RIVERS, John Thomas

Date of birth:  6 Mar 1862 – Indiana (birthdate calculated from age at death)
Date of death: 17 Jul 1900 – Union Township, Johnson County, Indiana

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, July 20, 1900,
Volume XLI Number 3, page 3 column 4

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BARGERSVILLE.

Thomas Rivers, of Indianapolis, who came down Sunday to spend a few days with his mother and brother, Simon, died at the latter’s home here Tuesday of consumption.

Link to John Thomas Rivers’s grave

Note: Indiana, Death Certificates, 1899–2011, Union Township, Johnson County, Certificate and Record of Death, Health Officer’s Record Number 12, page 209 records that John T Rivers died at about 9 o’­clock a. m. on 17 Jul 1900 in Union Township from consumption, contributory cause asthma, aged thirty-eight years, four months and eleven days. He was male, white, married and a laborer, born in Indiana. His father’s name was Thomas W. Rivers, born in Kentucky, and his mother’s maiden name was Sarah A. Allen, born in Indiana. C. List was the informant. John was buried in Bargersville on 18 Jul 1900, Covert & Covert, undertaker.

Submitted by Mark McCrady, Cathea Curry and Lois Johnson