Processed by
Susan A. Fletcher
15 August 2005
Manuscript and Visual Collections Department
William Henry Smith Memorial Library
Indiana Historical Society
450 West Ohio Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202-3269
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1 folder |
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COLLECTION |
19 January 1829 |
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PROVENANCE: |
Historical Collectible Auctions, Graham, NC, 25 February 2005 |
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RESTRICTIONS: |
None |
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REPRODUCTION |
Permission to reproduce or publish material in this collection must be obtained from the Indiana Historical Society. |
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ACCESSION |
2005.0168 |
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On 19 January 1829 a group of men discovered William Lummis, “lying dead.” James Blacklidge, the Franklin County coroner, along with thirteen other men, performed an inquisition into Lummis’ death. They concluded that he “came to his death by voluntarily hanging himself with a rope made of the shirt of him, the said William Lummis, between the hours of ten o’clock a.m. and six o’clock p.m….in a fit of insanity.” Benjamin S. Noble, David McKee, Charles Banks, George Lynn, Elisha Spralding, Henry Hartman, Andrew Reed, Henry Coalscott, William Dewese, Daniel Pursel, Hiram Banks, Elliot Rucker, and John Templeton signed the document attesting to their findings.
The above jurors were prominent men in Franklin County. James Blacklidge became the Franklin County Coroner in 1825. Benjamin S. Noble served as a colonel in the Indiana 7th Regiment. He was a physician in Brookville in 1830 and was admitted to the bar that same year in addition to serving as a representative to the Indiana legislature. William Dewese was the minister of Little Cedar Church, the first Baptist church in Indiana.
Sources:
Material in collection
Reifel, August J. History of Franklin County, Indiana : Her People, Industries and Institutions. Indianapolis, Ind.: B.F. Bowen, 1915. (F532.F8 R4 1915)
This collection consists of one “return of the coroner’s inquest on the body of William Lummis” of Franklin County. A group of men headed by county coroner James Blacklidge investigated the incident on 19 January 1829 and came to the conclusion that Lummis had hanged himself “in a fit on insanity.” The document bears the signatures and seals of Benjamin S. Noble, David McKee, Charles Banks, George Lynn, Elisha Spralding, Henry Hartman, Andrew Reed, Henry Coalscott, William Dewese, Daniel Pursel, Hiram Banks, Elliot Rucker, and John Templeton.
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Inquest, 19 January 1829 |
Folder 1 |
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