Newsdate: Saturday, August 28, 1915-Terre Haute Tribune, pg. 2

-Deaths And Funerals-
S.M. Gapen.
"Harry Gapen, passenger conductor for the Chicago & Eastern Illinois
Railroad company, returned to Terre Haute Saturday morning from his old
home in Frankfort, Ind., where he had been to attend the funeral of his
father S. M. Gapen, 87 years old, who was buried at Frankfort Friday
afternoon.
  S. M. Gapen was one of the oldest Odd Fellows in the state, having been
initiated in one of the Terre Haute lodges when he was 21 years old.  Mr.
Gapen was born and reared in Prairie Creek township, and was well known in
the southern part of the county.  He is survived by his widow, two
daughters, Jessie Gapen, of Frankfort and Mrs. Addie Hill (Adeline) of
Indianapolis, and one son, Harry Gapen, of South Seventh street."


Newsdate: Monday, January 29, 1906-Terre Haute Star, p. 10.

-Deaths and Funerals-

Miss Nellie Gapen
"Miss Jessie Gapen, a clerk at Kleeman's, was called to her home in
Frankfort by the death of her sister, Nellie Gapen, 25 years old, at 10
o'cock Sunday morning."

[Note: according to Mel Gapen's records, Nellie B. Gapen was born
June 13, 1874 and should have been 32-years old at her death if it
was on Sunday, January 28, 1906]