OBITUARY
The Friday Caller, Plainfield (Hendricks County) Indiana, December 17, 1909, P-4 C-4
WELL KNOW MOTORMAN ON DANVILLE LINE SUCCUMBS TO PNEUMONIA
Frank Bonifield, one of the most popular motormen on the Danville branch of T. H. I. & E. Traction line, died Saturday at his home, 37 North Harding St., Indianapolis. Death was due to pneumonia, contracted some three weeks prior to his taking away. For more than thirteen years he was employed as motorman in Indianapolis, and when the Danville line was opened for traffic he was one of the first men employed to run the cars over the new line. In fact the ran the first regular car from Indianapolis to Danville, and from that time till illness compelled him to quit his work he remained at his post. He was know personally by practically every patron of the line in Danville and between there and Indianapolis, and his cheery, smiling face will be sadly missed by all.
Frank Bonifield was born Aug. 16, 1860, northwest of Danville, where he grew to manhood, and where he was at that time especially well known. He was married first to Miss Nancy Rutledge, who died fifteen years ago. To them were born three children, who are still living, they being Retta Bonifield, of North Salem, Mrs. James Brownlee, of Lizton, and Roy Bonifield, of Indianapolis. He was married on January 26, 1898, to Lillian Snoke, who with his four children, Lottie, Letha, Stella and Evelyn, survive him. He leaves also two sisters and a brother, Mrs. John Ridpath, of Danville, Mrs. John Tinder, of North Salem and Marlene T. Bonifield, Of North Addison Street, Indianapolis. City Prosecutor Fred R. Bonifield, of Indianapolis is a nephew.
The Funeral services were held in the Regular Baptist church at Danville, Monday afternoon, and were largely attended. The services were conducted by Elder E. W. Thomas. The body was brought out from Indianapolis in a special car, accompanied by many relatives and friends. It was the same car, No. 68, which Frank had been running for so long, and came out on the same time he would come had he been alive and well. It would also have been his last run for the day, as it was his last run over the line.
Interment was to have been made in the east cemetery, but on account of the inclement weather and the fact that the water raised in the grave from the steady rains which had fallen, the body was placed in the vault at the south cemetery and interment will made at some future date not yet determined.
The Friday Caller, Plainfield (Hendricks County) Indiana, December 17, 1909, P-4 C-4
WELL KNOW MOTORMAN ON DANVILLE LINE SUCCUMBS TO PNEUMONIA
Frank Bonifield, one of the most popular motormen on the Danville branch of T. H. I. & E. Traction line, died Saturday at his home, 37 North Harding St., Indianapolis. Death was due to pneumonia, contracted some three weeks prior to his taking away. For more than thirteen years he was employed as motorman in Indianapolis, and when the Danville line was opened for traffic he was one of the first men employed to run the cars over the new line. In fact the ran the first regular car from Indianapolis to Danville, and from that time till illness compelled him to quit his work he remained at his post. He was know personally by practically every patron of the line in Danville and between there and Indianapolis, and his cheery, smiling face will be sadly missed by all.
Frank Bonifield was born Aug. 16, 1860, northwest of Danville, where he grew to manhood, and where he was at that time especially well known. He was married first to Miss Nancy Rutledge, who died fifteen years ago. To them were born three children, who are still living, they being Retta Bonifield, of North Salem, Mrs. James Brownlee, of Lizton, and Roy Bonifield, of Indianapolis. He was married on January 26, 1898, to Lillian Snoke, who with his four children, Lottie, Letha, Stella and Evelyn, survive him. He leaves also two sisters and a brother, Mrs. John Ridpath, of Danville, Mrs. John Tinder, of North Salem and Marlene T. Bonifield, Of North Addison Street, Indianapolis. City Prosecutor Fred R. Bonifield, of Indianapolis is a nephew.
The Funeral services were held in the Regular Baptist church at Danville, Monday afternoon, and were largely attended. The services were conducted by Elder E. W. Thomas. The body was brought out from Indianapolis in a special car, accompanied by many relatives and friends. It was the same car, No. 68, which Frank had been running for so long, and came out on the same time he would come had he been alive and well. It would also have been his last run for the day, as it was his last run over the line.
Interment was to have been made in the east cemetery, but on account of the inclement weather and the fact that the water raised in the grave from the steady rains which had fallen, the body was placed in the vault at the south cemetery and interment will made at some future date not yet determined.
OBITUARY
The Friday Caller, Plainfield (Hendricks County) Indiana, December 17, 1909, P-4 C-4
WELL KNOW MOTORMAN ON DANVILLE LINE SUCCUMBS TO PNEUMONIA
Frank Bonifield, one of the most popular motormen on the Danville branch of T. H. I. & E. Traction line, died Saturday at his home, 37 North Harding St., Indianapolis. Death was due to pneumonia, contracted some three weeks prior to his taking away. For more than thirteen years he was employed as motorman in Indianapolis, and when the Danville line was opened for traffic he was one of the first men employed to run the cars over the new line. In fact the ran the first regular car from Indianapolis to Danville, and from that time till illness compelled him to quit his work he remained at his post. He was know personally by practically every patron of the line in Danville and between there and Indianapolis, and his cheery, smiling face will be sadly missed by all.
Frank Bonifield was born Aug. 16, 1860, northwest of Danville, where he grew to manhood, and where he was at that time especially well known. He was married first to Miss Nancy Rutledge, who died fifteen years ago. To them were born three children, who are still living, they being Retta Bonifield, of North Salem, Mrs. James Brownlee, of Lizton, and Roy Bonifield, of Indianapolis. He was married on January 26, 1898, to Lillian Snoke, who with his four children, Lottie, Letha, Stella and Evelyn, survive him. He leaves also two sisters and a brother, Mrs. John Ridpath, of Danville, Mrs. John Tinder, of North Salem and Marlene T. Bonifield, Of North Addison Street, Indianapolis. City Prosecutor Fred R. Bonifield, of Indianapolis is a nephew.
The Funeral services were held in the Regular Baptist church at Danville, Monday afternoon, and were largely attended. The services were conducted by Elder E. W. Thomas. The body was brought out from Indianapolis in a special car, accompanied by many relatives and friends. It was the same car, No. 68, which Frank had been running for so long, and came out on the same time he would come had he been alive and well. It would also have been his last run for the day, as it was his last run over the line.
Interment was to have been made in the east cemetery, but on account of the inclement weather and the fact that the water raised in the grave from the steady rains which had fallen, the body was placed in the vault at the south cemetery and interment will made at some future date not yet determined.
The Friday Caller, Plainfield (Hendricks County) Indiana, December 17, 1909, P-4 C-4
WELL KNOW MOTORMAN ON DANVILLE LINE SUCCUMBS TO PNEUMONIA
Frank Bonifield, one of the most popular motormen on the Danville branch of T. H. I. & E. Traction line, died Saturday at his home, 37 North Harding St., Indianapolis. Death was due to pneumonia, contracted some three weeks prior to his taking away. For more than thirteen years he was employed as motorman in Indianapolis, and when the Danville line was opened for traffic he was one of the first men employed to run the cars over the new line. In fact the ran the first regular car from Indianapolis to Danville, and from that time till illness compelled him to quit his work he remained at his post. He was know personally by practically every patron of the line in Danville and between there and Indianapolis, and his cheery, smiling face will be sadly missed by all.
Frank Bonifield was born Aug. 16, 1860, northwest of Danville, where he grew to manhood, and where he was at that time especially well known. He was married first to Miss Nancy Rutledge, who died fifteen years ago. To them were born three children, who are still living, they being Retta Bonifield, of North Salem, Mrs. James Brownlee, of Lizton, and Roy Bonifield, of Indianapolis. He was married on January 26, 1898, to Lillian Snoke, who with his four children, Lottie, Letha, Stella and Evelyn, survive him. He leaves also two sisters and a brother, Mrs. John Ridpath, of Danville, Mrs. John Tinder, of North Salem and Marlene T. Bonifield, Of North Addison Street, Indianapolis. City Prosecutor Fred R. Bonifield, of Indianapolis is a nephew.
The Funeral services were held in the Regular Baptist church at Danville, Monday afternoon, and were largely attended. The services were conducted by Elder E. W. Thomas. The body was brought out from Indianapolis in a special car, accompanied by many relatives and friends. It was the same car, No. 68, which Frank had been running for so long, and came out on the same time he would come had he been alive and well. It would also have been his last run for the day, as it was his last run over the line.
Interment was to have been made in the east cemetery, but on account of the inclement weather and the fact that the water raised in the grave from the steady rains which had fallen, the body was placed in the vault at the south cemetery and interment will made at some future date not yet determined.
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