From: Sherri Hall [ldrbelties@earthlink.net] Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2004 9:38 AM To: KY-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [KYF] OBIT: John Phillip Rowlett, 1897, Hart & Jefferson Co. Submitted by Sandi Gorin NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. "John Phillip Rowlett. A Former Hart County Man Dies in Louisville. Louisville Post, May 19. "John P. Rowlett, of Munfordville, who was suffocated by escaping gas at Senning's Hospital yesterday morning, died yesterday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock at the City Hospital. Mr. Rowlett went to the hotel Monday night and was assigned to room 26. About 9 o'clock yesterday morning Henry Hartway, a guest of the hotel, heard groans in room 26 and burst in the door, where he found Rowlett in an unconscious condition. He was taken to the city Hospital where he received the best of attention, but all efforts were unavailing. The gas was turned on in the room and it is not known whether Rowlett intended to commit suicide, or simply blew out the gas. He had been dinking heavily for several days. "The remains were shipped to Rowletts, Ky., for burial to-day." Glasgow (KY) Weekly Times, 26 May 1897. ______________________________