JORDAN, Joshua P.

Date of birth:  16 Feb 1820
Date of death: 17 Oct 1889 – Franklin, Johnson County, Indiana

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, March 7, 1890,
Volume XXX Number 37, page 3 column 3

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CORONER’S VERDICT

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STATE OF INDIANA,
  Johnson County,
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The undersigned, coroner of Johnson County, Indiana, did on the 17th day of October 1889, hold an inquest on the body of J. P. Jordan, found dead in the city of Franklin, Indiana, supposed to come to his death by strangulation.

Deceased was about 68 years old, 5 feet 8 inches high. Dressed in his usual work clothes.

J. T. JONES, 
Coroner J. C. 

Franklin, Ind.

Link to Joshua P. Jordan’s grave

Note: The Johnson County Indiana WPA Death Index, 1882–1920, page 108, referencing Book H-15, page 24, records that J. P. Jordon, a sixty-nine-year-old white male, died 17 Oct 1889 in Franklin.

Submitted by Mark McCrady and Cathea Curry