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Indiana Obituary. MUNCIE, Ind., Aug. 4—Peter Ladd, colored, died yesterday at the home of his daughter on Beacon street, at the age of ninety-six years. He was born in North Carolina on Christmas day, 18. His father was a slave, but his mother was free, and he was free born and came to Indiana sixty-five years ago, walking the entire distance, and located in the colored settlement at Modoc, Wayne county, where he resided until a few years ago. He se cured 116 acres of land from the govern ment Wayne county. In quest of work to make the payments on the land he walked to Wisconsin, a distance of 40 miles, passing through Chicago when the town had but a few small cottages. RICHMOND, Ind., Aug. 4.—J. H. Potts today received a dispatch from Baltimore, Md., announcing the news of the death of his cousin, Capt. Isaac N. Potts, as_ the result of a railroad crossing accident about two weeks ago. He was long a resident of this city, having been engaged in both the drug and shoe business. He enlisted in the Nineteenth Indiana Regiment, which was raised here, and was made hospital steward of the regiment. He was after ward commissioned and assigned to com missary duty, being on the staff of Gen. E. S. Bragg as well as with General Grant after the latter took charge of the Army of the Potomac. A widow and four chil dren survive. HAGERSTOWN, Ind., Aug. 4—Mrs. Ruth Bowman, aged eighty-six, died here last night. Mrs. Bowman was born in North Carolina, and came with her parents to this county at an early age and became prominently identified with the early his tory of eastern Indiana. Her husband, who died several years ago, was the Rev. David Bowman, a prominent German Baptist minister, ¢ UNION CITY, Ind., Aug. 4.—W. O. King, a pioneer settler of this county, and one of the oldest Odd Fellows in this vicinity, died at his home near Deerfield, today, aged seventy years. He was prominent in county affairs at one time and served as county commissioner. CULVER, Ind., Aug. 4—Mrs. Mary A. Seddon, mother of Mrs. A. F. Fleet, wife of the superintendent of Culver Military Academy, died suddenly this morning of heart failure. Her body was taken to night to Fredericksburg, Va., for inter ment.
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Indianapolis Journal
Indianapolis, Indiana, US
Sun, Aug 05, 1900
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