HOWARD COUNTY INDIANA OBITS
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