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Box suf Deceased First Mdl Date Decision Type 2 Name Comments
4047 50 Tanner Benjamin A 2-15-1972 Dec - Heart WIFE Tanner Florence Was Coroner's Box #22.- Death by cornonary thrombosis at his home, RR1, New Harmony. Found by his wife Florence Tanner. He was at home, awoke out of sleep, short of breath, got out of bed and put on a robe and walked a short distance and fell to the floor. His death was instantaneous.
4067 28 Tapp John   11-7-1909 Dec Pain A70     Coroners Inquest Box #17. He was of Black Twp and was colored - Age 70 - He had lots of pain.
4017 28 Tapp John   11-7-1919 DEC Natural     (Colored) Coroners Inquest Box # 17. Death by: Natural Causes
4008 12 Tarrant Charles O   1882 DEC Train     Coroners Inquest Box # 8. Death by: Train.
4008 12 Tarrant Charles O   1882 DEC Train     Coroners Inquest Box # 8. Death by: Train.
4013 31 Taylor Frank N   1892 DEC Stab     Coroners Inquest Box # 13. Death by: Stabbed (colored).
4021 16 Taylor John B 4⁄21⁄1949 Dec Nat Causes     Coroners Inquest Box # 21. Death by: Natural due to coronary occlusion. His obit was in the Western Star 21AP1949 pg 1. He is buried in Benton IL.
4011 8 Taylor Sarah
5-15-1912 DEC Poison     Coroners Inquest Box # 11. Death by: Carbolic acid poisioning (colored).
4047 51 Taylor Wendell B 7-22-1971 Dec - Natural CRNR Hinderliter Daniel L Was Coroner's Box #22.- Death by natural causes due to a coronary thrombosis heat failure. He had a long history of heart disease.
4019 11 Tennison Lethena 11-26-1919 DEC Heart     Coroners Inquest Box # 19. Death by: Heart.
4016 16 Tennison William P 9-18-1937 DEC By a Bull OBIT Conrad Connie Coroners Inquest Box # 16. Death by: Bull attacking him in his barn. His wife and son found him. He was age 62. Obit by Connie Conrad included.
4012 16 Tepool Joe     1933 DEC Heart     Coroners Inquest Box # 12. Death by: Heart.
4068 19 Tepool Joseph   4-24-1933 Heart Age 68     Coroners inquest death by: Chronic Valvular heart disease in Poseyville. Age 68.
4018 10 Terhune Effie   1-7-1910 DEC Unknown!mos     Coroners Inquest Box # 18. Death by: Unknown causes - One month old child.
4010 13 Thayer John A 9-18-1916 DEC Drown     Coroners Inquest Box # 10. Death by: Drowned.
4022 56 Therobald Edith Mackey 3-25-1951 Dec - Heart     Found dead in bed at home at 610 Walnut St, Mt Vernon, IN. Death due to coronary occlusion.
4063 47 Thomas A Clarence 9-15-1942 Dec Gun A84     Cause of death was suicide by gun shot wound from .22 cal bullet in chest at home in New Harmony. Age 84 and found by his daughter.
4030 55 Thomas Gilbert Dan 4⁄2⁄1940 DecMastoidditis     Coroners Inquest Death By: bi-lateral mastoidditis age 10 mo 4 days.
4067 35 Thomas James   6-15-1910 Dec NaturalA66     Coroners Inquest Box #17. Death by: natural causes. Age abt 66. Of Black Twp.
4063 48 Thomas James   10-30-1906 Dec Natural A38     Cause of death was natural causes. Age 38.
4007 53 Thomas James ? 1906 DECNatural     Coroners Inquest Box # 7. Death by: Natural causes.
4017 35 Thomas James 6-15-1910 DEC Natural     Coroners Inquest Box # 17. Death by: Natural Causes.
4016 2 Thomas Louis B 4-9-1937 DEC Heart     Coroners Inquest Box # 16. Death by: Heart. Died in bed at home, Mt Vernon, age 70.
4028 42 Thomas Miranda 3⁄18⁄1925 DEC Crushed     Coroners Inquest Box #28. Death by: reason of right side of head crushed, both arms broken, both legs broken, and broken back, in tornado or wind storm. Coroner of Posey Co was Samuel E Davis.
4011 40 Thomas Oscar 2-21-1915 DEC Drown     Coroners Inquest Box # 11. Death by: Drowned.
4024 28 Thompson Dawn Michell 13-2-1967 DEC Natural     Coroners Inquest Box # 24. Death by: Natural causes of acute trocheobranchitis for 1 day and extended confluent of broncho pneumonia for hours. She was with her mother and father. She was white, age 3 months and born 10NOV1967.
4018 18 Thompson Elizabeth 11-14-1908 DEC Natural A49     Coroners Inquest Box # 18. Death by: Natural causes age 49.
4066 24 Thompson Hoyt Ison 2-12-1959 Dec Natural     Cause of Death was natural causes.
4018 9 Thompson Joseph 12-31-1909 DEC Suicide A54     Coroners Inquest Box # 18. Death by: Suicide by strangulation, age about 54.
4047 52 Thompson Maurice E 5-28-1971 Dec - Acc Cut BY Manning Charles Was Coroner's Box #22.- Death was accident approximately one and one-halt miles northwest of Mt Vernon. Found by Charles Manning at Everett Schmidt residence on Lower New Harmony Road. There were no witnesses and he died with a lacerated liver and hemmorrage due to thrombosis of circle of Willis Left with hypertensive syncops while at work.
4030 56 Thompson Walter M 3⁄28⁄1940 Dec Heart Angin AT Alldredge Cleo  Coroners Inquest Death By: acute angina age 56 at home of Cleo Alldredge.
4061 22 Thrasher Gary Ray 6-14-1953 Dec Drown DAD Thrasher Richard F Death due to accidental drowning in Wabash River at New Harmony.
4008 27 Thurman Peter     1899 DECSuicide     Coroners Inquest Box # 8. Death by: Suicide.
4008 27 Thurman Peter     1899 DECSuicide     Coroners Inquest Box # 8. Death by: Suicide.
4002 19 Tiechener Martha Poole 6-9-1935 DEC Auto A26     Coroners Inquest Box # 2. Death by: Auto wreck - He was struck by auto driven by John Hanie McFadden of Mt Vernon on ST Rd #69 by accident - Age 26.
4067 31 Tieken Benhard 3-23-1908 Dec Apoplexy CRNR Scherer John C Coroners Inquest Box #17. Death by: apoplexy - Acting coroner was undertaker John C Scherer.
4017 31 Tieken Berhard   3-23-1908 DEC Stroke     Coroners Inquest Box # 17. Death by: Stroke.
4021 29 Tieman Henry   5⁄23⁄1948 Dec Drowning     Coroners Inquest Box # 21. Death by: Accidental death due to drowning.
4024 29 Tooley Teresa   5-30-1969 DEC DorwnWabash     Coroners Inquest Box # 24. Death by: Drown in Wabash River at Schub Bend just below Mt Carmel, IL.
4022 57 Tudor Shellie Ewing 9-16-1952 Dec Skull Fract AT Company Mt Vernon Milling Death due to fractured skull due to falling of an elevator at Mt Vernon Milling Co.
4015 45 Tuell Roy C 8-24-1938 DEC Car     Coroners Inquest Box # 15. Death by: Car.
4015 29 Turner Hiram 6-25-1938 DEC Heart     Coroners Inquest Box # 15. Death by: Heart.
4058 24 Unidentified Large Male 3-18-1925 Toronado Burnt CRNR Davis Samuel E About 7o'clock PM on the 18th day of March 1925 a very strong wind followed by a tornado struck Griffin, IN. The town was wiped out, outside of three or four houses which were badly damaged every building large or small, fram, brick or concrete was blown to pieces and leveled to the foundation. Almost every person was hurt to some extent and many were killed. On 19MAR1925 a charred body which had nothing but a small piece of buttons of coruroy pant leg with it for identification, was removed from ruins of burned building which burned, after it collapsed. No identification was made. Signed Wm S Wade. (note: on paper it says that this is wrong only one child wasn't identified).
4028 43 Unidentified Male Child 3⁄18⁄1925 DecBurntTornado     Coroners Inquest Box #28. Death by: reason of being in building which burned after it collapsed in tornado.
680 17 Unknown       1870     Body found near Smith Sawmill in Mt Vernon - 2 bodies found one in Marrs Tp and one in Black Tp.
4011 55 Unknown Baby Male 12-28-1881 DEC Found Grave     Coroners Inquest Box # 11. Death by: Unknow baby grave found in German graveyard.
4020 1 Unknown Child     1925 DECTornado     Coroners Inquest Box # 20. Death by: Tornado.
4017 51 Unknown Man   5-2-1911 Dec Acc Drown     Deceased accidental drowning. He was a colored man.
4017 49 Unknown Man   2-27-1908 Dec Ohio River     Deceased in Ohio River.
4017 50 Unknown Man   6-11-1900 Dec Ohio River     Deceased in Ohio River age 30.
4011 4 Unknown Man   5-29-1882 DEC Natural     Coroners Inquest Box # 11. Death by: Unknown man on Martin Mann farm died natural causes.
4017 1 Unknown Man   2-14-1883 DEC Drown     Coroners Inquest Box # 17. Death by: Drowning 1880 to 1900 sometime.
4013 40 Unknown Mann   4-13-1893 Dec Ohio River    
4016 30 Unknown Person     1882DECStboatFM     Coroners Inquest Box # 16. Death by: Steamboat explosion. File missing.
4047 53 Upshaw Helen E 9-24-1971 Dec - Suicide BY Upshaw Lewis Was Coroner's Box #22.- Death was suicide by self inflicted gunshot wound to the right side of her head a 22 cal winchester auto rifle was used.
4022 58 Upshaw Norman Wayne 3-29-1952 Dec - Tractor NEAR School Lawrence Death due to crushed chest from tractor overturning on him accidentally, near Lawrence School on Ditch Road.
4005 1 Utley Ethel   2-16-1934 DEC Heart     Coroners Inquest Box # 5. Death by: Heart.
4022 59 Vail Hattie   1-24-1952 Dec - Natural     Death from natural causes. She died in her bed of valvular heart disease, at her home, 533 W 4th St, Mt Vernon. She was found by her husband.
4008 25 Vance Samuel B   1881 DECSuicide     Coroners Inquest Box # 8. Death by: Suicide.
4008 25 Vance Samuel B   1881 DECSuicide     Coroners Inquest Box # 8. Death by: Suicide.
4022 60 Vandever Hilbert 3-7-1952 Dec - Nat Heart     Death from natural causes due to valvular heart disease, at 408 W 3rd St, Mt Vernon.
4086 38 Vandover William L 2-29-1964 Dec Natural   Cause of death was natural coronary insufficiency.
4028 44 VanWay Harry 3⁄18⁄1925 Decl Tornado     Coroners Inquest Box #28. Death by: reason of crushed skull received in tornado or wind storm. He was 15 years old.
4008 15 Vanway James     1883 DECDrowned     Coroners Inquest Box # 8. Death by: Drowned.
4008 15 Vanway James     1883 DECDrowned     Coroners Inquest Box # 8. Death by: Drowned.
4011 51 Vanway Spencer 6-23-1913 DEC RR     Coroners Inquest Box # 11. Death by: R R.
4058 51 Vanzant Robert L 5-22-1945 Dec Heart A54     Died of heart disease, age 54, brown hair, brown eyes, 5'7" tall and 215 lbs weight.
4015 39 Varner George W 12-5-1937 DEC Heart     Coroners Inquest Box # 15. Death by: Heart.
4066 25 Vaubel George A 7-30-1959 Dec Electrocute     Cause of Death was electrocution accident.
4012 4 Veich Charley     1880 DEC Drunk     Coroners Inquest Box # 12. Death by: Drunk, drugs.
4003 19 Vernon John W 8-12-1931 DEC Heart     Coroners Inquest Box # 3. Death by: Heart trouble, age 67.
4008 37 Veron Sarah Elizabeth 6⁄20⁄1935        
4064 26 Vessels Martin J 9-24-1959 Dec Heart     Cause of death was heart.
4030 57 Vollmer Elizabeth 1⁄2⁄1940 Dec Heart Angin     Coroners Inquest Death By: acute angina age 75. She gasped for breath and fell across the bed and died in 10 minutes. She was age 75.
4011 25 Vosloh William 2-15-1914 DEC Suicide     Coroners Inquest Box # 11. Death by: Suicide.