MEANS, John B.
Date of death: 13 Jul 1900 – Brookfield, Shelby County, Indiana
The Franklin Democrat, Friday, July 20, 1900,
Volume XLI Number 3, page 6 column 6
COUNTY NEWS.
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ROCKLANE.
J. B. Means departed from this life on last Friday evening. Funeral services were held at Brookfield by Pleasant Lodge No. 134 F. & A. M. Interment at Pleasant View.
Note: Indiana, Death Certificates, 1899–2011, Brookfield, Moral Township, Shelby County, Certificate and Record of Death, page 198 records that John B. Means died at about 2 o’clock a. m. on 13 Jul 1900 in Brookfield from mitral disease of heart of two years’ duration, contributory cause asthma of four months’ duration, aged sixty-two years. He was male, white, married and “worked by day”, born in Johnson County, Indiana. His father’s name was William Means, born in Carolina [sic], and his mother’s maiden name Cathran Meaffe [sic], born in Kentucky. Mr. Means was the informant. John was buried in Pleasant View on 15 Jul 1900, Wilson & Son, undertaker.
Submitted by Mark McCrady, Cathea Curry and Lois Johnson