PARSONS, Ida
Date of death: 26 Sep 1900 – Franklin, Johnson County, Indiana
The Franklin Democrat, Friday, September 28, 1900,
Volume XLI Number 13, page 1 column 2
LOCAL NEWS ITEMS
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Miss Ida Parsons, aged about 23 years, of Macafee, Ky., but who for some time past has been making her home with Mrs. Belle McClellan, in this city, died Wednesday morning from the effects of a dose of morphine which she had taken sometime during the night previous. Whether or not the drug was taken with suicidal intent is not known. She left the McClellan home early Tuesday evening to go to the home of her cousin, James Parsons, two miles north of town, but did not arrive there until about one o’clock Wednesday morning. Her whereabouts in this interval is not known, but when she arrived at the Parsons home she was crying and complained of being sick, but said nothing about having taken poison. She went to bed and the family retired. About 6 o’clock Wednesday morning when they went to inquire after her condition she was found to be unconscious. Drs. Dobyns and Wood were summoned and worked with her several hours, but their efforts to revive her were of no avail and she died at 11:45 o’clock. If the poison was taken with suicidal intent no cause is known for the rash act.
The Franklin Democrat, Friday, November 16, 1900,
Volume XLI, Number 20, page 3 column 5
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CORONER’S VERDICT
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| STATE OF INDIANA, Johnson County, |
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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 Ida Parsons, late of said county and state, found dead near Franklin, Ind., on the 26th day of September, 1900.
After due investigation, I find the deceased came to her death by reason of the self-administration of lethal quantities of opium.
R. W. TERHUNE,
Coroner.
Note: Indiana, Death Certificates, 1899–2011, Franklin Township, Johnson County, Certificate and Record of Death, page 175 records that Ida Parsons died at about 11:30 o’clock a. m. on 26 Sep 1900 at the home of J. D. Parsons in Franklin, Johnson County, Indiana from morphine or opium poisoning, aged twenty years, seven months and no days. She was female, white, single and a house maid, born in Kentucky. Her parents were Benjamin Walker Parsons and Sarah Jane Miller, both born in Kentucky. The informant was Mrs. Francis Rynearson. Ida was buried in McAfee, Kentucky on 28 Sep 1900, Dudley Peek, undertaker.
Submitted by Mark McCrady, Cathea Curry and Lois Johnson