Shelby  County  Indiana
Obituaries

Bland

The  Shelby  Democrat
Thursday, December 19, 1918
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AGED  MAN  DIES  TODAY
AT  HOME  IN  MARIETTA
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Thomas J. Bland Died at One
O'clock This AFternoon
From Spanish Flu.
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(From Saturday's Daily.)

          Thomas J. Bland  died at one o'clock this afternoon at the home of his daughter,  Mrs. William McKinney,  in Marietta.  His death was caused by diseases indicent to his old age and was hastened by an attack of Spanish influenza.
          He would have been 79 years of age the 17th of January and had been a merchant in Marietta since April, 1857.  He is survived by four sons,  Leonard Bland  and  Orlando Bland,  of Marietta;  John Bland,  of Johnson county, and  James Bland,  of Noble township, near St. Paul.  He is also survived by eleven grandchildren.
          Funeral arrangements will be announced later.
Contributed by Phyllis Miller Fleming

The  Shelbyville  Republican
Wednesday, October 16, 1912
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DEATHS  AND  FUNERALS
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Mrs. Thomas Bland.
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          Mrs. Thomas Bland,  aged seventy-two years, died at her home in Marietta this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, after an illness of several weeks of typhoid fever.  She leaves a husband and five children.  Funeral arrangements will be announced later by Hageman & Hendrickson, who are in charge.
         
Contributed by Phyllis Miller Fleming

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