BEDFORD WEEKLY MAIL BEDFORD, INDIANA FRIDAY, FEB. 14, 1902 Mrs. Jemima Johnson, widow of the late Levi Johnson, died Friday, aged 83 years. The funeral took place Saturday. Burial at Bryantsville. *************************** The funeral of Jemima Johnson, widow of the late Levi Johnson, took place at Bryantsville, on last (Sunday) at 11 o'clock. Elder W. B. Chrisler spoke on the occasion. Mrs. Johnson was 83 years, one month and five days old. She was born in Tennessee. She was united in marriage to Levi Johnson, December 20th, 1840. She obeyed the Gospel when she was a young woman at Bryantsville and remained a member of the Church of Christ at Bryantsville until her death. She was a quiet and patient woman. She had been a sufferer for many years. She now rests from her sufferings and is as we trust in that world where sickness, sorrow and death never come. NOTE: Gemima Johnson: 2 Jan 18190 – 7 Feb 1902. Wife of Levi. Burial at Beasley Cemetery, Spice Valley Twp.

BEDFORD WEEKLY MAIL BEDFORD, INDIANA FRIDAY, FEB. 7, 1902 Mrs. Jane Whitted, who lived with her son, Curtis Whitted, seven miles east of town, died Sunday evening at 5 o'clock, aged 78 years. The funeral took place at the house Tuesday at 10 o'clock a.m. Burial at Sherrill graveyard. ************** FRIDAY, FEB. 14, 1902 DEATH OF AUNT JANE WHITTED. Ellen J. Driscoll was born in Washington county, Ind., Sept. 22, 1822, died at the home of her son Curtis five miles east of Bedford, Sunday evening at 5:30 o'clock, Feb. 2, 1902, being at the time of her death 69 years, 4 months and 10 days of age. She was married to Elisha Teague in 1845. To this union was born two children, James Teague and Mrs. Josephine Whitted. Having been left a widow she was married to Jachariah (Zachariah) Whitted March 8, 1855. To this union were born seven children. The husband and five children preceded her to the grave. She united with the M. E. church when young and remained faithful to the blessed Master till death. She was always in attendance at the house of worship as long as she was able to attend in the last years of her life. She was deprived of that pleasure on account of feeble health. Her happiest hours were spent in reading the Bible. The life of the deceased was sincere and unpretentious, but intensely earnest, with all the true devotions of a wife and mother. Yet she possessed a broad humanity which was constantly asserting itself in deeds of active charity. Hundreds yet living, who have passed the crowning point in life's journey, will, upon receiving the news of her departure, recall scenes of suffering and death where her presence was a balm and benediction. She was confined to her bed for five weeks and bore her suffering without a murmur. Her faith in God and the great and precious promises of his word were with her when she died. Therefore, while our hearts are filled with sorrow because one whom we all loved has been taken away we sorrow not as those who have no hope, because we believe that all who died with faith in Christ in their hearts God will bring with him on the last day, and to all such death is but an open door to the land of light and glory, to the rest that remains for the people of God. Christ, the blessed one has called her, Over on the other shore; Up to chant with sweet voiced angels, Lovely anthems ever more. A. FRIEND. ************* CARD OF THANKS Curtis Whitted and family wish to thank their friends and neighbors for kindness shown them during the sickness and death of a dear mother and loving grandmother. NOTE: Ellen J. Whitted: 22 Sep 1822 – 2 Feb. 1902. Burial at Sherrill Cemetery, Shawswick Twp.

BEDFORD WEEKLY MAIL BEDFORD, INDIANA FRIDAY, FEB. 14, 1902 OBITUARY. Mattie Pearl Potter was born in Utica, Clark County, Indiana, January 28th, 1876. She died at the home of her sister, Mrs. Will Keithly in Bedford, Indiana January 19th, 1902. Had she lived to January 28th, she would have been 26 years old. She united with the Baptist church at Utica when she was eight years old. She was baptized by the Rev. W. W. Harvey in the Ohio river. She afterwards with her parents removed to Salem, Indiana, putting her membership in the Baptist church at that place. She was a devoted and active member of the church being always found in her place at all the meetings of the church. She was married to James W. Brown at Salem, June 28th, 1891. Of this union three children were born, viz: two little twin daughters who have preceded the mother to the better land and one son, little Bennie, who is left to mourn the loss of a mother whose love he will never know. Mattie was a loving and affectionate daughter, especially to her widowed mother, form whom no sacrifice was too great for her to make. She was resigned to die. She often spoke of those who were waiting to welcome her on the other shore. She leaves a mother, a sister and little Bennie to mourn her loss. Her funeral took place from the First Christian Church, in Bedford, at half past 2 o'clock Jan. 20th, conducted by the Pastor, Rev. James Small and her remains were laid to rest in Green Hill cemetery, Bedford's beautiful resting place for the dead. BY A FRIEND. CARD OF THANKS. Mr. and Mrs. Will Keithly and Mrs. Georgia Ann Potter desire to return their grateful thanks to Brother James Small and to the friends and neighbors for their kindness to them during the sickness and death of the daughter and sister Mattie.

BEDFORD WEEKLY MAIL BEDFORD, INDIANA FRIDAY, FEB. 14, 1902 Fred Stout, a young man of Orleans, who kept a news stand, was run over by the southbound Monon passenger train Saturday evening, and had both legs cut off, dying in about two hours. He fell under the wheels while jumping from the evening train.

BEDFORD WEEKLY MAIL BEDFORD, INDIANA FRIDAY, FEB. 7, 1902 Andrew J. Hays, an old and respected citizen, formerly of this county, died at Bloomington Wednesday. The remains will be brought to Guthrie, and buried at the Hays cemetery. Mr. Hays was an old soldier, about seventy years of age. Funeral services will take place Thursday at 2 p.m. at the old homestead near Guthrie. Conducted by J. Williams. A FRIEND. NOTE: Andrew J. Hays: 1833 – 5 Feb 1902. Age 69y 2m 25d. Co. F 67th Ind. Inf. Burial at Hays Cemetery, Marshall Twp., Lawrence Co.

BEDFORD WEEKLY MAIL BEDFORD, INDIANA FRIDAY, FEB. 7, 1902 Willie Poore, grandson of Henry Huff, died Sunday of heart trouble, aged 6 years. Funeral at 2 o'clock Monday afternoon. NOTE: John "Willie" Poore: 27 May 1896 – 2 Feb. 1902. son of John & Maggie. Burial at Breckinridge Cemetery, Shawswick Twp.

BEDFORD WEEKLY MAIL BEDFORD, INDIANA FRIDAY, FEB. 7, 1902 BURNED TO DEATH Joseph Trainor, An Octogenarian, Meets With a Painful Death. Joseph Trainor, perhaps the oldest citizen of Lawrence county, died about 5 o'clock Tuesday morning, from terrible burns on his body received early the evening before. Mr. Trainor, who was 87 years old, had for several years been imbecile from extreme age. He occupied a room at the home of Dr. F. S. Hunter, on West 16th street, Mrs. Hunter being his daughter. Owing to his childish propensity to play with the fire, and to prevent him from falling against the stove, a heavy wire screen had been erected around the stove, an opening being left through which to put in coal. About 7:00 Monday evening Mrs. Hunter heard her father calling for water, and going into the room to see how he was getting along, found him lying on the floor with his clothing all on fire. She ran screaming into the yard, arousing the neighbors, who ran to the rescue. Among the first to reach the scene were Marshal Frank Russell, James A. Zaring, A. K. Sears and Dan Brown. They tore the burning clothes off the old man and carried them out of doors, and afterward placed him on a bed in the house, where he was examined by Drs. Molz and McKelvy, who did all in their power to relieve Mr. Trainor's sufferings. He remained conscious for several hours, and talked a little, but died about 5 o'clock a.m. Tuesday. He was terribly burned nearly all over his body, and one arm was burned black. It is supposed he had reached this arm through the opening in the screen to get at the fire, and that the sleeve got aflame. Dr. Hunter was absent from home at the time of the tragedy. Mr. Trainor was born in the town of Williamsport, Pa., near Philadelphia. He learned the carpenter's trade, and when both were young men he and the late Robert Kelly, who was also a carpenter, went to Memphis, Tenn., with a lot of house patterns ready to put up, gong by sea to New Orleans, and thence up the river to Memphis, at that time a booming town. After completing their contracts at Memphis both came to Bedford. Mr. Trainor crossed the plains to California in 1849, with the first rush of gold seekers, coming home later by way of Panama and Cuba, stopping several weeks in the island. He lived for many years at Heltonville, and reared a large family. His children living are Dr. J. W. Trainor, of this city; Dr. K. A. Trainor, of Oklahoma; Mrs. Clara McCory, of New Albany; Mrs. Hettie Ramsey, of Atlantic City, Iowa; and Mrs. Dr. F. S. Hunter of this city. Mr. Trainor had one daughter, Mrs. Hettie Ramsey, almost burned to death a few years ago by her dress catching fire. She was confined to her bed for 27 weeks by her injuries. A four year old daughter of Mrs. Ramsey, who was a granddaughter of Mr. Trainor, was burned to death in the same manner, the little one's clothing catching from an open fire. Another granddaughter about the same age, Zuleime, daughter of Dr. J. W. Trainor, was burned to death in a similar accident a few years ago, when the Doctor lived in the northeast part of town. The family has been subject to a somewhat strange fatality in this respect. The funeral took place Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Serviced at the First M. E. church, conducted by Rev. R. Scott Hyde. Burial at Green Hill Cemetery. *********** Mrs. William McCory, of New Albany, was in the city to attend the funeral of her father, Joseph Trainor. NOTE: Joseph W. Trainor: Died 4 Feb. 1902 Aged 87 years. Burial at Green Hill.

BEDFORD WEEKLY MAIL BEDFORD, INDIANA FRIDAY, FEB. 7, 1902 FORT RITNER A small child of Mr. and Mrs. Shearman Hoofman of Sparksville died Monday was buried here in the Proctor graveyard Tuesday at 10 o'clock.

BEDFORD WEEKLY MAIL BEDFORD, INDIANA FRIDAY, FEB. 7, 1902 FORT RITNER Mrs. Schuler Jones died here Sunday the 26 of January, 1902 and was taken Monday to Boone County for burial. Mr. Schuyler Jones returned from Boone County where he went to bury his wife.

BEDFORD WEEKLY MAIL BEDFORD, INDIANA FRIDAY, FEB. 7, 1902 BUDDHA. Died Feb. 3, at her home in Elnora, Ind., Sarah Irwin, aged 87. She was the mother of Mrs. Isaiah Foster. Sarah Irwin was born in Pennsylvania, married Robert Irwin, moved to Ohio and in Nov. 1863, moved to Indiana, stopping on Posey Park's farm near here for five years. In 1868 they moved to Daviess County. Robert, her husband, died Feb. 15, 1880. She lived a widow since. Both of them died in the same month of the year and on the same day of the week. Mrs. Irwin was a kind mother as well as a neighbor and friend. She always upheld the Christian faith and was ever ready to help the needy. She has gone no doubt to meet her husband on the other shore who has been waiting for her so long. While her departure brings tears and sorrowing here her arrival among friends over there will bring joy and pleasure. She leaves four sons and one daughter besides fifteen or twenty grandchildren to mourn their loss. There is no death! the stars go down To rise upon some fairer shore; And bright in heaven's jeweled crown, They shine forever more.

BEDFORD WEEKLY MAIL BEDFORD, INDIANA FRIDAY, FEB. 7, 1902 Ellis Armstrong, who was a son of Ari Armstrong, and lived a mile and a half south of Springville, died Wednesday, of consumption, aged 28 years. He was a single man. The funeral took place Thursday at Springville. ******** FRIDAY, FEB. 14, 1902 OBITUARY. Ellis Armstrong died at his home near Springville, Ind. Feb. 4, 1902, aged 31 years and 4 months. Ellis was a son of Ari and Sarah Armstrong, was born Oct. 5, 1870. United with the Church of Christ at Springville when he was seventeen years old; has been one of the firm of Armstrong brothers since its organization in 1890. He has been one of our most prominent trading men for years; strictly honest in business and kind and pleasant to all, he won the esteem of all who knew him. He was a regular attendant of church when his health permitted, a safe counselor in all matters of concern to his family, the church and the neighbor. He was always noted for his good common sense, plain and simple in his manner and free from all affectation. On account of his love for his mother he bore his afflictions without complaint, as has often spoken to his brothers of the hopelessness of his condition but asked them not to tell mother. In talking to his brother-in-law, Harley Jackson, he said "You don't think I'll get well Harley?" Harley replied, "I hope you may." Ellis said, "I'll try for I want to get well but I'm not afraid to die, two years ago when I was sick I was not so sure but now I'm sure I'm safe." "Safe in the arms of Jesus . Safe on his loving breast." He leaves an aged father and mother, eight brothers, three of whom are half brothers and four sisters, three of whom are half sisters with a host of relatives and friends to mourn their loss. Let us not think so much of the bitterness of the parting. "As of the thought how sweet again to meet As we long to a distant strand Where heart meets heart and no more to part Who meet in that better land." The funeral was largely attended notwithstanding the shortness of the notice and the coldness of the air. The undersigned talked for a short time at the house to the family and friends from John x1:26 and called attention to the statement made by Ellis himself that he would not go to Colorado to regain his health "I am no coward. God put me here and he wants me let him call for me." He would rather be 'found' dead at his post than to desert it. Q. SHORT.

BEDFORD WEEKLY MAIL BEDFORD, INDIANA FRIDAY, FEB. 7, 1902 BONO Our hearts were very much pained to hear of the death of Elmer Wicker, one of our former citizens. The parents have our sympathy.

BEDFORD WEEKLY MAIL BEDFORD, INDIANA FRIDAY, FEB. 7, 1902 Washington, Ind., Feb. 4. – Clad only in his night clothes Robert Haydon, aged 80, was found in a fence corner this morning frozen to death. He resided with Joseph Williams, 12 miles southeast of this city, retired at the usual time last night, and his absence from the house was not discovered until this morning, when Mrs. Williams went to his room to call him for breakfast. Mr. Haydon was a somnambulist, and it is believed that he walked out of the house while asleep and when he awoke he could not find his way back to the house.

BEDFORD WEEKLY MAIL BEDFORD, INDIANA FRIDAY, FEB. 7, 1902 Shoals, Ind., Feb. 4. – Benoni Smith, aged sixteen, son of S. F. Smith, was shot while hunting near his home, two miles east of here, yesterday afternoon. He had gone hunting and his father, becoming uneasy when he did not return at dark, accompanied by a neighbor, went in search of the boy. They soon found him, stiff in death. A gunshot had entered his body just below the breast bone. The verdict of the coroner was that he had been shot by the discharge of his own gun while loading it.

BEDFORD WEEKLY MAIL BEDFORD, INDIANA FRIDAY, FEB. 7, 1902 Shoals, Ind., Feb. 4. – Laura ARVIN, aged 77, was found frozen to death near the County Poorhouse today. She left the house Sunday afternoon, thinly clad, to get a pail of water and wandered into the woods. Search for her had been kept up since Sunday night. She comes of a prominent family, but was feeble minded.

BEDFORD WEEKLY MAIL BEDFORD, INDIANA FRIDAY, FEB. 7, 1902 Coroner's Report On the Death of Elmer Wicker. Coroner King has filed his report of the inquest he held in connection with the death of Elmer Wicker, the Monon conductor, at Bainbridge. The witnesses examined were Chas. Long, engineer; Jas. Callahan, conductor; Chas. Mitchell, fireman; and Elsworth Davis, brakeman; of the yard engine crew, and Prince Brooks, of the crew of the light engine which was in the rear of the yard engine and the train hauled by the latter. The testimony of the men of the yard engine was practically the same to the effect that their train was running eight or nine miles an hour and was on a sharp curve when struck, that there was a red light on the rear of the train, and that they were running on orders. The rear engineman testified that he did not see the first train until he was too near it to stop and that he did not see a light anywhere ahead of him. All the trainmen testified that a mashed lantern was found near the wrecked cars. The coroner does not place the blame for the affair but says the first train did not have a brakeman at the rear. Wicker was so tightly pinioned between the engine and the tender that another engine had to be hitched onto the latter and the two separated before he could be extricated. He was dead when first discovered. - Greencastle Banner Times.

BEDFORD WEEKLY MAIL BEDFORD, INDIANA FRIDAY, FEB. 7, 1902 Thursday morning in the Montgomery circuit court, Minnie F. Williams, administratix of the estate of Francis Ora Williams, deceased, brought suit against the Monon railroad for $40,000 damages for the death of her husband. The complaint alleges that February 26, 1900, Williams was employed as a brakeman for the road and was in this capacity ordered by the conductor., Cyrus Callahan, to repair a defective coupling device that was out of order; that while he was doing this work Callahan negligently and carelessly signaled to the train to back up the car on which William was working and that it came back with a rush and before Williams could get out of the way he was caught and crushed, dying from the injuries sustained.

BEDFORD WEEKLY MAIL BEDFORD, INDIANA FRIDAY, AUG. 10, 1900 Funeral Party Attacked By Bees. An exciting and unusual incident attended the burial of James W. Bracken, formerly of New Albany, in the rural cemetery, near Bradford, 14 miles northwest of that city, Tuesday. Mr. Bracken died Monday night at his home in Campbellsburg, Ind. The funeral took place from the family residence in that town, and burial was to have been near Bradford, the former home of the dead man, in Harrison county, 20 miles distant. At the cemetery the funeral cortege was met by a committee of Hope Lodge of Odd Fellows, on New Albany, of which the deceased had been an honored member. As the horses attached to the hearse were driven near the grove one of the animals trod on a huge nest of bumble bees. The bees swarmed out at once in myriads and began stinging the horses, the driver and the persons standing near. The driver of the hearse had both eyes closed by 10 stings and he was unable to control the team, which became unmanageable and ran away. The men in attendance, disregarding the stings of the angry insects, succeeded in checking the horses just as they were about to overturn the hearse in their struggles, and after a fight of nearly a half hour, the bees were driven off and the coffin taken from the hearse and the body laid to rest. Mrs. Bracken, the widow, was attached and badly stung, and a score or more of the attending friends suffered. The New Albany Odd Fellows, although in the thickest of it, were all fortunate enough to escape any serious injury.

BEDFORD WEEKLY MAIL BEDFORD, INDIANA FRIDAY, SEPT. 14, 1900 The death of D. O. Spencer at Bloomington, Ind., as a result of locomotor ataxia, which developed into an affection of his brain, removes one of that State's quaintest characters, a man known in nearly every Circuit Court bordering on the line of the Monon railroad, by which company he had been employed for many years as a stenographer. He had enjoyed the distinction, among other accomplishments, of being one of the finest shorthand writers in Indiana, as well as the oldest. His long contact with matters relating to law and his association with some of the ablest attorneys in the State, had caused him to absorb much legal knowledge, and he was a combination of a judicial advocate, newspaper man, sketch artist and story teller. "Dank" Spencer was known and esteemed by nearly every newspaper man in the Fall Cities. At one time he wrote humorous stories about notables he had met in Hoosier land, and they were read with interest. Spencer's personal anecdotes and other stories were always as new as they were enjoyable. Several years ago he was given the title of Colonel and any one who thus addressed the whole souled, loyal Spencer enjoyed his high regard ever after. The "Colonel" began life as a painter, but his keep observation elevated him to a station of prominence. His age was sixty-five years. He was a soldier in the Union army and belonged to the G. A. R. Col. Spencer married in Louisville. His wife and several children are left. – Louisville Courier-Journal.

BEDFORD MAIL BEDFORD, INDIANA FRIDAY, DEC. 27, 1901 FORT RITNER The infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Clendenning was buried at the Proctor cemetery Wednesday.