Married Christina E. Wolff on 10 Feb 1875, Jefferson Co., IN.
Son of Nathaniel Williams and Melinda Paine
Steamboat capt.
Information from Permit for Burial
Cause of death: Apoplexy
F. H. Austin, Coroner
Geo. C. Vail & Sons, Undertakers
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Brooksburg Sun
8 Sep 1904
Capt. James R. Williams was found dead at his home in Madison last week. The verdict of the coroner's jury was death from apoplexy.
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From Scrapbook located at Jefferson County Library
Madison Courier?
Captain James R. Williams was found dead shortly after noon today, lying on the floor of the kitchen at his home, 716 North Mulberry street. In company with Coroner Austin, The Courier representative visited the house at one o'clock p.m. and heard the testimony of the neighbors. It appears that the Captain had been living alone at the house from some weeks, on account of the absence of his wife and children. Mrs. Williams and the younger son, Chester, are visiting at Indianapolis. The daughter, Miss Bessie, is visiting Mrs. Elizabeth Abbott in Jeffersonville. Another son, Abbott Williams, is in Terre Haute, and the only other child, James, Jr., works and sleeps in the city away from home.
Capt. Williams was at Mr. George Dittgens' store about two o'clock yesterday afternoon, at which time he purchased some cantaloupes and took them home. His presence at his home was observed by neighbors later in the afternoon.
At noon today Mr. Louis Roch went into the house and found him lying dead as above stated. Messrs. Roch and Tandy picked him up and carried him into one of the main rooms, where he was seen by the Coroner.
When first discovered the Captain was lying on his left side on the kitchen floor, his body somewhat drawn up, his face resting downward on his left arm, on which his head was resting, and his feet and legs reaching about the table near by. There was blood on the floor which oozed from his mouth, where the flies had gathered. Two partly emptied medicine bottles were on the table, neither of which appeared tob e of a poisoning character.
On the table were left parts of the cantaloupes which he had been eating. It is believed he fell over onto the floor from the chair on which he had been sitting while eating the melons yesterday afternoon, and that he had therefore been dead thirty hours when found.
Coroner Austin returned a verdict of death from apoplexy.
The deceased was fifty-four years of age, a son of the late Captain Nathaniel Williams. He was for several years Wharfmaster, succeeding his father and older brother in that business in 1892 he was chosen a Councilman in the Third Ward.
Son of Nathaniel Williams and Melinda Paine
Steamboat capt.
Information from Permit for Burial
Cause of death: Apoplexy
F. H. Austin, Coroner
Geo. C. Vail & Sons, Undertakers
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Brooksburg Sun
8 Sep 1904
Capt. James R. Williams was found dead at his home in Madison last week. The verdict of the coroner's jury was death from apoplexy.
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From Scrapbook located at Jefferson County Library
Madison Courier?
Captain James R. Williams was found dead shortly after noon today, lying on the floor of the kitchen at his home, 716 North Mulberry street. In company with Coroner Austin, The Courier representative visited the house at one o'clock p.m. and heard the testimony of the neighbors. It appears that the Captain had been living alone at the house from some weeks, on account of the absence of his wife and children. Mrs. Williams and the younger son, Chester, are visiting at Indianapolis. The daughter, Miss Bessie, is visiting Mrs. Elizabeth Abbott in Jeffersonville. Another son, Abbott Williams, is in Terre Haute, and the only other child, James, Jr., works and sleeps in the city away from home.
Capt. Williams was at Mr. George Dittgens' store about two o'clock yesterday afternoon, at which time he purchased some cantaloupes and took them home. His presence at his home was observed by neighbors later in the afternoon.
At noon today Mr. Louis Roch went into the house and found him lying dead as above stated. Messrs. Roch and Tandy picked him up and carried him into one of the main rooms, where he was seen by the Coroner.
When first discovered the Captain was lying on his left side on the kitchen floor, his body somewhat drawn up, his face resting downward on his left arm, on which his head was resting, and his feet and legs reaching about the table near by. There was blood on the floor which oozed from his mouth, where the flies had gathered. Two partly emptied medicine bottles were on the table, neither of which appeared tob e of a poisoning character.
On the table were left parts of the cantaloupes which he had been eating. It is believed he fell over onto the floor from the chair on which he had been sitting while eating the melons yesterday afternoon, and that he had therefore been dead thirty hours when found.
Coroner Austin returned a verdict of death from apoplexy.
The deceased was fifty-four years of age, a son of the late Captain Nathaniel Williams. He was for several years Wharfmaster, succeeding his father and older brother in that business in 1892 he was chosen a Councilman in the Third Ward.
Married Christina E. Wolff on 10 Feb 1875, Jefferson Co., IN.
Son of Nathaniel Williams and Melinda Paine
Steamboat capt.
Information from Permit for Burial
Cause of death: Apoplexy
F. H. Austin, Coroner
Geo. C. Vail & Sons, Undertakers
==================
Brooksburg Sun
8 Sep 1904
Capt. James R. Williams was found dead at his home in Madison last week. The verdict of the coroner's jury was death from apoplexy.
===================
From Scrapbook located at Jefferson County Library
Madison Courier?
Captain James R. Williams was found dead shortly after noon today, lying on the floor of the kitchen at his home, 716 North Mulberry street. In company with Coroner Austin, The Courier representative visited the house at one o'clock p.m. and heard the testimony of the neighbors. It appears that the Captain had been living alone at the house from some weeks, on account of the absence of his wife and children. Mrs. Williams and the younger son, Chester, are visiting at Indianapolis. The daughter, Miss Bessie, is visiting Mrs. Elizabeth Abbott in Jeffersonville. Another son, Abbott Williams, is in Terre Haute, and the only other child, James, Jr., works and sleeps in the city away from home.
Capt. Williams was at Mr. George Dittgens' store about two o'clock yesterday afternoon, at which time he purchased some cantaloupes and took them home. His presence at his home was observed by neighbors later in the afternoon.
At noon today Mr. Louis Roch went into the house and found him lying dead as above stated. Messrs. Roch and Tandy picked him up and carried him into one of the main rooms, where he was seen by the Coroner.
When first discovered the Captain was lying on his left side on the kitchen floor, his body somewhat drawn up, his face resting downward on his left arm, on which his head was resting, and his feet and legs reaching about the table near by. There was blood on the floor which oozed from his mouth, where the flies had gathered. Two partly emptied medicine bottles were on the table, neither of which appeared tob e of a poisoning character.
On the table were left parts of the cantaloupes which he had been eating. It is believed he fell over onto the floor from the chair on which he had been sitting while eating the melons yesterday afternoon, and that he had therefore been dead thirty hours when found.
Coroner Austin returned a verdict of death from apoplexy.
The deceased was fifty-four years of age, a son of the late Captain Nathaniel Williams. He was for several years Wharfmaster, succeeding his father and older brother in that business in 1892 he was chosen a Councilman in the Third Ward.
Son of Nathaniel Williams and Melinda Paine
Steamboat capt.
Information from Permit for Burial
Cause of death: Apoplexy
F. H. Austin, Coroner
Geo. C. Vail & Sons, Undertakers
==================
Brooksburg Sun
8 Sep 1904
Capt. James R. Williams was found dead at his home in Madison last week. The verdict of the coroner's jury was death from apoplexy.
===================
From Scrapbook located at Jefferson County Library
Madison Courier?
Captain James R. Williams was found dead shortly after noon today, lying on the floor of the kitchen at his home, 716 North Mulberry street. In company with Coroner Austin, The Courier representative visited the house at one o'clock p.m. and heard the testimony of the neighbors. It appears that the Captain had been living alone at the house from some weeks, on account of the absence of his wife and children. Mrs. Williams and the younger son, Chester, are visiting at Indianapolis. The daughter, Miss Bessie, is visiting Mrs. Elizabeth Abbott in Jeffersonville. Another son, Abbott Williams, is in Terre Haute, and the only other child, James, Jr., works and sleeps in the city away from home.
Capt. Williams was at Mr. George Dittgens' store about two o'clock yesterday afternoon, at which time he purchased some cantaloupes and took them home. His presence at his home was observed by neighbors later in the afternoon.
At noon today Mr. Louis Roch went into the house and found him lying dead as above stated. Messrs. Roch and Tandy picked him up and carried him into one of the main rooms, where he was seen by the Coroner.
When first discovered the Captain was lying on his left side on the kitchen floor, his body somewhat drawn up, his face resting downward on his left arm, on which his head was resting, and his feet and legs reaching about the table near by. There was blood on the floor which oozed from his mouth, where the flies had gathered. Two partly emptied medicine bottles were on the table, neither of which appeared tob e of a poisoning character.
On the table were left parts of the cantaloupes which he had been eating. It is believed he fell over onto the floor from the chair on which he had been sitting while eating the melons yesterday afternoon, and that he had therefore been dead thirty hours when found.
Coroner Austin returned a verdict of death from apoplexy.
The deceased was fifty-four years of age, a son of the late Captain Nathaniel Williams. He was for several years Wharfmaster, succeeding his father and older brother in that business in 1892 he was chosen a Councilman in the Third Ward.
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