Roy Larson is my maternal great-grandfather and a first generation Swedish-American. His father, Oliver, emigrated to this country and was naturalized in 1891. He worked the riverboats between the Ohio and Mississippi rivers all the way down to New Orleans. He settled first in Perry County, IN, before settling in Kyana, Dubois County, IN.
As far as I know, Roy was the only child born to Oliver and Louisa (Harris) Larson. He's listed on the 1900 U.S. Census for Perry County, IN, as "Roy Rose," but I believe that was just a childhood nickname. My best information has his middle initial as "I" though I don't know what it stands for.
Roy married a German Catholic, Katie Batch, from St Anthony 23 Jun 1912. I have the original Dubois County Marriage Certificate. My Uncle David Larson has Oliver's immigration papers. Roy and Katie started their family in Kyana before moving to French Lick, where Roy was a section man on the Southern RR spur to that resort town.
Later, when their two sons, Clyde and Richard, were teenagers, they moved to Francisco, IN, where the family remained. Roy was widowed at age 46 when his wife died after a short hospital stay for a fallopian tube abscess that had ruptured. She died in the early morning hours of 4 May 1937 at Princeton's Methodist Hospital. Roy sunk into a deep depression, according to family stories, and never recovered.
When he took his own life while visiting his parents in Kyana two years later, they told the Jasper paper he was despondent over a pending job transfer to New Albany. The story says that he excused himself from the dinner table, went into the next room and shot himself in the head with a handgun.
He joined Katie at Montgomery Cemetery and was followed some years later by his parents and son, Richard, my grandfather. I have three generations of my Larson family buried at this cemetery. My mother's maiden name was Larson.
As far as I know, Roy was the only child born to Oliver and Louisa (Harris) Larson. He's listed on the 1900 U.S. Census for Perry County, IN, as "Roy Rose," but I believe that was just a childhood nickname. My best information has his middle initial as "I" though I don't know what it stands for.
Roy married a German Catholic, Katie Batch, from St Anthony 23 Jun 1912. I have the original Dubois County Marriage Certificate. My Uncle David Larson has Oliver's immigration papers. Roy and Katie started their family in Kyana before moving to French Lick, where Roy was a section man on the Southern RR spur to that resort town.
Later, when their two sons, Clyde and Richard, were teenagers, they moved to Francisco, IN, where the family remained. Roy was widowed at age 46 when his wife died after a short hospital stay for a fallopian tube abscess that had ruptured. She died in the early morning hours of 4 May 1937 at Princeton's Methodist Hospital. Roy sunk into a deep depression, according to family stories, and never recovered.
When he took his own life while visiting his parents in Kyana two years later, they told the Jasper paper he was despondent over a pending job transfer to New Albany. The story says that he excused himself from the dinner table, went into the next room and shot himself in the head with a handgun.
He joined Katie at Montgomery Cemetery and was followed some years later by his parents and son, Richard, my grandfather. I have three generations of my Larson family buried at this cemetery. My mother's maiden name was Larson.
Roy Larson is my maternal great-grandfather and a first generation Swedish-American. His father, Oliver, emigrated to this country and was naturalized in 1891. He worked the riverboats between the Ohio and Mississippi rivers all the way down to New Orleans. He settled first in Perry County, IN, before settling in Kyana, Dubois County, IN.
As far as I know, Roy was the only child born to Oliver and Louisa (Harris) Larson. He's listed on the 1900 U.S. Census for Perry County, IN, as "Roy Rose," but I believe that was just a childhood nickname. My best information has his middle initial as "I" though I don't know what it stands for.
Roy married a German Catholic, Katie Batch, from St Anthony 23 Jun 1912. I have the original Dubois County Marriage Certificate. My Uncle David Larson has Oliver's immigration papers. Roy and Katie started their family in Kyana before moving to French Lick, where Roy was a section man on the Southern RR spur to that resort town.
Later, when their two sons, Clyde and Richard, were teenagers, they moved to Francisco, IN, where the family remained. Roy was widowed at age 46 when his wife died after a short hospital stay for a fallopian tube abscess that had ruptured. She died in the early morning hours of 4 May 1937 at Princeton's Methodist Hospital. Roy sunk into a deep depression, according to family stories, and never recovered.
When he took his own life while visiting his parents in Kyana two years later, they told the Jasper paper he was despondent over a pending job transfer to New Albany. The story says that he excused himself from the dinner table, went into the next room and shot himself in the head with a handgun.
He joined Katie at Montgomery Cemetery and was followed some years later by his parents and son, Richard, my grandfather. I have three generations of my Larson family buried at this cemetery. My mother's maiden name was Larson.
As far as I know, Roy was the only child born to Oliver and Louisa (Harris) Larson. He's listed on the 1900 U.S. Census for Perry County, IN, as "Roy Rose," but I believe that was just a childhood nickname. My best information has his middle initial as "I" though I don't know what it stands for.
Roy married a German Catholic, Katie Batch, from St Anthony 23 Jun 1912. I have the original Dubois County Marriage Certificate. My Uncle David Larson has Oliver's immigration papers. Roy and Katie started their family in Kyana before moving to French Lick, where Roy was a section man on the Southern RR spur to that resort town.
Later, when their two sons, Clyde and Richard, were teenagers, they moved to Francisco, IN, where the family remained. Roy was widowed at age 46 when his wife died after a short hospital stay for a fallopian tube abscess that had ruptured. She died in the early morning hours of 4 May 1937 at Princeton's Methodist Hospital. Roy sunk into a deep depression, according to family stories, and never recovered.
When he took his own life while visiting his parents in Kyana two years later, they told the Jasper paper he was despondent over a pending job transfer to New Albany. The story says that he excused himself from the dinner table, went into the next room and shot himself in the head with a handgun.
He joined Katie at Montgomery Cemetery and was followed some years later by his parents and son, Richard, my grandfather. I have three generations of my Larson family buried at this cemetery. My mother's maiden name was Larson.
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