RICHARDSON, Otis Ray “O’Ray”

Date of birth:  22 Nov 1891 – Johnson County, Indiana
Date of death: 13 Jul 1893 – Franklin, Johnson County, Indiana

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, July 21, 1893,
Volume XXXIV Number 2, page 1 column 2

O’Ray, the little son of Nelson Richardson and wife, died Thursday night of last week, age twenty months. Cause of death stomach trouble. The funeral took place Sunday evening from the Christian church conducted by Rev. G. W. Lee.

Link to Otis Ray “O’Ray” Richardson’s grave

Note: The Johnson County Indiana WPA Birth Index, 1882–1920, referencing Book CH-1, page 142, records that a white male infant was born to Nels [sic] Richardson and Catherine Pankhurst on 22 Nov 1891.
The Johnson County Indiana WPA Death Index, 1882–1920, page 169, referencing Book H-17, page 20, records that Otis R. Richardson, a two-year-old white male, died 14 Jul 1893 in Franklin.

Submitted by Mark McCrady, Cathea Curry and Lois Johnson