HUNT, Tunstall

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Found Dead in the Road.

As William Riggs was on his way to Franklin, at about eleven o’clock Sat­urday morning he found at the roadside near the residence of A. V. Pendleton, in Nineveh township, an overturned buggy and near it the dead body of a man, which he identified as that of Tunsil [sic] Hunt, an old and well-known resident of the township. Mr. Hunt had been in Edinburg the pro­ceeding evening and was seen shortly after six o’clock not far from the point where his body was found the next morning. He was driving a blind horse, and being himself infirm and almost blind, it is supposed that, upon an embankment at the point, his buggy was overturned and he was thrown to the ground, sustaining injuries which, with the exposure to the storm and cold of the night caused his death. The body, found within two miles of the unfor­tunate man’s home, was removed thither where an inquest was held later in the day by Coroner Whitesides. The funeral occurred on Sunday afternoon and the remains were interred near Williamsburg. His wife died several years ago, since which time his farm was tended by a renter with whom the deceased made his home. J. W. Hunt a son, living in this city, is the only member of the family remaining.

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The Franklin Democrat, Friday, January 22, 1892
Volume XXXII Number 31, page 3 column 4

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CORONER’S VERDICT

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I, L. L. Whitesides, Coroner of said county, hereby certify that I have held an inquest on the body of Tunstall Hunt, at School-house No. 6, Nineveh township, supposed to have come to his death by heart failure due to exposure.

Deceased was seventy-three years old, six feet one inch high, weighed about one hundred and sixty pounds, eyes and hair gray. Said inquest was begun on the second day of January 1892 and concluded on the sixth day of January 1892.

The following effects of Tunstall Hunt, said deceased, were upon the 4th day of January 1892, by me delivered to T. E. Valentine, treasurer of Johnson county; viz. Fifty-eight dollars and seven cents, and to James W. Hunt the following effects: two pocket-books, one pocket knife and a pair of spectacles.

L. L. WHITESIDES, 
Coroner J. C. 

Franklin, Ind., Jan. 6th, 1892.

Link to Tunstall Hunt’s grave

Note: The Johnson County Indiana WPA Death Index, 1882–1920, page 100, referencing Book H-16, page 11, records that Timstall [sic] Hunt, a seventy-three-year-old white male, died 1 Jan 1892 in Nineveh, Johnson County, Indiana.

Submitted by Mark McCrady and Cathea Curry