the first person in Mooresville to lay down cement walks in front of his business. Town treasurer, school board member, and county commissioner. Died shortly after he retired. Buried in the Lawrence/Carlisle family plot, Mooresville Cemetery. His oldest son, Milford, then took over the funeral business. Milford's oldest son, George, went into the funeral business in 1967. Then his son Sam entered the funeral business and began running the Carlisle and Son Funeral Chapel.
Cemetery: Mooresville Cemetery
Obituary Source: Mooresville Times, May 31, 1929
Source Information: Cemetery index


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