METZGER, Charles Fredrick

Date of birth:  28 Feb 1887 – Franklin, Johnson County Indiana (birthdate calculated from age at death)
Date of death: 21 Oct 1900 – Franklin, Johnson County Indiana

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, October 26, 1900,
Volume XLI Number 17, page 1 column 1

Charles Metzgar [sic], age fourteen years, son of Timothy Metzgar [sic], janitor of the central school building, died Monday morning after a brief ill­ness of typhoid fever. Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at two o’clock from the A.M.E. church, Rev. B. J. Coleman conducting the services.

Link to Charles Fredrick Metzger’s grave

Notes: The 1900 U.S. Federal Census for Franklin, Johnson County, Indiana, records forty-two-year-old, Canada-born white janitor Timothy Metzger, his 40-year-old, Kentucky-born black wife Mary B. Metzger and their Indiana-born children (all listed as black), fifteen-year-old Florence, thirteen-year-old Charles, ten-year-old Marie and eight-year-old Timothy.

Indiana, Death Certificates, 1899–2011, Franklin, Franklin Township, Johnson County, Certificate and Record of Death, page 1190 records that Charles Frederick Metzker [sic] died at about 11 o’clock p. m. on 21 Oct 1900 in Franklin, Indiana from typhoid fever, aged thirteen years, seven months and twenty-one days. He was male, black and single, born in Franklin, Indiana. His father’s name was John Metzker [sic], born in Canada and his mother’s maiden name Belle Claggett, both in Kentucky. The informant was the doctor, Clarence Pr [illegible]. Charles was buried in Greenlawn on 23 Oct 1900, E. G. Barnhizer, undertaker.

Submitted by Mark McCrady, Cathea Curry and Lois Johnson