PARSONS, James Frank

Local and Personal.

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Frank Parsons, after a three-weeks illness, died Sunday about one o’clock. His illness was contracted while work­ing as one of the cappers at the Whiteland canning factory. The fumes inhaled resulted seriously and he was compelled to give up work. Typhoid fever developed and he rapidly declined. Deceased was thirty-five years old. He leaves a wife and one little son, age four years. He was an honest, hard-working man and had been one of the employees in Suckow’s mill and the Edinburg mill, leaving the latter in the summer owing to poor health. He was a member of the Christian church, in which the funeral services took place Tuesday afternoon at two o’clock, con­ducted by Rev. C. R. Hudson. Burial at Greenlawn.

Link to James Frank Parsons’ grave

Notes: The Johnson County Indiana WPA Marriage Index, 1882–1920, referencing Book 7, page 25, records that James F. Parsons married Minnie L. Kiser on 7 Jun 1894.

The Johnson County Indiana WPA Death Index, 1882–1920, page 153, referencing Book H-19, page 1, records that Jas. F. Parsons, a thirty-five-year-old white male, died 15 Oct 1899 in Franklin.

Submitted by Mark McCrady, Cathea Curry and Lois Johnson