TERHUNE, Illif Bert

Local and Personal.

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Bert Terhune, son of the late A. G. Terhune, died June 22d at Havana, Cuba, of heart disease. On May 1st, he enlisted at Indianapolis in the light artillery and was at once sent to Cuba. This officer reporting his death says he was sick but a short time and that during the brief time he was in the service he was a model soldier. De­ceased, after his father’s death, removed to Franklin with his mother. Here he studied law for a while in the office of Eldridge & Barker. Last Christmas he went to Anderson. Two days before his departure for Cuba he married Miss Olive Miller, a niece of Mrs. Simeon T. Riggs. The body was buried at Havana [sic]. The mother, who is now residing in Indianapolis, is almost prostrated by the news of her son’s death.

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, July 14, 1899,
Volume XL Number 1, page 6 column 6

FROM OVER THE COUNTY

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AMITY.

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This community was sadly surprised last week on hearing of the death of Bert Terhune in Cuba. Bert was well and favorably known here and his death brings sorrow to his many friends and we sympathize with his mother and young wife in this sad hour of their bereavement.

Submitted by Mark McCrady and Cathea Curry

The Republic, Columbus, Bartholomew County, Indiana
Thursday, February 22, 1900, page 1 column 5

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CUBAN VETERANS.

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Body of Bert I. Terhune Brought
Home for Burial.

Franklin, Ind., Feb. 22.—The body of Bert J. [sic] Terhune, who was killed in Cuba, reached this city yesterday. His death occurred in June last. Terhune was a young man of more than ordinary ability. He had prepared for the practice of Law, and had opened an office in Anderson. He leaves a widow, to whom he had been married but a short time before his enlistment. The body will be buried near his old home in this county.

Submitted by Lois Johnson

Unknown Local Newspaper, 1899 [sic Feb 1900]

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A Cuban War Hero.

A telegram to E. G. Barnhizer states that the body of I. Bert Terhune has been shipped to his care from New York and the body reached here Tues­day evening by Adams Express.

Deceased was a most excellent young man and his death, attributed to heart disease, was no doubt largely due to remorse at having to accept conditions in life other than those he had fitted himself for and to which he found no opportunity to take. Highly educated and of a brilliant mind, he found him­self in the army in the hope of there gaining a livelihood. In line for ad­vancement, he yet saw others below him advanced to stations that should have been his, a sensitive, retiring na­ture refusing to assert itself and enter a struggle that merit and worth should hold. He died June 21st last at Havana, aged twenty-eight years [sic], leaving a wife he had been married to but a few days before he enlisted.

The body was taken to Mr. Barnhi­zer’s undertaking rooms and was taken to First Mt. Pleasant for burial Wednes­day morning.

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Submitted by RosiePosie on findagrave.com

Link to Illif Bert Terhune’s grave

Note: The Marion County, Indiana, Index to Marriage Record 1896–1900, original record located County Clerk’s Office, Book 408, records that I. Bert Terhune married Olive Miller 30 Apr 1899. He was thirty-years-old.