HEROD, James S.

Date of birth:  12 Sep 1873 – Boone County, Indiana
Date of death: 21 Oct 1899 – Franklin, Johnson County, Indiana

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, October 27, 1899,
Volume XL Number 16, page 1 column 4

Local and Personal.

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James S. Herod, son of Thomas Herod, died Saturday afternoon at the Whitesides hospital of typhoid pneu­monia. He was taken sick Oct. 1, and was unable to attend the sale which he had arranged for October 6. Deceased was born in Boone County, Sept. 12, 1873, but had lived the greater part of his life in Johnson County. He leaves a wife and two children, a son and daug­hter. He was a member of Beth­lehem Baptist church and an industrious young man. Funeral services were held Mon­day afternoon at 2 o’clock, from the residence of his father in south Frank­lin, conducted by Rev. P. O. Dun­can. Burial at Greenlawn.

Link to James S. Herod’s grave

Note: The Johnson County Indiana WPA Death Index, 1882–1920, page 57, referencing Book H-19, page 1, records that James Herod, a twenty-six-year-old white male, died 21 Oct 1899 in Franklin.

Submitted by Mark McCrady and Cathea Curry