ALEXANDER, George W.

Date of birth:  About 1857
Date of death:21 Dec 1890 – Trafalgar, Johnson County, Indiana

The Franklin Democrat,, Friday, December 26, 1890
Volume XXXI Number 27, page 3 column 3

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Committed Suicide.

George Alexander, a well-known young man of this city, committed sui­cide about seven o’clock Sunday night. He had been away for some time and only returned home on Thursday of last week. He stated to friends that he was sick but he seemed in good spirits. On Sunday he was seen in our streets until late in the afternoon when he procured a horse and buggy and started south. About seven o’clock he drove to his brother’s, Jas. Alexander, just south of town and meeting some of the family a short distance from the gate on their way to church, he told them that he had taken poison and wanted to see his brother. They returned to the gate with him and he was assisted from his buggy but before he could be carried into the house he was seized with convulsions and died. Coroner Jones went out Mon­day morning and held an inquest and found that death resulted from mor­phine, self-administered and with sui­cidal intent.

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Note: The Johnson County Indiana WPA Death Index, 1882–1920, page 3, referencing Book H-16, page 6, records that George W. Alexander, a thirty-three-year-old white male, died 21 Dec 1890 in Franklin.

Submitted by Mark McCrady and Cathea Curry