McNUTT, George Thompson

Date of birth:  27 Sep 1856 – Johnson County, Indiana
Date of death: 18 Dec 1898 – Connersville, Fayette County, Indiana

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, December 23, 1898,
Volume XXXIX, Number 24, page 3, column 4

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GREENWOOD.

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The remains of Dr. Geo. T. McNutt, the fourth victim to die from the Parry [Perry block, Connersville, Fayette County] natural gas explosion in Con­nersville, was buried here last Tuesday a.m. He was the youngest son of the late John C. McNutt near Rocklane.


The late Dr. Geo. McNutt leaves a second wife, a 16 year old daughter by his first wife, two brothers, Chas. and Wm., and two sisters, Mrs. Lee Burdick and Mrs. John E. Browning.

Note: An account of the Perry Block explosion can be found in History of Fayette County, Indiana: Her People, Industries and Institutions by Frederic Irving Barrows; published by B.F. Bowen, 1917; page 616.

Link to George Thompson McNutt’s grave

Submitted by Mark McCrady and Cathea Curry