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Kokomo Daily Dispatch Thursday, June 10, 1926 page 1
JOHN DEAN, 79, DIED SUDDENLY
  John W. Dean, seventy-nine, a resident of Howard county for thirty-five years but more recently of Wabash, died at 3:30 o'clock Wednesday afternoon of heart trouble at the home of his daughter, Mrs. J. M. Hancock at the county infirmary.   Mr. Dean had come to visit his daughter and was taken ill Tuesday evening.
  Funeral services will be held at the Main Street Christian church Friday afternoon at two o'clock, the Rev. A. W. Havens and the Rev. M. H. Garrard in charge.   Ritualistic services will be conducted at the church by the G. A. R. and the Masonic order will be in charge at Crown Point cemetery where burial will take place.
  The other children surviving are:   William A. Dean and M. E. Yager of Wabash, J. W. Dean, Jr., of Kokomo, Mrs. Pearl Shockley of Greentown and Mrs. Frank DeVore of Kokomo.   A son, Boynton Dean is deceased.   The wife died several years ago.
(Contributed by Marguerette Powell)


The Kokomo Daily Tribune Wednesday March 5, 1919 page 2
ELIZABETH DEAN DIES
PASSES AWAY AT AGE OF 70 AT HOWARD TOWNSHIP HOME
Husband and Several Children Survive - Was a Woman Esteemed By All Who Knew Her.
  Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Dean, aged 70 years, wife of James W. Dean of Howard township, died this morning at 5 o'clock, of a complication of diseases.   She is survived by the husband and several children.   The funeral will be held Friday morning at 11 o'clock from the Main street Christian church.   The services will be conducted by the Rev. J. H. Mavity, pastor of the South Side Christian church, assisted by the Rev. D. H. Shields.   Burial will be in Crown Point cemetery.   Mrs. Dean was born September 21, 1848.   She was a member of the Christian church.
    Mrs. Dean was widely known and recognized by all acquaintances as a woman of exalted traits of character and real goodness.   As a wife and mother and as a neighbor and friend she measured up to the finest standards.   She was an inspiration to all the circle that surrounded her and she leaves behind her a name that will long be held in loving remembrance in the neighborhood in which she lived so worthily and served so well.
(Contributed by Marguerette Powell)


The Kokomo Daily Tribune Thursday, March 6, 1919
Funeral of Mrs. Sarah Dean
  The funeral of Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Dean will be held at 11 o'clock Friday morning at the Main Street Christian church, conducted by the Rev. A. W Havens, assisted by David H. Shields.   Burial will follow at Crown Point cemetery.
(Contributed by Marguerette Powell)


Eagle Publications, Macomb, IL, November 14, 2002
Lawrence Pierce, 97, Kokomo, Ind. formerly of Clinton, passes away Nov. 2, 2002 at 11:50 a.m. at the Sycamore Village Health care, Kokomo, Ind.
He was born May 1, 1905 in Huntsville {Schuyler County, IL} the son of Millard F. and Candace (Moore) Pierce. He married Maurine Miller on Aug. 16, 1932 in Canton, Mo. She passed away Dec. 31, 1995.
Survivors include: one daughter, Judith Lumbert, Kokomo, Ind.; one son-in-law, Ganesha Visweswaran, Fresno, Calif.; four grandchildren, Rebecka Gillum, Carmel, Ind., Rani Visweswaran, El Sobrante, Calif., Kamala Visweswaran, Austin, Texas and Raja Visweswaran, Fresno, Calif.; one great great granddaughter, Jackie Gillum, Carmel. He was preceded in death by his wife, one daughter, one brother and three sisters.
He was a member of the United Methodist Church. He was a retired teacher after 44 years of service. He was a member of the retired teachers Association, a member of the Clinton Kiwanis, member of East Ill Department of Aging, Friendship Center Board McLean and DeWitt Regional School Trustee.
Funeral services were held on Saturday, Nov. 9, 2002 at 10 a.m. at the Calvert Funeral Home in Clinton, with Ed Bacon officiating. Burial was in the Woodlawn Cemetery in Clinton. Memorials may be made to Wapella Christian Church or Alzheimer Research Foundation
(Contributed by Sara Hemp).

DIES AT AGE OF 108-Kokomo, Ind., December 2-At the age of 108 years, Martha Gammons, a mulatto woman, has been declared to be sane in the Howard county circuit court, after having been declared a person of unsound mind a year ago. She has been put in possession of property valued at $3,000. Proof of the woman's age was introduced in the court. [The Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta Georgia Dec 3 1910]
(Contributed by Shauna Williams)

Name of Deceased: Jenetta F. Wright
County Name: Howard State: IN  Newspaper: Pharos-Tribune
Submitters Name: Angi Turnpaugh
Obit: Kokomo  Services for Jenetta F. Wright, 83, Kokomo, will be held at 1 p.m. Tuesday in Ellers Mortuary, 3400 S. Webster St., Kokomo. She died at 6:43 a.m. Saturday, March 15, 2008, in Windsor Estates Health Care Center, Kokomo. Born on July 23, 1924, in Mattoon, Ill., she was the daughter of Alphus and Nellie Sparling Carlisle. She was married on Feb. 27, 1941, in Mattoon, Ill., to Glenn R. Wright. Jenetta was a nurses aid at Windsor Estates. She was a member of the Salvation Army, loved to read, do needle work and spend time with her grandchildren. Survivors include her sons, James Wright and Paula Myers, Kokomo, Russell Wright and wife, Melinda, Fort Wayne; daughters, Barbara Murphy, Kokomo, and Kitty Hood, Kokomo; 17 grandchildren; 32 great-grandchildren; three great-great-grandchildren, several nieces and nephews; and Elsie Carpenter, her sister at heart. Her parents; husband; three daughters, Glenda Kay Wright, Pam Wright, Nellie Cook; four brothers; and four sisters all preceded in death. Friends may call from 4 to 8 p.m. Monday in the funeral home. Rev. Logan Sparling will officiate. Burial will be in North Union Cemetery, Kokomo.

Kokomo, IN. Dec. 7, 1896.
William R. Phillips, the hotel clerk who died suddenly at Huntington last Fri., will be brought here for internment tomorrow. He was the youngest son of the late T.C. Phillips, familiar and for 20 years editor of the Kokomo Tribune. Phillips was a printer, 33 yrs old, At Huntington, where he was engaged as a hotel clerk, it is not known, that he was related to the Kokomo family. For a number of years he was employed in the government printing office in Washington.

Kokomo Ind. July 26 1920
Jesse Werley Osborn, a life prisoner from Howard County, died at the Michigan City Penitentiary Sunday night. Osborn was sentenced April 24, 1908 for the murder of his sweetheart, fairy McClain Miller, which had occured in Kokomo on april 7. Repeated attempts to secure parole have been thwarted by the parents of his victim. Osborn was 46 years of age.

New Albany Daily Ledger 24 Feb 1866 p2 c2:
Mr. William Peters, a citizen of Howard county, was killed a few days since by a falling tree.

New Albany Daily Ledger 24 Feb 1866 p2 c2: Mr. William Peters, a citizen of Howard county, was killed a few days since by a falling tree.

Kokomo, Ind. Oct. 19.
Williard Sellers, of this city, a law student at Ann Arbor died suddenly of heart disease at Ann Arbor Sunday He  was found on the floor of his bath room. He was eighteen years old and an exceptionally bright and studious boy.
Indiana Journal Oct. 21 1896

Kokomo, Ind., Dec 2
Earl Kelly, for many years a brakeman on the Clover Deaf Railway, died from a peculiar malady yesterday. Several months ago he got his foot crushed and since then acted as flagman. A week ago Kelly was found In his room alone in a dying condition and died yesterday at the county hospital, for several days he sweat blood at every pore, the life current also issuing constantly from ears, mouth, nose, eyes and intestines. The loss of blood caused death. The case Is a, perplexing one to the physicians.
Source: Indiana State Journal December 9, 1896

EXECUTIVE DIES MUNCIE, Ind. (AP)-Chester M. Cullison, 71, president of Cen ral Indiana Gas Co. from 1953 81, died Thursday, native of Vincennes, Cullison also was past president of Gas Association. the Indiana. Kokomo Tribune | Kokomo, Indiana | Friday,
November 20 1964

Bernard B. Partridge
Kokomo, Ind., Jan. 27.—Bernard B. Partridge, a pioneer business man and contractor, died at his home in this city today, aged sixty-eight.   He was born in New Hampshire. Before the war he assisted in building the Monon railway from
Michigan City lo New Albany, also the Louisville & Nashville and other roads. He was in the railroad department in the military service under General Thomas, assisting In the construction of the "Cracker Line." by which Grant carried supplies to Chattanooga. Later Mr. Partridge built part of the C & A. road, from Chicago to Joliet. He amassed a fortune In railway construction. A wife, two daughters and one son survive. The daughter, Mrs. Hattie Stillwell and Mrs. D. A. Carrol, reside at Chicago, while the son, George Partridge lives in Bloomington, Ill.
Weekly Indiana State Journal January 29, 1896

Benjamin RAINS, of Greentown, while attempting to unload saw-logs from a wagon, was caught and crushed to death.
Indiana General News Items from the Indianapolis News 10 December, 1890

KOKOMO, Ind. Jan. 9.—Matthew Harden, one of the oldest pioneer residents of Indiana, died at his home in this city last night, aged eighty-four. He was born In England June 27, 1815. and came to America with his parents In 1818 settling
first at Baltimore. He came to Indiana, in 1834 locating first in Miami county, he being among the earliest to settle among the Miami tribe of Indians. He moved to Kokomo in 1852. He was city civil engineer for nearly a quarter of a century,
retaining that office until seventy eight years of age. For more than twenty years he was superintendent of the Kokomo Union Sunday school. A widow and four children survive, the latter being Lafayette Murden of Peru, E. F. Murden and
Mrs. A. W. Smith and Mrs. Clinton Smith, of this city.
Date: 1898-12-28;  Paper: Indiana State Journal

Husband and Wife Expire
Kokomo, Ind., Nov. 28 --  Mrs. Vesta Frantt, wife of Fred Frantt, a baseball player, died of influenza soon after he succumbed to the same malady.  A double funeral will be held.
  Indianapolis Star, Friday November 29, 1918
Transcribed by K. Torp

HOWARD COUNTY ITEMS IN THE WABASH STAR, 1896.

T.L. Wykes of Kokomo, prominent in the G.A.R. circles, died at St. Paul, Minn. He was stricken while attending the encampment, and died in a hospital, comrades attending him. He was in the Twenty-first Ohio Regiment, enlisting
as a drummer boy in '61. 24 September 1896.

William Myers, a house mover of Greentown, was fatally hurt. A derrick fell across his body. 8 October 1896.

Word has come to Kokomo that the wife and children of William Zeek, who used to live here, were killed in a flood at Benzon, Ariz., some days ago. 29 October 1896.

Jacob Imbler, aged 35, was killed while hunting by the accidental discharge of a gun in the hands of Albert Ritchie, son of ex-County Recorder Ritchie.
They live at Cassville, north of Kokomo. 10 December 1896.

William Winn, an old settler of Kokomo is dead. 31 December 1896.

Kokomo, Ind., March 27—John Bateman, an old resident of this city died this morning, aged eighty-eight. He came here in 1836 and was formerly a steamboat captain on the Mississippi.
Date: 1899-03-29;Paper: Indiana State Journal






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