Gibson County, Indiana
Obituaries
AMES, JOHN
Died on the 12th Inst., at Collinsville, Conn., Mr. John Ames, formerly a resident of Princeton, Indiana, aged 42 years. (The Princeton Clarion, September 22, 1855 (submitted by Peggy Thompson)
Gerald Moore Crosby
Princeton, IN, Age 66 11/7/[20]06 Funeral services for Mr. Gerald Moore Crosby, age 66, of Princeton, IN, were held on Saturday, October 21st, 2006, in the Oakdale Funeral Home Chapel, with Rev. Marshall Gupton officiating. Interment followed in the Sardis Ridge Cemetery in Parsons, TN.
Mr. Crosby passed away on Wednesday, October 18, 2006, in St. Maryʼs Medical Center in Evansville, IN. He was born on December 25, 1939 to Lester Frank Crosby (deceased) and Mildred Moore Crosby (deceased), of Camden, TN.
Oakdale Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
He is survived by his wife, Deborah Crosby; two daughters, Cheryl Anne (Scott) Cornwell and Carol Lynn Crosty; a sister, Janell Burke Ellis; and a grandson, Hawkins Cornwell.
He was preceded in death by a son, Mark Alan Crosby.
Memorials can be sent to Sardis Ridge Cemetery, C/O Patsy Moore, 325 East Highland
St., Decaturville, TN 38329
(Contributed by Christine Walters)
DePRIEST, CYNTHA ANN
Died on the 25th Inst., Cyntha Ann dePriest, consort of G. W. DePriest in the 34th year of her age. (The Princeton Clarion, March 1, 1856, submitted by Peggy Thompson)
DUNCAN, HENRY
Died on Saturday the 5th Inst., Mr. Henry Duncan, in the 97th year of his age. Native of Scotland, and emigrated to this country in 1832. In the year 1833, he came to Princeton. (The Princeton Clarion, April 12, 1856, submitted by Peggy Thompson)
LEATHERS, CLARK
Died on December 31st, Clark Leathers, in the 22nd year of his age. (The Princeton Clarion, January 12, 1856, submitted by Peggy Thompson)
Dr. Claude M. McDonald
PRINCETON, Ind., Jan. 24. - Dr. Claude M. McDonald, of this city, a steward in the Second Division hospital, Second Army Corps, died at Greenville. S. C, last night of heart disease. He was for some time connected with the Prison South at Jeffersonville. He enlisted in the One-hundred-and-fifty-ninth Indiana Volunteers last spring. While at Camp Alger he was appointed hospital steward and took charge of the measles ward. He was sent South from Camp Alger. He was a prominent Mason. The Indiana State Journal, (Indianapolis, IN) Wed., Feb. 1, 1899 - (Submitted by Candi Horton)
SKELTON, ELIJAH N.
Died on the 11th Inst., of typhoid fever, Elijah N., son of Robert S. Skelton; age nine years, six months and eight days. (The Princeton Clarion, January 19, 1856 (submitted by Peggy Thompson)
SKELTON, CATHERINE
Died in Gibson County of congestive chill on the 2nd Inst., Catherine, wife of Robert S. Skelton , age thirty three years, two months and seventeen days. (The Princeton Clarion, October 13, 1855, submitted by Peggy Thompson)
Prentice Swain
March 18 1896, Princeton, Indiana, March 15, Prentice Swain, married, thirty years old, and a stationary engineer at Union, eleven miles northwest of this city, came to town yesterday. He drank all day and started to walk home in the evening in a snowstorm. He walked about two miles and laid down. This morning he was found, covered with fifteen inches of snow, He was brought to this city, where he died shortly afterward.
William Peoples
Princeton, Ind.; April 27,[1896]- , aged sixty-three; a prominent
resident of this city died to-day. He was the first contractor for the construction
of the Louisville, Evansville & St. Louis railroad east of this city.
src: Indiana Journal April 29, 1896