SHELBY COUNTY OBITS
SUICIDE OF A FORMER
SHELBY MAN
News was recently
received by his friends in this county, that Sylvester
Monroney, of
Casey,
Illinois, had committed suicide by cutting his throat. Deceased
was formerly a resident of Marion Township, and removed to Illinois,
about twenty years ago, where he engaged in farming. At the time
of his death he was about fifty0five years old, and leaves a wife and
several children. He was a brother of Mrs. Clarissa Bennefield,
also of the wives of Oliver, Jonah and Sylvester Bassett and father of
Mrs. Melvin Bowman. We are not informed as to the cause of this
act of self-destruction.
The
following obit appeared in the Shelby Co.,
Indiana newspaper.
Obituary, Shelbyville Volunteer, Shelbyville, Indiana; Thursday, March
21, 1878
Contributed by Marge Roberts
Shelbyville IN. Oct. 8,
1897.
J.S.
Jerrres, president
of the
Farmers’ Bank, of this city, died of heart trouble this morning. Mr.
Jeffres was born in Westchester, Butler County, Ohio, Sept. 7, 1842. He
married Mary Devol, daughter of Thomas Devol, in 1867, and from that
time until 1874 lived in Westchester, keeping a general store. In 1874,
he formed a partnership with Mr. Devol in the grain business in this
city, and continued in that business until the organization of the
Farmer’s Bank, of which he became president. His wife, and daughter
Aurilla survive. A little daughter, Persie, died about 14 yrs ago.
Funeral services will be held Monday afternoon.
Morristown, IN. Jan. 24,
1898.
Thornton
K. Graham, age 35,
formerly prominent businessman here, died today from consumption. He
was a member of the Navarre Lodge, Knights of Pythias.
Indianapolis Sentinel
1877-06-22
Sol Auerbach, a prominent citizen of
Shelby County, of the Masaic faith, died at his residence in
Shelbyville at 8:15 pm Wednesday evening of paralysis. His remains will
be interred in the Jewish Cemetery, under the charge of several orders
of which he is a member. Esquire L. Feibleman, of Shelbyville,
was in the city yesterday to make arrangements for his funeral today on
the arrival of the 12:23 train. The funeral services will be conducted
by Rabbi Messing, at the grave.
1896-02-25
Shelbyville Ind. Jan 8
Acting Coroner C.R. Bruce found that James
Toney came to his death from paralysis. toney's body was found
last Sunday afternoon by his divorced wife, and the report was given
that he was frozen to death.
Source: Times November 28, 2008
A
great-great-grandmother who was the world's oldest person has died at
the age of 115.
Indiana woman Edna
Parker, who assumed the mantle more than a year ago, passed away
on Wednesday at a nursing home in Shelbyville. She was 115 years, 220
days old.
Mrs Parker was born April 20, 1893, in central
Indiana and had been recognised by Guinness as the world’s oldest
person since the 2007 death of Japan's Yone Minagawa, who was four
months her senior.
Dr Stephen Coles, the UCLA gerontologist who
maintains a list of the world’s oldest people, said Mrs Parker was the
14th oldest validated super-centenarian in history. Maria de Jesus of
Portugal, who was born September 10, 1893, is now the world’s oldest
living person, according to the Gerontology Research Group.
Mrs Parker became a widow in 1939 - the year Judy
Garland starred in The Wizard of Oz - when her husband, Earl Parker,
died of a heart attack. She was 48. She remained alone in their
farmhouse until age 100, when she moved into a son’s home and later to
the Shelbyville nursing home.
Though she never drank alcohol or smoked and led an
active lifestyle, she didn't credit this for her advanced years.
A teacher, her only advice to those who gathered to
celebrate when she became the world's oldest person was to get “more
education.”
Mrs Parker outlived both her sons, Clifford and Earl
Jr. She also had five grandchildren, 13 great-grandchildren and 13
great-great-grandchildren.
Don Parker, 60, said his grandmother had a small
frame and a mild temperament. She walked a lot and kept busy even after
moving into the nursing home, he said.
“She kept active,” he said yesterday. “We used to go
up there, and she would be pushing other patients in their
wheelchairs.”
Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels, who celebrated with
Mrs Parker on her 114th birthday, said it had been a "delight" to know
her. She must have been a remarkable lady at any age, he added.
Mrs Parker graduated from the state's Franklin
College in 1911 and went on to teach in a two-room school for several
years.
She married Earl, her childhood sweetheart and
neighbour, in 1913.
As was usual at the time, her career came to an end
with her marriage and Mrs Parker became a farmer's wife, spending her
days tending the home and preparing meals for the dozen men who worked
on the farm.
Last year, she noted with pride that she and her
husband were one of the first owners of an automobile in their rural
area.
Coincidentally, Mrs Parker lived in the same nursing
home as Sandy Allen, whom at 7ft 7¼ was officially the world's
tallest woman until her death in August.
New Albany Daily Ledger Tues., 20 Mar 1855 p2 c2:
A man named James Fields was
run over by a fright train at the
Shelbyville depot, on Tuesday night, and instantly killed, having one
leg and both arms cut off and his head badly crushed.
Mrs.
Emily Fisher, 69
years
old, died at her home, south of here. Three daughters, Mrs. Lula
Stanfield, Edinburg; Mrs. Zella Harrell and Miss Myrtle Fisher, this
city; five sons, Ora
F. Fisher, St. Louis,
Mo.; Willis
Fisher, Henry Fisher, and Noah
Fisher, Shelby county and Jesse Fisher, Indianapolis; two brothers
Frank and John Scott, Johnson County, survive
Henry
T.
Roberts, 67 year
old
business man, died here from heart trouble. He had been engaged in the
automobile business in Shelbyville for several years. the widow, two
sons, H.C.
Roberts and R.N.
Roberts; two
daughters Mrs. Louisa McCabe and
Mrs. Anna Lewis; two sisters, Mrs. Tabitha Lewis and Mrs. Mary Gordon
this city survives.
Mrs.
Julia
Kathleen Mohr, 18
years old, is dead at her home here from influenza. The husband, Andrew
Mohr; an infant son Russell; her father, Aaron Alyea; one brother, Marlowe Alyea and one
sister, Mrs.
Alice Roberts, Shelby County,
sirvives.
George Becker, 85 years old,
died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Ozra Moore, north of here. Death
was caused by cancer. He leaves two sons and four daughters. February
14, 1923 Indianapolis Sunday Star
SHELBYVILLE, Ind., June 11 - An old man,
whose name may never be known, died in the county jail here last night.
His past history is a blank. he was fairly well dressed and about
seventy-five years old. Early yesterday morning he was found sound
asleep on a grass plot near the Big Four depot. When awakened he was so
exhausted that he could not give an account of himself, but save a name
sounding like Van Bibber. One side of his face, was nearly entirely,
eaten away with cancer. He was taken to the jail and locked up. This
morning he was found dead, but with no marks of violence. He was buried
this afternoon in potters-field. There was no paper nor trinket by
which to Identify him. His manner was refined.
Source:
Indiana State Journal June 17 1898
Fort Wayne News January 15, 1896
Shelbyville, Ind., Jan. 8.
Acting: Coroner C R. Bruce found that James
Toney came to his death from paralysis. Toney's body was found
last Sunday afternoon by his divorced wife, and the report was given
out that he was frozen to death.
Shelbyville, Ind. April 13—Hank Walker,
the horseman, well known over southern and central Indiana, died at his
home in this city last night of Bright's disease. Mr. Walker's wife
died a few weeks ago, and this probably hastened his own demise. He
leaves six children.
Indiana Journal April 15, 1896
Shelbyville IN.
Oct. 8, 1897.
J.S. Jerrres, president
of the Farmers’ Bank, of this city, died of heart trouble this morning.
Mr. Jeffres was born in Westchester, Butler County, Ohio, Sept. 7,
1842. He married Mary Devol, daughter of Thomas Devol, in 1867, and
from that time until 1874 lived in Westchester, keeping a general
store. In 1874, he formed a partnership with Mr. Devol in the grain
business in this city, and continued in that business until the
organization of the Farmer’s Bank, of which he became president. His
wife, and daughter Aurilla survive. A little daughter, Persie, died
about 14 yrs ago. Funeral services will be held Monday afternoon.
Shelbyville, IN.
Dec. 31,1898. Henry
Doble, one of the best known men in this part of the State, died
at his residence in this city this morning, aged 67, of tumor of the
brain. He was sheriff of this county for 2 terms during the war. For
years he was engaged in the hardware business in this city and as a
public auctioneer. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge, which will
have charge of the funeral Monday afternoon.
Morristown, IN.
Aug.30,1899. The remains of Lewis
Burklie, the aged suicide who blew up his home with dynamite and
then went to his barn and took his own life were buried this afternoon
in the county cemetery. It is learned that he had whipped his wife the
day before his suicide and she left home for a neighbor’s. Later he
endeavored to persuade her to return, but she refuse. It is thought
that had she returned he would also have taken her life. The Bible was
the only book he would allow in his home, and took no papers.
Shelbyville, IN.
Feb. 18,1896. Less than a week ago Mrs. John Schoelch committed suicide
by jumping into a cistern, and this morning Mrs. Anna Worden, age 27,
wife of William Worden, and a daughter of Phillip Wiemar, followed the
example. With her husband she visited her father and mother last night,
and retired in the best of spirits. Some time in the night she dressed,
and going over into a neighbor’s yard, she jumped into a cistern
containing about 24 inches of water. No cause can be assigned for the
act. She left a note, which read: “Poor Will-poor pa-poor ma-no home.”
She was a member of the Daughters of Rebekah, who will have charge of
internment.
Shelbyville, Ind.. Aug. 20 - John
Clark, a wealthy contractor and builder of this city, dropped
dead between his stable and residence this evening from heart disease.
He had been a sufferer from the disease for years. He was eighty-one
years old and would have passed for sixty anywhere. He was a member of
the William Walker filibustering expedition to Nicaragua in 1855
being one of the sixty-two followers who accompanied that noted
adventurer from California. Clark was present in Granada when General
Corral was shot. Nov. 8. by order of a court-martial over which
Walker presided. He followed Walker and assisted him in a number of his
expeditions, among the Central American states until Walker was finally
captured and shot during the revolution in Honduras. Clark returned to
this country and joined the Southern Confederacy, serving until the
close of the war. He was a member of General Lee's army, which
surrendered at Richmond. He leaves a widow and large property. most of
which has been accumulated since he came here.
Indiana Journal June 26, 1896
Morristown, Ind., Jan. 26.- Mrs.
Eliza Burton, aged forty, died of consumption and was buried
here to-day. She was a niece of tho late Hon. Morgan Chandler.of
Greenfield, and a sister-in-law of Hon. Ralph Burton, nominee for
United States senator In Kansas. She leaves two children, William S.
and Edith; the latter of whom will make her home with her uncle in
Kansas.
Indiana Journal February 3, 1897
John Carter.
Morristown, Ind., Feb. 27-John Carter, who has for many years been the
leading stock dealer of this locality, died this morning from
heart disease, aged sixty-seven. He was long prominent In Democratic
political circles.
Date: 1899-03-01; Paper: Indiana State Journal
Grieved to Death,
Shelbyville, Ind., Feb, 19. - Charles
LaFollette, arrested here at the instance of his grandfather,
William Spencer, on a charge of stealing $30 from his grandparent, died
in jail, having grieved himself to death. He was from Greenfield, where
his body will be taken for interment.
Warren Republican Feb. 21 1895
Shelbyville, Ind.. March
30. -Amelia Monroe, aged
eighty-nine died,
last night, from the effects of burns received last Thursday night.
The Indiana State
Journal, (Indianapolis, IN) Wednesday, April 1, 1896; pg. 5 [Candi]
MORRISTOWN. Ind„ June 1, Mrs. William
G. Moore fell dead while sitting In the congregation during
church services yesterday evening at Little Blue River Church, four
miles southeast of here. She was apparently in her usual health, and
had Just entered the church with an infant In her arms when persons
sitting near her saw her falling forward and caught her. She expired
almost instantly.
Date: 1896-06-03; Paper: Indiana State Journal
William BUSCH, a German, aged
twenty-seven, who came from the Fatherland two years ago and settled at
Shelbyville, and who was discharged from employment on Saturday last
because of dissipated habits, committed suicide by hanging.
Indiana General News Items from the Indianapolis News 8 December, 1890
Lewis MEYERS, a farmer of
Shelby county, dropped dead while repairing a sled.
Indiana General News Items from the Indianapolis News 12 December, 1890
Page 6 Column 5
Ada Henry Buned to Death.
SHELBYVILLE, Ind., Jan. 9.—Ada Henry,
a sixteen-year-old girl living near Flairland, while filling a lamp
with coal oil, accidentally dropped the lamp on the bare floor,
scattering the oil on her clothing. In order to remove the oil from the
floor
she lighted it with a match. Her clothing took fire and her body was
blistered and blackened from head to foot, and after twelve hours of
agony she died. Until death came she was entirely conscious and gave
directions about the funeral.
Date: 1898-12-28; Paper: Indiana State Journal
