Deaths of Lester JOHNSON and Martha Lucille (HAWKINS) JOHNSON (1950)

source: The Republican (Danville, Indiana) - issue of Thursday, September 21, 1950 - page 1, column 5:

DOUBLE FUNERAL SERVICES MONDAY
Double funeral services were held Monday afternoon at the Baker Chapel for Lester V. and Martha Lucille Johnson of Bainbridge.

Mr. Johnson shot his 28-year-old wife Saturday evening with a shotgun at their home northeast of Bainbridge and then took his own life. Dr. Gilbert Rhea, Putnam County Coroner, ruled the deaths as murder and suicide.

He was separated from his wife, and under court order not to return to their home. He was a former employee of Marmon-Herrington, Indianapolis, but at the time was unemployed. She was a waitress at a restaurant in Bainbridge.

Immediate survivors are six children, Shirley Ann, age 11; David, 10; Lester, Jr., 8; Bonnie Lee, 6; Caroline Sue, 5, and Diana Kay, 4.

Other survivors of Mr. Johnson include his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Johnson of North Salem; five sisters, one of whom is Mrs. James Young of New Winchester, and four brothers including Vernon, Dudley and Wayne of North Salem.

Other survivors of Mrs. Johnson are her parents, Mrs. and Mrs. Floyd Hawkins of Indianapolis, and two sisters, Mrs. Opal Crouch and Mrs. Grace Money of Danville.

Both bodies were interred in the West Newton Cemetery.

Grace MONEY granted divorce (1949)

As mentioned in Hendricks County Circuit Court Civil Order Book Volume 98 (April 1949 - March 1950), in October 1949 Grace E. Money was granted a divorce from Albert Money (case #18315) on the grounds of cruel and inhuman treatment by Albert. The divorce decree noted they were married July 30, 1938 and lived together until July 20, 1948. Grace was given custody of their children, Barbara J. Money (age 10) and James E. Money (age 7 1/2) and Albert was ordered to pay her $12.50 a week for child support. Under a property agreement they'd reached earlier, Grace was given certain real estate in Danville (part of the northeast quarter of the northwest quarter of Section 10, Township 15 North, Range 1 West).

Activity in Hendricks County probate cases (January 1890)

From Hendricks County probate records:

Activity in probate cases as of January 6, 1890 [in vacation of the November 1889 term of court]:
--Hannah H. Newman estate - Cyrus Osborn appointed administrator
--Benjamin E. Money estate - Isaac B. Waters appointed administrator
--Charles J. Lumpkin estate - Nancy A. Lumpkin appointed administrator; petition granted to continue his mercantile business
--Charlotte J. Piercy guardianship (minor heir of Reed Piercy) - John F. Keeney appointed guardian