HODGES, Ambrose
Date of death: 10 Sep 1896 – Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana
The Franklin Democrat, Friday, September 18, 1896,
Volume XXXVII Number 10, page 1 column 6
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KILLED BY A TRAIN.
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Ambrose Hodges, an old Soldier,
Drives on the Track.
The following, which appeared in Saturday’s Sentinel, relates to a former resident of this city and county:
Ambrose Hodges, seventy-nine years old, was killed by a C. H. & D. freight train Thursday night at the Brookville road crossing of the Pan Handle and C. H. & D. tracks. He was returning from work, and when he reached the tracks he stopped his horse to allow a Pan Handle train to pass. After it had gone by he started the animal and drove on the C. H. & D. tracks directly in front of a freight train which he failed to notice. The engine struck his buggy and carried it several yards. The horse was killed and the buggy demolished, but Hodges still sat in the seat holding the reins. There were but few bruises on his body and the trainmen believe his death was due to the first force of the concussion.
Hodges lived on McPhearson St. about a square and half from where he was killed and the body was carried there. Hodges was a soldier during the war and was a member of [G. A. R. Post 218] which will have charge of the funeral, to occur at 10 o’clock this morning at Crown Hill. Mr. Hodges has been a resident of Indianapolis for more than thirty years.
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Note: Indiana Civil War Veterans, Transcriptions of the Death Rolls of the Department of Indiana Grand Army of the Republic, 1882–1948, transcribed by Dennis Northcott, records that Ambrose Hodges, who was a member of Post 218, died 12 Sep 1896, aged 78 years.
Submitted by Mark McCrady, Cathea Curry and Lois Johnson