STEWART, Mathew
Date of death: 24 April 1891 – Franklin, Johnson County, Indiana
The Franklin Democrat, Friday, May 1, 1891,
Volume XXXI Number 45, page 4 column 1
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Mathew Stewart an aged colored gentleman died suddenly at his home in West Franklin on last Friday evening.
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The Franklin Democrat, Friday, September 11, 1891,
Volume XXXII Number 12, page 6 column 2
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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 27th day of April 1891, hold an inquest on the body of Mathew Stuart [sic], late of said county, found dead at his residence in the city of Franklin, Johnson county, Indiana, on the 24th day of April 1891, and having viewed the body and heard the testimony of witnesses, find that the deceased came to his death by reason of rupture of semi-lunar valve of the heart.
Deceased was about seventy-four years of age, six feet high, complexion colored.
The following articles were found upon his body and delivered to his wife: sixty-five cents in money, one old knife and one shucking peg.
L. L. WHITESIDES,
Coroner J. C.
Franklin, Ind., April 27, ’91.
Note: The Johnson County Indiana WPA Death Index, 1882–1920, page 197, referencing Book H-16, page 31, records that Mathew Stewart, a seventy-four-year-old colored male, died 2 Apr 1891 [sic] in Franklin.
Submitted by Mark McCrady and Cathea Curry