RUNYON, Israel

Date of birth:  abt 1810 – New Jersey
Date of death: 17 Dec 1889 – Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, December 20, 1889,
Volume XXX Number 26, page 1 column 6

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Mr. Israel Runyon, an old time re­sident of this city and former proprietor of the Commercial Hotel, then called the Runyon House, died on last Tues­day, at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. John Eaton, at Bellfountain [sic], O. The remains were brought here this morning and will be interred in Green­lawn cemetery. Mr. Riley Runyon and Mrs. C. Scott, of Mattoon, Ill., and Mrs. Eaton of Bellfountain [sic], O., remaining children of the deceased are in attendance at the funeral.

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Link to Israel Runyon’s grave

Note: The 1860 US Census for Franklin, Johnson County, Indiana records fifty-year-old, New Jersey-born hotel keeper Israel Runyon, his thirty-three-year-old, New Jersey-born second wife Rachel, the Indiana-born children of Israel’s first marriage to Lucinda Hutchens, eighteen-year-old Catherine, seventeen-year-old Riley, and fifteen-year-old Hebron Runyon, as well as all the guests staying in the hotel.

Submitted by Mark McCrady, Cathea Curry and Lois Johnson