Jeffersonville (IN) Weekly Journal, February 19, 1897, p. 6. TALLEST INDIANA MAN DEAD Frank Kingle of Guthrie, ten miles north of Bedford, died at two o'clock this morning. He was nearly 65 years old, unmarried and quite wealthy. He is supposed to have been the tallest man in the state of Indiana. It required a 7-foot casket to bury him. The remains will be buried in a rolled steel coffin.