|
a.
|
Continued: Fernando A. GRANT is included in a list of practicing physicians of Decatur County (Hist. of Decatur Co, Lewis Harding, c1915). This list indicates Fernando was registered as a practicing physician in Decatur Co. in 1890.
Fernandez A. Grant married Linda C. Carmien in 1876 in Noble County, IN, and is found on the 1880 White County census: Princeton Township 36-35 Grant, F. A. 28 IN VA KY Physician, Melinda (wife) 24 IN OH OH, Minnie (dau.) 2 IN IN IN, Mertie (dau.) 8/12 IN IN IN (Sept.). In 1900, his widow is listed in Wolcott, Princeton Township, White County: 357-361 Grant, Mrs. L. E. Mch 1856-44 Wd 2-2 IN OH OH Millinery, Myrtle (dau.) Nov. 1879-20, Frank (son) Oct. 1883-16.
"History of White and Pulaski Counties, Indiana," 1883:
"DR. F. A. GRANT was born in Lawrenceburgh, Ind., October 3, 1852, and is the youngest of a family of four children of R. S. and Louie A. (Bennett) Grant. At the age of five years, he moved with his father to a farm near Greensburg, Ind., and here young Grant received his first schooling. At sixteen years of age, he entered the academy at Elizabethtown. The first fifteen years of his life were passed in working on the farm and attending school; 1870 found Dr. Grant beginning the classical course in Hartsville University, at Hartsville, Ind., where he remained two years, and while at this institution, was ordained a pastor in the Christian Church, and preached at Elizabethtown and Brush Creek. Dr. Grant is next found as pastor of the First Christian Church at Brazil, Ind.; but he soon resigned, and accepted a similar position at Marshall, Ill, and there remained some time, and then entered the Northwestern Christian University at Indianapolis, and pursued his studies two years, and then quit the university to accept the pastorate of the Christian Church at Ligonier, Ind. After preaching for a time at Frazeysburg, Ohio, and Litchfield, Minn., where he edited a church paper called the Christian Visitor, he returned to Indianapolis and took a course of medical lectures, and came to Wolcott in February, 1877, and formed a partnership with Dr. M. T. Didlake in the practice of medicine. In 1879, he returned to Indianapolis and took another course of lectures. On January 31, 1876, occurred the marriage of Dr. Grant to Miss Linda Carmine, of Ligonier, Ind., and to them have been born two children - Minnie A. and Myrtle M. Dr. Grant is one of the principle physicians in White County, and for several years had been an influential and effective worker in the Democratic party."
"The Monticello Herald," Monticello, Indiana, Thursday, February 25, 1897
"DR. GRANT FOUND DEATH IN HIS OFFICE
Death Supposed to Be Due to an Overdose of a Dangerous Drug -
No Coroner's Verdict Yet.
"The sudden death of Dr. F. A. Grant was the sensation at Wolcott this week. From Attorney M. B. Beard of that place, who was here yesterday, we learn the following particulars:
"On Monday morning about 7 o'clock Mr. Parsons went to the Doctor's office to get him to attend some member of his family who was sick. He found the doctor dead in the office. He had fallen from the chair on which he had been sitting, and his head was resting on a chair in from of him, his hands resting on the floor. He had evidently been dead for some time, as the body was cold. He had been out in the country the evening before but had returned before dark. As he slept alone at the office his death could have occurred at any time in the night unknown to anybody until morning. The last person who saw him alive is said to have been his youngest daughter aged fifteen or sixteen years, who was at his office about 7 o'clock Sunday evening. He leaves a wife, one son and two daughters, all of whom at held in high esteem in Wolcott.
"Coroner Sampson was sent for immediately and held an inquest Monday afternoon but has not yet made known his verdict. Dr. Walker of Wolcott, who was one of the first persons to view the body, expresses the opinion that death was due to an overdose of acetanalid, a drug which the doctor is said to have used frequently.
"The funeral occurred Tuesday at 1 o'clock, the remains being laid to rest in the Dobbins cemetery."
|
