Marion E. Ellis
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Officer

Marion E. Ellis

Indianapolis Police Department — Indianapolis, IN
Accident
End of Watch January 23, 1918
Age 47
Tour of Duty 9 yrs
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Gender Male

Incident

Officer Marion Ellis succumbed to injuries suffered 12 days earlier when he fell down a flight of stairs into the basement of a building.

Officer Ellis thought that the door he was entering led to an office, but it instead had a staircase to the basement. Officer Ellis suffered a fractured skull in the fall and died 12 days later.

Officer Ellis had served with the Indianapolis Police Department for nine years.

Survivors

He was survived by his wife and 13-year-old daughter and he is buried at Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis, Indiana.

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I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Officer Ellis gave the Indianapolis Police Department 9 years.
Thank you for your service to the Indianapolis community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Officer Ellis.

— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993

Agency

Type Other
Location Indianapolis, Marion County, IN
Platform Identity ipd.marion.in.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch January 23, 1918
Tour of Duty 9 yrs
Age 47
Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Accident
Cause Detail Fall

The Sacrifice · Accident

Marion is one of 8,275 officers lost to accidents in the United States, 30% of the 27,551 remembered there.

33,917 officers are remembered on this memorial. Each number below is one of them.

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Time

In 1918, 39 officers in the United States were lost to accidents, the 108th heaviest of 174 years on record. The heaviest was 1929, with 118.

Every year on record · United States
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Who

Marion was 47. Of the 7,718 lost to accidents in the United States whose age is recorded, half were between 29 and 46; the middle age was 36. Marion had served 9 years; the middle length of service was 6 years.

Age at death
Where he stood among them
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When

January holds 7.7% of these deaths in the United States; August holds the most, 9.5%. Wednesdays: 14.5%.

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By day of the week
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How

Accident deaths account for 30% of all 27,551 deaths in the United States, the 2nd most common cause.

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His people

Indianapolis Police Department has 59 officers remembered here, Marion among them.

Across the years

Officer Marion E. Ellis

Indianapolis Police Department · End of Watch January 23, 1918

Where the Name Is Cut

National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial · Panel 10-E

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