CORNELIUS, Richard P. - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

Source: Kingman Star Friday, December 17, 1948

 An inquest at Veedersburg over the weekend disclosed two men apparently killed in an accident died from drowning instead.

  Fountain County Coroner, Charles Fisher, said Richard P. Cornelius, 21, of Indianapolis and Harry J. Jones, 30, of Bedford, were drowned after they were thrown clear of the wreckage of their car west of Veedersburg early Friday.

  The bodies were found in a creek west of Veedersburg on State Road 34. Their automobile had crashed through a guard rail of the bridge.

  Both bodies were prepared for burial at the Fishero Funeral Home in Veedersburg. Late Friday, Provost Marshall Kesler of Stout Field near Indianapolis, came to obtain the boy of Cornelius. It was taken to the Paul Dorsey Funeral Home, Indianapolis, where funeral services were held.

  Information from the field showed Cornelius to be the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Cornelius, Martinsville, Ind., R. R. 2, and that his widow, Mrs. Rosalie Cornelius, is employed at the RCA plant in Indianapolis.

  The Sherwood and Ferguson Funeral Home of Bedford, Ind., came for the body of Jones. Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at Bedford, where his mother, Mrs. May Tucker Jones, lives.