Monroe County Indiana Obituaries

"M" Surnames

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MARTIN

Burned to Death- A widow lady, Mrs. Martin, one of the oldest inhabitants of Bloomington, Indiana, who lived alone, was burned to death last week. She was engaged in making a fire to bleach some bonnets, being a milliner, and her clothes caught fire behind her. She did not notice it until the flames burst out and her hair was burning. Unable to extinguish them, she rushed into the yard, calling loudly for assistance. Two persons near by ran to her relief, and one of them caught her burning dress and tore it off down to the waist, but the fastenings at the waist prevented him from getting the clothes off below there. He went into the house and got a piece of carpet, and enveloped the burning woman in it, and thus extinguished the fire. Mrs. Martin lived about twenty-four hours, suffering intense pain. When first seen, the flames were above her head, and had enveloped her whole person. - Illinois State Democrat, Wednesday, May 30, 1860

MEADOWS

Pleasant Meadows Dead Result of Paralysis. -      Pleasant Meadows died at 10:00 Monday night at his home in Walnut Grove of paralysis after an illness of a few days.  Mr. Meadows had been in poor health for several years but his final illness began on last Thursday when he suffered a paralytic stroke and was unconscious until the end.  Mr. Meadows was born and raised in Kentucky.  He came to Monroe county when a young man and resided on a farm four miles northeast of town until two years ago when he moved to Bloomington.  A family of grown children survive him.  Funeral at 2:00 Tuesday from Bethel chapel north of town, and interment in the church graveyard. – Bloomington Evening World, 12 May 1908

MOORE

Mrs. Alvis Moore, of Indian Creek township, died Friday of pneumonia after a two weeks illness, aged 62.  She leaves a husband and family of grown children.   – Bloomington Telephone, 01 April 1902