KING, Henry
Date of death: 21 Nov 1891 – Clark Township, Johnson County, Indiana
The Franklin Democrat, Friday, November 27, 1891
Volume XXXII Number 23, page 1, col 6
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Debt Leads to Suicide.
Henry King, a farmer living in Clark Township, committed suicide last Saturday by shooting himself. Mr. King left his house about noon, stating that he was going for a short walk. Not returning in the evening search was instituted for him, which resulted in finding his dead body in a small strip of woods near his home. A note addressed to his wife was found in one of his pockets and read as follows:
ANN:—I am done in this world. I can’t save our place and my money is gone. You can have what property I’ve got left. I can’t treat you and the children as you ought to be.
King was an old soldier and his name was on the pension list. Some time ago he had received back pay enough to purchase twenty acres of land, on which he was living, but recently he had given notes to about its full value, and those notes falling due the last of next month and no means of paying them, he felt that he was about to lose his farm, which probably worked upon his mind to such an extent that he was driven insane. He leaves a widow and ten children, most of whom are young. He was buried at Acton on Sunday.
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The Franklin Democrat, Friday, January 8, 1892,
Volume XXXII Number 29, page 6 column 2
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CORONER’S VERDICT
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| STATE OF INDIANA, Johnson County, |
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I, L. E. [sic] Whitesides, coroner of said county, hereby certify that I have held an inquest on the body of Henry King, at his residence in Clark Township, Johnson County, Indiana, supposed to have come to his death by pistol shot through the brain from his own revolver and by his own hand with suicidal intent.
Deceased was fifty one years old, five feet eleven inches high, weight one hundred and fifty-seven pounds, eyes and hair gray.
The following effects found on the person of the deceased were, upon the 21st day of November, 1891, by me delivered to Ann King, his wife, viz. One old revolver and a small account book.
L. L. WHITESIDES,
Coroner J. C.
Franklin, Ind., Nov 27th, 1891.
Note: The Johnson County Indiana WPA Death Index, 1882–1920, page 112, referencing Book H-16, page 10, records that Henry King, a fifty-one-year-old white male, died 20 Nov 1891 in Clark Township
Submitted by Mark McCrady, Cathea Curry and Lois Johnson