Public Press 14 Dec 1898 p3 c2: Deaths During the Week: Rev. J. E. Covey, pastor of Baptist church, 35 yrs old, d his home in Attica, Ind., few days ago. . .
 
Public Press 14 Dec 1898 p3 c2: Deaths During the Week: Mrs. Jennie Martin, 65 yrs, died Monday at her home in Lafayette township . . .
 
Public Press 14 Dec 1898 p3 c2: Deaths During the Week: Morris M. Slider died last Thursday at his home on Lower Second Street from the effects of
injuries sustained several days ago in the Glass Works yards, when a heavy timber fell on him and fractured his left leg in two places.
In addition to the fractures internal injuries developed, and he sank rapidly until death came. He was twenty-eight year old, and leaves a widow and three children.
He was a member of the firm of Conner & Slider, and was one of the leading business men of the city. He was a member of New Albany Camp, Modern Woodsmen of America.
 
Public Press 14 Dec 1898 p3 c2: Deaths During the Week: Thomas A. Seeds, a colored tramp, was found dead Thursday in a barn on Hoffman’s farm two miles west of the city.
Coroner Starr found that death was due to exposure to the cold. He had been dead several days when found.
The was about fifty years old. The body was buried at the expense of the county.
 
Public Press 14 Dec 1898 p3 c2: Deaths During the Week: The thirteen days old child of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Brown died Thursday at their home on Upper Third near Water street.
 
Public Press 14 Dec 1898 p3 c2: Deaths During the Week: The infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pfeiffer died Saturday at their home, 1629 Upper Main street.
 
Public Press 14 Dec 1898 p3 c2: Deaths During the Week: Orvil, the five year old son of Mr. and Mrs. William Dierking, died Monday at their home on the McCullouch pike, east of this city.
 
Public Press 14 Dec 1898 p3 c2: Deaths During the Week: Lewis Stinson, colored, aged 20 years, a farmer, died Monday at Floyd Knobs, of stomach trouble.
 
Public Press 14 Dec 1898 p3 c2: Deaths During the Week: Lorena, the four months old daughter of John Wilkinson, died at  her home at Clarksville on Monday.
 
Public Press 14 Dec 1898 p3 c2: Deaths During the Week: Tillie Howard, a negro girl about twenty years of age, who lives on Oak street, near Bank,
swallowed fifteen cents worth of morphine, Sunday, with suicidal intent. She died at midnight.
Despondency on account of disappointment in a love affair is said to be the cause of the rash act.
 
Public Press 14 Dec 1898 p3 c2: Deaths During the Week: The body of Charles H. Compton, who died Saturday at Alexandria, Ind.,
arrived in the city Monday night, and was taken to his late home, 1321 Upper Oak Street.
 
Public Press 14 Dec 1898 p3 c2: Deaths During the Week: Mrs. Anna Dunn, aged 70 years,
died Sunday at the home of her son, William Dunn, 1809 Upper Spring street.
 
Public Press 14 Dec 1898 p3 c2: Deaths During the Week: Charles Hangary, aged twenty-three years, died ;of consumption Sunday at his home at 709 Upper Main street.
He had been in poor health for several years and only a few weeks ago returned from an extended trip through California and the South,
where he had gone with the hope of regaining his health., but his condition grew gradually worse and he finally returned home to die.
The deceased was a son of the late Ed Hangary, for years cashier of the Merchants National Bank, and was born and reared in New Albany, where he was widely known. He leaves four sister.
 
Public Press 21 Dec 1898 p5 c2: Deaths During the Week. Edward F., four year old son of Mr. and Mrs. John Haas, died last Wednesday. . . The remains were interred Friday at Lanesville.
 
NAWT 21 Oct 1878 p7 c2: Death of Miss Mary Schofield. Miss Mary Schofield died last Saturday at 7 o’clock at the family residence, 319 Twelfth street.
She was 35 years old and leaves three sisters. She was a member of the Second Presbyterian Church.
 
Public Press 21 Dec 1898 p5 c2: Deaths During the Week. Mrs. Catherine Perrin, wife of John Perrin. . .
 
Public Press 21 Dec 1898 p5 c2: Deaths During the Week. Mrs. Susannah Von Almen, aged fifty-eight years, died Friday at her home on Bald Knob.
 
Public Press 21 Dec 1898 p5 c2: Deaths During the Week. Mr. Romanus H. Ghohaman, of the firm Terstegge Gohman & Co., . . .
died Friday at his home, 1117 Oak street after an illness. . .  He leaves a widow and four children. . .
 member of St. Mary’s Catholic church. His son, Gerhart Gohman, died about two weeks ago.
 
Public Press 21 Dec 1898 p5 c2: Deaths During the Week. William Horner, colored, died Friday at his home on Hildreth street.
He was sixty years old. Horner was for meny years employed on the ferry boat between this city and Portland.
 
Public Press 21 Dec 1898 p5 c2: Deaths During the Week. Frank Coleman, aged fifty-nine years,
died Saturday at his home in Lafayette township.
 
Public Press 21 Dec 1898 p5 c2: Deaths During the Week. John B. Mousty, Died Saturday at his home on Lower Main street, after a long illness.
He was born in France about sixty-five years ago, but  had lived in this country for more than fifty years.
For many years he was engaged in farming in Franklin Township, west of the city, and he removed here only a few years ago. He was one of the original members of the Societe Francais
and of Holy Trinity Catholic church. He leaves a widow and five children,
Mrs. Amadee Sourdry, Mrs. Matthias Heileringer, Misses Mary, Florence and Rosa Mousty.
 
Public Press 21 Dec 1898 p5 c2: Deaths During the Week. Abraham Case, a pioneer of New Albany, who lived a short distance from Georgetown,
died Sunday. . . . Mr. Case is 80 years of age. He was born in New Albany in 1818.
 
Public Press 21 Dec 1898 p5 c2: Deaths During the Week. Mrs. Isabel Hoffman. . . wife of D. S. Hoffman, . . seventy-two years old. . . .
She leaves one son, John Hoffman , and two daughters., Mrs. Andrew Face and Miss Libbie Hoffman.
She was a member of Wesley Chapel. She was a most excellent woman.
 
Public Press 21 Dec 1898 p5 c2: Deaths During the Week. Mrs. Mary Buchanan, of Greenville, Ky., died Saturday morning at the Dewey Heights sanitarium,
aged sixty years. She went  to the sanitarium to be cured of the morphine habit.
 
Public Press 21 Dec 1898 p5 c2: Deaths During the Week. Mrs. Barbara Heimer, who formerly resided at Fifteenth and Market  streets, died Saturday at the residence of her son,
in Louisville, aged 86 years. The remains were interred at Fairview Cemetery.
 
Public Press 21 Dec 1898 p5 c2: Deaths During the Week. A young child of Mr. and Mrs. John Vest died last week at their home near Greenville..
 
Public Press 28 Dec 1898 p5 c2: Deaths during the week: Mrs. August Aulenbacher, widow of John Aulenbacher, died  Wednesday at her home on Upper Third street, after an illness of several weeks. She was a member of the German Evangelical church. The remains  were taken to her former home in Dubois county for interment.
 
Public Press 28 Dec 1898 p5 c2: Deaths during the week: Mrs. S. F. Scovel, wife of Rev. S. F. Scovel, formerly a resident of this city, died several days ago at her home in Wooster, O. She was Miss Caroline Woodruff before her marriage. Sylvester Scovel, the war correspondent, who had trouble with Gen. Shafter at Santiago, is a son.
 
Public Press 28 Dec 1898 p5 c2: Deaths during the week: Christopher Unruh died Wednesday at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Thomas Hilger, State street. He was 72 years old and had resided here for about six months. The remains were interred in Jeffersonville.
 
Public Press 28 Dec 1898 p5 c2: Deaths during the week: Leonard Leach, a veteran of the civil war, died last Wednesday at his home on Hildreth street, of disabilities contracted in the service, aged fifty six years. He enlisted early in the war in the Sixty Sixth Indiana volunteer Infantry and served with that noted command until the close of the war. Some years ago he was allowed a pension of $50 a month, an allowance that enabled the old soldier to live in comfort. His wife died a few months ago, and since that time he declined in health rapidly. Five children are left. He was a member of Sanderson Post, G. A. R., and his funeral was under the auspices of that organization of veterans.
 
Public Press 28 Dec 1898 p5 c2: Deaths during the week: Mrs. Hester Walker, and old resident of this city, died last Wednesday at the home of her granddaughter, Mrs. Albert Trinler, at the age of about ninety five years. Mrs. Walker was born in Newark, N. J., in 1803, and came to this city when a young girl and resided here until about two years ago when she went to Alexandria to spend her remaining days with her granddaughter. She was a member of the Second Presbyterian church and was a highly respected Christian woman beloved by all. She was related to many of the old families in this city. The remains arrived here Friday.
 
Public Press 28 Dec 1898 p5 c2: Deaths during the week: Mrs. Sallie Akers, wife of Frank Akers, died suddenly Thursday at her home on Vincennes street. Coroner Starr held that her death was due to natural causes. She was thirty five years old. The remains were taken to her former home at Borden for interment.
 
Public Press 28 Dec 1898 p5 c2: Deaths during the week: Mrs. Caroline Board died at her home on South street. She was 58 years old and leaves two sons, Eugene Board, of this  city, and William Board, of Alexandria, and four daughters, Mrs. Michael Schaefer, Mrs. James DeSpain, Mrs. Albert Borkenheim and Miss Sadie Board, of this city.
 
Public Press 28 Dec 1898 p5 c2: Deaths during the week: Carl Spires, colored, who was sent from this city to the penitentiary at Jeffersonville to serve nineteen years for the murder of George Price, August 1896, died Thursday. He was twenty years old. The killing occurred at night in a house on Vincennes, near Rear Market street.
 
Public Press 28 Dec 1898 p5 c2: Deaths during the week: John Williams, known better as Jack Williams, whose home is at Lower Seventh and Water streets, died suddenly Sunday morning in the rear of George Blust’s saloon on the Corydon Pike, just west of the city. He had been sitting for some time in the saloon and went out the back door saying that he was sick. Little attention was paid to him at the time, but a half hour later he was found lying on the ground dead. Coroner Starr decided that death resulted from heart disease, superinduced by alcoholic poison. After the inquest had been held the remains ere conveyed to the dead man’s home. Williams was twenty six years of age and unmarried. For several years he had been employed at the grocery of John Gregoire at Lower Ninth and Main streets. He was a dwarf. He was four and a half feet tall and weighted 200 pounds.
 
Public Press 28 Dec 1898 p5 c2: Deaths during the week: Susan Bonifer, widow of Andrew Bonifer, died Monday at her home on North State street, aged sixty-eight years. She leaves six children, four sons and two daughters.
 
Public Press 28 Dec 1898 p5 c2: Deaths during the week: Mrs. Ethel Ellen Pickerd, wife of G. G. Pickerd, aged sixty-six years, died Monday at her home, Upper Elm and Fifteenth streets.
 
Public Press 28 Dec 1898 p5 c2: Deaths during the week: Katharine Simon, mother of Mrs. John Hieb, died Monday night, aged 81 years, at the home of Mrs. And Mrs. Hieb, Pearl street. Deceased was born in Bavaria. She had lived in New Albany many years and was highly esteemed by all.
 
Public Press 28 Dec 1898 p5 c2: Deaths during the week: Edward Peevy, aged eight years, son of Isaac and Henrietta Peevy, died of pneumonia at their home No. 13 Lower Tenth street, Tuesday morning, December 27th.
 
Public Press 13 Dec 1899 p5 c2: John Royer was found dead Sunday in his room in the old Occidental hotel building, on Main street. He had not been seen by any of the tenants in the building since Friday, and when some of them visited his apartments they found him dead. He was lying across the bed with his clothes on. From his position it was evident that he was sitting on the side of the bed when he fell backward and expired. Coroner Starr was summoned, and after viewing the remains, decided that death resulted from paralysis. Mr. Royer was about 50 years of age. He had no relatives in New Albany except one sister, Mrs. Williams Milligan.
 
Public Press 20 Dec 1899 p5 c3: Deaths During the Week: Medora, wife of Martin Finley died at the family residence, 923 State street Tuesday, of dropsy, aged 45 years.
 
Public Press 27 Dec 1899 p4 c2: William E. Thompson, of Silver Grove, seems to be mysteriously missing. The rumor that he left with funds of the Batting Mill Co., of which he was a member, is not generally believed.
 
NADL 12 May 1897 p 5 c3: Marriages: Alfred Hodges Scofield and Mary L. Bragdon
 
NAET 15 Jan 1908 p3 c2: Albert Schofield . . . died in Pennsylvania. . .
 
NAWT 10 Jan 1908 p5 c2: Death Claims Two Old Residents of the City: Mrs. James King, widow of Capt. Hicks King . . . Mrs. Sarah Alice Albertson, wife of Capt. James Albertson, superintendent of the national soldier’s cemetery on Ekin avenue. . . .
 
NAWT 17 Jan 1908 p4 c3: Deaths. Ben Robinson, colored, aged three years, died Monday at 23 East Fourth street.
 
NAWT 17 Jan 1908 p4 c3: Mrs. Mary Peay, aged seventy five years, died Tuesday at St. Edward’s hospital. She leaves two sons.
 
NAWT 17 Jan 1908 p4 c3: Isaac Davis, aged eighty years, died several days ago at his home in Ramsey. He was well known in this city.
 
NAWT 17 Jan 1908 p4 c3: Thomas Mills, colored, an old soldier, died Wednesday at his home on Jay near Rear Market street, aged about seventy years.
 
NAWT 17 Jan 1908 p4 c3: Violet, the three year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wolfe, died Sunday at their home, 115 Shelby street, Silver Grove.
 
NAWT 17 Jan 1908 p4 c3: Howard and Hewitt, the one week old twin sons of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Zahn, died last Sunday night at their home in Georgetown township.
 
NAWT 17 Jan 1908 p4 c3: Raymond Tappell, 3 yrs
 
NAWT 17 Jan 1908 p4 c3: Bertha Christian, 3 yrs; Jessie Bowers, 1 year old
 
NAWT 17 Jan 1908 p4 c3: John Gillen, colored, who was sacrilegiously nicknamed Jesus by his associates, died Wednesday at his home on Oak between State and Pearl streets, aged thirty five years.
 
NAWT 17 Jan 1908 p4 c3: Dr. Albert Schofield, Whose widow was formerly Miss Louise Bradgon, of this city, died several days ago at his home in Pennsylvania. Besides his wife he leaves three children.
 
NAWT 17 Jan 1908 p4 c3: John Overall, colored, aged seventy four years, died Sunday night at his home, 487 West Fourth street. He  leaves a wife, his fifth, and was said  to be the father of a score of children.
 
NAWT 17 Jan 1908 p4 c3: Frank X. Bezy, 74 yrs
 
NAWT 17 Jan 1908 p4 c3: Mrs. Eliza Walker, wife of Alfred Walker,. . . Sixty one years and leaves husband and several children. . .
 
NAWT 17 Jan 1908 p4 c3: John B. Overton, 42
 
NAWT 17 Jan 1908 p4 c3: Frederick Kaiser, father of Mrs. W. J. Trinler, . . .
 
NAWT 17 Jan 1908 p4 c3: Mrs. Gertrude Rochner, wife or William Rochner, 28 yrs, died at home of parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Wolford . . .
 
NAWT 17 Jan 1908 p4 c3: Anna M. Ang, the eight years old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ang, died last Sunday night at their home on the Cherry street road, beyond the city limits, from the effects of burns sustained several weeks ago when her clothing ignited from a stove. The funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon from their home.
 
NAWT 17 Jan 1908 p4 c3: Mrs. Andrew Castlen, formerly of this city, died Sunday at 5:30 o’clock p.m., at her home in Princeton, Ind. She was seventy-four years old and is survived by several children. Her husband died a few months ago at Princeton and the body was taken to Evansville for interment and the body of Mrs. Castlen will be buried at that place. Mrs. Castlen had many warm friends in this city.
 
NAWT 17 Jan 1908 p4 c3: Mrs. Louise Harrell, wife of George B. Harrell, trustee of Georgetown township, died Saturday afternoon at her home near Duncan after an illness of several weeks of pneumonia. She was forty nine years old and besides her husband leaves two children, Mrs. Effie Yeager, of Lanesville, and Albert Harrell. She was a member of the United Brethren church at Duncan and the Pythian Sisters of Georgetown. The funeral took place Monday afternoon from the church.
 
NAWT 17 Jan 1908 p4 c3: Christian Prow, . . . said to be one of the  oldest Masonic members in the state. . . .
 
NAWT 17 Jan 1908 p4 c3: George F. Evans, 61 years, d at Portland, Me.,. . .

“A telegram announces the sad fact that Mrs. Manor, wife of W.A. Manor, of this city, committed suicide by jumping from a second story window at the residence of her father-in-law, at Xenia, Ohio, Saturday. A few months ago Mrs. Manor’s child died. The loss of the child seriously effected the mind of the mother, and in order to work a change for the better Mr. Manor took her to the home of his parents at Xenia. A few weeks ago she made an attempt to drown herself, but was rescued by friends. Subsequently she attempted to kill herself by jumping from a second story window, but escaped with a broken arm. Saturday morning she eluded friends and sprang from the upper window and dashed her brains out. The deceased was a very handsome and amiable lady, and had a host of friends in this city. Her husband has been a foreman in the DePauw Plate-glass Works for several years. Mrs. Manor was a native of New Albany and lived here all her life. She was the daughter of Doc. Thompson, who has been dead several years.
Her remains were brought here and interred in the city Cemetery.”

New Albany Public Press. December 23, 1885. P7c1.

Thursday, August 20, 1970,
"Floyd County Coroner Daniel Cannon Wednesday made a cursory examination of a human arm at New Albany police headquarters, and then advised that it be sent to the Indiana State Police laboratory at Indianapolis for further ananalysis.
Although some police and some others judged that the member was a female arm, the coroner gave it as his professional opinion that it was the arm of a man.
The member extended from the bond of the shoulder socket to the top of the fingernails. In two places the organ had been wrapped with automotive tape, between the shoulder and elbow and between the elbow and wrist. The arm was wrapped in a copy of the New Albany Tribune of date of Sept 30, 1960, and police brought it to headquarters Tuesday night around 9 o'clock after it was found in the basement of a New Albany home."
And there ends the reporting on this story in the Tribune, or for that matter, everywhere as near as I can determine for I haven't been able to find a single other source for information on the story. Was it a man's arm or a woman's arm? Who did it belong to? And how did it get in the basement in the first place?
That last question is what has bothered me all these years because the only way into that basement is down a set of steps in the center of the house, or through an old coal chute from the outside. There are no windows, and no other ways to enter the basement. So how did someone outside of the family or family circle gain entrance into that basement. Obviously someone did, so we then need to ask why they put that arm in this family's basement? Was it a prank by a local medical student? If so, why put it in a place where no one will find it for almost nine years? I think we can rule out a prank, and I believe we can rule out the mom, as well as the sister. Probably the father, as well, though the father ran a furniture restoration business out of his garage in the back of the property at the time I knew the family complete with all kinds of sharp cutting tools, tools handy should one wish to reduce a body to more manageable sizes, sizes that might fit into a coal burning furnace, perhaps?
I heard rumor that Bill had been married, but separated, at the time of his disappearance. He claimed his wife was pregnant by another man, and I have to wonder if this is who's arm was found so neatly separated from it's former torso, so neatly packaged, and tucked well away from prying eyes in that basement. I wish I'd asked Jim, who used to be Bill, but returned from his exile within a year of the discovery of the limb with a brand new identity. Well, not exactly new. He'd been "Jim" for several years now, complete with social security number and everything a normal citizen needs to function in America.
I wish I'd asked him if he'd somehow murdered his wife's suitor. I'd especially like to know how he'd done it. Remember the police expressing an opinion that the arm might have been taped BEFORE death and indicating a dressing following injuries? Could this indicate the death had been accidental? Bil/Jim was a big man--around 6'4" and probably 250 pounds of well-muscled man, and the arm was so small, no one has publicly announced whether it belonged to a man or a woman. Obviously, it was either a man small of stature or a woman of a large one. If it was a man, did Bill/Jim inadvertantly kill him with a rage propelled blow? If this was the case, was Bill/Jim then disposing of the body a piece at a time by burning it in the coal furnace? He'd have to only burn one piece of his victim at a time due to the permeating stench burning flesh creates, and if no one else in the home was aware of the crime, he'd have to patiently wait until they were all gone, and would remain so for some time, in order to allow him time to go about his dastardly disposal. Did he forget about the arm before he made his escape, or did he panic and flee before he'd had time to dispose of the arm?

New Albany Public Press. December 23, 1885. P7c1.
Contributed by Gregg Seidl