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Brown County (IN) Democrat, March 25, 1920, p. 1.
DANGEROUSLY ILL
Mrs. Joseph Lucas is very sick at her home on Crooked Creek in Johnson
Township. Some weeks ago she contracted influenza from which it is feared
she cannot recover. Her son, Malcomb, and wife came down from Indianapolis
last night and were taken to the parental home.
Annual Report of the Indiana State Board of Health-1900, (Indianapolis:
William M. Burford), 1901, pp. 218-219. Available online from
www.books.google.com. NOTE: The item below was abbreviated from the
original as noted by the ellipsis.
SMALLPOX IN SCOTT COUNTY
Scottsburg, Indiana, April 17, 1900
I respectfully submit the following report of the smallpox epidemic that
made its appearance in Scott County, Indiana, in January 1900 and lasted
until April of the same year:
This epidemic was confined to Vienna and Finley townships which townships
border on Washington County which was the source of contagion. It first
made its appearance about January 24 in the family of Thomas Craig in
Thomastown which is located in Finley Township near the Washington County
line. One of Thomas Craig's sons contracted the disease from a man named
Hawn who came from Washington County to Scott County to attend his mother's
funeral on January 12, 1900. Mr. Hawn, who brought the disease to Scott
County, thought he had the chickenpox. The first case in Scott County ran
its course without medical attention, for no one knew he had the smallpox or
even suspected it. On the 12th of February I was called to see his father,
Thomas Craig, who was suffering from pain in the back, headache and fever,
but not knowing he had been exposed to smallpox, I did not diagnose his case
until the eruption appeared which was four or five days after the initial
symptoms. After making a diagnosis, I lost no time in quarantining his
house. However, before his house was quarantined, Oscar Dismore's wife
contracted the disease from the same source, viz., Thomas Craig's son, and
the Dismores gave a party the evening the eruption appeared upon Mrs.
Dismore's body, thus exposing fifteen persons, and from that the disease
spread to five other family, viz., that of H. Thomas, Jackson Giles, Rowan
Smith, Albert Cox and Mrs. Buddie Robbins. As fast as the disease made its
appearance in those families, they were quarantined and, consequently it
never spread beyond them.
The mortality was nil As Scott County has no colored population, all the
cases were white.
W. L. McClain, Health Officer.
Salem (IN) Democrat, June 15, 1887, from a transcribed book of early obits
at the genealogy library, John Hay Center, Salem, Indiana. NOTE: The text
below is transcribed exactly as it appears in the book.
The Salem Democrat of June 15, 1887, carried an article concerning
activities on Decoration Day in Franklin Township. The grave of every
soldier buried in Franklin Township was "handsomely decorated" the 31st of
May. The article contained a list of the names of soldiers of all wars
together with the name of the repository for the dead at which they are
buried. Listed among these names was Isaac Tatlock, 14th Ind., buried
Franklin Cemetery [Washington Township].
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Isaac Tatlock; born ca. 1843 or 1844; Co. B, 13th Ind. Cav.; son of George
Tatlock and Julia Trueblood.
True Blue Republican, September 1886, from a transcribed book of early obits
at the genealogy library, John Hay Center, Salem, Indiana.
CANTON ITEMS, SEPTEMBER 6
Died at six o'clock on the morning of August 23d, Grant Tatlock, son of W.
E. and M. Tatlock at the family residence. The funeral services were held
at the house on the morning of the 24th. Grant Tatlock was born October
10th, 1864, at Canton, Indiana. He was the fourth child. In December he
contracted a severe cold that speedily developed into pulmonary consumption,
and though every possible effort in his behalf was exerted, it was soon
evident that death had set his seal upon him.
Salem (IN) Democrat, August 25, 1886, from a transcribed book of early obits
at the genealogy library, John Hay Center, Salem, Indiana.
Grant Tatlock of Canton was buried at Crown Hill Cemetery Tuesday. He had
long been a sufferer from consumption. He was aged about 21 years.
Salem (IN) Leader, August 28, 1886, from a transcribed book of early obits
at the genealogy library, John Hay Center, Salem, Indiana.
CANTON CULLINGS
Grant Tatlock, who has been down with consumption for the past six months,
breathed his last Monday morning. He was buried at Salem Tuesday morning at
10 AM.
Republican Leader, April 6, 1894, from a transcribed book of early obits at
the genealogy library, John Hay Center, Salem, Indiana. According to a
noted attached to the transcription, Manne Tatlock, age 2 years, died at
Salem, April 4, 1894, and was buried at Cauble Hill.
George Tatlock's child died Wednesday and was buried Thursday.
Gilbert Ernest Swope, compiler, History of the Swope Family and Their
Connections, 1678-1896 (Lancaster, PA: T. B. & H. B. Cochran, Printers)
1896, pp. 334-335.
John S. Swope (Michael3, George2, Rev. Benedict1), born March 4, 1824,
married November 25, 1844, Matilda Noakes, born May 30, 1924. He resides at
Scottsburg, Indiana. The issue of this union was
Claribel Swope, b. August 21, 1845; m., April 6, 1865, Lewis
Ryans, b. in Belfast, Ireland. They had children: John B., b. Nov. 17,
1866; Charles L., b. Jan. 7, 1869; Adi I., b. June 2, 1871; Edward A., b.
Sept. 8, 1874; Emma S., b. Oct. 16, 1877.
Emma I. Swope, b. May 27, 1851; m. Sept. 6, 1876, Andrew J.
Mitchell. They reside in Kansas City. They had issue: Florence M., b.
Sept. 30, 1877, d. Aug. 15. 1891; Mark, b. Aug. 10, 1879; Jackson, b. Sept.
24, 1883.
Edward M. Swope, b. Aug. 24, 1853; m. Sept. 13, 1874, Mary
Wilk. He was engaged in merchandising for a number of years; later he
engaged in farming near Wellington, Kansas. They had issue: Oliver P., b.
Sept. 10, 1875; Jesse B., b. July 25, 1878; Sidney M., b. Jan. 30, 1880;
Mary M, b. March 31, 1882.
Florence A. Swope, b. Dec 25, 1855; m. Oct. 9, 1895, Newton
M. Wilson, a farmer, near Scottsburg, Indiana.
William A. Swope, b. March 30, 1858; m. March 8, 1882, Mamie
R. Ditzler, b. Sept. 23, 1855. They reside in Como, Texas. They had issue:
George W., b. De 23, 1883; Willie Virginia, b. Oct. 22, 1886; John S., b.
May 7, 1888; Jane E., b. Oct. 7, 1893.
Indiana Historical Commission, Indiana World War Records, Gold Star Honor
Roll: A Record of Indiana Men and Women who Died in the Service of the
United States and the Allied Nations in the World War 1914-1918, Vol. 6,
published in 1921, p. 577. Available online through www.books.google.com.
Harvey E. McKnight, private, S. A. T. C., son of Morris E. and Amanda
McKnight, born July 31, 1886, Memphis, Clark County, Indiana. Moved to
Scott County in 1889. Farmer. Entered service October 15, 1918,
Scottsburg, Indiana. Sent to Camp Winona, Winona Lake, Indiana; assigned to
Automobile Training School. Died October 30, 1918, Camp Winona, Warsaw,
Indiana. Buried in Scottsburg Cemetery, Scottsburg, Indiana.
Indiana Historical Commission, Indiana World War Records, Gold Star Honor
Roll: A Record of Indiana Men and Women who Died in the Service of the
United States and the Allied Nations in the World War 1914-1918, Vol. 6,
published in 1921, p. 577. Available online through www.books.google.com.
Orvil (consider Orville a spelling variant) Roscoe Meadors, private, son of
John M. and Sadie Meadors; born March 13, 1896, Leota, Scott County,
Indiana. Laborer. Entered service March 30, 1918, Scottsburg, Indiana.
Sent to Camp Taylor, Ky. Assigned to 15th Company, 4th Training Battalion,
159th Depot Brigade. While at home on furlough June 15, 1918, became ill
and was taken to St. Anthony Hospital, Louisville, Ky., where an operation
was performed to save his life. Died from the effects of operation August
23, 1918, at home of parents. Buried, Scottsburg, Indiana.
Alonzo E. Fitch Died
Indiana Historical Commission, Indiana World War Records, Gold Star Honor
Roll: A Record of Indiana Men and Women who Died in the Service of the
United States and the Allied Nations in the World War 1914-1918, Vol. 6,
published in 1921, p. 577. Available online through www.books.google.com.
Alonzo E. Fitch, private, son of Alonzo and Lucy Ann Fitch; born February
20, 1895, Lexington, Scott County, Indiana. Farmer. Entered service in
October 1917, Scottsburg, Indiana. Sent to Camp Taylor, Ky.; assigned to
Company K, 335th Infantry. Transferred to Camp Sevier, S. C. Went overseas
May 12 1918, assigned to Company I, 119th Infantry, 30th Division. Killed
in action October 10, 1918. Place of death and burial unknown.
Indianapolis (IN) Sentinel, June 9, 1881, p. 1.
STRUCK BY A TRAIN
Orleans, Indiana, June 8-The coroner is now holding an inquest over the
remains of Joseph Mellinger who was killed this morning by a train. He was
walking on the side of the track, and the engineer, thinking he would step
aside, did not stop the train. The engine knocked him some distance killing
him instantly.
Chicago (IL) Daily Inter Ocean, July 13, 1876, p. 3. NOTE: In an earlier
article, a member of the Toliver family was identified as Tolliver. NOTE:
There is quite a bit of information about the Moody family and Bent Jones in
the INMONROE Rootsweb archive. For more information about this incident,
and the many travails of Bent Jones, check out the INMONROE Rootsweb mailing
list archives.
THE ORLEANS TROUBLE
Additional Outbreak in Orange County, Indiana
Prisoners in Jail Fired Upon
Information was received yesterday at the executive department of an assault
made upon the Orange County jail Saturday night by a mob that fired through
the bars wounding Alonzo B. and Lee Jones. Coupled with this statement was
a request that the governor furnish troops to enforce submission, but the
governor declined and directed the sheriff to the Floyd County jail at New
Albany, which was done yesterday afternoon.
The assault is an outgrowth of the Moody-Toliver-Jones troubles that have
disturbed that part of the state for several years past. The main facts are
about these, as gleaned by a reporter of the New Albany LEDGER-STANDARD
for the issue of that paper on last Friday morning:
In 1870, William Toliver, an aged and respected farmer of Lawrence County of
considerable wealth, died. He was the father of the Tolivers now in jail.
William Toliver left upon his death, besides children, a widow, Polly
Toliver, who was his second wife. He had married her a few years before his
death. She was a sister to the Moodys, and she had long lived neighbors to
the Tolivers upon an adjoining farm with her three brothers, all of them
being unmarried until she married old man Toliver.
After the death of William Toliver, the Toliver children, under the lead of
Bent Jones, a son-in-law, objected to letting Polly, the widow, have that
portion of the estate that the law allowed her. She appealed to the law and
obtained her legal right. These suits produced other suits by the Moodys
for slander and for assault and battery in which the Moodys were uniformly
successful, and the Toliver party had to pay large damages and costs. In
the year 1871, the Jones and Toliver party determined to exterminate the
Moody famly at one blow.
The attack was made June 24, 1871, but the family miraculously escaped
death, although several of them were injured.
"Bent" Jones, the leader of the gang, then conspired with his associates to
kill the Moody family, but all their efforts failed until about a year ago
when Thomas Moody was shot dead in his door yard in Orleans. According to
the confession of Eli Lowery, one of the gang, the shooting was done by Lee
Jones and Parks Toliver, although Bent Jones, Thomas Toliver and Lowery were
in the plot. The grand jury returned a bill of indictment against the above
five persons. Lowery pleaded guilty and was sentenced to the penitentiary
for life; the other four were confined in jail to await trial, bail having
been refused them.
In pursuing his plan for vengeance against the Moody family, Jones had by
his influence and address surrounded himself with a band of desperadoes and
outlaws who stood together and swore for each other and became the terror of
all good citizens. Among these characters was Eli Lowery who had no other
motive to join in the killing except the sum of $20 which, he says, Jones
paid him. Lowery is a young man 24 years old.
Jones had implicit faith in his ability to successfully defy the law by
means of the perjured testimony of his gang of confederates to establish an
alibi. But two of his witnesses were indicted for perjury and the others
did not come up.
Montpelier, VT, Argus and Patriot, November 3, 1870, p. 2.
Two prisoners were taken from the sheriff near Orleans, Orange County,
Indiana, Tuesday night of last week by a party of 100 armed and disguised
men and hung to the rafters to a covered bridge. The victims had been
lately engaged in robbing the farmers near Orleans.
Cincinnati (OH) Daily Enquirer, June 27, 1871, p. 1. NOTE: A later
newspaper article identified Mrs. Tolliver as Polly Toliver (sic).
ORLEANS, INDIANA
A Diabolical Outrage
Attempted Assassination of a Whole Family
Three persons Fatally Shot and Burned
Special Dispatch to the Enquirer
New Albany, Indiana, June 26, 1871. One of the most diabolical outrages
ever committed in Southern Indiana occurred two miles north of Orleans,
Orange County, about two o'clock yesterday morning, it being an attempt to
murder an entire family. The family, consisting of four bachelor brothers
named Moody, Mrs. Tollilver (consider Toliver a spelling variant), their
widowed sister, and brother-in-law named Lee, were awakened by the assassins
in the house, who first threw jugs of benzene in the sleeping room together
with large combustible torpedoes filled with missiles that burst and set
fire to the beds and house. The assassins seeing the family moving about
commenced an indiscriminate firing through the doors and windows with
revolvers with the intention of killing the entire family, hoping that the
house would burn and cover up their crime.
Thomas Moody rushed for the door hoping to escape from the building when he
received a ball in the hip, the same passing upward and lodging in the back.
Another ball desperately wounded Lee while he was attempting to escape, and
he will probably die. Mrs. Tolliver was terribly burned by the benzene but
is not fatally injured. One of the Moodys escaped and giving the alarm,
neighbors came to the assistance, and the assassins fled. The affair has
created most intense excitement. Hundreds of people visited the scene
yesterday, and there is little doubt that Lynch Law will be resorted to if
the assassins are caught.
Some months ago Tolliver was killed by accident, and it being known that he
had two thousand dollars in cash that could not be found by his sons, his
wife and one of the Moodys were charged with theft. A slander suit was
brought against the Tollivers by the Moodys, and the Tollivers tried to have
the Moodys indicted for larceny. The Moodys gained a judgment for slander,
but whether these law suits were in any way the remote cause of
assassination is mere speculation. The detectives are scouting the country
to arrest the murderers.
Later-At three o'clock this afternoon, Mr. Mood's recovery was hopeless, and
Mr. Lee's very doubtful. It is understood that Mr. Moody's statement of the
affair has been reduced to writing, and it is said he recognized several of
the attacking party.
Evansville (IN) Courier and Press, September 3, 1902, p. 2.
SAYS HE DESIRES TO DIE AND WILL MAKE ANOTHER ATTEMPT AT DESTRUCTION
Washington, Indiana, September 2-While brooding over a love affair, B. W.
Pigg, a prominent young man of Paoli, last night took a large dose of
morphine at the Meredith Hotel in this city and was only saved from death
after twelve hours of work by three physicians of this city.
He arrived here yesterday afternoon having accompanied his sweetheart, Miss
Caruthers, of St. Joseph, Mo., this far on her way home after a visit at
French Lick Springs. He went to the Meredith Hotel, engaged a room and
called for telegraph blanks and writing paper. An hour later he called for
a bell boy and handed two telegrams to him. One was addressed to Miss
Caruthers and the other to J. A. Pigg, proprietor of the Wells Hotel at West
Baden.
The messages were taken to the telegraph office, but the manager refused to
deliver them. He returned them by the messenger boy. When the boy arrived
at Pigg's door he found it open and Pigg lying on the floor unconscious.
The physicians were summoned.
The message to his sweetheart was as follows: "Return on first train. I'm
dying."
The one to his brother, J. H. (sic) Pigg, read as follows: "When you
receive this I will be dead and my soul in hell." Letters were also found
addressed to his relatives and one to Miss Caruthers.
To one of the doctors he said he was sorry that he did not succeed in
killing himself. He said that the next time they found him it would be too
late.
Mr. Pigg comes from an old family at Paoli and is highly educated. His
father is proprietor of the leading hotel there. Miss Caruthers is a member
of one of the most prominent families in St. Joseph. The matter is being
kept as quiet as possible, the hotel management and physicians refusing to
make a statement.
The unfortunate man assigns as the reason for the attempt that he is
unworthy of Miss Caruther's love.
Bedford (IN) Daily Mail, July 3, 1920, p. 1.
EXPECTING DAUGHTER FOR VISIT
Mr. and Mrs. A. K. Sears and family are anxiously awaiting the arrival of
their daughter, Winnie, who is now Mrs. George Bush of Pasadena, California,
and her daughter, Antoinette, who left last week for New York City to spend
a week before coming to this city.
Prof. Bush, superintendent of the South Pasadena schools for the past
sixteen years, expects to do post graduate work at Columbia University and
will join his wife and daughter here for a short visit before their return.
Bedford (IN) Daily Mail, July 3, 1920, p. 1.
NEWLYWEDS
Given Charivari Last Night at Their Home on North I Street
Mr. and Mrs. John Foddrill, newlyweds, were the victims of a jolly charvari
last night when over 150 of their neighbors and friends and a truck load of
the former's friends from Oolitic invaded their home on North I Street and
for a time ruled the ranch. In the pranks the bride and groom were given a
free ride over the streets of the city in a truck. During the evening ice
cream and candy were served.
The bride was formerly Miss (difficult to read) Ella Launis (difficult to
read) and her marriage to Mr. John H. Foddrill of Oolitic was solemnized by
Rev. R. H. Toole at the First Methodist Church parsonage last Sunday
evening.
Bedford (IN) Daily Mail, July 3, 1920, p. 1.
Boone Leonard has sold the Home Laundry to Burrel Farmer who will take
immediate possession. Mr. Leonard expects to locate in Florida.
Bedford (IN) Daily Mail, July 3, 1920, p. 1.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hartley left this morning for Madison where they will
spend the Fourth with Mr. and Mrs. Henry Kassten, the parents of Mrs.
Hartley.