Indianapolis News - Saturday, March 20, 1915:
(Special to the Indianapolis News)
CONNERSVILLE, Ind. March 20--A Carnegie hero medal, the first ever seen here, has been received by Mrs. Otto H. Carroll, widow of Otto H. Carroll who died May 31, 1914, in trying to save LeRoy Lewis from drowning in the river near Metamora in Franklin County. Carroll and the Lewis man were both drowned.
A pension to the widow and the little son of Carroll and a silver medal were granted by the Carnegie fund commission. The medal is of silver, a circular object three inches across. One side bears Mr. Carnegie's likeness and, the other on a plaquette surrounded by coats of arms, holds the simple story of Carroll's death.
Indianapolis Star - Friday, September 18, 1953:
Mrs. Grace B. Carroll, 73 years old, mother of the late Ellis E. Carroll, former professor of music at Butler University and until his death Director of the Indianapolis News Newsboys' Band, died here yesterday.
Mrs. Carroll had made her home here in Indianapolis prior to her illness.
The widow of Otto H. Carroll, she was born on a farm near Harrisburg in Fayette County but moved to Indianapolis in 1909 [sic] after her husband's deaeth.
Her son, prominent in Indianapolis musical circles, suffered a fatal heart attack in June 1952.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday in Myers Funeral Home, Connersville. Burial will be in Lick Creek Cemetery there.
Contributor: Carol Wilmoth Federspill (48615268) • [email protected])
(Special to the Indianapolis News)
CONNERSVILLE, Ind. March 20--A Carnegie hero medal, the first ever seen here, has been received by Mrs. Otto H. Carroll, widow of Otto H. Carroll who died May 31, 1914, in trying to save LeRoy Lewis from drowning in the river near Metamora in Franklin County. Carroll and the Lewis man were both drowned.
A pension to the widow and the little son of Carroll and a silver medal were granted by the Carnegie fund commission. The medal is of silver, a circular object three inches across. One side bears Mr. Carnegie's likeness and, the other on a plaquette surrounded by coats of arms, holds the simple story of Carroll's death.
Indianapolis Star - Friday, September 18, 1953:
Mrs. Grace B. Carroll, 73 years old, mother of the late Ellis E. Carroll, former professor of music at Butler University and until his death Director of the Indianapolis News Newsboys' Band, died here yesterday.
Mrs. Carroll had made her home here in Indianapolis prior to her illness.
The widow of Otto H. Carroll, she was born on a farm near Harrisburg in Fayette County but moved to Indianapolis in 1909 [sic] after her husband's deaeth.
Her son, prominent in Indianapolis musical circles, suffered a fatal heart attack in June 1952.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday in Myers Funeral Home, Connersville. Burial will be in Lick Creek Cemetery there.
Contributor: Carol Wilmoth Federspill (48615268) • [email protected])
Indianapolis News - Saturday, March 20, 1915:
(Special to the Indianapolis News)
CONNERSVILLE, Ind. March 20--A Carnegie hero medal, the first ever seen here, has been received by Mrs. Otto H. Carroll, widow of Otto H. Carroll who died May 31, 1914, in trying to save LeRoy Lewis from drowning in the river near Metamora in Franklin County. Carroll and the Lewis man were both drowned.
A pension to the widow and the little son of Carroll and a silver medal were granted by the Carnegie fund commission. The medal is of silver, a circular object three inches across. One side bears Mr. Carnegie's likeness and, the other on a plaquette surrounded by coats of arms, holds the simple story of Carroll's death.
Indianapolis Star - Friday, September 18, 1953:
Mrs. Grace B. Carroll, 73 years old, mother of the late Ellis E. Carroll, former professor of music at Butler University and until his death Director of the Indianapolis News Newsboys' Band, died here yesterday.
Mrs. Carroll had made her home here in Indianapolis prior to her illness.
The widow of Otto H. Carroll, she was born on a farm near Harrisburg in Fayette County but moved to Indianapolis in 1909 [sic] after her husband's deaeth.
Her son, prominent in Indianapolis musical circles, suffered a fatal heart attack in June 1952.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday in Myers Funeral Home, Connersville. Burial will be in Lick Creek Cemetery there.
Contributor: Carol Wilmoth Federspill (48615268) • [email protected])
(Special to the Indianapolis News)
CONNERSVILLE, Ind. March 20--A Carnegie hero medal, the first ever seen here, has been received by Mrs. Otto H. Carroll, widow of Otto H. Carroll who died May 31, 1914, in trying to save LeRoy Lewis from drowning in the river near Metamora in Franklin County. Carroll and the Lewis man were both drowned.
A pension to the widow and the little son of Carroll and a silver medal were granted by the Carnegie fund commission. The medal is of silver, a circular object three inches across. One side bears Mr. Carnegie's likeness and, the other on a plaquette surrounded by coats of arms, holds the simple story of Carroll's death.
Indianapolis Star - Friday, September 18, 1953:
Mrs. Grace B. Carroll, 73 years old, mother of the late Ellis E. Carroll, former professor of music at Butler University and until his death Director of the Indianapolis News Newsboys' Band, died here yesterday.
Mrs. Carroll had made her home here in Indianapolis prior to her illness.
The widow of Otto H. Carroll, she was born on a farm near Harrisburg in Fayette County but moved to Indianapolis in 1909 [sic] after her husband's deaeth.
Her son, prominent in Indianapolis musical circles, suffered a fatal heart attack in June 1952.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday in Myers Funeral Home, Connersville. Burial will be in Lick Creek Cemetery there.
Contributor: Carol Wilmoth Federspill (48615268) • [email protected])
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