Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Hinds, Richard 1928
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The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, Saturday, May 19, 1928

An inquest was deemed unnecessary in the death of Richard Hinds, 55-year-old 
farm hand whose dead body was found on the edge of a swamp on the western end 
of the Herman Haney farm in Easton township late Friday evening.  Coroner B. 
J. Boynton announced he ascribed the man’s death was due to heart failure.

Hinds’ body had lain in the pasture, near a fence, for nearly two hours before 
found by his nephew, Claude Conklin, with whom Hinds had made his home the 
past six months.  Hinds had been sent to retrieve a cow that had broken 
through the line fence separating the Conklin and Haney places, and apparently 
had started for home with the animal when he suffered a heart attack.  The 
animal wandered on home to be followed some time later by the family shepherd 
dog.  It was then that Conklin’s suspicions were aroused and a search 
instituted, resulting in discovery of the body three-quarters of a mile from 
the Conklin farmhouse.

No marks of violence or injury were found by the coroner and Deputy Sheriff 
Henry J. Cook, who examined the body, and $60 in his pockets was undisturbed, 
indicating foul play was not a factor in his demise.

Hinds, who was born in Berlin township and had resided in that vicinity most 
of his life, is survived by two brothers, James and Albert, who reside in 
Orwell, Ohio.  Upon their arrival here funeral arrangements will be 
completed.  Hinds was unmarried.


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