COFFELT, Frank
Date of death: 16 Dec 1898 – Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana
Indianapolis News, Friday, December 16, 1898
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Died from His Scalding.
Frank Coffelt, who was scalded at the Indianapolis basket factory about three weeks ago, died at the home of his father, W. A. Coffelt, No. 1612 Martinsdale avenue. He stepped into a huge vat, used for steaming wood, in the rear of the building. Steam was arising from the vat in such a volume that the vat could not be seen. He was horribly scalded from his waist to his feet.
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The Franklin Democrat, Friday, December 23, 1898,
Volume XXXIX, Number 24, page 6, column 6
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AMITY.
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The seventeen-year-old son of Wm. Coffelt, who accidently met his death at Indianapolis last week was buried here Sunday morning.
Note: The Marion County Indiana WPA Death Index, 1882–1920, referencing Book H-7, page 133, records that Frank Coffelt, a fourteen-year-old white male, died 16 Dec 1898 in Indianapolis.
Submitted by Mark McCrady and Cathea Curry