VANARSDALL, Howard

Howard Vanarsdall, formerly of this place and an employee of the Franklin Milling & Grain Co., was killed at Templeton, Benton county, last Thurs­day night while en route to the World’s Fair. It is understood he fell from the platform of one of the coaches while the train was running, seven coaches passing over him. Both legs were ground off and the body mangled, causing death almost instantly. He was in company with another young man who notified his wife at Indianapolis of the accident. Mrs. Vanarsdall tele­graphed her father, Fred Walden in this city that her husband had been killed. Friends went to Indianapolis and learned that the body had been buried where the accident occurred. They proceeded to Tem­pleton, exhumed the remains and brought them to Franklin, arriving early Sunday morning. Funeral services were held at the house of Mr. Walden, conducted by Rev. C. W. Lee. Burial at Greenlawn.

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, July 14, 1893,
Volume XXXIV Number 1, page 1 column 3

Miss Lizzie West was summoned to Indianapolis last Friday by telephone announcing the death of Howard Van­arsdall.

Link to Howard Vanarsdall’s grave

Submitted by Lois Johnson