HINDS, Leonard

Date of birth:  2 Jul 1868 – Shelby County, Indiana
Date of death: 31 May 1900 – Marion Township, Shelby County, Indiana

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, June 1, 1900,
Volume XL Number 48, page 1 column 5

LOCAL NEWS ITEMS

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Leonard Hines [sic], dealer in agri­cultural implements at Morristown, was acci­dentally shot and killed Wednesday. He was riding in a buggy in company with another man, and holding a gun with one end resting on the bed of the bug­gy. In moving his foot the gun was accidentally discharged, the contents grazing his left shoulder and entering the base of the skull at the back of the head. After lingering a few hours he died. Chas. Shepard, of Needham, who had been in the employ of Mr. Hines [sic] the past few months, will return home, owing to the death of his employer.

Link to Leonard Hinds’ grave

Note: Indiana, Death Certificates, 1899–2011, Shelby County, Certificate and Record of Death, page 122 records that Leonard Hinds died on 31 May 1900 at about one a.m. in Marion Township from shock from a gunshot wound, aged thirty years, ten months and twenty-nine days. He was male, white, married and a merchant, birthplace Shelby County. His father’s name was Geo. W. Hinds and his mother’s maiden name Eliza Bassett, birthplaces of both Shelby County, Indiana. The informant was Melvina Hinds. Leonard was buried in Asbury Cemetery on 2 Jun 1900, G. W. Morrison, undertaker.

Submitted by Mark McCrady, Cathea Curry and Lois Johnson