OHLROGGE, Charles
Date of death: 25 May 1900 – Franklin, Johnson County, Indiana
The Franklin Democrat, Friday, June 1, 1900,
Volume XL Number 48, page 1 column 5
LOCAL NEWS ITEMS
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Charles Ohlrogge, son of Mr. and Mrs. John H. Ohlrogge, died Friday morning at 9 o’clock. He was fifteen years old and a bright promising boy. Last fall while riding a bicycle, he was thrown from his wheel on West Court Street by an unmanageable horse. From injuries received, a tumor developed. For six weeks past he had been ill but the end was not so soon expected. He was taken with a violent hemorrhage Friday morning and expired in a few minutes. Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon from the residence conducted by Rev. L. P. Marshall.
Link to Charles Ohlrogge’s grave
Note: Indiana, Death Certificates, 1899–2011, Franklin, Franklin Township, Johnson County, Certificate and Record of Death, Health Officer’s Record Number 19, page 169 records that Charles Ohlrogge died at about 9 o’clock a. m. on 25 May 1900 at his residence, on Walnut Street, Franklin from a hemorrhage caused by tuberculosis, aged thirteen years, seven months and twenty-five days. He was male, white, single with no occupation, birthplace Indianapolis. His father’s name was John H. Ohlrogge, born in Germany, and his mother’s maiden name Margaret Sess [sic Suess], born in New York. The informant was John H. Ohlrogge. Charles was buried in Franklin, Indiana on 27 May 1900, Dudley Peek, undertaker.
Submitted by Mark McCrady, Cathea Curry and Lois Johnson