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Married [other couple] Also, in the evening of the same day [the 26th inst.,] at the Sherman House in this city, by the same [Rev. W.R. Kistler], Dr. Minor Nichols and Miss Elizabeth Robinson all of this city. [HT- 03 Oct 1867/p3/c4] Dr. Minor NICHOLS / Elizabeth ROBINSON / Marriages / Sherman House / Vital Records / NICHOLS, Elizabeth

Married Against His Will. On Monday the officers took Bob, a colored man carrying brick and mortar on the new Tribune building, with a snatch - him - where - you - find - him. A Miss Turner had filed an affidavit against him before Squire Truesdell, as the father of her prospective child. Bob found himself in a tight place. As the best thing that could be done, under the circumstances, he married the girl. He was only absent half an hour but declined to work on his return because he was too galorious

[sic] over three straight drinks and his new relations to take hold of anything as earthly as brick and mud. Bob swears he is not married only according to law-says he will never live with his wife. He intimates that he would take his chances on the prospective child but says he can't "bore up" on the subject of two or three of whom she had already been the mother. [HT-2 Sept 1869/p3/c2] Bob / Ms. Turner / Marriages / Illegitimate Children

Ditch Notice Said work is suppose to affect lands owned by the following person to-wit: [among others] Morrison Artis Richard Basset jr. Richard Bassett sen. Orin Ellis Henry Bassett, jr.

Heirs of Zackariah Bassett Titus Vaughn Henry Bassett sen. Wm. Bassett sen. [Dem- 03 Nov 1870/p2/c5] County Records / Ditch Notices

The colored population of this city, are as follows: Females.............26 Males...............32 Children............37 - Total 95 [Dem- 09 Feb 1871/p2/c3] Population / Vital Records

The following is a list of marriage licenses, issued by our County Clerk, for the month of December: [among others] George Bassett to Hager Ellis. [Kdem- 23 Jan 1873/p3/c3] Marriage Licenses / BASSETT, George / ELLIS, Hager

The following is a list of marriage licenses issued during the month of March: [among others] Titus Ballanger (colored) to Mary Anderson (colored) [Kdem- 04 Apr 1873/p3/c3] Marriage Licenses / BALLANGER, Titus / ANDERSON, Mary

The wife of Minor Nichols died last week. She was interred at Marion. [Kdem- 17 Apr 1873/p3/c1] NICHOLS, Mrs. Minor / Deaths

Trouble Among the Colored People. A Quarrel Over a Corpse. A few weeks since, some notes were placed on our table referring to the death of Mrs. Artis, in Ervin township, and we were asked to write them up. This we declined to do. Now E. W. M. furnishes a written report which he and others ask to have published. We condense it as follows: Mrs. Artis died Sunday night, April 15th ult. Richard Bassett was the executor of the estate. Our correspondent was asked to go and get a coffin made. Bassett heard of it and said he would never pay for the coffin, so a messenger was sent after him to recall the order. He and the children had a big quarrel over it. He told them they might cry but he would rock the cradle. So he made the coffin out of some old walnut lumber in the barn lot. He put the corpse into this and took it to the wagon three-quarters of an hour before the family was ready. David Rush was sent for to preach the funeral sermon but Bassett objected - Rush was a Methodist -

said the deceased was a Baptist and died in the faith. He said Rush might be present but he should not fill the pulpit. But we saw Ralph French and got the use of the house and had a house full and a good sermon. Bassett would not come in but went to the graveyard after the sermon. Soon after he had a big muss with his oldest son. He is an Elder of the church that the deceased belonged to. E. W. M. [KTW- 12 May 1874/p2/c4] Vital Records / Deaths / ARTIS, Mrs. / BASSETT, Richard / Bassett Settlement / Ervin Township / RUSH, David / Social Disturbances / Ministers Mrs. Jennie Braboy, wife of Mr. J. A. Braboy, died on Thursday and was buried yesterday. She was an intelligent lady, a good wife and was esteemed by all who knew her. [KSET- 28 Nov 1874] BRABOY; Mrs. Jennie, Mr. J. A. / Deaths

Mrs. J. A. Braboy was buried last Friday. The funeral was the largest colored funeral ever known in Kokomo. The deceased was an intelligent, educated, christian woman. [Kdem- 03 Dec 1874/p3/c1] BRABOY, Mrs. J. A. / Deaths / Vital Records Mrs. Elzora Thompson, (with a p,) colored, of this city, recently gave birth to a seven months' child, weighing seventy-two ounces. This same Elzora is the lawful wife of James Thompson, colored, who is proud, and, as a matter of course, wonders how it came that the laws of nature "let up" in his case. James is a barber at Tom Byrd's, the sole possessor of a "yallar dorg," and the possessor of a countenance that is "begrudged" by the blackest of Oalu's(?) children. [Kdem 31 Dec 1874/p3/c1] THOMPSON, James and Elsora / BYRD, Tom / Barbers / Births / Vital Records

Death of Simon Rush On Thursday, of this week, at his home in Ervin township, Simon. Rush died at the advanced age of 85 years. He had been a member of the M. E. Church for fifty-five years. His funeral occurred yesterday at two o'clock, the ceremonies conducted by Rev. David Rush. [KSET- 23 Jan 1875/p2/c4] RUSH, Simon / Deaths / Rush Settlement / Ervin Township / Rev. David RUSH / AME Church Charles Winburn, step-brother to Tom Byrd, died in this City, on Thursday of pulmonary disease. His funeral will take place at the Colored M. E. Church, tomorrow morning at ten o'clock. Services conducted by Rev. Jason Bundy. [KSET- 30 Jan 1875/p3/c1] WINBURN, Charles / Deaths / BYRD, Tom / BUNDY, Rev. Jason / AME Church Marriages for March. John W. Burnett to Eliza Hall. ...[among others] [K Dem - 8 Apr 1875/p3/c2] Vital records (Marriages) / Burnett, John, W. / Hall, Eliza Savory Dugged, a colored lady, who had lived her "three score and ten," was buried in the New London cemetery, on Sabbath morning, the 27th ult. [K Dem - 10 June 1875/p1/c6] Vital Records (deaths) / Dugged, Savory / New London cemetery Ervin, Ind, June 22nd., 1875 Since my last report we have had three deaths in the township. The first was John Bassett, colored, son of Richard Bassett, who died of Pulmonary Consumption. He was sick and helpless over three years.. [...] [KSET- 26 Jun 1875/p2/c3] BASSETT, John / BASSETT, Richard / Deaths / Ervin Township August Marriages. Forty-Two Hearts Licensed to Beat as Twenty-One. Marriage licenses were issued to the following persons by the county Clerk during the month of August: [among others]... Taylor Burnett to Henrietta Hardimon. [KW Dem-9 Sept 1875/p3/c5] Vital Records (Marriage licenses) / Burnett, Taylor / Hardimon, Henrietta

A Black Act. A Father Worth 15,000 Allows his Own Son to be Buried as a Common Pauper. And is Allowed $11.50 by the County for Burial Expenses -- A Disgusting Display of Paternal Nigardness Richard Bassett, of Ervin township, is probably the wealthiest gentleman of color in Howard county. He pays tax on 240 acres of as good land as there is in the county, which, with his person property, makes him worth, at the lowest calculation, $15,000. Now, we do not presume to know the secret of Dick's worldly success, but the following may throw some light on the subject: We see by the record of the last session of the Commissioner's Court, that this rich specimen of ebonized American citizenship was allowed $11.50 for the burial expenses of his own son, John Bassett Jr. The claim set forth that the deceased was a pauper etc., and was duly certified to by Noah Whistler, trustee of Ervin township. Of course the Commissioners had to allow the claim. We have no fault to find with them. They were not bound, in fact had no right, to take cognizance of the blood relationship existing between the deceased and the claimant. It was enough for them to know that the articles set down in the bill had been furnished to the pauper deserving of the public aims. But that a father worth fifteen thousand dollars should ask the county to bury his own son is a freak in human nature to despicable almost for belief; and, although John Bassett Jr. was a pauper, had we been trustee of Ervin township and knowing the circumstances of the case, we hardly think we should have recommended the allowance of this claim. It must be truly gratifying to a man of Dick Bassett's pretentions to have his nearest of blood relations, his own son, buried at the public expense and officially declared that "he filled a pauper's grave." The blackest page in this black man's history will be the one in which this black act shall be recorded. [KW Dem-30 Sept 1875/p3/c4] Bassett, Richard / Bassett Jr., John / Vital Records (deaths) / Ervin Township Richard Bassett, the richest negro in Howard county, who allowed his son to be buried as a "common pauper" and was allowed $11.50 by the county for funeral expenses, is a Baptist minister. He preaches one day and makes merchandise of the body of his pauper son the next. Old Dick is a queer compound of humanity. A more stingy, penurious, unnatural father does not reside in this county,

and the DEMOCRAT hopes never will. This outrageous, unnatural sordidness has never had a parallel in this community. We see Richard Bassett, a minister of the gorpel, whole wealth will aggregate $15,000, the wealthiest negro in Howard county, and a shining light among the people of his color, proclaiming that his son, his own flesh and blood, died a public pauper. And then this niggardly old hypocrite comes before the Commissioners with a certificate from the trustee of Ervin township and asks that he be allowed $11.50 for burial expenses of a public pauper, his own son, John Bassett, Jr.! Blood money will burn the soul of him ho receives it. An this pittance, the price of Dick Bassett's infamy, the grave money of his dead son, will burn the hands--if not the soul--of the inhuman, unnatural father that receives it. This act is a disgrace to his race, a wretched caricature upon the age in which we live, and a libel upon our modern Christian civilization. Dick Bassett ought to be expelled from the church that he has disgraced and in which he stands up as an exampler before the world. The realms of the damned if full of such religion as that which fills his world. And when the dead shall arise and stand before God in the Judgement Day, John Bassett, Jr., who now sleeps in a pauper's grave, dishonored by his father for $11.50, will stand up before the nations of the world, a witness against the niggardly parsimony of his unnatural father, Richard Bassett. [KW Dem - 7 Oct 1875/p2/c1] Bassett, Richard / Bassett Jr., John / Vital Records (deaths) / Ervin township Several children of Mr. Jas Gowen, a colored barber, who lives on East Sycamore street, were mysteriously poisoned one day last week, and the youngest child died. Two others were seriously ill for a few days but are now out of danger. It is supposed there was poison in the food eaten by the children, but the manner of its introduction about the premises is a mystery. [KSET- 30 Oct 1875/p3/c1] GOWEN, Mr. Jas. / barbers / illnesses / Deaths / Vital Records October Marriages. Marriage licenses were issued by the County Clerk, to the following persons during the month of October: [among others] J. T. Johnson and Bertha Anderson [KW Dem-11 Nov 1875/p3/c2] Vital Records (marriage licenses) / Anderson, Bertha / Johnson, J. T.

Report of the Board of Health. The Board of Health presented their report of births and deaths for the month of December, 1875, and, on motion, the same was received, ordered to be placed on file and published. The following is the report: BIRTHS. (among others) Dec. 4-Gowans........Female Black No. Colored males, 1: total number births, 4. The Board of Health are convinced that about one fourth of the births and deaths have not been reported... [KWD-17 Feb1876/p3/c2) Vital records (births) / Gowans, Poplar Grove, Jan. 10. [...] Mr. Reuben Griggs and Miss Artis, a daughter of Mr. Thomas Artis, near this place, were married on last Thursday evening....The wife of Henry Bassett died last Monday [...] [KST- 13 Jan 1877/p4/c6] Vital Records / Marriages / GRIGGS, Mr. Reuben / ARTIS, Miss / ARTIS, Mr. Thomas / Deaths / BASSETT, Mrs Henry / Poplar Grove

Death of “Uncle Tom” On the evening of the 12th inst., “Uncle Tom” died at the poor farm of this county. For fifty years, he was a slave. After the proclamation of emancipation he came north. Being old, he finally found his way to the poor house of this county. He was 74. He was never any trouble. If he had owned the farm, he would not have taken more interest than he did. The imbeciles were often placed under his care and by kindness and tender management he would interest them at the light work at which they were placed. He was very popular, very useful and just as good as he could be. The old man died peacefully just as he was going to bed the messenger came; he fell back on his pillow and was no more. But he is safe now in the better land. [KST- 23 Jun 1877/p2/c4] Vital Records / Deaths / ”Uncle Tom” / Howard County Poor House

The funeral sermon of the late Mary Bassett, wife of Henry Bassett, will be preached at the colored church in Ervin township, on Sunday, Aug. 19th. At 11 o’clock. by Elder Hiel Hamilton. [KST- 04 Aug 1877/p8/c3] Vital Records / Deaths / BASSETT, Mary / BASSETT, Henry / Ervin Township / Churches / HAMILTON, Elder Hiel The Bassett-Artis shooting affair came up for trial before Justice Hawkins on last Monday, when Artis was bound over to the circuit court in the sum of $500. Oran Ellis was his bondsman. Mrs. Artis has sued for a divorce, and the case will no doubt come up at the next term of circuit court. [KST- 01 Dec 1877/p1/c5] Court Cases / BASSETT / ARTIS / ARTIS, Mrs. / ELLIS, Oran (Oren / Orien) / Vital Records / Divorces

 

On last Monday evening Mr. John Ford and Miss Belle Hayes were married at the residence of J. A. Braboy. Rev. H. H. Thompson tied the knot and his daughter Lulu cheered the occasion with delightful music. [KWD- 03 Jan 1878/p3/T/c7] Vital Records / Marriages / FORD, John / HAYES, Belle / BRABOY, J. A. / THOMPSON, Rev. H. H. / BRABOY, Lulu / FORD, Mrs. Belle Court Items. The following divorce cases are pending at this term of Court [among others] Charity Artis vs. Thomas Artis. The latter also files a cross-complaint. [...] [KST- 05 Jan 1878/p1/c6] Court Cases / ARTIS, Thomas / ARTIS, Charity / Vital Records / Divorces

John Johnson (colord), husband of the unfortunate woman who met her death by means of the explosive oil can on Friday evening, amused himself on the previous evening by chasing his six-year old step-son about the neighborhood of Webster and Taylor streets, armed with a butcher knife, and threatening to cut the child’s throat. But for the interference of neighbors he might have carried the threat into at least partial execution. [KWD- 29 Aug 1878/p3/T/c2] JOHNSON, John / Social Disturbances / Deaths

Fatal Accident Just as our paper went to press, last Friday afternoon, a horrible accident happened in this city, to Mrs. Bertha Johnson, a colored woman residing on Clay street. She attempted to re-kindle a fire with coal-oil, when the oil inside ignited and the can exploded, covering her clothing with the burning fluid. Before assistance arrived, the poor woman’s body was horribly burned. She died afer four hours of torture, and her funeral occurred on Saturday. The deceased leaves a husband, who is a barber employed in a shop on Railroad street. [KST- 31 Aug 1878/p5/c3] Vital Records / Deaths / Accidents / JOHNSON, Mrs. Bertha / JOHNSON, Mr. / Barbers

 

Joseph A. Braboy, of this city and Miss Alice McCoy, of Indianapolis, were united in marriage, at that place, on last Tuesday. We extend congratulations. Joe is one of our most intelligent colored citizens. His bride is a well-educated lady, who has been a teacher in the public schools at Indianapolis for some time past. [KST 11 Jan 1879/p9/c3] Vital Records / Marriages / BRABOY, Joseph A. / McCOY, Miss Alice / BRABOY, Alice Braboy-M’Coy. At the residence of W. H. Russell, Indianapolis, Jan 7th, 1879, Joseph A. Braboy, of this city, and Miss Alice McCoy, or Indianapolis, the Rev. Moses Broyles officiating. This wedding was one of the social events of Indianapolis and Kokomo colored society. Prof. Braboy is one of our most progressive and intelligent colored citizens, proprietor of “The Tonsorial Parlors,” and a clever and sociable gentleman. His bride is one of the Capital City’s fairest and most cultured colored ladies, who has been engaged as a teacher in the public schools there for a number of years. Upon arriving at home Tuesday evening the friends of Mr. and Mrs. Braboy escorted them to his residence corner of La Fountain and Jackson streets, where they were tendered an elegant reception. The Dispatch congratulates the happy couple and wishes them a pleasant voyage. [KWD-19 Jan 1879/p3/c4] Vital records (marriages) / Braboy, Joseph A. / McCoy, Alice

Interments in Crown Point Cemetery. For the month ending, April 30, 1879: [among others] 2nd, Freddie Burnet, age 5 months. Disease, lung fever; colored. 17th, Albert Roberts, age 25 years; disease, consumption; colored. 22nd, Winnie Winborn, age 3 years; disease, lung fever; colored. [KST- 03 May 1879/p7/c3] Vital Records / Deaths / BURNET, Freddie / ROBERTS, Albert / WINBORN, Winnie / Crown Point Cemetery Died. Bassett._ In the city, on yesterday morning, or consumption. Miss Emma E. Bassett, daughter of John Bassett of Ervin township, aged 16 years. [KWD_5 Jun 1879/p2/c3] vital records (deaths) / Bassett, Emma E. / Bassett, John Crown Point. The following is the list of interments in Crown Point cemetery for the month ending May 31st, 1879: [among others] 19th, Essie, infant daughter of H. H. Johnson, colored; city; aged, 18 months; lung fever. [KST- 07 Jun 1879/p4/c6] Vital Records / Deaths / Crown Point Cemetery / JOHNSON, Essie / JOHNSON, H. H.

Our Colored People. [by Uncle Eph.] Mr. Charles Knight, one of our prominent teachers, died last week with fever. He was elected constable at Muncie at the last election. [KWD-4 Sept 1879/p1(supplement)/c1] our colored people / Vital records (deaths) / Knight, Charles Court Proceedings. Circuit Court--October Term. The following causes have been disposed of since last report: (among others) Delila J. Nichols vs J. W. Nichols. Divorce granted plaintiff. [KWD-23 Oct 1879/p2/c5] court proceedings / vital records (divorces) / Nichols, Delia J. / Nichols, J. W. Petersburg, Dec. 8 [...]Britten Bassett is again called “papa,” and it’s a Republican boy, born on the 7th inst. Brit., as he is familiarly called, is a whole souled fellow, and says he is determined to do all he can in the bounds of reason to make his party win. [KST- 13 Dec 1879/p4/c4] BASSETT, Britten / Vital Records / Births / Politics / Ervin Township / Petersburg

 

Interments in Crown Point Cemetery [among others] [Month of February] 22. Clara West (colored), city; 12 months; lung fever. [KST- 06 Mar 1880/p4/c6] Deaths / WEST, Clara / Crown Point Cemetery Our Colored People Horace Johnson is happy. Reason - a ten pound baby boy. - Nix. [KST- 24 Apr 1880/p1/c2] Vital Records / Births / JOHNSON, Horace Died. [among others] ROBERTS. -At his home, in the eastern part of the city, on Tuesday, of consumption, Elwood Roberts, aged 16 years. The remains were interred in Crown Point Wednesday afternoon. [KST- 08 May 1880/p10/c1] Vital Records / Deaths / Obituaries / ROBERTS, Elwood / Crown Point Cemetery Elwood Roberts, after an illness of several months - consumption - at the residence of Jefferson Woods, died on the evening of the 4th inst. Interment in Crown Point Cemetery. Rev. Rett officiated at the funeral service. [KST- 08 May 1880/p10/c1] Vital Records / Deaths / Obituaries / ROBERTS, Elwood / Crown Point Cemetery Our Colored People. Died, Miss Cassie Roberts, after an illness of several months at the residence of her uncle, on the 22nd inst. at 3 p.m. Interment in Crown Point Cemetery. Elder Burden from Lafayette, Ind. officiating at the services. Let me compliment Mr. and Mrs. Woods for their tender regard and affection they always had for their adopted daughter. During her illness they were ever kind and dutiful to her. They have the well wishers of all, and our wish is

“That the Lord will bless and protect them as long as they live, and at last save them in His Kingdom.” Elder Burden preached a very feeling sermon on last Sabbath evening at the church. We think the Elder is improving rapidly. [KST- 29 May 1880/p1/c1] Deaths / Obituaries / Vital Records / ROBERTS, Miss Cassie / Crown Point Cemetery / WOODS, Mr. and Mrs. Interments in Crown Point Cemetery. for month ending May 31, 1880. [among others] 5. Elwood Roberts, city; aged 16 years; consumption. 23. Cassie Roberts, city; aged 21 years; consumption. [KST- 05 Jun 1880/p6/c1] Vital Records / Deaths / Crown Point Cemetery / ROBERTS, Elwood / ROBERTS, Cassie On last Thursday afternoon, at one o’clock, Mr. C. F. Stokes and Miss Sadie Brown were united in marriage at the A. M. E. church, in this city, Rev. McSmith officiating. The relatives and a few intimate friends were present at the ceremony. Mr. Stokes is the principal of the colored schools in this city, and has served most efficiently in that position for some time past. He is talented and energetic and will make his life a success. Miss Brown is the second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Brown, one of our most highly esteemed colored families, and is a most estimable young lady, well fitted for the duties of a wife. The happy couple immediately after the ceremony left for a visit among the groom’s relatives in Darke county, Ohio, and will be absent for a few weeks. They will reside here in future. The Tribune extends its best wishes for a long life of happiness and prosperity to both. [KST- 10 Jul 1880/p5/c4] Vital Records / Marriages / STOKES, Mr. C. F. / BROWN, Miss Sadie / STOKES, Sadie / BROWN, Mr. and Mrs. Abraham / A. M. E. Church / Teachers / McSmith, Rev.

July. 7. C. F. Stokes and Sadie Brown married. [KD-30 Dec 1880/p5/c5] vital records (marriages) / Stokes, C. F. / Brown, Sadie Our Colored People. Elder Burden, of Lafayette, is in our city, refitting his dwelling for Elder Jordon, our new minister. He is to preach Mrs. Woodford's funeral sermon next Sabbath, at Rush Settlement. [KST- 18 Sep 1880/p5/c3] Churches / A. M. E. Church / Church Services / Ministers / Schools / Enumeration / Kokomo Colored School / ROBERTS, E. H. / JORDON, Elder / WOODFORD, Mrs. / Vital Records / Deaths / Rush Settlement / BRABOY, Mr. / THOMPSON, Jas. Lucretia Gibson, wife of Amos Gibson, died at her home in this city Tuesday night of consumption. Funeral services will be held this (Thursday) in the A. M. C. Church, conducted by Elder Jordan. [KD-18 Nov 1880/p5/c4] vital records (deaths) / Gibson, Lucretia / Gibson, Amos / AME Church / Jordan, Elder East End Jottings. [...] Mrs. Lucretia Gibson, residing on east Jackson street, wife of Amos Gibson and daughter of Thomas Roberts died at 11 o'clock last Tuesday night. Consumption was the cause. [KST- 20 Nov 1880/p5/c4] Vital Records / Deaths / GIBSON, Mrs. Lucretia / GIBSON, Amos / ROBERTS, Thomas / Illnesses J. A. Braboy failed to attend the meeting of the Kokomo Literary Society last Friday, and offers as an excuse therefor the fact that he had company that evening. The “company” was a boy and tipped the beam at eight pounds. All concerned doing well. [KD-2 Dec 1880/p1/c5] vital records (births) / Braboy, J. A.

 

The Color Line One Leet, a person of alabaster complextion, has fallen a victim to misdirected effort. It seems that he attempted a new and novel method of removing the color line, but without the limits of the law. And as a consequence, a Miss Anderson, colored, lays the charge of paternity of her mulatto baby at his door. Being without money and affection, Leet was hustled off to jail where he now languishes, mentally resolved to never again attempt to wipe out race prejudice. [KD- 20 Jan 1881/p1/c4] ANDERSON, Miss / Births / Arrests / Vital Records Matters in the estate of Henry Bassett, Henry P. Bassett, administrator. Sale ordered. [KD- 14 Apr 1881/p4/c3] County Records / Estate Records / BASSETT, Henry / BASSETT, Henry P. Marriages [among others] Rufus Ellis to Martha Bassett [KD- 14 Jul 1881/p5/c4] Vital Records / Marriage Licenses / BASSETT, Martha / ELLIS, Rufus Born Stokes.-To Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Stokes, on Friday morning, a 9 1/2 pound boy. [KD- 11 Aug 1881/p5/c1] Vital Records / Births / STOKES, Mr. and Mrs C.F. Mortality of the City. August. 3. Roland Henderson, (colored) city; aged 4 years; brain fever. September. 2. Mordecai Mulvina, city; aged 21 years; consumption. (Colored). [KST-31 Dec 1881/p4/c3] Vital records (deaths) / Henderson, Roland / Mulvina, Mordecal

Interments in the City Cemeteries for 1881. Crown Point Cemetery August 3. Roland Henderson, colored, city; aged 4 years; brain fever [KD-5 Jan 1882/p5/c4] vital records (deaths)/ Henderson, Roland September. 2. Mordecal Mulvina, colored, city; aged 21 years; consumption. 14. Mrs. George Holden, colored, city; aged 31 years; typhoid fever. [KD-5 Jan 1882/p5/c4] vital records (deaths) / Holden, Mrs. George / Mulvina, Mordecal Interments in the City Cemeteries for 1881. Crown Point Cemetery October. 18. Wm. K. Brown, colored, city; aged 28 years consumption. [KD-5 Jan 1882/p5/c4] vital records (deaths) / Brown, Wm. K. December. 5. Marriage of Wm. Gaskin to Letitia Woods. [KST-31 Dec 1881/p2/c3] vital records (marriages) / Gaskin, William / Woods, Letitia

Marriages Licenses issued in the past week: [among others] Wm. Gaskin to Lutitia Woods. [KD- 08 Dec 1881/p5/c3] Vital Records / Marriage Licenses / GASKIN, Wm. / WOODS, Lutitia Gaskin-Woods. Our colored society has been in a happy flutter the past week over the approaching marriage of a pair of its most pronounced leaders. The climax was reached on Monday evening at 9 o’clock, when William Gaskin and Miss Lou Woods were united in marriage, Rev. Coleman, of the A. M. E. Church, officiating. The ceremony was performed at the residence, corner of Kennedy and Jackson streets, which the groom had previously prepared and furnished for his future habitation. Quite a number of guests were present. Among the many presents were a pair of silver napkin rings by W. R. Myers, of Connersville; fine pair of vases by John Harris and Isaac Roberts; glass set by Mr. and Mrs. Braboy; comb and brush by J. N. Loop. We wish Mr. And Mrs. Gaskin a happy and useful life. [KD- 08 Dec 1881/p1/c3] Vital Records / Marriages / GASKIN, Wm / WOODS, Lutitia (Lou) / Coleman, Rev. / Ministers / AME Church / HARRIS, John / ROBERTS, Isaac / BRABOY, Mr. and Mrs. December. 22. Jessie Milton (colored), city; aged 9 years congestion of the brain. [KST-31 Dec 1881/p4/c4] vital records (deaths) / Milton, Jessie

 

December. 22. Jossie Milton, colored, city; aged 9 years; congestion of the brain. [KD-5 Jan 1882/p5/c4] vital records (deaths) / Milton, Jossie Mr. Joshua Winburn and Mrs. Flavius Roberts were called to Rush county on last Wednesday by a telegram announcing the death of their sister, Mrs. Amanda Curtis. The funeral occurred on the following afternoon. [KST-11 Feb 1882/p1 c6] vital records / deaths / Curtis, Mrs. Amanda / Winburn, Joshua / Roberts, Mrs. Flavius Marriage licenses have been issued the past week as follows: (Among others) E. Gaskin to Lizzie Artis [KD-4 May 1882/p5/c2] vital records (marriages) / Gaskin, E. / Artis, Lizzie Interments in Crown Point. For the month ending May 31, 1882. (Among others) Leander Carter, Center township 36 years old. Homicide-murder. [KST-3 Jun 1882/p8/c4] vital records (deaths) / Carter, Leander Report of the City Board of Health for the Month of May. The physicians have filed their reports with the secretary of the city board of health for the month of May, and the following will be found nearly correct, two of the physicians not having filed a full report:

Births. Total number of births..........9 One of these was a negro. Deaths. Total number of deaths.............7 Females, one colored................5 ... [KST-17 Jun 1882/p4/c4] health statistics (May 1882) Birth and death report for the month of June: Births: colored males....1 Total no of births reported...25 [KST-8 July 1882/p1/c6] county statistics (June 1882) Interments. In Crown Point Cemetery for the month ending June 30, 1882: 4. Ida Gaskin (colored), city, age 5 years; lung fever. 13. Infant son of Ida Burnett (colored), age 5 weeks; whooping-cough. [KST-8 July 1882/p8/c1] vital records(deaths) / Gaskin, Ida / son of Burnett, Ida Interments. In Crown Point cemetery for the month ending October 31, 1882. 5. Robert Turner, city, age 85 years, consumption (colored). 13. Melia Martindale, Center township, age 28 years; consumption. (colored.) 24. Nora Milton, city; age 1 year and 10 months, whooping cough. (colored.) 26. Lewis Milton, city; age 2 years, whooping cough. (colored.) [KST-4 Nov 1882/p1/c2] vital records (deaths) / Turner, Robert / Martindale, Melia / Milton, Nora / Milton, Lewis

Interments. In Crown Point cemetery for the month ending November 30, 1882. 17.Lew Anderson, city; age 35 years. Died at Shindfield, Mo. Of congestion of the brain. (colored.) [KST-2 Dec 1882/p8/c2] vital records (deaths) / Anderson, Lew Postal Card News. New London, Dec. 7, 1882 Mrs. Newby, a colored lady of Russiaville, was buried here last Monday. [KST-9 Dec 1882/p4/c3] deaths / Newby, Mrs. May. 21. Eli Carter a drunken colored man, killed in a fight with Elijah Martindale, another colored man near the Grange school-house, Martindale hitting Carter in the head with a piece of oak fencing. Martindale makes good his escape. [KD-28 Dec 1882/p /c3] homicides / Martindale, Elijah / Carter, Eli May. 21. The murder of Leander Carter by Elijah Martindale ... [KST-30 Dec 1882/p2/c3] homicides / Carter, Leander / Martindale , Elijah December. 2. Death of Mrs. Peniah Newby, of Russiaville. [KST-30 Dec 1882/p2/c5] vital records (deaths) / Newby, Mrs. Peniah

The Death Roll. Interments in the City Cemeteries for 1882 Crown Point [among others] MARCH 19. Matilda Jones, colored, Center Township; 40 years; lung fever. APRIL 22. Ernest, son of Wm. Jones, colored, Center township; 2 months, 15 days; Accidental smothering. MAY 17. Julia Griffin, colored, city; 8 years; small-pox 22. Satilada Robbins, colored, city; 1 year, 3-months 22. Leander Carter, colored, city; 50 years; killed by Elijah Martindale. JUNE 4. Ida Gaskins, colored; 5 years; lung fever 12. Wm. Langstay, colored, Center township; 8 months; inflammation of the bowels. 13. Infant son of Ida Bennett, colored, city, 5 weeks; whooping cough. AUGUST 18. Mrs. Thos. Robberts, colored, city, 63 years; disease of the bowels SEPTEMBER 8. Abselle Russell, colored, city; 78 years, lung fever OCTOBER 5. Robert Turner, colored, city; 85 years; consumption. 24. Nora Milton, colored, city; 1 year, 10 months 26. Louis Milton, colored, city; 2 years;whooping cough. NOVEMBER 17. Lon Anderson, colored, city; 35 years, congestive chill. Old Cemetery OCTOBER 13. Amelia Martindale, colored, Center township; 28 years; consumption. RECAPITULATION [...] Colored...........14 [KD- 04 Jan 1883/p1/c5-6] Vital Records / Deaths / Crown Point Cemetary / MARTINDALE, Amelia / ANDERSON, Lon / MILTON; Nora, Louis / TURNER, Robert / ROBBERTS, Mrs. Thos. / RUSSELL, Abselle / GASKINS, Ida / BENNETT, Ida / LONGSTAY, Wm. / CARTER, Leander / ROBBINS, Satilada / GRIFFIN, Julia / JONES; Matileda, Ernest, Wm. Interments. In Crown Point Cemetery for the month ending in January 31, 1883. 25. Joseph Milton (colored), city, age 3 months; whopping cough. [KST-3 Feb 1883/p5/c3] vital records(deaths) / Milton, Joseph Interments. In Crown Point Cemetery for the month ending February 28, 1883. 1. Wm. Woods, city, aged 23 years; consumption. Colored. 7. Cora A. Dempsey, city, age 9 months; inflammation of the bowels. Colored. 23. Infant son of Polly Robinson, city; age 1 month; lung fever. Colored. [KST-3 Mar 1883/p1/c6] Vital records (deaths) / Woods, Wm. / Dempsey, Cora A. / Robinson, Polly (son of) Social statistics. Births. Total number births during month, 28;..number of colored males, 2; females, 1; ...The colored female was illegitimate. ... [KST-10 Mar 1883/p4/c5] Feb 1883-statistics (births)

Interments. In Crown Point cemetery for the month ending June 20, 1883; 11. Georgia Byrd, (colored) city, aged 3 years, lung fever. [KST-7 July 1883/p8/c3] vital records (deaths) / Byrd, Georgia Vital Statistics. The Board of Health, at the regular meeting of the City Council held on Monday evening last, submitted their semi-annual report showing the number of births and deaths in this city for the six months ended June 30, as follows:... During the six months ending June 30, 1883, there occurred in the city 57 births and 25 deaths. Of the births 34 were female and 23 were males. Three were colored. There were two illegitimate births. The youngest father was 21 years; the youngest mother 16; the oldest father 48; the oldest mother 38. January furnished 4 births; February 9; March 17; April 9; May 10; June 8. Of the 25 deaths 11 were males and 14 females; 22 white and 3 colored. Not a death occurred in the city in May and only 3 in June. Excess of births over deaths, 32; average age at death 26 years. The causes of death were as follows; Diseases of the heart, 2; consumption, 3; bronchitis, 2; pneumonia, 3; fracture of skull, 2; all other causes, 11. Rate of mortality less than 5 to 1,000. [KST-28 July 1883/p5/c3] vital statistics / births and deaths in 1883 Interments. In Crown Point Cemetery for the month ending July 31, 1883: 19. Carrie, daughter of Thomas Gaskin (colored) city; aged 2 years and six months; brain fever. [KST-4 Aug 1883/p5/c1] Vital records (deaths) / Gaskin, Carrie / Gaskin, Thomas A contributed obituary of Mary Green, the colored centenarian, aged 118 yeas, who recently died in this city, will appear in our next issue. [KD- 16 Aug 1883/p5/c2] Vital Records / Deaths / GREEN, Mary If George Bradley is a trifle nervous this week and should let his razor slip occasionally, it must all be charged to the advent at his house last Friday of an 8 pound girl. [KD- 16 Aug 1883/p5/c3] Vital Records / Births / BRADLEY, George / Barbers Mary Green, the Colored Centenarian, Aged 118 Years. After various solicitations I now proceed to pen as best I may a few gleanings from the life and early Christian experiences of this remarkable woman. And while I am aware that I cannot give a precise statement of the various circumstances, and the exact date of her birth, I shall give the reader a few sketches, as tongue cannot express them in full. Mary Green was born in Guilford county, North Carolina, in the month of October, 1765, and had she lived until next October would have been 118 years of age. At an early period of her life she united with the Baptist church and soon thereafter embraced religion, and during a long series of years she remained an unswerving and devoted member of that branch of the Christian church, always affording the most ample proof that she had been with Christ and learned of Him.

A short time after the breaking out of the late rebellion, she emigrated to the State of Illinois, after which she united with the Methodist church, under the A. M. E. auspices, of which she remained a worthy member until her death. I should have remarked, as to the ancestry of Mary Green, nothing is known by the writer, and I have only attempted to give such facts as have been detailed to me by those more intimately aquainted with her history. Some two or three months ago she removed from Logansport to Kokomo and lived with Mrs. Thomas and her husband, who extend to her every act of kindness in their power and used every available means at their disposal to make her comfortable, cheerful, and happy. She remained with the, and under their kind protection, until she was summoned into the presence of Him who doeth all things well. It was my privilege to meet her but once, and that was on the occasion of a general class meeting about six weeks prior to her death. Hearing her relate her past Christian experiences, with the solemn declaration of a fixed determination to follow the Lord more fully in the future, even unto the end, made such an impression on my mind as only time can change, and I trust I shall one day realize the truth of the beautiful sentiments that fell from her lips on that occasion while speaking of the joys that await the faithful in the Heaven ly Canaan, and the blessed reward that is promised to those that overcome the world. She said she had overcome all and would soon go up to gaze on the Jasper Walls and step from star to star in the New Jerusalem to pluck the roses of Paradise, drink from the pearly streams, flutter her golden pinions around the great white throne, and eat the amborsial fruit of life’s fair tree. The day before her departure, she requested Mrs. Thomas to get her some beef’s liver and cook it for her, as she felt a little hungry. This was done, and on tasting it she remarked, “Oh, this is so nice.” And after she was through eating it she again requested her to save two or three pieces to cook for her breakfast the next morning provided she should be spared to live so long. But to those that were then present it was very plainly to be seen that to-morrow would never come to her, as death was then doing its work, and the hand they then clasped was for the last time till in the holy, happy land they’d strike anew the immortal hand, and she was then cheerfully in the swellings of Jordan. She continued to sink very rapidly, speaking only a a little at intervals, sometimes exclaiming: “My suffering time will soon be over. Be calm Jordan. Thy friendly crook shall give me aid, and guide me through the dreadful shade.” Just before she died she cried out: “Glory to God,” and in about ten, or fifteen minutes lost her speech, and in a few minutes more she died in a heavenly calm. Thus ended the days of Mary Green, a noble mother in Israel, a devoted Christian, and a shock of corn fully ripe. Her remains were followed the next day to their final resting place by a number of friends, and her funeral discourse was preached by Elder J. W. Harper from Rev. XIV- 13: “Mark the perfect; and behold the upright, for the end of such is peace.” R. H. F. [KD- 30 Aug 1883/p1/c5-6] Vital Records / Deaths / GREEN, Mary / THOMAS, Mr. and Mrs. / Biography / HARPER, Elder J. W. Interments. In Crown Point Cemetery for the month ending August 31, 1883: 12. Mary Green, city, age 108 years; old age. Colored. 30. Thomas Murphy, city, age 23 years; consumption. Colored. [KST-8 Sept 1883/p1/c6] vital records (deaths) / Green, Mary / Murphy, Thomas

 

Crown Point Cemetery [among others] JANUARY 25. Joseph Melton, colored, city; 3 months; whooping cough. FEBRUARY 1. Wm.. Woods, colored, city; 23 years; consumption. 7. Cora A. Dempsy, colored, city; 9 months; inflammation of bowels 23. Infant son of Polly Robinson, colored, city; lung fever. JUNE 20. Georgie Byrd, colored, city; 3 years; lung fever. JULY 19. Carrie Gaskins, colored, city; 2 years, 6 months; brainfever. AUGUST 12. Mary Green, colored, city; 118 years; old age. 30. Thos. Murphy, colored, city; 28 years; consumption RECAPITULATION Colored 8 [KD- 3 Jan 1884/p5/c4-5] Vital Records / Deaths / MELTON, Joseph / WOODS, Wm. / DEMPSY, Cora A. / ROBINSON, Polly / BYRD, Georgie / GASKINS, Carrie / GREEN, Mary / MURPHY, Thos. The Dead of 1883. The Interments in the City Cemeteries During the Past Year. The rate of mortality in this city during the past year has been a little over one per cent. The lowest rate of mortality ever known here... The list of interments is as follows: Crown Point Cemetery. January. 25. Joseph Melton, colored, city; 3 months; whooping cough. February. 1. Wm. Woods, colored, city; 23 years; consumption. 7. Cora A. Dempsy, colored, city; 9 months, inflammation of bowels. 23. Infant son of Polly Robinson, colored, city; lung fever. June. 20. George Byrd, colored, city; 3 years; fever. July. 19. Carrie Gaskin, colored, city; 2 years; brain fever. August. 12. Mary Green, colored, city; 118 years; old age. 30. Thos. Murphy, colored, city; 28 years; consumption. [KST-5 Jan 1884/p8/c2-3] Vital records (deaths in 1883) / Byrd, George / Dempsy, Cora A. / Gaskins, Carrie /Green, Mary / Melton, Joseph / Murphy, Thomas / Robinson, son of Polly / Woods, William / crown point cemetery Larry Beetle, colored, a hostler in the employ of Nathan Pickett will be tried before Esquire Bohan this afternoon on the charge of bastardy, preferred against him by Harriet Barrington, a colored damse [sic] of the Bass settlement. [KD- 10 Jan 1884/p5/c2] BEETLE, Larry / Crimes / BARRINGTON, Harriet / Bass Settlement Interments. In Crown Point Cemetery for the month ending January 31, 1884: 1. Albert C. Milton, city, age 17; consumption. Colored. 13. Martha Milton, city, age 15 years; consumption. Colored. [KST-2 Feb 1884/p5/c4] vital records (deaths) / Milton, Albert C. / Milton, Martha / crown point cemetery Byron Carl Braboy, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Braboy, died at the family residence this morning at 10 o’clock, of dropsy, aged ten years. The funeral will occur on to-morrow afternoon at 2 o’clock from the residence corner LaFountain and Jackson streets, services being conducted by Elder Leroy Reed, of the Second Christian church of Indianapolis, assisted by Elder A. H. Knight of the A. M. E. church of this city. Friends of the family

and members of the Sabbath schools are invited to attend. [KST-5 Apr 1884/p5/c1] death notices / vital records (deaths) / Braboy, Byron Carl / Braboy, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. / Knight, A. H. (Pastor of AME church) Thomas Roberts, an old colored man of this city, dies this morning about 10 o’clock, after a short illness. [KST-5 Apr 1884/p5/c4] vital records (deaths) / Roberts, Thomas Byron Carl, son of Joseph A. Braboy, aged 10 years, died of dropsy of the heart on Saturday morning at 10 o’clock. Interment in Crown Point Sunday afternoon. Carl was an exceedingly bright boy and the idol of his parents. He gave good promise for the future, and his untimely death rests sadly on their sorrowing hearts. [KD- 10 Apr 1884/p5/c2] Vital Records / Deaths / BRABOY, Byron Carl / BRABOY, Joseph A. Death of Tommy Roberts. Uncle Tommy Roberts, one of the best known colored men in Howard county, died on Saturday morning at 10 o’clock, of erysipelas, in the 70th year of his age. His remains were entombed at Crown Point on Saturday afternoon. Uncle Tommy lived for many years in New London, and was greatly beloved by all. He never did a mean deed. He lived a Christian life and no element of harm was in his nature. He was poor, but honest as the day is long. He frequently preached, and the first sermon the writer remembers to have heard was preached by him in the old district school-house in New London twenty years ago. Beneath his black skin was one of the whitest souls God ever gave to erring man. Tom labored long and cheerfully in his humble sphere, with a heart full of love and humility. He was so generous, so kind, so sympathetic, so lovable, so full of Christian qualities that his death is little less than a translation. Good, brave, humble, God-serving old soul, your reward is rich and priceless. You are now numbered with the invisible hosts of saints who have gone before. Dear old friend, hail and farewell! [KD- 10 Apr 1884/p5/c2] Vital Records / Deaths / ROBERTS, “Uncle” Tommy / Ministers / New London Interments. In Crown Point Cemetery for the month ending April 30, 1884: 6th. Thomas Roberts, city, age 69 years; erysipelas. 6th. Byron Braboy, city, aged 10 years; dropsy. [KST-3 May 1884/p1/c3] Vital records (deaths) / Braboy, Byron / Roberts, Thomas Obituary. Bassett.--Mrs. Julia A. Bassett, wife of Richard Bassett, died at her home in Ervin township Tuesday May 12, aged 71 years, 2 months and 5 days. The deceased was born in [Bo]urbon county, Kentucky, and was married to Richard Bassett in 1852, in Parke county, Indiana. She was a member of the New School Presbyterian church for fourteen years, and afterward the Baptist church for nearly thirty years, and was always looked upon as a consistent Christian lady. She was respected and loved by all her friends and relatives, and her death is mourned with true sorrow. In her last hours her faith was firm and she expressed a desire to meet all her friends in heaven. The funeral was conducted by Rev. Smith, of the Baptist church of this city. [KGT- 20 May 1884/p1/c3] Vital Records / Deaths / BASSETT, Julia A. / BASSETT, Richard / Bassett Settlement / Baptist Church Julia A. Bassett. Julia A., wife of Richard Bassett, of Ervin township, died on the 12th inst., At 9 o’clock a.m. Deceased was born in Kentucky on March 10, 1813, and had lived beyond the alloted three score and ten years. Her family moved to Parke county, Indiana, where she was married to Mr. Bassett 29 years ago. For ten years she was a member of the Presbyterian church, when she united with the Baptists, of which she has been a member ever since. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. Smith, of this city. Deceased was a kind mother and affectionate wife, and was held in general high esteem. [KD- 22 May 1884/p1/c6] Vital Records / Deaths / BASSETT, Julia A. / BASSETT, Richard / Ervin Township / Parke County

Tuesday evening Joseph Artis led to the hymenial alter Miss Mary B. Bickley. Esq. Jackson tied the connubial knot that binds these two loving hearts as one. The ceremony was performed in their future home up in Commercial block. This is a proper union and the Gazette Tribune take pleasure in extending its congratulations. [KGT- 27 May 1884/p1/c4] ARTIS, Joseph / BICKLEY, Mary B. / Vital Records / Marriages On Thursday evening at the residence of the bride’s parents on East Jackson street, Mr. John Kindred, of Chicago, was united in marriage to Miss Ella Thompson, of this city, Rev. A. K. Knight, officiating. This is a union which is eminently proper. Of the groom we know but little, but he comes well recommended as one of the industrious young men of the great metropolis. The happy bride is one of the model young ladies of this city. Over fifty guests were present at the nuptials and the bride received many valuable presents. The parties left Thursday night for their future home in Chicago. The Gazette Tribune extends its warmest congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Kindred. [KGT- 17 Jun 1884/p1/c2] Vital Records / Marriages / THOMPSON, Miss Ella / KNIGHT, Rev. A. K. / Comings and Goings Born to E. Gaskin last Saturday morning a boy, and now there’s nothing too rich for Emsley’s blood. [KD- 19 Jun 1884/p5/c1] GASKIN, Emsley / Vital Records / Births Just now the happy man is Elza Gaskin, and happy too just because it’s so common a thing as a ten pound boy. The little fellow made its advent on Wednesday just in the hight of the ice cream season and Elza says it’s a black Republican. Mrs. Gaskin and baby are doing fine and Elza’s cup of joy runneth over. [KGT- 24 Jun 1884/p5/c3] Vital Records / Births / GASKIN, Elza Mrs. Wm. Gaskins was called to Illinois on Saturday by the death of her father. [KD- 31 Jul 1884/p5/c5] GASKINS, Mrs. Wm. / Comings and Goings / Vital Records / Deaths Ulysses Bassett. Ulysses Bassett died at the home of his father, John Bassett, at the Bassett Settlement, on Monday of consumption, aged 19 years. Deceased had long been an invalid, was a devout Christian, and withal an exemplary youth. Interment occurred on Saturday in the Bassett graveyard. [KD- 07 Aug 1884/p5/c2] BASSETT, Ulysses / BASSETT, John / Bassett Settlement / Bassett Cemetery / Vital Records / Deaths George Bassett. George Bassett, son of Richard Bassett, died at the home-place on the 30th ult., aged 30 years, of consumption. Interment in Bassett cemetery on the day following. [KD- 07 Aug 1884/p5/c2] BASSETT, George / BASSETT, Richard / Bassett Settlement / Bassett Cemetery / Vital Records / Deaths Bassett. Ulysses Bassett died at his home in the Bassett settlement on Monday, of consumption, aged 19 years. Interment in the Bassett graveyard. [KGT- 12 Aug 1884/p2/c6] BASSETT, Ulysses / Vital Records / Deaths / Bassett Cemetary / Bassett Settlement

 

1884. ... The Time-Conquered Year, So Seared and Old. January. 28. Double marriage-- Chas. Bickle to Ida Martindale, Wm. Swartz to Dora Martindale. [KD-1 Jan 1885/p1/c1] vital records (marriages) / Martindale, Ida / Martindale, Dora / Bickle, Charles / Swartz, William April. 5. Death of Uncle Tommy Roberts. [KD-1 Jan 1885/p1/c2] vital records / deaths / Roberts, Thomas July. 24. Baptist (colored) camp meeting commences a four days’ session in Bassett’s Grove... [KD-1 Jan 1885/p1/c2-3] social activities (camp meeting) / Bassett’s Grove September. 3. ... Riley Clevenger arrested for rape committed on a colored girl [Maggie Jones] two years previous ... [KD-1 Jan 1885/p1/c3] social disturbances / arrests / Clevenger, Riley / Jones, Maggie The Death Roll. Interments in the City Cemeteries for 1884. Crown Point. January. 1. A. C. Melton, colored, 17 years; consumption. 13. Martha Melton, colored; 15 years; consumption. April. 6. Thomas Roberts, colored; 69 years, 10 months; erysipelas. Byron K. Braboy, colored; 10 years; dropsy. August. 1. Edna Murphy, colored, 9 months; summer complaint. [KD-1 Jan 1885/p4/c4] vital records (deaths) / Braboy, Bryon K. (Also Carl in KST) / Melton, A. C. / Melton, Martha / Murphy, Edna / Roberts, Thomas

Foster Harry Foster, a colored boy 18 years of age, died Monday morning of consumption, at the residence of Tom Byrd. The funeral was conducted today at 10 a.m. at the colored church. [KGT- 19 May 1885/p1/c3] Vital Records / Deaths / FOSTER, Harry / BYRD, Tom / Churches Bay, the little five-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. John Ford, died Thursday at their home near the colored church. The funeral occurred Friday at the A. M. E. church. [KGT- 07 Jul 1885/p5/c6] Vital Records / Deaths / FORD, Bay / FORD, Mr. and Mrs. John / AME Church Interments In Crown Point for the month of August 1885: [among others] 17. Nora Brown (colored), city, aged 2 months. Flux. [KGT- 15 Sep 1885/p3/c4] Vital Records / Deaths / BROWN, Nora / Crown Point Marriage Licenses. [...][among others] Alexander Bassett to Luvenia Bassett. [KGT- 03 Nov 1885/p1/c5] Vital Records / Marriage licenses / BASSET; Alexander, Luvenia On coming down town Friday morning we heard something that sounded like Joe. Braboy tuning a piano, but on inquiry we learned that it was the musical voice of a new girl baby that had just registered and was making the welkin ring with infantile revelry. We congratulate Mr. And Mrs. Braboy upon the arrival of their first baby girl. [KGT- 17 Nov 1885/p5/c3] Vital Records / Births / BRABOY, Mr. and Mrs. The following marriage licenses have been issued by Clerk Sailors since our last issue: [among others] Thomas G. Hardiman to Emma Winburn [KGT- 08 Dec 1885/p3/c4]

Vital Records / Marriage Licenses / HARDIMAN, Thomas G. / WINBURN, Emma Our Dead for 1885. As has been its custom for many years, the Dispatch again presents in chronological order the death roll of the city for the year closing today. With an increased population our mortuary list is but 59 in the city proper-- a decrease of 10 over that of 1884. But two Catholics have died during the past year and but 7 colored people have joined the “silent majority.” ... The death roll for 1885 is as follows: Crown Point. January. 2. Ora Parker, colored; 14 years; consumption. 22. Mary Milton, colored; 22 years; consumption. May. 19. Harry Foster, colored; 18 years; consumption. July. 3. Charles Ford, colored; 5 years; typhoid fever. August. 17. Nora Brown, colored; 2 months, diarrhea. October. 11. Minnie Gaskin, colored; 1 year, 9 months; lung fever. November. 18. Walter Dempsy, colored; 2 years; brain fever. [KD-31 Dec 1885/p1/c3] vital records / deaths / Brown, Nora / Dempsy, Walter / Ford, Charles / Foster, Harry / Gaskin, Minnie / Milton, Mary / Parker, Ora

 

There was a colored wedding consummated Tuesday afternoon in the county clerk’s office by Rev. J. L. Puckett. The contracting parties were Ed. Hall and Laura Ellis. It was their desire to have Horace Cooper tie the mystic knot, but owing to his bashfulness and not being familiar with the modus operandi required to legalize the ceremony, he called in Rev. Puckett who sent them on life’s voyage for weal or woe as man and wife. [KGT-16 Mar 1886/p3/c3] vital records, marriages / Hall, Ed. / Ellis, Laura / Puckett, Rev. J. L. Married. On Monday evening at the residence of the bride’s parents in Ervin township, Wm. H. Bassett was united in marriage to Miss Rosa J. Hardiman. The ceremony that bound them as husband and wife was performed in a very impressive manner by Rev. Samuel Burrell, of this city. This is a union of two of the most highly respected colored families of Howard county. Our old shoe full of good luck goes after the happy couple. [KGT-15 Jun 1886/p3/c2] vital records / marriages / Bassett, Wm. H. / Hardiman, Rosa J. / Burrell, Rev. Samuel Marriage Licenses. The following marriage licenses have been issued by County Clerk Sailors since our last report: Wm. H. Bassett to Rosa J. Hardiman. ... [and others] [KGT-22 Jun 1886/p3/c5] vital records / marriages / Bassett, Wm. H. / Hardiman, Rosa J. About People. Elza Gaskin is the happy father of a ten pound girl. ... [KGT-29 Jun 1886/p5/c2] vital records (births) / Gaskin, Elza (father) Elza Gaskin is on the list with a ten pound girl. [KD 1 July 1886/p5/c5] Gaskin, Elza / vital records / births Interments. In Crown Point [Cemetery] for the month of June, 1886. 19. John W. Griffith, city, 4 months, inflammation of the bowel, colored. 13. James R. Bradley, city, 4 years, spinal meningitis, colored. [KGT-6 July 1886/p5/c5] vital records / deaths / Griffith, John W. / Bradley, James R. Death of William R. Fielding. William R. Fielding was known to almost every resident of Kokomo. He was a colored man, a barber by occupation, and had been a resident of the city for nearly two scores of years. Bill Fielding is dead. On Tuesday morning at 2 o’clock, after two months of indescribable suffering with dropsical trouble, the malady reached his heart. It was but a touch--and then came death. Kind hands lifted the laboring soul as high as Heaven. William R. Fielding was born at Zanesville, Ohio, 56 years ago. He was married and was the father of two boys--Clarence and Addie, aged respectively 19 and 10 years. His wife survives him. He died at the residence of J. A. Coleman on Tuesday morning as above indicated and was taken on the same day to Zanesville for burial.

Bill Fielding’s faults were the faults of all humanity...He had acquired property to the value of $3500 by industry and frugality. He was attended by Rev. Burrell, of the A. M. E. church in his last hours... [KD-15 July 1886/p5/c4-5] vital records / deaths / Fielding, William R. / Fielding, Clarence / Fielding, Addie / Coleman, J. A. / Burrell, Rev. / obituary Death of Mrs. J. A. Artis. Mrs. J. A. Artis died at her home on West Sycamore street on last Saturday. The deceased was born at Frankfort, Kentucky February 19th, 1869, and was consequently in her 23rd year. She had resided in this city several years and was married to J. A. Artis May 29, 1883. She was a true and dutiful wife and a Christian woman of high aims and noble character. The funeral services were conducted from the residence by Rev. Burrell of the A. M. E. church and interment followed in Crown Point Cemetery. Mr. Artis is a painter by occupation. And is one of Kokomo’s most industrious and prosperous young colored men. The sympathy in his early bereavement is profound and sincere. [KD-26 July 1886/p5/c6] vital records / deaths / obituary / Artis, Mrs. J. A. / Artis, Mr. J. A. / Burrell, Rev. / Crown Point Cemetery Obituary. Artis. Mrs. Mary B. Artis, wife of J. A. Artis, died of consumption at her home on West Sycamore street Saturday the 17th, at 3 o’clock, aged 23 years. The funeral was conducted from the family residence Sunday afternoon at three o’clock; interment at Crown Point Cemetery. Mrs. Artis was a good, quiet women, loved by all who knew her. She bore her suffering with patience and calm resignation and seemed anxious to go home to a land free from sorrow. [KGT-27 July 1886/p1/c5] vital records / deaths / obituary / Artis, Mrs. Mary B. / Artis, Mr. J. A. Interments. In Crown Point for the month of July, 1886: 18. Mary Artis (colored), city, aged 23 years. Consumption. 19. Infant son of Albert Milton (colored), city. Still born. [KGT-10 Aug 1886/p6/c5] vital records / deaths / Artis, Mary / Milton, Albert (death of his son) Rush. Mrs. Lucinda Rush, wife of Rev. David Rush, departed this life of Wednesday evening at 4 o’clock at her home in the Rush (colored) settlement, in Ervin township, at the advanced age of 75 years. She was married to her now bereft husband June 29, 1837, in Rush county. In 1838 she united with the A. M. E. church, of which she has been a faithful and devoted member until the day she was called from labor to reward. Two sons and one daughter are left to mourn and share the sorrows of an aged father in this dark hour of grief. In 1845 Mr. and Mrs. Rush moved to Howard county and settled in the wilderness (now fertile region) of Ervin township, where by industry and frugality they made for themselves a comfortable home.

The funeral services were conducted by Rev. Samuel Burrell, of this city, Thursday afternoon at 4 o’clock, from the family residence, interment in the Rush cemetery. A very large concourse of friends and neighbors assembled on this sad occasion to pay the last tribute of respect to the memory and mortal remains of this truly good mother in Israel, who after a lingering illness passed peacefully away in the triumphs of a living faith. No one knew “Mother” Rush but to love and honor her. Always kind and lovable in her disposition she gathered about her a host of friends, who while they will be saddened at her departure, will rejoice that her life work has been well done and that the pale horse and rider found her house in order and she ready for the summons. To her a crown of everlasting life was worth more than all the gold of Opher or fading earthly joys. Peace to her ashes. [KGT-17 Aug 1886/p1/c4] vital records / deaths / obituary / Rush, Mrs. Lucinda (life of)/ Rush, Rev. David / Rush cemetery / AME church member / Burrell, Rev. Samuel Mrs. Lucinda Rush, wife of Rev. David Rush, of the Rush colored settlement, died on Wednesday of last week, aged 75 years. Mother Rush was a true and noble-hearted old colored woman who has been identified with work of the A. M. E. church in this county for forty years. [KD-19 Aug 1886/p5/c4] vital records / deaths / Rush, Mrs. Lucinda / Rush, Rev. David Interments. In Crown Point [Cemetery] for the month of November, 1886. 20. Parthenia Brown, Center township, 28 years, typhoid fever, colored. [KGT-14 Dec 1886/p3/c2] vital records / deaths / Brown, Parthenia Crown Point [Cemetery]. March. 30. Freddie Gaskin, colored, Howard township; 8 months; lung fever. June. 19. Jno W., son of Robert Griffith; colored; 4 months; inflammation of the bowels. 23. J. R. Bradley, colored; 4 years, spinal meningitis. July. 18. Mary Artis, colored; 23 years; consumption. 19. Infant son of Albert Melton, colored; stillborn. October. 25. Nancy Martindale, colored; Center township; 11 years; typhoid fever. November. 20. Parthenia Brown, colored; Center township; 28 years; typhoid fever. Colored....................7 [KD- 30 Dec 1886/p1/c3] Vital records / deaths / Bradley, J. R. /Artis, Mary / Martindale, Nancy / Brown, Parthenia

 

At the residence of Elza Gaskin, in the eastern part of this city, on Wednesday evening, Mr. James Gaskin was married to Miss Jessie Maddrie, by the Rev. Robert McDaniel, of the African M. E. church. There were present about fifty guests who made numerous presents to the happy pair and offered hearty congratulations and well wished for a pleasant and joyous journey down life’s tempestuous stream. A general good time was had by all present ... indulging in dancing to the bewitching strains of Kirkman’s orchestra. Mr. Gaskin is a steady and industrious young man who is highly esteemed by his many friends and all who know him; and the bride is a bright and intelligent young lady, who has not been a resident of this city but a short time. [KGT-15 Jan 1887/p5/c3] vital records / marriages / Gaskin, James / Maddrie, Jessie / Elza Gaskin / McDaniel, Rev. Robert / Kirkman’s orchestra Obituary GASKIN. William Gaskin, the east side barber, died at his home in this city Saturday evening, aged 37 years. he had long been a sufferer from inflammatory rheumatism, and a few months since that dread scourge, consumption, seized upon him and shortly wrought his death. The deceased was born in Ohio and came to Kokomo twenty years ago. He was married in 1881 to Letita Woods, who survives him. As honest as the day, as faithful as the sun, sober, frugal, industrious, and honest, no colored man in Kokomo - and a few white men, for matter of that - was more universally esteemed than Bill Gaskin. Services were held at the A. M. E. church Monday after noon, Rev. McDaniels officiating, and interment followed in Crown Point. [KD- 21 Apr 1887/p1/c3] Vital Records / Obituarties / Deaths / GASKIN, William / GASKIN, Letita / WOODS, Letita / Occupations / Barbers / A. M. E. church / McDANIELS, Rev. / Crown Point Cemetery GASKIN. The infant child of Elza Gaskin died on Tuesday of last week of measles. The truism that misfortunes never comes singly has been forcibly impressed upon Elza. He but recently lost his brother, and as he followed his little one to the grave his wife and a second child were lying seriously ill at home. [KD- 12 May 1887/p1/c2] Vital Records / Obituaries / Deaths / GASKIN, Elza / Illnesses Interments In Crown Point Cemetery for the month ending May 31, 1887: 4. Mable Gaskin, city, nine months, brain fever, colored. [KEGT- 02 Jun 1887/p2/c4] Vital Records / Deaths / Crown Point Cemetery / GASKIN, Mable

Drowned. Another heart made sad. On last Sunday evening Sarah A. Artis received a message that her son who left this country about fifteen years ago was drowned in the Arkansas river and was buried at Wichita, Kansas, on Sunday, July 10th at 6 p.m. J. H. Artis was born April 10, 1855, in Rockville, Ind., and moved to Kokomo and staid a few years, then went to Kansas. [KEGT- 15 Jul 1887/p2/c2] Vital Records / Obituaries / Deaths / ARTIS, J.H. / ARTIS, Sarah A. The funeral of Grandmother Turner, colored, aged seventy-four, occurred at the residence of her daughter this forenoon. She had made her home with her daughter in the northeast part of the city, whence her remains were borne away to their last resting place. [KEGT- 21 Jul 1887/p3/c1] Vital Records / Deaths / Obituaries / TURNER, Grandmother ELLIS. At his home in Ervin township, Thursday of last week, Orrin Ellis, colored, died, in the seventy-first year of his age. The deceased was one of Howard county’s oldest and most respected citizens. Orrin Ellis was an industrious, frugal, and honest man. By close application to his calling, in the sweat of his face, he had accumulated a competence. Children were brought by him into the world, were reared in the fear of God, and will live to grace his memory and to benefit the community. He rose to become a leader among his race in this county, and he died ripe in years and full of honors. Services were held at the Bassett Settlement church Sunday and interment followed in the burying ground at that place. [KD- 29 Sep 1887/p5/c3] Vital Records / Obituaries / Deaths / ELLIS, Orrin / Ervin Township / Bassett Settlement / Bassett Settlement Church / Bassett Settlement Cemetery Marriage Licenses. [among others] Frank Artis to Lydia J. Bassett. [KEGT- 17 Nov 1887/p2/c2] Vital Records / Marriage Licenses / ARTIS, Frank / BASSET, Lydia J. / ARTIS, Lydia J. Married. Mr. Jesse Newson, of Hamilton Co., Ind., and Mrs. Catharine Banks, of Kokomo, Ind., were married by Rev. Robert McDaniel on Tuesday November 22, 1887. [KEGT- 23 Nov 1887/p2.c4] Vital Records / Marriages / BANKS, Mrs. Catharine / Ministers / McDANIEL, Rev. Robert / NEWSON, Mrs. Catharine / NEWSON, Mr. Jesse

Marriage Licenses. [among others] Jessie Newson to Catharine Banks. [KEGT- 28 Nov 1887/p2/c3] Vital Records / Marriage Licenses / NEWSON, Jessie / BANKS, Catharine / NEWSON, Catharine Thomas Rickaman, aged seventeen years, a step-son of Horace Johnson, was buried in Crown Point cemetery Tuesday. He died of consumption at 7 o’clock Monday morning. [KD- 29 Dec 1887/p5/c1] Vital Records / Obituaries / Deaths / RICKAMAN, Thomas / JOHNSON, Horace / Crown Point Cemetery CROWN POINT. March. 15. Sarah Stevens, (colored) 32 years, consumption. 22. Infant son of George Bradley, (colored) stillborn. April. 15. Infant daughter of Ann Wilson, (colored) premature birth. 18. Wm. Gaskin, (colored) 37 years, consumption. 22. Bennie Ballanger, (colored) 5 months, thrash. May. 4. Mabel Gaskin (colored) 9 months, brain fever. 6. Sarah A Tibbs (colored) 32 years, consumption. July. 21. Nancy Turner, (colored) 96 years, dropsy. December. 2. Alva Gaskin (colored) 8 months, brain fever. 27. Thomas Rickman, (colored) 18 years, consumption. [KD- 29 Dec 1887/p5/c2-3] Vital Records / Deaths / Crown Point Cemetery / WILSON, Ann / GASKIN, Wm. / BALLANGER, Bennie / GASKIN, Mabel / TIBBS, Sarah A. / TURNER, Nancy / GASKIN, Alva / RICKMAN, Thomas / STEVENS, Sarah / BRADLEY, George Interments. In Crown Point Cemetery for the month ending December 31, 1887: [among others] 2d, Cloe Gaskin, city, age 8 months, brain fever. [KEGT- 30 Dec 1887/p4/c2] Vital Records / Deaths / GASKIN, Cloe / Crown Point Cemetery

 

The aged mother of Mr. Wheeler, on West Virginia street, died Tuesday night, aged about ninety-one years. The funeral will occur Thursday from the A. M. E. church. [KEGT-14 Mar 1888/p3/c3] vital records / deaths / Wheeler, Mrs. / AME church funerals Born- to Elza and Mrs. Gaskin, Saturday, a 12-pound girl. And there’s not a happier “coon” between Kokomo and Kingdom-come than that same Elza. [KD-26 Apr 1888/p5/c2] vital records / births / Gaskin, Mrs. Elza / Gaskin, Elza Roberts. Elizabeth Roberts (colored) died at her home on West Jefferson street Thursday afternoon, aged 69 years. The deceased was a native of Halifax county, South Carolina, free-born,, and came to Indiana with her parents in 1829, settling in Rush county. Here she was married to William Roberts, who preceded her to the grave 13 years, in 1843, and removed to Hamilton county six years later. She had been a resident of this city for ten years She was the mother of six children, five of whom survived her--Flavius, J. E. H., Mrs. Thorton Parker, and Vian, of this city, and Mrs. Lace Roper, of Hamilton county. Services were held at the residence Saturday morning and the remains were taken to Arcadia for burial. Grandmother Roberts was a devout Christian soul, bearing her cross meekly and walking in the ways of the Lord through all her days. Her reward is the crown of the true in faith. [KD-23 May 1888/p5/c5] vital records / deaths / obituary / Roberts, Elizabeth / Rush county / Roberts, William / Roberts , Flavius / Roberts , J. E. H. / Roberts, Vian / Parker, Mrs. Thorton A seventeen-months-old son of Nathan Gaskin died Tuesday afternoon. Funeral this afternoon at 3 o’clock. [KEGT- 23 Aug 1888/p3/c1] Vital Records / Deaths / Obituaries / GASKIN, Nathan Interments In Crown Point Cemetery for the month ending August 31, 1888: [among others] 22. Elmer Gaskin, city, aged 17 months. Brain fever. [KEGT- 03 Sep 1888/p2/c5] Vital Records / Deaths / GASKIN, Elmer / Crown Point Cemetery An 18 months old child of John Harris (colored) died this morning of cholera infantum. Funeral this afternoon at 3 o’clock at the residence near the A. M. E. church. [KEGT- 04 Sep 1888/p3/c2] HARRIS, John / Deaths / A. M. E Church / Obituaries / Vital Records Marriage Licenses. [among others] Frank Shewcraft to Clara T. Watkins. [KEGT- 01 Oct 1888/p2/c4] Vital Records / Marriage Licenses / SHEWCRAFT, Frank / WATKINS, Clara T. / SHEWCRAFT, Clara T. Interments. In Crown Point Cemetery for the month ending September 30, 1888:

[among others] 4 Roy Harris, (colored) city, age one year and nine months. Cholera infantum. 4 Anna Wilson (colored) Center tp. age thirty-eight years. Consumption. [KEGT- 02 Oct 1888/p3/c2] Vital Records / Deaths / Crown Point Cemetery / HARRIS, Roy / WILSON, Anna / Center Township Thos. Sweet, a young colored man residing on East Jackson street, died Sunday of typhoid fever, aged nineteen years. The remains will be taken to Arcadia to-marrow at 8 a. m. for interment. [KEGT- 08 Oct 1888/p3/c2] Vital Records / Deaths / Obituaries / SWEET, Thos. Almost a Centenarian. Robert Dunlap, Seventy-Three Year a Slave, Dies at the Age of Ninety-Eight. To-day there was laid away in the tomb a historic character in the person of Robert Dunlap, an aged colored man, who has lived in this city since the war of the rebellion, dying at the advanced age of ninety-eight years, being born in 1790. For seventy-three years, nearly three-quarters of a century, Robert was a slave, toiling early and late for the free trade and free labor Democracy of the South, without other recompense than the lash at the hands of a cruel master. For seventy-three long weary years — more than twice the average lifetime of his fellow man — he wrought under the galling yoke of human slavery, in the darkest days of national tyranny, that ever blotted a page of a country’s history. During the war, Col. Blanche came home on a furlough, bringing Robert with him and he had since lived in this city, working at whatever he could find to do . He was possessed of a lion’s constitution, and though four score or more years had passed over his head, he worked beside men half his age. During the time the court house was being built — 1868-70 — he mixed mortar and carried the hod for the masons. Later on, by the weight of years and an incessant life of toil, he found himself unable to battle longer in the active pursuits of life and was taken to the country infirmary where he had been during the past three or four years, when the long deferred message called him to the other shore. Peace to his memory. [KEGT- 18 Oct 1888/p2/c4] DUNLAP, Robert / Vital Records / Obituaries Interments. In Crown Point Cemetery for the month ending October 31, 1888: [among others] 18 Robert Dunlap, Center tp., age ninty-eight, asthma. Colored. [KEGT- 06 Nov 1888/p2/c2] Vital Records / Deaths / Crown Point Cemetery / DUNLAP, Robert / Center Township Marriage Licenses. [among others] William West to Effie Perkins. [KEGT- 01 Nov 1888/p3/c3] Vital Records / Marriage Licenses / WEST, William / PERKINS, Effie / WEST, Effie

Died. Samantha, wife of Rev. Robert McDaniels, former pastor of the A. M. E. church in this city, died at their home in Jeffersonville, this State, Thursday, of blood poisoning, aged forty years. She had been in feeble health since leaving this city, about two months ago, and gradually grew worse until death released her from her sufferings. A husband and one child, a daughter of twelve years, survive her. Mrs. McDaniels was a daughter of John and Melvina Bassett, of Ervin township. The remains were brought here today for interment in the family burying ground in that neighborhood. The bereft husband and child have the earnest and heartfelt sympathy of all in their great affliction. [KEGT- 30 Nov 1888/p2/c2] Vital Records / Deaths / Obituaries / McDANIELS, Mrs. Samantha / McDANIELS, Rev. Robert / Churches / A. M. E Church / Ministers / BASSETT, Samantha / BASSETT, John / BASSETT, Mrs. Melvina / Ervin Township / Bassett Settlement / BassettCemetery Died. Miss Shanner Winburn, daughter of Joshua and Mary Ellen Winburn, on East Jefferson street, died this morning at 7:00 o’clock, of consumption. She had been a constant sufferer from that disease for over eighteen months. She bore her afflictions with remarkable fortitude. Funeral will be held at the Christian church Tuesday afternoon, at 2:30 o’clock, services conducted by E. L. Frazier. [KEGT- 03 Dec 1888/p2/c1] Vital Records / Deaths / Obituaries / WINBURN, Miss Shanner / WINBURN, Joshua / WINBURN Mrs. Mary Ellen Obituary Octa Marshanner Winburn was born in Hamilton county, Ind., January 11, 1867, but had lived most all her life in Kokomo. In childhood she was known as a good and obedient child; as a young girl she was always mild and gentle; a young lady, modest and pure, and always a dutiful daughter. Shanner made friends everywhere and had no enemies. In June, 1887, she was sick with typhoid fever, and came out of it with shattered and enfeebled health only to fall a victim to consumption. For eighteen months she had borne here illness with all its pain and weariness without a murmur or word of complaint. On July 21, 1888, she confessed the Christ and was baptized. Her faith failed not nor wavered for a moment as she “walked in the valley of the shadow of death.” We sorrow with hope. E. L. Frazier, her Pastor. [KEGT- 04 Dec 1888/p3/c2] Vital Records / Deaths / Obituaries / WINBURN, Miss Octa Marshanner / WINBURN, Shanner Died. A daughter of Joseph and Mrs. Taylor, living on East Taylor street, died this morning of lung fever, aged three years and two months. Funeral Wednesday at 11 o’clock at the A. M. E. church, services by Rev. Coleman. Interment in Crown Point cemetery. [KEGT- 31 Dec 1888/p2/c4] Vital Records / Deaths / Obituaries / TAYLOR, Joseph / TAYLOR, Mrs. / Churches / A. M. E. Church / Ministers / COLEMAN, Rev. / Crown Point cemetery

 

William H. Bassett rises to remark that marriage is a dismal failure in one instance that he knows of, and proceeds to pull the court’s best walking beam for a divorce from his Rosa G. [KGT- 15 May 1889/p4/c2] Vital Records / Divorces / BASSETT, William H. / BASSETT, Rosa G. Death of a Pioneer. Elizabeth Roberts died Thursday afternoon, May 16, at her home on West Jefferson street, of a complication of diseases incident to old age. Short services will be held at the residence Saturday morning at 7:00 o’clock, following which the remains will be taken to Arcadia and interred beside those of her husband, who preceded her to the grave thirteen years. Deceased was born in Halifax county, North Carolina, February 11, 1820. In the year 1829 she removed with her parents, to Rush county, this State, and lived there twenty years. September 7, 1843, she was married to William H. Roberts. In 1849 the family moved to Hamilton county, where her husband died, September 26 1876. Two years later she removed with her family to this city, where she has since resided. Six children were born to them, five of whom survive the parents, two sons and three daughters, namely: Flavius J., E. H. and Miss Vian and Mrs. Thornton Parker, of this city, and Mrs. Lance Roper of Hamilton county. The subject of this sketch has endured all the hardships of the pioneer days, and her experiences in the early times in this State have been varied and severe. She was a devout Christian and allied herself to the church in early life

and maintained a true, consistent and religious life, and was an earnest, faithful worker in the Lord’s vineyard until called to reward. [KGT- 17 May 1889/p2/c2] Vital Records / Obituaries / ROBERTS, Elizabeth / ROBERTS, Flavius J. / ROBERTS, E. H. / ROBERTS, Miss Vian / PARKER, Mrs. Thornton Mrs. Taylor Burnett, of the colored settlement in Ervin township, died Thursday, after a long illness. [KDGT- 24 Aug 1889/p3/c1] BURNETT, Mrs. Taylor / Vital Records / Deaths / Ervin Township / Colored Settlement Died. Mrs. Frank Shrewcraft died Monday noon at the residence of her brother-in-law, Joseph Tanner, on East Taylor street, aged twenty-four years, after an illness of two weeks. Her disease was of a peculiar character. An autopsy by Drs. Wm. & I. A. Cooper revealed the fact that there was an obstruction and perforation of the colon in the region of the sigmoid flexture. The body was taken to Noblesville today for interment. [KDGT- 27 Aug 1889/p2/c2] Vital Records / Deaths / Obituaries / SHREWCRAFT, Mrs. Frank / TANNER, Joseph Marriage license [...] Charles B. Hardiman and Ida Russell ... on Thursday [KDGT- 29 Nov 1889/p3/c1] Vital Records / Marriage licenses / HARDIMAN, Charles B. / RUSSELL, Ida

Mr. John Hardiman, of Ervin township, and Miss Jessie Nicholson, of this city, were married Thursday evening at the residence of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Nicholson on LaFontaine street, Rev. B. J. Coleman officiating. A large number of friends were present. A magnificent supper was served and at a late hour the guests departed, all wishing the newly-married couple a long and happy life. [KDGT- 20 Dec 1889/p3/c2] Vital Records / Marriages / HARDIMAN, Mr. John / NICHOLSON, Miss Jessie / HARDIMAN, Mrs. Jessie / Ervin Township / NICHOLSON, William / NICHOLSON, Mrs. John Hardiman and Jessie Nicholson procured a marriage license Thursday. [KDGT- 20 Dec 1889/p3/c1] HARDIMAN, John / NICHOLSON, Jessie / Vital Records / Marriage Licenses Hardiman-Nicholson. At the home of the bride’s parents, Wm. And Mrs. Nicholson, of Lafountaine street, John Hardiman, of the Bass settlement and Miss Jessie Nicholson were married, Rev. B. J. Coleman performing the ceremony. The groom is a prosperous young farmer and the bride one of the city’s most estimable young colored ladies. An elegant supper, enjoyed by a large number of invited guests followed the nuptials. [KD-26 Dec 1889/p4/c2] vital records / marriages / Nicholson, William / Nicholson, Mrs. William / Hardiman, John / Nicholson, Miss Jessie / Coleman, Rev. B. J.

 

Crown Point [Cemetery Interments]. January. 2. Lutie Tanner, colored, 3 months, lung fever. 26. Clay Griffith, colored, 18 months, inflammation of the bowels. 31. Marmaduke Winburn, colored, 55 years, neuralgia of the stomach. March. 10. Georgie E. Berry, colored, 3 months, lung fever. April. 18. Belle Wilson, colored, 7 years, consumption. 29. Annie Berry, colored 22 years, consumption. June. 12. Infant son of Frank Craycraft, colored. August. 2. Robert Ellliott, colored 53 years, consumption. Center township. December. 22. Lena E. Tanner, colored, 5 months, pneumonia. [KD-2 Jan 1890/p4/c5-6] vital records / death for 1889 / Berry, Annie / Berry, Georgie E. / Craycraft, infant son of Frank / Elliott, Robert / Griffith, Clay / Tanner, Lena E. / Tanner, Luthie / Wilson, Belle / Winburn, Marmaduke Killed by the Cars. Friday the remains of Mrs. Julia Brown, colored, were brought from Chicago for interment. She died in Chicago Thursday morning, the result of injuries received two weeks ago by being run over by a switch engine in the yards. In attempting to cross the track her foot became caught in a frog and before she could release herself the engine backed on her, causing the fatal injury. The deceased, whose maiden name was Julia Brooks, was about twenty years of age and resided here until two years ago; when she was married to Wm. Brown and they took up their residence in Chicago. The bereft husband accompanied the body here. Funeral services were held at the A. M. E. church to-day at 10 o’clock, Rev. B. J. Coleman preaching the sermon. Interment in Crown Point. [KDGT- 11 Jan 1890/p2/c3] Vital Records / Deaths / Obituaries / Accidents / BROWN, Mrs. Julia / BROOKS, Julia / BROWN, Wm. / Churches / A. M. E. Church / COLEMAN, Rev. B. J. / Ministers / Crown Point Cemetery Interments In Crown Point Cemetery, for the month ending February 28, 1890: [among others] 4. J. B. Lott (colored), Center tp. aged 64 years. La grippe. [KDGT- 03 Mar 1890/p3/c4] Vital records / Deaths / LOTT, J. B. / Center Township / Crown Point Cemetery Anna M. Gaskin died this morning, at her father’s home on Sharp street, opposite the A. M. E. church, of brain fever. Funeral Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock at A. M. E. church, conducted by Elder Coleman. Internment in Crown Point Cemetery. [KDGT- 28 Mar 1890/p3/c2] Vital Records / Deaths / Obituaries / GASKIN, Anna M. / A. M. E. Church / Churches / Crown Point Cemetery / COLEMAN, Elder

The funeral of Anna M. Gaskin was conducted by Rev. B. J. Coleman. Her teachers and friends from the public schools were present and testified their regard for her by several elegant floral offerings. Relatives were present from Wabash. Internment in Crown Point. [KDGT- 31 Mar 1890/p3/c2] Vital Records / Deaths / Obituaries / GASKIN, Anna M. / COLEMAN, Rev. B. J. / Ministers / Crown Point Cemetery / Comings and Goings Interments. In Crown Point Cemetery for the month ending March 31, 1890: [among others] 30 Anna A. Gaskin, city, 18 years. Brain fever. [KDGT- 02 Apr 1890/p2/c4] Vital Records / Deaths / Crown Point Cemetery / GASKIN, Anna A. Died. Hardiman. Abigail, daughter of John Hardiman, died Saturday at her home, 238 West Mulberry Street, of consumption, aged sixteen years. Funeral Sunday. Interment at Bassett graveyard. [KDGT-28 July 1890/p4/c3] vital records / deaths / Hardiman, Abigail / Hardiman, John / Bassett graveyard Died. William Nicholson died at his late home on Buckeye street Wednesday night at 10 o’clock after a short illness, aged about sixty-three years. A wife and six children survive. Deceased was born in North Carolina of free parents and came to this county early in the fifties, settling in Ervin township. For the past twenty-two years he was engineer at Russell & Dolman’s elevator. He was of genial jovial disposition, had no enemy to his name and he jolly laugh will be greatly missed by everybody. He re-married about two months ago to Anna Winburn. The funeral will occur at the A. M. E. church Friday morning at 10 o’clock with services by Rev. B. J. Coleman. The colored Odd Fellows will conduct the obsequies and secure the remains to their final resting place at Crown Point cemetery. [KDGT-21 Aug 1890/p3/c2] vital records / deaths / Nicholson, William / Winburn, Anna / Coleman, Rev. B. J. Died. Sarah, wife of Mason Artis, in the colored settlement of Ervin township, died at her late home this morning, aged sixty-five years. The funeral takes place at the Free Union church in that neighborhood Thursday afternoon at 2 o’clock, services conducted by Rev. David Rush. Interment in Union cemetery. [KDGT-27 Aug 1890/p2/c3] vital records / deaths / Artis, Sarah / Artis, Mason / churches / Free Union Church / Rush, Rev. David / Union cemetery

Obituary. Nicholson. William Nicholson, colored, for many years engineer at the Russell, Dolman & Co. elevators, died at his home on Buckeye street, Wednesday evening of last week, of heart disease, aged 63 years. Deceased was a native of North Carolina, born of free parents, and came to this county nearly 40 years ago. His first wife died a number of years ago, and he was married to Anna Winburn about two months. He was the father of a large family and was well connected. “Bill Nick,” as he was familiarly known was one of the best respected men of this vicinity. He was industrious, faithful, frugal, and honest as the day is long. The funeral occurred from the A. M. E. church, of which he was a member, Thursday evening, Rev. J. B. Coleman preaching the funeral, and interment was had in Crown Point with the rites of the colored Odd Fellows, of which local lodge he was a particularly bright light. [KD-28 Aug 1890/p3/c1] vital records / deaths / obituary / Nicholson, William / Winburn, Anna / AME church members / Coleman, Rev. J. B. / colored Odd Fellows(local lodge) / Crown point cemetery Interments. In Crown Point cemetery for the month ending August 31, 1890: 22. William Nickelson, city, aged 63 years. Dropsy of the heart. [KDGT-1 Sept 1890/p3/c4] vital records / deaths / Nickelson, William Elizabeth Bassett has applied for a divorce from her husband, Richard Bassett. [KDGT-8 Sept 1890/p2/c5] legal proceedings / divorce records / Bassett, Elizabeth / Bassett, Richard Died. John Cosby, a barber working on the north side of the square, died at the home of Milto