Morris Lykins
BIRTH 8 Jan 1827
Franklin County, Virginia, USA
DEATH 10 Jul 1879 (aged 52)
Muncie, Delaware County, Indiana, USA
BURIAL
Tomlinson Cemetery
Muncie, Delaware County, Indiana, USA
Son of Phillip Lykins and Rhoda Light.
Civil War Veteran: PVT, Co. B, 69th Indiana Infantry, 7 Aug 1862 - 15 Jul 1863.
Married Sarah Bird, and secondly Margaret Miller.
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel, Fort Wayne, Indiana, Wednesday, July 16, 1879, Page 8
Thursday was the hottest day of the season all over the west. At Milwaukee the thermometer registered 91° in the shade and several cases of sunstroke were reported, one fatal.
Morris Lykens, aged fifty-two, who was working on a farm near Muncie, was killed by a sun stroke. At St. Louis the thermometer reached 100°. There were five cases of sun-stroke, one fatal— Rudolph Fliegenberger, of Milwaukee.
The Daily Muncie News. July 9, 1879
Morris Lykins, aged 55 years, and residing in Monroe township, dropped dead day before yesterday while in the harvest field.
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