Notes for John Benton Beck

Family Group Sheet

Notes for John Benton Beck

!Source: David Alvin Beck -email bdex@outerbounds.net 4 Jan 1999.

!Notes For John Benton Beck:
John Benton Beck was working for Dunlap Lumber Co. in Columbus, IN. in 1925. While unloading a carload(rail Car ?) of lumber, at age 81 or 82, he was hit in the back by a thrown board. He died shortly thereafter likely from internal injuries from this accident (see cemeter Record). He and wife Sarah Ann Philips are buried in unmarked but locatable graves in City Cemetery, Columbus, IN.

!City Cemetery, Columbus, IN record card state(vertbatim):
Beck J. Benton
Lot: Walkway south of lot #11 Keyes and Mooney Add'n
Grave: West end of lot
Burial: April 6, 1925
Taken up for autopsy $ reburied May 15, 1925.
Funeral Director: Hathaway & Son