PIERCE, Joel Russel

Date of birth:  1827 – Virginia
Date of death: 26 Apr 1900 – Greenwood, Johnson County, Indiana

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, May 4, 1900,
Volume XL Number 44, page 1 column 1

LOCAL NEWS ITEMS

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Russell Pierce, aged about 75 years, died Thursday of last week at Green­wood, of pneumonia. Funeral services were held Sunday. He was a brother of Crockett Pierce, deceased.

Link to Joel Russel Pierce’s grave

Note: Indiana, Death Certificates, 1899–2011, Greenwood, Pleasant Township, Johnson County, Certificate and Record of Death, Health Officer's Record Number 38, page 185 records that Joel Russel [sic] Pierce died at about 9 o’clock a. m. on 26 Apr 1900 in Greenwood, Indiana from pneumonia of twenty-four hours’ duration, caused by La Grippe of ten days’ duration, aged seventy-three years. He was male, white, widowed, born in Virginia. His father's name was William Pierce and his mother’s maiden name Sarah Brown, both born in Virginia. The informant was Sarah J. Lyons. He was buried in Greenwood on 29 Apr 1900, F. C. Wilson, undertaker.

Submitted by Mark McCrady, Cathea Curry and Lois Johnson