SMYSER, William D. “Will”
Date of birth: 14 Aug 1863
Date of death: 11 Aug 1894 – Hensley, Johnson County, Indiana
Date of death: 11 Aug 1894 – Hensley, Johnson County, Indiana
The Franklin Democrat, Friday, August 17, 1894,
Volume XXXV Number 6, page 1 column 5
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Will D. Smyser, a widely known young man of Hensley township, died last Saturday. An illness of ten days with typhoid fever wrecked a promising career. He was a Mason and had taught in the schools of this and Morgan counties for many years. He was thirty years of age and unmarried. A large concourse of friends attended the funeral services at Friendship, Sunday.
Link to William D. “Will” Smyser’s grave
Note: The Johnson County Indiana WPA Death Index, 1882–1920, page 193, referencing Book H-17, page 8, records that W. D. Smyser, a thirty-one-year-old white male, died 11 Aug 1894 in Indiana.
Submitted by Mark McCrady, Cathea Curry and Lois Johnson