CHEW, John

Local and Personal.

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John Chew, who owns two farms near Greenwood, was found dead in bed in Smith’s hotel, Indianapolis, last Thursday morning. He had been making his home there for three months.

Submitted by Mark McCrady and Cathea Curry

Unknown source

JOHN CHEW DEAD.

Well-Known Old Man Found Dead
in Bed at a Hotel.

John Chew was found dead in bed at Smith’s Hotel, 350 East Washington Street, yesterday afternoon. He was seventy-one years old and lived on his farm in Perry township, where he was a well-known and wealthy man. He seemed to be feeling well yesterday before his death, and talked to the driver of one of his milk wagons which delivered him milk every day. He had spent some time in St. Vincent’s Hospital, where he was being treated for nervous diseases by Dr. Morrison. He was born in Xenia, O., and settled in this county in 1841, after having lived a short time in Hamilton county. He was the father of eleven children, five of whom live in Atlanta, Ga. The others live on his farms near Southport. His wife died about six years ago. He was a Mason. His funeral will be held Sunday afternoon at the M.E. church in Greenwood, of which he was a member. Deputy Coroner Dunlavy held an autopsy this morning at Charles T. Whitsett’s morgue.

— Taken from Find A Grave Memorial # 15697623 created by Rick Chew.

Note: The Marion County Indiana WPA Death Index, 1882–1920, referencing Book H-7, page 154, records that John Chew, a seventy-one-year-old white male, died 23 Feb 1899 in Indianapolis.