Married Elizabeth Adeline "Adda" Jenkins (daughter of Lorenzo Dow Jenkins and Mary Elisa Sebring) on 23 Jul 1879 at Fulton County, Indiana.
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The following obit was transcribed by Wendell C. Tombaugh, from the Rochestel Sentinel with the published date listed as Friday, August 31, 1894. With the exception of the year, the dates, age, cemetery and survivor info match up to James Kesler:
Another violent death was that of Jim KESSLER, formerly of Newcastle township. Kessler lived at Porter Station, a boom manufacturing town in Porter county. He was a plasterer by trade and was working on a large factory the first of the week when his wife came to this city on her way to visit relatives in Ohio. She was stopping with her husband's brother, Doc. KESSLER, who lives on Madison street, when on Wednesday morning she received a telegram announcing that her husband had been killed. She left for home on the first train and there learned all of the particulars of the death that is known. Jim had been to Hammond trying to collect some money. He missed the evening train and started to walk home. When near Porter he met a train and stepped off the track and stood so close to the train as to be struck by the engine side-gear or some projection from a car. He was dead when found and the remains were brought here yesterday, and taken to the Reester grave yard for burial. He leaves a wife and two daughters and was thirty-seven years old.
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The following obit was transcribed by Wendell C. Tombaugh, from the Rochestel Sentinel with the published date listed as Friday, August 31, 1894. With the exception of the year, the dates, age, cemetery and survivor info match up to James Kesler:
Another violent death was that of Jim KESSLER, formerly of Newcastle township. Kessler lived at Porter Station, a boom manufacturing town in Porter county. He was a plasterer by trade and was working on a large factory the first of the week when his wife came to this city on her way to visit relatives in Ohio. She was stopping with her husband's brother, Doc. KESSLER, who lives on Madison street, when on Wednesday morning she received a telegram announcing that her husband had been killed. She left for home on the first train and there learned all of the particulars of the death that is known. Jim had been to Hammond trying to collect some money. He missed the evening train and started to walk home. When near Porter he met a train and stepped off the track and stood so close to the train as to be struck by the engine side-gear or some projection from a car. He was dead when found and the remains were brought here yesterday, and taken to the Reester grave yard for burial. He leaves a wife and two daughters and was thirty-seven years old.
Married Elizabeth Adeline "Adda" Jenkins (daughter of Lorenzo Dow Jenkins and Mary Elisa Sebring) on 23 Jul 1879 at Fulton County, Indiana.
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The following obit was transcribed by Wendell C. Tombaugh, from the Rochestel Sentinel with the published date listed as Friday, August 31, 1894. With the exception of the year, the dates, age, cemetery and survivor info match up to James Kesler:
Another violent death was that of Jim KESSLER, formerly of Newcastle township. Kessler lived at Porter Station, a boom manufacturing town in Porter county. He was a plasterer by trade and was working on a large factory the first of the week when his wife came to this city on her way to visit relatives in Ohio. She was stopping with her husband's brother, Doc. KESSLER, who lives on Madison street, when on Wednesday morning she received a telegram announcing that her husband had been killed. She left for home on the first train and there learned all of the particulars of the death that is known. Jim had been to Hammond trying to collect some money. He missed the evening train and started to walk home. When near Porter he met a train and stepped off the track and stood so close to the train as to be struck by the engine side-gear or some projection from a car. He was dead when found and the remains were brought here yesterday, and taken to the Reester grave yard for burial. He leaves a wife and two daughters and was thirty-seven years old.
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The following obit was transcribed by Wendell C. Tombaugh, from the Rochestel Sentinel with the published date listed as Friday, August 31, 1894. With the exception of the year, the dates, age, cemetery and survivor info match up to James Kesler:
Another violent death was that of Jim KESSLER, formerly of Newcastle township. Kessler lived at Porter Station, a boom manufacturing town in Porter county. He was a plasterer by trade and was working on a large factory the first of the week when his wife came to this city on her way to visit relatives in Ohio. She was stopping with her husband's brother, Doc. KESSLER, who lives on Madison street, when on Wednesday morning she received a telegram announcing that her husband had been killed. She left for home on the first train and there learned all of the particulars of the death that is known. Jim had been to Hammond trying to collect some money. He missed the evening train and started to walk home. When near Porter he met a train and stepped off the track and stood so close to the train as to be struck by the engine side-gear or some projection from a car. He was dead when found and the remains were brought here yesterday, and taken to the Reester grave yard for burial. He leaves a wife and two daughters and was thirty-seven years old.
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