CONNER, William M.
Date of death: 12 Dec 1894 – Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana
The Franklin Democrat, Friday, December 14, 1894,
Volume XXXV Number 23, page 1 column 5
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Wm. M. Conner, father of Fred Conner, the boy who was sent to the prison North, for robbing Steffen’s cigar store, at Indianapolis, died suddenly Wednesday morning early. Mr. Conner formerly resided in Franklin, and was at one time postmaster in this city. After leaving Franklin he was employed for many years with H. P. Wasson & Co. Of late years he had been selling groceries on commission. It is believed his death was hastened by his son’s arrest and sentence.
Note: The 1880 US Federal Census for Franklin, Johnson, Indiana records forty-three-year-old, Pennsylvania-born postmaster William M. Conner, his thirty-three-year-old, Maryland-born wife Alice C. Conner, and their children, Fannie A. Charles W., William R., Fredy[sic] J. and Amanda E.
R. L. Polk & Co.’s Indianapolis City Directory for 1896 Volume 42, page 273, and R. L. Polk & Co.’s Indianapolis City Directory for 1897 Volume XLIII, page 273 record Alice C. Conner (widow of Wm M.) as living at 1116 N Delaware.
Submitted by Mark McCrady, Cathea Curry and Lois Johnson