O’CONNER, Michael
Date of death: 16 Feb 1896 – Franklin, Johnson County, Indiana
The Franklin Democrat, Friday, February 21, 1896
Volume XXXVI Number 32, page 1 column 5
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Death of Michael O’Conner.
Mike O’Conner, a well-known resident of this city, died early Sunday morning in his room in the Hulsman building. His death was unexpected, as he had been going around in his usual health. He attended the primary convention Saturday, and was seen in the corridors of the court house as late in the evening as 5 o’clock, in good spirits and apparently well. Later in the evening he was taken seriously ill, and Dr. Carl Payne called, who, after examining him, stated that his heart was affected and that he would die probably before morning. After a restless night, death came about 2 o’clock in the morning. Dr. Waters, of Indianapolis, a nephew, was notified of O’Conner’s death, and came down Sunday evening and made arrangements for sending the remains to Madison for burial, where deceased formerly lived. O’Conner was in his seventy-sixth year and had been a resident of Franklin nearly forty years.
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The Franklin Democrat, Friday,February 28, 1896,
Volume XXXVI Number 33, page 2 column 6
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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 18th day of February, 1896, hold an inquest on the body of Michael O’Conner, found dead in Franklin, Johnson county, on the 16th day of February, 1896. Having viewed the body and heard the testimony of witnesses, find that the deceased came to his death by reasons of chronic endo-carditis.
Deceased was 73 years old.
J. T. JONES,
Coroner J. C.
Franklin, Ind., February 22, 1896.
Note: The Johnson County Indiana WPA Death Index 1882-1920 records on page 40, referencing Book 18, page 2, that M. O. Conner [sic], a seventy-year-old white male, died 17 Feb 1896 in Franklin.
Submitted by Mark McCrady and Cathea Curry