TERMAN, Levi

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DROPPED DEAD

Levi Turman Suddenly Dies While in
the Field at Work.

Levi Turman [sic], a well-known far­mer, living two miles west of Whiteland, dropped dead at his plow Tuesday evening about five o’clock.

He had been hauling wood all the forenoon and after dinner made pre­parations to plow up a patch of ground for peas. He went to the field about four o’clock, and sometime afterwards his son, Ert Turman, noticed the team standing still with no one in sight. He went to the field to see why his father had left them and was horrified to find his father lying on the ground by the plow where he had fallen. Mr. Turman was breathing heavily but unable to speak. The son called W. H. Voris, a brother-in-law of Mr. Turman, who was at work in another part of the same field, motioning for him to come. When Mr. Voris arrived, Mr. Turman was breathing his last. He was taken to the house and although dead, Doctor Phipps of Whiteland was summoned to make an examination. Heart disease was pro­nounced the cause of his death.

Mr. Turman was a kind hearted industrious man and highly respected by all who knew him. He leaves a wife and six children, three sons and three daughters. He was in the fifty-sixty year of his age.

The funeral took place at the house yesterday conducted by Rev. Mead of the Methodist church at Whiteland. Interment at the Hopewell cemetery.

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Link to Levi Terman’s grave

Note: Name misspelled throughout the article as Turman; it is Terman according to his tombstone and the Johnson County Indiana WPA Death Index 1882-1920 page 204, referencing Book H-17, page 13.

Submitted by Mark McCrady and Cathea Curry