UTTER, Samuel
Date of death: 15 May 1898 – Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana
The Franklin Democrat, Friday, May 20, 1898,
Volume XXXVIII Number 45, page 2 column 5
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Prof. Utter Dead.
Prof. Samuel Utter died last Sunday at the Indianapolis insane hospital, where he had been an inmate for about eighteen months, after an illness of three weeks from paresis. Deceased was 43 years of age and leaves a wife, besides numerous friends. He was born and raised in Johnson County and a few years ago moved to Pittsburgh, where he spent some time in a large music house. He later moved to Muncie, where he was prostrated by the malady that resulted in his death. His body was brought to this city Monday morning and was taken to the home of his brother on East Monroe St., where friends and relatives viewed it Tuesday between the hours of 8 and 9:30 a.m. and where at 10 o’clock the funeral services were conducted by Rev. C. H. Hall.
Deceased was a graduate of the music department of Franklin College, and a member of the Baptist church.
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Note: The Marion County Indiana WPA Death Index, 1882–1920, referencing Book H-7, page 74, records that Samuel Utter, a forty-three-year-old white male, died 15 May 1898 in Indianapolis.
Submitted by Mark McCrady and Cathea Curry