MYERS, Henry Keiser

SUDDEN DEATH.

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Dr. H. K. Myers, of Edinburg, Found Dead at His Office.

Dr. H. K. Myers, one of the leading physicians of Edinburg, was found dead in his office Saturday morning. The Call gives the following details:

Dr. Myers was on the streets Friday as usual and nothing was noticed but that he was in his usual health, and was consulted by a number of patients and gave out medicine, and in the afternoon made arrangements with Gus Klein to put some additional improvements in his office.

Dr. Myers is a member of the Knights of Pythias Lodge of Edinburg, and being one of the officers of the lodge was seldom ever absent except when called away on duty as a phys­ician, and he was expected there last night, but did not attend and the members supposed he had been called out to see a patient.

We understand the doctor ate his sup­per at the home and came up town as usual and went to his office and nothing more is known. He told his wife before leaving home that he would attend the lodge.

Several parties it seems were in the reception room of his office after dark and waited to see him, and the sup­position is that he was in his private consultation room at that time, although this is not positively known.

John Garrett, the colored man who has been attending to the doctor’s of­fice, building fires, sweeping, etc. went to the office Saturday morning shortly before 7 o’clock and on entering the east room found the doctor dead, lying on a robe in front of the stove.

The fact was reported to Mrs. Myers by Garrett, and she notified Marshal Bert Mulkins and wife who live across the street from her residence, and they all hastened up to the doctor’s office to find the report too true.

Coroner, Dr. R. W. Terhune, who resides at Whiteland, was at once noti­fied and he came down on the 9:10 train to make an investigation.

We had an interview with Dr. Terhune after he had examined the body and made all necessary inquiries as to facts, and he informed us that the cause of the doctor’s death was organic heart trouble, a disease which had aff­licted him for a number of years and Dr. Myers was well apprised of the fact that he was liable to die most any time. Coroner Terhune says that it is pretty evident that Dr. Myers died early in the evening, perhaps about 8 o’clock.

Dr. Myers was born in Perry county, Penn., Feb. 10, 1841. He came to Edin­burg in 1890. His wife and two sons survive him—H. Guy Myers, civil engineer located at Indianapolis and Dr. Porter Myers, now practicing medicine at New Haven, Ky.

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, March 2, 1900,
Volume XL Number 34, page 1 column 1

LOCAL and PERSONAL.

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Dr. Porter Myers, who was called here from Lebanon, Ky., on account of the death of his father, Dr. H. K. Myers, has decided to remain in Edin­burg and will take up his father’s practice, and will occupy the same off­ice occupied by his father. —Ed.

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, March 2, 1900,
Volume XL Number 34, page 2 column 5

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CORONER’S VERDICT

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I, the undersigned Coroner of Johnson County, State of Indiana, hereby certify that I held an inquest on the body of Henry K. Myers, M.D., late of said county and state found dead in Edinburg, Indiana, on the 17th day of February 1900.

After due investigation I find the de­ceased came to his death by reason of organic heart disease.

Deceased was fifty nine years of age, six feet high, weighed 195 pounds and was dressed in a dark business suit.

R. W. TERHUNE, 
Coroner 

Link to Henry Keiser Myers’s grave

Submitted by Mark McCrady and Cathea Curry