Death Notices

At Rome Perry county, Indiana on the 8th instant Helen Jospeh daughter of John A. and Eliza Gordon, formerly of Baltimore.
6/21/1851 Sun New Albany Daily Ledger ( 19 Aug. 1857 )

A son of Mr. Antoine Lamb, of Cannelton, aged about 10 years, had his foot so badly smashed by the cars of a coal pit railroad that amputation of the limb became necessary. After enduring great agony he died the same night.
Elkhart Daily Review ( 25 Mar. 1882 )

Miss Georgina Fuchs, of Cannelton, while attending the store of her father, Philip Fuchs, had her clothing ignited at the stove, and was so badly burned that she died in the evening of the same day. She was seventeen years old, and was much beloved.

Elkhart Daily Review ( 3 May 1875 ) transcribed by FoFG MZ

Miss Mary Finigan, a dressmaker of Cannelton died very suddenly last Sunday, of heart disease. The disease is thought to have been contracted by leaning over the sewing machine and table. She was to have been married in a few weeks.

Elkhart Daily Review ( 11 Mar. 1914 )

Cannelton , Ind. , March 11. – In a fire in his home Dr. James C. Bush, veteran dentist of this city, was burned to death. He had been asleep on a bed in a room where the flames were discovered by neighbors. Others in the family were absent. The fire department extinguished the fire after little damage had been done to the house.

Dr. Bush was a Kentuckian by birth and a graduate of University of Michigan of the class of 1882. He had practiced for many years in this city, where he married Miss Stella Hargis, who, with their two children, survive.

History, Genealogy, Early Settlers and Historical Points of Interest in Perry County, Indiana