BOONE COUNTY, INDIANA
OBITS
Lebanon Reporter, Tuesday, April 1,
2008, Local Section, Page 10
Allyn
W. Harrison, 82, longtime
resident of Palmetto Bay, Florida, died
Saturday, March 22, 2008, at home. He was born in Oklahoma and raised
in Oregon. Mr. Harrison graduated from Purdue University and pursued a
career in aeronautical engineering after serving in WWII. Mr. Harrison
was devoted to his family, his church and golf. He was an elder in his
church and active in mission work with the homeless and migrant
children. Preceding him in death are his first wife, Patricia; brother,
Keith; and sister, Doris Rae Wilson. A memorial service was held March
26 in Pinecrest, Florida.
(Contributed by Darlene Anderson)
Lebanon Reporter, Tuesday, April 1,
2008, Local Section, Page 10
Leona
A. Osborne, 66, of Thorntown,
died Saturday, March 29, 2008, at
Witham Hospital of natural causes following an extended illness. Ms.
Osborne was born in Indianapolis on Jan. 31, 1942. She was the daughter
of the late Alvin Burnett and Pauline Agnes (Padgett) Delaney. She was
reared in Rosston. She was formerly married to Don E. Osborne, Sr., and
they divorced. Two brothers, Oris B. Delaney and Melvin T. Delaney; and
her step-father, Ervin Johnson, are deceased. Visitation will be at
Myers Mortuary, 1502 North Lebanon St., Lebanon, IN. Interment will be
at Rosston Cemetery at Rosston in Boone County, IN.
(Contributed by Darlene Anderson)
Jamestown Press Jamestown, Boone County, Indiana Friday, 2 Feb 1912,
page 1
Contributed by Janet ISLEY Price, johnprice@cox.net
EXPIRED FRIDAY
Mrs. Jesse C. Smith Succumbs to Long Illness
Mrs. Grace A. Smith, wife of
attorney Jesse C. Smith, expired at 3 am, Friday at her home, ___ West
North street, Lebanon, her demise being due to pulmonary tuberculosis,
with which she had been afflicted for about a year.
Mrs. Smith was the daughter of James Farrow. She was born in Boone
County, Oct. 16, 1873. Her marriage occurred Sept. 21, 1890 at this
place. The husband and four children survive her, - Emil F., Jesse M.,
James C., and A. Franklin. She also leaves one brother, E. E. Farrow,
stationed at Camp Wallace, Philippine Islands, and the following
sisters – Mrs. John Wilson, Roachdale; Mrs. Clarence E. Smith,
Brownsburg; Mrs. Harry Bues, Illinois; Mrs. Thomas Plunkett, Advance.
She was a member of the Methodist church at Lebanon. The funeral, which
was private, was conducted from the residence at 2 p.m. Saturday by
Rev. M. H. Appleby.
Interment was in Oak Hill Cemetery.
11/22/1872 OBIT
General Reuben C. Kise. Senior
editor of the Vincennes
Sun, died in
that city at 11 o’clock
yesterday, after a painful illness of 3 weeks duration. By his military
services during the war, and his later participation in political life,
as well
as through his connection with the press, General Kise was familiarly
known to
the people of the state. He was born in Hendricks County,
but his father, Colonel William C. Kise, afterwards moved to Boone County,
where young Kise resided until the commencement of the war. He entered
the
volunteer service on Apr.
28, 1861, as second Lieutenant in the 10th
Indiana
Infantry, and acted as Adjutant of that regiment during the 3 months
service,
participating in the Rich
Mountain fight,
the first
of the War. He served as A.A.A.G. upon the stag of General M.D. Manson,
and on June 21, 1862,
was made
Captain and A.A. G. by the War Department. He resigned that position
march 16,
1864, and took the position of major of the 129th Indiana,
his
commission dating from March 1, 1874. he was promoted to Lieutenant
Colonel August
17,1865, Brevetted Brigadier
General march 13, 1864, for “gallant” and meritorious services during
the war”
Besides engaging in the 3 months campaign, he was the campaign against
the rebel
forces in Eastern Ky. He participated in the battle of
Mill Springs,
Jan. 19, 1862. His division then joined Buell’s main army and entered
the
campaign that ended at Shiloh; was
ordered to
accompany his General to Kentucky,
and was in the disastrous Richmond,
Kentucky campaign. His new
regiment, the 112th, was organized in the First, Third and
Eighth Congressional
Districts of the State, and after it formation, proceeded to Kentucky,
and soon
afterward joined General Sherman’s command and participated in the
memorable
campaign against Atlanta. His was a portion of Sherman’s command that
was
detached and sent after Hood, who was met and engaged at Franklin TN.,
and he afterward
routed before Nashville. He was then sent to north Carolina, and again joined Sherman, and was
in that
command at the death of the rebellion. The regiment was placed on
provost duty
in North Carolina,
and there remained until mustered out. After the War, General Kise
entered
politics actively, and was Democratic candidate for secretary of state
in 1868.
He was Secretary of State Central Committee in 1870 his labors as a
journalist
were employed upon the Boone County Pioneer and Vincennes Sun. A
gallant and
pains taking soldier, and a politician liked and respected by men of
all
parties. General Kise’s death will be regretted by many outside of the
extensive personal acquaintances, by who he was affectionately
regarded.
General Kise leaves a wife and 1 child.
Lebanon, IN. Oct. 31,
1898.
Mrs. Augusta Adams, wife of
Jude Adams, and ex-judge of the Hendricks and Marion Circuit, was
buried today after an illness of several months. Mrs. Adams was 52 yrs
old and leaves a husband and 1 daughter, Miss Mary Adams. Mrs. Adams
was a native of Ohio, having been born in Lennox, Ashtabula county. She
graduated from an Ohio institution of learning and afterwards taught
school in Indianapolis and Danville. She moved here with her husband
from Frankfort several years ago. Mrs. Adams was prominent in
literary and musical affairs in Lebanon, and was also much interested
in philanthropic work. She was the sister of Judge E. A. Brown, of
Indianapolis, and Prof. George P. Brown, editor of the Illinois School
Journal. The burial took place today at her former home at Frankfort.