The  Shelbyville  Democrat
 Thursday, September 14, 1905
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YOUNG  MAN'S  SUDDEN  DEATH
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From Wednesday's Daily.
[identical article in "The Shelbyville Daily Democrat," September 13, 1905'
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          Roy Amsden, son of  Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Amsden, aged seventeen years, died at the home of his parents near Waldron this morning at 6 o'clock.  Roy, with several other boy companions, attended the fair here last week and on Friday they partook heartily of corn and beans at dinner on the fair grounds, from which all the boys were taken sick.  Roy was taken to his bed on Saturday.
          Dr. Randolph, who was called as a consulting physician, said today that the boy died of toxinia [sic], but the exact nature of the poison could not be told unless a post mortem examination were held.
          The other boys have recovered from the effects of the poison, but Roy was not strong enough to throw it off.
          Roy was born in the house where he died, April 1, 1888, afterwards coming with his parents to this city, where he was educated in the public schools.  He was a student in the high school last year, finally quitting school last March.  The arrangements for the funeral have not yet been made.  They will be announced later.
Submitted by Kathy Ridlen


The  Shelby  National  Volunteer
 Thursday December 15, 1870
Page 3 column 2
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DEATH  OF  MRS. AMSDEN
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          Mrs. Martha, wife of  E. B. Amsden, died at eleven o'clock on Monday night of this week.  It will be remembered that some two or three weeks previous she underwent the amputation of one of her lower limbs in hope of arresting the further spread of some kind of rheumatic or scrofulous disease, from which she had suffered for seventeen years, and which had baffled the skill of innumerable physicians.  Amputating was the last resort.  Her chances of recovery were scarcely one in a thousand, as she was greatly emaciated and her system deranged and physical energies prostrated by long years of suffering.
          Mrs. Amsden was about forty years of age, a daughter of the late  Thomas Cochran, of this county.  She leaves her husband and four children and a large circle of devoted friends to mourn her loss.  She was a woman of great kindness of heart, and those who knew her best were her warmest and most devoted friends.
[City Cemetery]
[Martha Ann Amsden July 3, 1830 – December 12, 1870]
Submitted by Barb Huff

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