The following excerpt from the 1908 book "Prominent and Representative Men of Indianapolis and Vicinity" indicates that Susan Korns, a native of Somerset County and a daughter of Michael Korns, Sr., married John Shearer. The excerpt provides a confused description of Susan's father Michael Korns, Sr., incorrectly stating that he was a physician in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. Whether right or wrong, the excerpt also indicates that Michael Korns "was for seven years a drummer in the Revolutionary War..." The most valuable part of the excerpt appears to be a list of the children of John and Susan (Korns) Shearer.
62-year-old Susana Shearer appears in the following John Shearer household listing in the 1850 census records of Warren township, Marion County, Indiana.
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