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The following obituary appeared in The Kokomo Daily Tribune on July 22, 1919 on page 1 column 3. The paper was published in Kokomo, Indiana.
J. O. HARDESTY PASSES AWAY AT OAK PARK
Was Owner and Editor of First Daily Paper Published in Kokomo.
LATER WENT TO ANDERSON
Founded Herald There-Became Widely Known as Political Writer.
John O. Hardesty, who commanded a Howard county [sic] company in the Civil war [sic] and who was one of the pioneer newspaper men of Kokomo, is dead at his home in Oak Park, Ill., having passed away there Sunday, at the age of 75 years. He was personally known to all of the people of Kokomo and of Howard county [sic] fifty years ago and is well remembered by all who survive from that period.
Mr. Hardesty’s newspaper career in Kokomo covered only a few years. He was owner and editor of the Kokomo Herald. His newspaper office was in the upstairs rooms in the old Moore block [sic], in Buckeye street [sic], west side, second door north from Walnut. It is said that he started the Herald as a daily, the first daily publication Kokomo ever had, but later changed it to a weekly, having demonstrated to his satisfaction that Kokomo was not yet large enough to support a daily newspaper.
In 1868 Mr. Hardesty left Kokomo and went to Anderson, where he founded the Anderson Morning Herald. Later, he owned the Anderson Daily Sun. A few years later, after ceasing active connection with Anderson newspaper circles, he wrote feature articles for metropolitan newspapers. He became widely known through his political writings. He was an ardent and uncompromising republican [sic]and, through his newspaper articles attracted statewide attention to himself and became a factor to be reckoned within state politics. A press dispatch from Anderson states that Mr. Hardesty is survived by a widow and daughter, and that his body will be laid away in the cemetery at Oak Park.
Mr. Hardesty’s wife was a daughter of Thomas J. Falkner, one of the very earliest of Kokomo’s citizens. Mr. Falkner was owner of much land now lying within the eastern half of the city and was founder of Kokomo’s first burial ground. He donated the ground now known as the Old Cemetery along about 1845, designating, it is said, in the deed that the space should be used for no purpose other than burial of the dead.
It is said the last visit Mr. Hardesty made to Kokomo, which was several years ago, was in regard to the Old Cemetery. At that time there was consideration of a proposition to convert the grounds, which had long been abandoned and neglected, into a park and have them come under the supervision of the city’s park board. Mr. Hardesty came here on behalf of the Falkner Family and let it be known that if the grounds should be converted to park purposes, he would set up a claim for them on the part of the Falkner heirs, asserting that the grounds would revert to them under the terms of the conveyance that had been made by Thomas Falkner, should they ever be used for other than burial purposes. It is said that his contentions in regard to the matter had much to do with the decision which led to the grounds being transferred from the county to the city and placed under the supervision of the board of cemetery regents.
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