Franklin Klepinger ^{2 3 4 5}

   FamilySearch ID: LHJN-177.

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Census in 1880 in Prairie Township, White, IN. ⁶ The 1880 census recorded Frank Kleppinger [sic], farmer, 36, living with wife Eliza J. 30; John, 9; twins Willie and Jesse, 4. Also in the home is Otis Reed, 19. Everyone was born in Indiana. Eliza's father and Frank's father were born in Ohio, his mother in Indiana. Eliza's mother was born in North Carolia, Frank's mother in Indiana.

2. Census in 1900 in Prairie Township, White, IN. ⁷ The 1900 census recorded Franklin Klepinger, farmer, 57, born Oct 1843, living with wife Eliza J., 50, Feb 1850; Willie G., farmer, 24, Oct 1875; and Jesse D., farmer, 24, Oct 1875. Everyone and their parents were born in Indiana except Franklin and Eliza's fathers in Ohio. The census columns record Franklin and Eliza were married for 30 years and she had birthed 3 children, all alive in 1900. On the same census page as neighbors are Eliza's mother Elizabeth living with her other children.

3. Cause of Death: angina, 13 May 1912, Brookston, White, IN. ⁵

Franklin married Eliza Jane Gay, daughter of John B. Gay Sr. and Elizabeth Beeker, on 17 Feb 1870 in , White, IN.¹ (Eliza Jane Gay was born on 22 Feb 1850 in Prairie Township, White, IN,^{4 8 9} died on 17 Jan 1922 in Brookston, White, IN ^{4 8 9} and was buried on 20 Jan 1922 in Battle Ground: Pretty Prairie Cemetery, Tippecanoe, IN ^{4 8 9}.)