THOMAS, Willis

Date of birth:  About 1876
Date of death: 7 Feb 1899 – Needham, Johnson County, Indiana

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, February 10, 1899,
Volume XXXIX Number 31, page 1 column 3

Local and Personal.

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Willis Thomas, colored, who was in­jured on the railroad at Needham, Tuesday died that night at 10:30 o’­clock. It is supposed he was beating his way over the road. He had jumped on a car here at noon Tuesday and was aiming to get to Fairland. He fell under the wheels and was horribly mangled. A few months ago he raised two poor orders issued to him by trustee McCol­lough for which the grand jury returned a bill against him. Funeral services were held yesterday.

The Johnson County Indiana WPA Death Index, 1882–1920, page 204, referencing Book H-18, page 14, records that Willis Thomas, a twenty-three-year-old colored male, died 7 Feb 1899.

Submitted by Mark McCrady and Cathea Curry