NALS = New Albany Ledger Standard
PP = New Albany Public Press
 
 
NALS 26 Mar 1879 p4 c1: Mrs. Sarah Kiger, wife of Rev. John Kiger, died at Indianapolis this morning. The deceased was well known in this city, and in fact throughout the state, her husband having been a minister of the methodist church for many years. Mrs. K. was the mother of Mrs. Alexander Dowling, of this city. She was an excellent christian, and died, as she had lived, in the full faith of a blessed immortality.
 
NALS 3 Apr 1879 p4 c3: John Garvin died at Elizabeth in Harrison county, on Sunday the 3d ult., aged 74 years. He formerly lived in this city and made his living by fishing, and odd jobs around the river front.
 
NALS 4 Apr 1879 p4 c4: Boiler Explosion. From parties coming in on the noon train on the J., M. & I. R. W., the news is learned of a frightful accident which took place about three miles east of Henryville, in Clark county. The boiler of the saw mill of a Mr. Seward exploded this morning, killing Mr. B. T. Seward and David Conover, and wounding several other persons, whose names we were unable to learn. The cause of the accident is unknown and it sanother one of those mysterious boiler explosions for which no reason can be given.
 
NALS 5 May 1879 p4 c2: King's Body Found. The body of Wm. King was found floating in the river about two hundred yards above the Harrison and Floyd county lines at 7 o'clock this morning. It was first discovered and brought ashore by Eugene Villiers, of Portland, who was there with a fishing boat. The coroner was notified and went down and had  the remains brought to Merker & Gwin's undertaking establishment where an inquest ws held, and a verdict of accidental drowning rendered in accordance with the accounty published at the time. As the drowning took place on Sunday, April 27th, the body must have lain in the water a long time, as it presented the appearance of aman only recently drowned, being but little swollen. The remains were identified by several parties. The clothing corresponded, and $9.25 was found tied in the corner of a red pocket handkerchief, just as saloon keepter at Portland said he had tied it for King, the day he was drowned.
NALS 5 May 1879 p4 c3: Death of Mrs. H. R. Naylor. The sad news reached this city today of the death of the estimable wife of Rev. Henry R. Naylor, which occurred at Washington City, Sunday morning. The deceased lady was well and favorably known in New Albany, where she passsed many years of her married life, and where her distinguished husband commenced his career s a minister. T o her relatives and friends in this city and elsewhere the sympathies of his people are extended. The brief telegram containing the melancholy news contained no particulars of the cause of the death. -- DLS 8 May 1879 p4 c1: By a private letter receivedd in this city from Washington, it is learned that the death of Mrs. H. E. Naylor was caused by cancer, that terrible disease which is becoming so prevalent in this county.
 
NALS 14 May 1879 p4 c1: Mr. Allen T. Graves, whose death in New Jersey was noticed in these columns some months ago, willed to his brother, Orange A. Graves, of this city, fifteen lots in West St. Paul, Minnesota, and $1,000 and to each of his two sisters, Mrs. Sallie H. Hand and Mrs. Adaline G. Lansford, $1,000. To his wife he willed $3,000 to diispose of as she saw fit. Mr. Orange A. Graves is also the subsidiary legatee of the estate.
 
NALS 17 May 1879 p4 c1: Rev. Leroy Woods died at Waynesburg, Pa., on the 14th inst. He was formerly pastor of the Presbyterian church at Jeffersonville about twenty-five years ago, and at one time was the representative of Clark county in the legislature, having defeated Hon. T. J. Howard for that position in the year 1854, in know nothing times. He was past seventy years of age. His death, which was sudden, was caused by apoplexy.
 
NALS 21 May 1879 p4 c1; Eddie Morris, aged eight years, son of Ed. Morris, an engineer on the J., M. & I. Railroad, was drowned in the river, near Barmore's shipyard, at Jeffersonville, Monday night.
 
NALS 22 May 1879 p4 c2: James Reid Dead. Mr. James Reid died in Louisville yesterday. Many old citizens of this city and of Clark county, especially members of the bar and officers of courts, will remember the deceased, as he practiced law in this circuit for many years. Deceased was a native of Scotland and had practiced his profession before coming to this country. He was a man of  fine education and polished manners, but never succeeded in the profession of laws. Mr. Reid never married and died far from home, friends or kindred, St. Joseph's infirmary, from whence the funeral took place this morning.
 
NALS 24 May 1879 p4 c5: Obituary Vachel Bailey. Died at the residence of Mrs. Catharine Shafer, in Franklin township, at 6 o'clock this morning, after an illness of twelve days of pneumonia. It wll be remembered that he was stabbbed in the right side in a fight in the French settlement about the middle of February last, and was confiined to his bed for sometime from the effects of the wound. His friends say that his present illness was brought on by the same cause. James Kirk visited the deceased last Thursday, when Bailey told him he was going to die, and that it was the cuts which killed him. The coroner has been notified of the affair and will hold an inquest, when the facts will be brought out. -- NALS 26 May 1879 p4 c3: . . . deceased came to his death by pneumonia and peri carditis - inflamation of the heart sack, and that the stabs received by him in the fight at French creek were neither the immediate nor remote cause of his death. . .
 
NALS 24 May 1879 p4 c1: The little child of Mr. James C. Lipscum, of Greenville, reported to be dying ofthis morning.
 
NALS 9 Jun 1879 p4 c1: Ernest Losson, who has a saloon on Main street, next door to Payton's hotel, learned of the death of his venerable father today. Peter Losson died at Lorraine, France, on the 16th of May, of congestive chill, in the sixty-fourth year of his age. Ernest Losson is the only child of the deceased Peter Losson in this country.
 
NALS 21 Jul 1879 p4 c1: We are called upon to chronicle the death of Zachariah Ward, Esq., of Lafayette township, who died very suddenly of typhoid fever. He leaves a wife and many friends to mourn their loss, but they sorrow not as those who have no hope.
 
NALS 6 Aug 1879 p4 c3: Patrick Thompson, aged about 18 years, son of Benjamin Thompson, of Galena, dropped dead yesterday afternoon. He had been complaining of something like flux for several days, and while going about the house, suddenly fell over and was dead before any one reached him. His death is supposed to have been caused by heart disease.
 
NADL 23 Jan 1886 p4 c2: Mrs. Phoebe Mix, for fifty years a resident of Leavenworth, died a few days ago, aged 76 years.
 
NADL 23 Jan 1886 p4 c3: Obituary Mrs. Rosanna Case Towne was born at Petersburg Pike County, Indiana, March 17, 1821, and died at New Albany, Jan 21, 1886, in the 65th year of her age, after a long illness. Deceased removed with her parents to New Albany in the autumn of 1835, and was married to Salem P. Towne November 8, 1854. She became a member of Wesley Chapel M. E. Church in 1839, under the pastorate of Rev. J. C. Smith, and remained in that church until its division at the organization of Centenary, when she went to the latter church, of which she continued a faithful, active member till death, with the exception of a few years when the family resided at Shoals. Never of robust health, sshe labored earnestly for on e of her stength in all the auxillaries of the M. E. Church, and in her relations to the world was a most exemplary Christian woman, whose light shone upon all with whom she came in contact. She was a loving, devoted mother, an  affectionate,  sympathetic wife, and in the family circle her many good qualities were constantly manifest. In her illness she was supported by the consolation of the religion she professed, and left the most brilliant evidence that she had entered into the joys of immortality. She will be misssed at home and in the church and social circles in which she moved, but she leaves a bright example for hter friends to follow.
 
NADL Thursday, 27 Jan 1887 p4 c2: Death of an Old Settler. Another of the old pioneers has gone. Adam Crosier, of Harrison county, died on Tuesday, Jan. 25, at his residence in that county, where had lived for over seventy years. He was born in Ontario county, New York, on Oct. 13, 1805, and emigrated to Indiana with his father and grandfather in 1816. Indiana then was almost a wilderness. .....For many years he was County Surveyor, and it is admitted on all hands that the county never ha a better officer. ....His wife, only one year younger, and seven children, Mrs. Wilfred Stephens, Mrs. Marion Bartley, Mrs. Thomas Kingsley, Douglas and Robert Crosier, of Harrison County, and Dr. E. S. Crosier of this city survive him.It is rather remarkable that since his marriage in 1831, the issue of which was the seven children mentioned, there was not a single death in his immediate family this his own occurred.....

NADL 4 Apr 1864 p 2 c 3: Information Wanted - Paul Mangin was drowned off the steamer Mercury on last Friday near Blue River Island; dark brown hair, light whiskers, 28 years old, 5 feet 5 inches high. Information of his body, if it be found, will be thankfully received by his widow, Mary Mangin. Address her at this city.  Evansville, Cannelton,Owensboro, and Rockport papers please copy.
( All the Obits listed above when Contributed by Sue Carpenter )

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