Unidentified male killed at Snow Hill on the Pennsylvania Railroad.
Estimated to be 15 years old, decapitated boy was likely killed instantly.
Only identification was a photo with writings on the back of the photograph, in ink, had been erased, but submitted to ultraviolet rays, it was partially revealed as follows: Roland ______, 701 or 702 St., Ft. or Fl.
The "Ft." could have been Fort Wayne. Coroner Dr. Lowell Painter was about 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighed approximately 145 pounds. He had dark hair, gray eyes and was about 15 or 16 years of age.
The body was removed from the Fraze Funeral home in Winchester to the vault at Fountain Park Cemetery and remained unburied for a short time more.
There was a simple graveside service at Fountain Park Cemetery in Winchester yesterday as the body of a 15-year-old boy--unidentified--was buried.
Rev. Lee Jackson, pastor of the Winchester Church of Christ, officiated.
Those attending were Winchester police officers Charles Bullock, Lester Puterbaugh, and John Dietz, Sheriff Kora E. Davis and Lester Mann.
If you know more in the identification of this boy or where his unmarked grave is located within Fountain Park Cemetery, contact the cemetery sexton or Randolph County Historical Society, Inc. in Winchester, Indiana.
The blog can be found at https://rchsmuseum.blogspot.com/2018/06/killed-at-snow-hill.html
Estimated to be 15 years old, decapitated boy was likely killed instantly.
Only identification was a photo with writings on the back of the photograph, in ink, had been erased, but submitted to ultraviolet rays, it was partially revealed as follows: Roland ______, 701 or 702 St., Ft. or Fl.
The "Ft." could have been Fort Wayne. Coroner Dr. Lowell Painter was about 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighed approximately 145 pounds. He had dark hair, gray eyes and was about 15 or 16 years of age.
The body was removed from the Fraze Funeral home in Winchester to the vault at Fountain Park Cemetery and remained unburied for a short time more.
There was a simple graveside service at Fountain Park Cemetery in Winchester yesterday as the body of a 15-year-old boy--unidentified--was buried.
Rev. Lee Jackson, pastor of the Winchester Church of Christ, officiated.
Those attending were Winchester police officers Charles Bullock, Lester Puterbaugh, and John Dietz, Sheriff Kora E. Davis and Lester Mann.
If you know more in the identification of this boy or where his unmarked grave is located within Fountain Park Cemetery, contact the cemetery sexton or Randolph County Historical Society, Inc. in Winchester, Indiana.
The blog can be found at https://rchsmuseum.blogspot.com/2018/06/killed-at-snow-hill.html
Unidentified male killed at Snow Hill on the Pennsylvania Railroad.
Estimated to be 15 years old, decapitated boy was likely killed instantly.
Only identification was a photo with writings on the back of the photograph, in ink, had been erased, but submitted to ultraviolet rays, it was partially revealed as follows: Roland ______, 701 or 702 St., Ft. or Fl.
The "Ft." could have been Fort Wayne. Coroner Dr. Lowell Painter was about 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighed approximately 145 pounds. He had dark hair, gray eyes and was about 15 or 16 years of age.
The body was removed from the Fraze Funeral home in Winchester to the vault at Fountain Park Cemetery and remained unburied for a short time more.
There was a simple graveside service at Fountain Park Cemetery in Winchester yesterday as the body of a 15-year-old boy--unidentified--was buried.
Rev. Lee Jackson, pastor of the Winchester Church of Christ, officiated.
Those attending were Winchester police officers Charles Bullock, Lester Puterbaugh, and John Dietz, Sheriff Kora E. Davis and Lester Mann.
If you know more in the identification of this boy or where his unmarked grave is located within Fountain Park Cemetery, contact the cemetery sexton or Randolph County Historical Society, Inc. in Winchester, Indiana.
The blog can be found at https://rchsmuseum.blogspot.com/2018/06/killed-at-snow-hill.html
Estimated to be 15 years old, decapitated boy was likely killed instantly.
Only identification was a photo with writings on the back of the photograph, in ink, had been erased, but submitted to ultraviolet rays, it was partially revealed as follows: Roland ______, 701 or 702 St., Ft. or Fl.
The "Ft." could have been Fort Wayne. Coroner Dr. Lowell Painter was about 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighed approximately 145 pounds. He had dark hair, gray eyes and was about 15 or 16 years of age.
The body was removed from the Fraze Funeral home in Winchester to the vault at Fountain Park Cemetery and remained unburied for a short time more.
There was a simple graveside service at Fountain Park Cemetery in Winchester yesterday as the body of a 15-year-old boy--unidentified--was buried.
Rev. Lee Jackson, pastor of the Winchester Church of Christ, officiated.
Those attending were Winchester police officers Charles Bullock, Lester Puterbaugh, and John Dietz, Sheriff Kora E. Davis and Lester Mann.
If you know more in the identification of this boy or where his unmarked grave is located within Fountain Park Cemetery, contact the cemetery sexton or Randolph County Historical Society, Inc. in Winchester, Indiana.
The blog can be found at https://rchsmuseum.blogspot.com/2018/06/killed-at-snow-hill.html
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