TIPTON COUNTY, INDIANA
OBITS
Sharpsville, IN. Apr. 19,1897.
John
Seiler, a prominent business man
for 20 yrs of this place, died here yesterday of pneumonia, and will be
buried at Kokomo Tues. morning.
WILLIAM H. HORNADAY; died
Hartford City, Ind., 24 Dec 1874, 31 yrs, of
typhoid fever; burial, Windfall, Tipton Co., Ind.; leaves wife and
children.
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SAMUEL B. FOX; died near
Windfall, Ind., 23 Feb 1875, 75 yrs.; leaves
wife and three children.
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MARY HORNADAY, born Virginia;
died residence of son-in-law, Florida,
Madison Co., Ind., 28 Oct. 1876; husband, Nathan HORNADAY, deceased;
son, William LI. HORNADAY, deceased; three married daughters, two
married sons; at 3 years to Franklin Co., Ind.; to Rush Co., Ind., to
Marion County, Ind., 1846, to Tipton Co., Ind.;
submitter A.M. LEGG, Windfall, Ind. The Restitution Newspaper
Tipton, Ind., Jan. 24. The funeral of Elijah C. Elliott, aged sixty, took
plate in this city to-day under the direction of the G. A. R. Mr.
Elliott was once a prominent merchant in this city and was a member of
the Indianapolis Board of Trade. During the civil war he was in the
rebel army. He was with the John Morgan raiders In Indiana and Ohio,
and was taken prisoner and sent to Johnson's island, near Sandusky, O.
He attempted to escape on the ice, but artillery opened fire across the
bay and broke up the ice, so that he had to run back, but not until he
had received injuries from which ho never recovered. When the war ended
he-was paroled and soon afterwards located in this county. Before his
death he requested that his casket be draped in the American flag and
that the Grand Army have control of his funeral. The Indiana State
Journal, (Indianapolis, IN) Wed., Feb. 1, 1899 - Submitted by Candi
Tipton - Mrs. Mary McGraw.
82 years old, was found dead at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Smith
Cox, of heart disease. Three other daughters survive.
Indianapolis Star, Friday November 29, 1918
Transcribed by K. Torp