ROWLAND, Ira
Date of death: 1 Jan 1897 – Franklin, Johnson County, Indiana
The Franklin Democrat, Friday, January 8, 1897,
Volume XXXVII Number 26, page 5 column 6
FROM OVER THE COUNTY.
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GREENWOOD.
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The remains of the unfortunate Ira Rowland who was killed on the railroad were buried here.
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The Franklin Democrat, Friday, January 8, 1897,
Volume XXXVII Number 26, page 2 column 6
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CORONER’S VERDICT
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| STATE OF INDIANA, Johnson County, |
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The undersigned coroner of Johnson county, Indiana, did, on the 1st day of January 1897, hold an inquest on the body of Ira Rowland, late of Columbus, Bartholomew County, found dead near Greenwood, Johnson county, Indiana on the 1st day of January 1897. Having viewed the body and heard the testimony of witnesses, I find that the deceased came to his death by reason of hemorrhage from wounds of the legs, both feet and ankles being cut or crushed off by the wheels of a railroad car on the J. M. & I. railroad.
What train ran over him, or how the deceased came to be on the track, I have no knowledge.
Deceased was about 25 or 30 years old about 5 feet, 7 or 8 inches high, black hair, gray eyes, sallow complexion; weight about 150 pounds. Dressed in 3 coats, 3 shirts, 2 pairs of pants and one vest. Both feet crushed, right knee bruised, a small cut on the forehead and a cut near the top of the head about 1 ½ inches long. No valuables found on the body.
J. T. JONES,
Coroner Johnson County,
Franklin, Ind., January 2, 1897.
Note: The Johnson County Indiana WPA Death Index, 1882–1920, page 175, referencing Book H-18, page 6, records that Ira Rowland, a thirty-year-old white male, died 1 Jan 1897 in Franklin.
Submitted by Mark McCrady and Cathea Curry