RODGERS, Lindsey Reuben
Date of death: 6 Jul 1899 – Poor Asylum, Johnson County, Indiana
The Franklin Democrat, Friday, July 7, 1899,
Volume XXXIX Number 52, page 1 column 5
Local and Personal.
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Lindsay [sic] Rodgers, an aged inmate of the county poor asylum, was found dead on the porch about 4 o’clock yesterday morning. Rodgers came from Trafalgar about two years ago, and was about seventy-five years old. Superintendent Buckner says that when he took him to his room the night before he seemed to be in his usual health. Death is supposed to be due to heart trouble.
The Franklin Democrat, Friday, August 4, 1899,
Volume XL Number 4, page 3 column 6
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CORONER’S VERDICT
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| STATE OF INDIANA, Johnson County, |
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I, the undersigned Coroner of Johnson county, State of Indiana, hereby certify that I held an inquest on the body of Lindsey R. Rodgers, late of said county and state, found dead at the Poor Asylum on the 6th day of July 1899.
After due investigation, I find the deceased came to his death by reason of organic heart disease.
Deceased was 76 years old, six feet and three inches high, weighed 180 pounds and was dressed in a checked overshirt.
R. W. TERHUNE,
Coroner.
Link to Lindsey Reuben Rodgers’ grave
Note: The Johnson County Indiana WPA Death Index, 1882–1920, page 173, referencing Book H-18, page 18, records that Lindsey Reuben Rodgers, a seventy-six-year-old white male, died 6 Jul 1899 in the Poor Asylum.
Submitted by Mark McCrady and Cathea Curry