The following are obituaries I have abstracted from the 1913 newspaper (The Peoples Defender)… these were originally typed on an OLD Kaypro computer *hence* I have no way of changing the all capitol text (I typed it once I am not typing it again J )..I have no other information other than what is here… I abstract what I see (no gaurentee you won’t find a mistake or two)..

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THE PEOPLES DEFENDER

2, JANUARY 1913

HAM BLACK OF DUNKINSVILLE, 63 YEARS OLD, SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE WHO IS THE SISTER OF DR. O.T. SPROULL AND ONE SON ROBERT. BURIAL IN SPROULL RIDGE NEAR THE HOME.

 

JOSEPH FLOREA, AGED 43 YEARS, OF THE NEWPORT AREA DIED THURSDAY MORNING.

 

JAMES EDGINGTON, WHO DIED AT THE ATHENS STATE HOSPITAL, IS BEING SHIPPED HOME FOR BURIAL IN WINCHESTER.

 

MRS. JOHN BAIRD A FORMER MANCHESTER RESIDENT DIED IN HER HOME IN PORTSMOUTH, 60 YEARS OLD. A NATIVE OF MASON COUNTY KY., SURVIVED BY SEVEN CHILDREN. BURIAL MANCHESTER CEMETERY.

 

JOHN R. GRIFFITH OF MANCHESTER, DIED AT HIS HOME AT THE AGE OF 55 YEARS, SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE AND TWO CHILDREN MISS GUSSIE AND MRS. RUBY BOWMAN BOTH OF MANCHESTER.

 

WILLIAM BAXTER GIBBONEY THE THIRD SON OF THE LATE WILLIAM AND ISABELLA GIBBONEY DIED AT THE HOME OF SAMUEL WILSON IN LIBERTY TWP. AT THE AGE OF 74 YEARS. PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HIS PARENTS AND TWO BROTHERS. SURVIVED BY A HALF SISTER MRS. ELIZABETH WILSON OF WEST UNION. BURIAL CHERRY FORK.

 

MRS. ED COCHRAN, DIED AT HER HOME IN PEEBLES AT THE AGE OF 36 YEARS. SURVIVED BY HER HUSBAND, TWO CHILDREN, HER FATHER AND A BROTHER. BURIAL LOCKLAND BESIDE HER MOTHER AND SISTER.

 

MRS. G.J. FURNIER DIED AT HER HOME IN ROME AT THE AGE OF 77 YEARS. SURVIVED BY HER HUSBAND AND SEVEN CHILDREN. BURIAL POINT CEMETERY.

 

9, JANUARY 1913

JOHN FORSYTHE DIED 30, DECEMBER 1912 IN FRUIT HURST ALABAMA, HE LEAVES A WIFE AND ONE DAUGHTER OF BIRMINGHAM ALABAMA. HE WAS BORN AND RAISED TO MANHOOD IN FAWCETT. HIS WIFE'S MAIDEN NAME WAS KEYS. HE WAS 75 YEARS OLD. HIS ONLY LIVING BROTHER IS ABRAHAM FORSYTHE OF RARDEN.

 

THOMAS JOHNSON AGED 42 YEARS DIED AT HIS HOME IN RARDEN, HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE THE D/O M.H. NEWMAN OF MINERAL SPRINGS, AND FOUR CHILDREN. BURIAL NEWMAN CEMETERY.

 

16, JANUARY 1913

SAMUEL LUTHER SWAIN DIED AT HIS HOME ON NORTH STREET. HE WAS BORN AT HARMONY, BUTLER COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA 18, JUNE 1831, BEING OVER 81 YEARS OLD. HE CAME TO OHIO IN 1857 LOCATING ON A FARM NEAR WEST UNION. HE WAS MARRIED SHORTLY BEFORE HE LEFT PENNSYLVANIA TO MARIE AGNES HEBERLING WHO DIED 31, MARCH 1887. THE SURVIVING CHILDREN ARE C.L. SWAIN, S.E. SWAIN OF CINCINNATI AND MISS NETTIE SWAIN AT HOME. DURING THE CIVIL WAR HE SERVED AS A PRIVATE IN THE 24th INDEPENDENT BATTERY LIGHT ARTILLERY, OHIO VOLUNTEERS. BURIAL MT. LEIGH CEMETERY.

 

MRS. CATHERINE (HIBBS) NEWMAN WIFE OF THE LATE GARRETT W. NEWMAN DIED AT HER HOME IN RARDEN. SHE WAS BORN AND REARED NEAR LOCUST GROVE. SURVIVED BY TWO SONS JAMES AND S.E. OF PEBBLES AND ONE DAUGHTER MRS. GEORGE BRATTON OF RARDEN, TWO SISTERS MRS. JOHN WILLIAMS OF RARDEN, MRS. SAMUEL JOHNSON OF PEEBLES AND TWO BROTHERS J.O. HIBBS OF PEEBLES AND __________?, HER HUSBAND DIED TEN YEARS AGO, SHE WAS BURIED BESIDE HIM.

 

THE TWO YEAR OLD DAUGHTER OF MR. & MRS. CHARLES CALL, DIED AT THEIR HOME IN PEEBLES OF TUBERCULOSIS. BURIAL LOCUST GROVE.

 

MARTHA ROBERTS THE SEVEN YEAR OLD DAUGHTER OF MR. & MRS. CHARLES ROBERTS OF BRATTON TOWNSHIP, DIED OF DIPHTHERIA. BURIAL LOCUST GROVE.

 

ORA LEE KIMBALL, FORMER RESIDENT OF DUNBARTON AND THE WINCHESTER AREA. AGED THIRTY TWO YEARS. THE S/O A.J. KIMBALL. BURIAL PLEASANT HILL CEMETERY.

 

RALPH RALSTON, TWO YEAR OLD SON OF MR. & MRS. MORRIS RALSTON OF ROME DIED AT THE HOME. BURIAL LIBERTY CHAPEL

 

MRS. WILLIAM CRAWFORD, AGED 63 YEARS DIED AT HER HOME NEAR DUNKINSVILLE. SURVIVED BY HER HUSBAND AND TWO SONS EDWARD AND WILLIAM OF PERU INDIANA, AND ONE SISTER MRS. WILLIAM STEEL . BURIAL WEST UNION.

 

 

23 JANUARY 1913

WILLIAM CRAWFORD DIED FOUR DAYS AFTER HIS WIFE DIED, RESIDED NEAR DUNKINSVILLE. 84 YEARS OLD, A NATIVE OF IRELAND. SURVIVED BY TWO SONS EDWARD AND WILLIAMS BOTH OF PERU INDIANA. BURIAL WEST UNION CEMETERY BESIDE HIS WIFE.

 

 

MRS. GEORGE EVANS, DIED AT HER HOME IN BLUE CREEK AT THE AGE OF 75 YEARS. SURVIVED BY HER HUSBAND AND THREE CHILDREN. BURIAL MOORES CHAPEL CEMETERY.

 

WILLIAM LEHR AN AGED CITIZEN OF WINCHESTER. A VETERAN OF THE CIVIL WAR ( 70th O.V.I.). SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE AND FOUR CHILDREN HAMER, SAM, WILLIAM AND MRS. MYRTLE TUCKER.

 

RAY OREN WEEKS THE THREE MONTH OLD SON OF MR. & MRS. SAMUEL WEEKS OF FAIRVIEW. BURIAL DECATUR.

 

WILLIAM CLEVELAND TOLLE DIED AT HIS HOME ON CEDAR FORK, 27 YEARS OLD. SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE AND TWO CHILDREN. BURIAL LOCUST GROVE.

 

MELVIN ROBERTS FIVE YEAR OLD SON OF MR. AND MRS. CHARLES ROBERTS ( THE ROBERTS HAVE LOST TWO CHILDREN IN ONE WEEK), BURIAL LOCUST GROVE CEMETERY.

 

EMAMUAL EAIRD, TWENTY NINE, DIED AT HIS HOME IN BRATTON TWP., SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE AND THREE CHILDREN. BURIAL LOCUST GROVE.

 

SAMUEL SUMMERS, DIED AT HIS HOME IN L.A. CALIFORNIA 7, JANUARY 1913 AT THE AGE OF 56 YEARS, BORN IN LOCUST GROVE. S/O THE LATE CAPTAIN FRANK SUMMERS OF THE 70th O.V.I. REGIMENT.

 

 

30, JANUARY 1913

 

TWO WEEK OLD CHILD OF MR. AND MRS. LEMMA TOLLER, DIED AT THE HOME NEAR STEAM FURNACE. BURIAL PURTEE CEMETERY.

 

DAVID HAMMOND AGE 64 DIED AT HIS HOME IN SINKING SPRINGS. SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE. BURIAL SINKING SPRINGS.

 

MRS. ELIZABETH SHIVENER DIED AT HER HOME IN LYNX AT THE AGE OF 88 YEARS. SURVIVED BY THREE SONS JOHN, CASPER AND PHILLIP. BURIAL HAMILTON CEMETERY.

 

GANELL COPAS THE TWO YEAR OLD SON OF MR. & MRS. WALTER COPAS, DIED AT THEIR HOME NEAR BLUE CREEK. BURIAL; COPAS CEMETERY.

 

HAMLET BLACK, BORN IN VANCEBURG KY., 17, SEPTEMBER 1849 DIED 1, JANUARY 1913, OLDEST S/O B.C. AND A.L. BLACK. CAME TO OHIO IN 1850, MARRIED JENNIE D/O ROBERT AND SARAH SPROULL 28, NOVEMBER 1874 AND TO THEM WERE BORN TWO CHILDREN ONE CHILD WAS STILLBORN THE OTHER, A SON ROBERT. SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE AND SON, AGED MOTHER, TWO SISTERS MRS. W.S. VIRES OF SPRINGFIELD OHIO, MRS. S.W. THOMPSON OF PAWHUSKA OKLAHOMA, THREE BROTHERS SAMUEL OF HUNTINGTON W. VIRGINIA, HORACE OF SAN LEANDRO CALIFORNIA AND EDWARD OF ADAMS COUNTY, OHIO.

 

WILLIAM CRAWFORD, BORN IN TYRONE COUNTY IRELAND 23, DECEMBER 1829 AND DIED 19, JANUARY 1913. MARRIED IN 1864 TO ELIZABETH CRAWFORD AND TO THEM WERE BORN FOUR CHILDREN MARY JANE AND ROBERT THE TWO ELDEST DIED SEVERAL YEARS AGO, still living ARE WILL AND ED; ALSO SURVIVED BY TWO BROTHERS AND ONE SISTER.

30, JANUARY 1913

ELIZABETH CRAWFORD, WIFE OF WILLIAM CRAWFORD, WAS BORN 11, JANUARY 1849 IN WEST UNION, DIED 15, JANUARY 1913. BURIAL WEST UNION.

 

6, FEBRUARY 1913

CARSON TRACY, AGE 18 DIED AT THE HOME OF HIS PARENTS MR. & MRS. J.M. TRACY OF NEAR PEEBLES. HE WAS LAID TO REST BESIDE HIS BROTHER BINA AND SISTER MARY WHO DIED SIX YEARS AGO.

 

MRS. MARY FULTON DIED AT HER HOME IN WINCHESTER AT THE AGE OF 88 YEARS, THE WIDOW OF ROBERT FULTON WHO DIED SEVERAL YEARS AGO. BURIAL WINCHESTER CEMETERY.

 

JAMES GALLAHER DIED AT HIS HOME AT THE AGE OF 67 YEARS, NATIVE OF BROWN COUNTY, OHIO, A RESIDENT OF PEEBLES FOR TWENTY YEARS. CIVIL WAR VETERAN OF CO. L 9th O.V.C., SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, STEP SON HARRY F. PARKER. BURIAL LOCUST GROVE CEMETERY.

 

JOSEPH REED, OF ROME, DIED AT HIS HOME AT THE AGE OF 82 YEARS. A NATIVE OF IRELAND. SURVIVED BY HIS SECOND WIFE AND DAUGHTER MRS. LYDA WAMSLEY OF ROME. BURIAL RIPLEY CEMETERY.

 

THOMAS ADAMSON, ELDEST SON MR. & MRS. J.V. ADAMSON OF BENTONVILLE, DIED AT HIS HOME IN CINCINNATI AT THE AGE OF 50 YEARS. A NATIVE OF ADAMS COUNTY, OHIO; SURVIVED BY HIS SECOND WIFE AND A DAUGHTER BY THE FIRST WIFE , MRS. EDWARD HEEB OF COVINGTON KENTUCKY. BURIAL KIRKER CEMETERY.

 

AMOS HAMER, DIED AT HIS HOME IN MANCHESTER AT THE AGE OF 70 YEARS. SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, THREE SONS AND THREE DAUGHTERS, ONE OF WHOM IS MRS. ERNEST DUNCAN OF WEST UNION. CIVIL WAR VETERAN OF CO. H 70th O.V.I. . BURIAL ODD FELLOWS CEMETERY.

 

REBECCA NEWLAND STIGLER, A NATIVE OF ADAMS COUNTY. BORN NEAR MARBLE FURNACE 16, AUGUST 1825 DIED 23, JANUARY 1913, THE D/O OF JACOB AND PHOEBE NEWLAND, ONE OF A FAMILY OF SIXTEEN CHILDREN, THE FATHER BEING TWICE MARRIED. AT THE AGE OF TWO YEARS SHE MOVED TO INDIANA WITH HER PARENTS, WHERE THEY LIVED FIVE YEARS. 19, NOVEMBER 1846 MARRIED ADAM STIGLER, LOCATING ON WHITE OAK CREEK WHERE SHE LIVED THE LAST 66 YEARS. SEVEN CHILDREN PHOEBE E., CHARLOTTE AND ELIZABETH ARE DECEASED MRS. RUTH SAAL, MRS. REBECCA KATINE, JOHN ADAM AND JACOB HENRY SURVIVE. HER HUSBAND DIED 7, SEPTEMBER 1898. SHE ALSO LEAVES 7 GRANDCHILDREN AND 15 GREAT GRANDCHILDREN. SHE HAD LIVED THE LATTER PART OF HER LIFE WITH HER SON JACOB. BURIAL BAPTIST CEMETERY IN GEORGETOWN.

" UNCLE " DAN SULLIVAN, DIED AT HIS HOME ON HICKORY RIDGE AT THE AGE OF 83 YEARS, HIS WIFE IS DECEASED. BURIAL BRIAR RIDGE CEMETERY.

 

MRS. HEY LAWSON HILL, NATIVE OF ADAMS COUNTY, OHIO , RESIDING IN LAKEPORT CALIFORNIA. SURVIVED BY A DAUGHTER MRS. MARY J. ARNOLD.

MRS. HILL WAS 105 YEARS OF AGE, IT IS CLAIMED THAT SHE WAS RELATED TO OUR 1st PRESIDENT GEORGE WASHINGTON. SHE WAS BORN IN 1808. SHE WAS THE OLDEST DAUGHTER OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION IN AMERICA.

6,FEBRAURY 1913

 

MRS. WILLIAMS RUNYON, A NATIVE OF ADAMS COUNTY, RESIDING IN VANCEBURG. HER FULL NAME WAS SOPHIA FURGESON, BORN ON BRUSH CREEK IN ADAMS COUNTY 16, APRIL 1838 DIED 20, JANUARY 1913. MARRIED JOHN HEANIGIN 22, AUGUST 1864 ONE CHILD WAS BORN TO THEM MRS. SARAH MARDIS OF CINCINNATI, HE DIED THE FOLLOWING YEAR AFTER THE MARRIAGE, 28,MAY 1867 SHE MARRIED WILLIAM RUNYON WHO DIED 30, APRIL 1903, TO THEM WERE BORN FIVE CHILDREN, ONE DIED IN INFANCY SURVIVING ARE LIZZIE STEADHAM, BERTIE APPLEGATE, MISSES MARY AND ELIZA RUNYON. THREE BROTHERS JOHN FERGUSON OF SUMMER ILLINOIS, JAMES OF PORTSMOUTH AND JOSHUA OF VALLEY KENTUCKY. BURIAL VANCEBURG KY.

 

CAPTAIN R.A. BRYAN, A NATIVE OF ADAMS COUNTY, DIED AT HIS HOME IN PORTSMOUTH OHIO. HE WAS BORN 22, MARCH 1839, MARRIED 23, DECEMBER 1860 TO SARAH E. GIVENS OF BUENA VISTA, SHE DIED 30, DECEMBER 1910. TO THEM WERE BORN ELEVEN CHILDREN, FOUR SURVIVE. RESIDENT OF PORTSMOUTH SINCE 1866.

 

13, FEBRUARY 1913

CLEM MORRISON, OF BRUSH CREEK DIED AT THE HOME OF HIS FATHER I.N. MORRISON. SEVENTEEN YEARS OLD, SURVIVED BY THE FATHER, THREE BROTHERS AND ONE SISTER. BURIAL ODD FELLOWS CEMETERY IN WEST UNION. THIS MAKES THE SIXTH DEATH IN THIS FAMILY IN THE PAST TWO YEARS ( THE MOTHER AND FOUR CHILDREN).

 

TONY TAMME, OF ARNHEIM IN BROWN COUNTY ( NEAR THE ADAMS COUNTY LINE). SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE AND SEVERAL SMALL CHILDREN. FUNERAL ARNHEIM CATHOLIC CHURCH.

 

JAMES ANDERSON RYAN FIFTEEN MONTH OLD S/O MR. & MRS. CHARLES RYAN, DIED AT THE HOME IN UNITY, DIED WITH DIABETES. BURIAL UNITY CEMETERY.

 

INFANT DAUGHTER OF MR. & MRS. WALTER PLUMMER OF HARPERS FERRY. BURIAL RUSSELVILLE.

 

MISS MARIETTA McCULLOUGH, AGE 56 YEARS DIED AT THE HOME OF J.G. CREIGHT OF NEAR SEAMAN, SHE WAS THE D/O THE LATE WILLIAM McCULLOUGH. FUNERAL TRANQUILITY U.P. CHURCH.

 

 

MRS. ELIZABETH SPRIGG, 70 YEARS OLD, DIED AT HER HOME IN LAWSHE. SURVIVED BY HER HUSBAND, THREE DAUGHTERS AND ONE SON.

FUNERAL TRANQUILITY U.P. CHURCH

 

JAMES REIGHLE, FORMERLY OF WINCHESTER, DIED IN COLUMBUS AT THE HOME OF HIS SON HERBERT. BROUGHT BACK TO WINCHESTER FOR BURIAL.

 

EARL WAGNER GARRETT THREE YEAR OLD SON OF MR. & MRS. ELMER GARRETT. BURIAL MANCHESTER.

 

ISAAC SMITH, DIED AT HIS HOME IN WINCHESTER. 50 YEARS OLD, SURVIVED BY HIS 2nd WIFE AND THREE CHILDREN BY THE 1st WIFE. BURIAL WINCHESTER CEMETERY.

 

MRS. ELLA MORGAN, DIED IN HER HOME IN MANCHESTER AT THE AGE OF 27 YEARS. THE D/O MR. & MRS. JOHN LEMMING OF MANCHESTER, ALSO SURVIVED BY HER HUSBAND. BURIAL MANCHESTER.

 

DR. W.R.S. CONNELL, A NATIVE OF SPRIGG TOWNSHIP AND A BROTHER OF SQUIRE G.J.J. CONNEL OF SPRIGG TOWNSHIP, DIED AT HIS HOME IN PAOLA KANSAS 1, FEBRUARY AT THE AGE OF 64 YEARS. MARRIED MISS MARY WILSON IN 1888 SHE DIED IN 1893. BESIDES THE BROTHER HE IS ALSO SURVIVED BY A SISTER MISS HOLLIE CONNELL OF OSAWATOMINE KANSAS.

 

JOHN GALL, AGE ABOUT 69 YEARS DIED AT HIS HOME IN SINKING SPRINGS IN HIGHLAND COUNTY. BURIAL SANDY SPRINGS.

 

JOHN ROADS, OF HIGHLAND COUNTY DIED AT HIS HOME NEAR THE POINT.

 

20.FEBRUARY 1913

JAMES ANDERSON RYAN S/O CHARLES T. AND GLADYS RYAN, WAS BORN AT UNITY 1, NOVEMBER 1911 AND DIED 5, FEBRUARY 1913. BURIAL UNITY CEMETERY.

 

 

MARY ETTA McCULLOUGH OLDEST D/O WILLIAM AND REBECCA MONTGOMERY McCULLOUGH WAS BORN NEAR TRANQUILITY 3, APRIL 1856 AND DIED 7, FEBRUARY 1913. SHE WAS UNITED WITH THE U.P. CHURCH OF TRANQUILITY. SURVIVED BY A BROTHER AND A SISTER; PRECEDED BY HER PARENTS, TWO BROTHERS AND ONE SISTER WHO DIED SOME YEARS AGO.

 

MARY ETHEL MOORISON AGED SIX MONTHS, THE D/O I.N. MOORISON DIED AT THE HOME IN WEST UNION. BURIAL " ODD FELLOWS CEMETERY. THIS FAMILY HAS LOST THE MOTHER AND SIX CHILDREN IN THE LAST TWO YEARS ALL FROM TUBERCULOSIS. THE FATHER AND THREE SONS SURVIVE.

 

RICHARD HENRY OURSLER, AGE 63 OF PORTSMOUTH, A FORMER WEST UNION RESIDENT. HE LEAVES HIS WIFE LYDA TRACY OURSLER AND TWELVE CHILDREN, ARTHUR OF ADAMS COUNTY, CLYDE OF CINCINNATI, MRS. HARRY GRACE OF JACKSON, WILL AND MRS. P.E. ROUSH OF PORTSMOUTH, ETHEL, ELLA, EDNA, ANNA, RICHARD, AILEEN AND LOUISE AT HOME; ALSO LEAVES A BROTHER JAMES AND A SISTER MRS. PHILLIP BURR OF ADAMS COUNTY AND ONE SISTER AND FOUR BROTHERS IN KANSAS. BURIAL GREENLAWN CEMETERY.

 

JAMES FORSYTHE OF ROME, DIED AT HIS HOME AT THE AGE OF 76 YEARS. A NATIVE OF ADAMS COUNTY. SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, TWO DAUGHTERS STELLA SIMPSON OF DONOIA PENNSYLVANIA AND DORA AT HOME AND ONE SON WILLIAM OF YOUNGSTOWN. BURIAL SANDY SPRINGS.

 

MRS. JULIA MAY McGIONE, DIED AT HER HOME BELOW BUENA VISTA AT THE AGE OF 25 YEARS. SURVIVED BY HER PARENTS MR. & MRS. PHILIP HODGE OF BUENA VISTA. BURIAL SULPHUR SPRINGS.

 

MAGGIE HOLSINGER TWO YEAR OLD DAUGHTER OF ALVA HOLSINGER DIED AT BUENA VISTA.

 

JOHN B. DOWNING OF PEEBLES, DIED AT THE HOME OF HIS SON DR. F.E. DOWNING, AT THE AGE OF 78 YEARS. SURVIVED BY THREE SONS DR. F.E., DR. M.L. OF ROCKFORD AND JAMES OF DAYTON, A DAUGHTER MRS. STELLA McADOW OF SPRINGFIELD. BURIAL LICK FORK.

 

MRS. JAMES WASHBURN OF BELLEVILLE KANSAS, ABOUT 65 YEARS OLD, THE FORMER SARAH BLACK OF MEIGS TOWNSHIP. A BROTHER IN LAW OF DUNBARTON THOMAS WASHBURN SURVIVES.

 

MRS. CATHERINE EDGINGTON DIED IN HER HOME AT BENTONVILLE AT THE AGE OF 63 YEARS, THE WIDOW OF R.N. EDGINGTON WHO DIED TWO YEARS AGO. SURVIVED BY FOUR CHILDREN MRS. WILSON PRATHER OF WILMINGTON, MRS. JAMES GROOMS OF FAIRVIEW, MACK AND ANDY AT HOME. BURIAL KIRKER CEMETERY.

 

MRS. DAVID STECK. A FORMER RESIDENT, DIED AT THE HOME OF HER SON JACK IN WICHITA KANSAS, THE BODY WAS BROUGHT BACK HERE FOR BURIAL AT ODD FELLOWS CEMETERY. SHE WAS 77 YEARS OLD AND A NATIVE OF GERMANY, CAME TO THIS COUNTRY AT THE AGE OF ELEVEN YEARS. HER HUSBAND PRECEDED HER IN DEATH MANY YEARS AGO SHE IS SURVIVED BY SIX CHILDREN JAKE, JOHN AND FRED OF WICHITA KANSAS, MRS. JOE SMITH OF IOWA, MRS. JOHN SHEELY OF TIFFIN TOWNSHIP AND MRS. JOHN A. CLARK OF OLIVER TOWNSHIP.

 

BAXTER CLARK, AGED 50 YEARS DIED AT THE HOME OF HIS SISTER MISS MOLLIE CLARK AT UNITY. SURVIVED BY TWO SISTERS AND TWO BROTHERS. PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HIS PARENTS, SISTER AND BROTHER ALL WITHIN THE LAST FOUR YEARS. BURIAL UNITY.

 

MRS. W.A. NEWMAN, 59 YEARS OLD. MAIDEN NAME MARY JANE GRIMES, HER HUSBAND DIED MAY 1912. SURVIVED BY CHILDREN MRS. J.N. CUMMINGHAM, MRS. J.W. FREEMAN, MRS. JOHN C. MOORE, MISS CORA AND RALPH AT HOME AND C.E. NEWMAN OF WEST UNION. MRS. NEWMAN WAS STRUCK WITH A HEART ATTACK, WHILE DRIVING TO HER HOME IN WHITE OAK, THE ATTACK OCCURRED ON THE ROAD NEAR ARTHUR BRUNTONS, THE FUNERAL TOOK PLACE THERE.

 

J. HENRY BLAKE, DIED AT THE HOME OF WILLIAM AND MISS ALTA COLLINS OF PEEBLES, WITH WHOM HE MADE HIS HOME WITH. 77 YEARS OLD. SURVIVED BY A DAUGHTER LAURA BIXBY OF IRONTON AND A SON H.C. BLAKE OF ATLANTA GEORGIA. BURIAL IRONTON

 

A.D. PITTINGER OF HARSHAVILLE, DIED AT HIS HOME. 78 YEARS OLD, SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE AND THREE DAUGHTERS. BURIAL UNITY CEMETERY.

 

27, FEBRUARY 1913

WILLIAM FURNIER, 72 YEARS OLD A CIVIL WAR VETERAN, DIED AT HIS HOME IN BUENA VISTA. HE WAS BORN AND RAISED IN BUENA VISTA. SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE AND FOUR CHILDREN WILLIAM JR. AT HOME, JAMES AND A DAUGHTER IN CINCINNATI AND CHARLES WHO IS OUT WEST, ANOTHER SON WALTER DIED SOME YEARS AGO. BURIAL SANDY SPRINGS.

 

MRS. JAMES WASHBURN, A FORMER ADAMS COUNTY RESIDENT. SARAH A. BLACK WAS BORN 27, DECEMBER 1842 IN ADAMS COUNTY OHIO. MARRIED JAMES WASHBURN 5, SEPTEMBER 1870 AND DIED 11, FEBRUARY 1913. FOUR CHILDREN WERE BORN TO THEM ETTA LEOTA WHO DIED IN INFANCY, ROLLA A, CORA L. SMITH, ISA E. SMITH. LEFT TO MOURN ARE THE HUSBAND, SON AND TWO DAUGHTERS AND FIVE GRANDCHILDREN. BURIAL BELLEVILLE KANSAS.

 

MRS. ANN E. HIGGINS, WIFE OF THE LATE RICHARD HIGGINS A RESIDENT OF BENTONVILLE OHIO FOR MANY YEARS, BUT FOR THE LAST TEN YEARS HAD LIVED IN DENVER COLORADO. 94 YEARS OF AGE, SURVIVED BY A SISTER MISS SARAH BRANSON AND THREE CHILDREN DR. J.W. HIGGINS, JUNIUS HIGGINS AND MELISSA SHIPLEY ALL OF COLORADO.

 

COMMODORE LEE H. BROOKS, OF CINCINNATI DIED AT THE AGE OF 72 YEARS. BORN IN PORTSMOUTH OHIO.

 

JOSEPH PARKS, THE S/O JAMES AND MELINDA PARKS WAS BORN 27, JULY 1855 DIED AT HIS HOME IN MANCHESTER 23, FEBRUARY 1913. MARRIED FRANCIS ADAMSON 16, MAY 1875. SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, ONE SISTER MRS. ELIZABETH CROPPER OF LEXINGTON KY., TWO BROTHERS NORMAN OF MANCHESTER AND WILL OF BENTONVILLE. BURIAL ODD FELLOWS CEMETERY IN MANCHESTER.

 

MRS. MAHETABEL CORYELL OF LIBERTY TOWNSHIP, DIED AT THE AGE OF 52 YEARS, WIDOW OF THE LATE SALATHIEL CORYELL WHO DIED ABOUT 18 MONTHS AGO. SURVIVED BY TWO CHILDREN ROBERT AND DAUGHTER MRS. ROBERT MUSSER, ONE BROTHER R.J. McCLUNG AND ONE SISTER MISS MARY McCLUNG. BURIAL NORTH LIBERTY CEMETERY.

 

BERLIN GARMAN, 14 YEAR OLD S/O THE LATE DAN AND ICY GARMAN OF PEEBLES, DIED AT XENIA WHERE HE WAS EMPLOYED THE LAST SIX MONTHS. HIS MOTHER AND UNCLE CAM GARMAN WENT TO XENIA TO BRING THE BODY HOME. BURIAL LOCUST GROVE CEMETERY.

 

MRS. TILITHA WATSON OF BENTONVILLE, 85 YEARS OLD A NATIVE OF ADAMS COUNTY. THE WIDOW OF THE LATE JOHN WATSON. THREE SONS SURVIVE CHARLIE WHO WAS LIVING WITH HIS MOTHER, WALTER OF HUTCHINSON KANSAS AND W.R OF HOOPSTON ILLINOIS ONE DAUGHTER MRS. MATTIE G. HOOK OF WICHITA KANSAS, GRANDSONS GEORGE A. AND CLYDE C. WATSON. BURIAL KIRKER CEMETERY.

 

MRS. JOHN TAYLOR, DIED AT HER HOME IN BRADYVILLE. 48 YEARS OLD, SURVIVED BY HER HUSBAND, ONE SISTER MRS. ELIZABETH SHELTON OF BRADYVILLE, TWO BROTHERS JOSEPH SCOTT OF BRADYVILLE AND J.B. SCOTT OF WEST UNION. BURIAL MANCHESTER.

J.B. SCOTT AND THREE DAUGHTERS MISSES ETHEL, EVA AND ESTELLE; JAMES BRITTINGHAM AND DAUGHTER MISS LORA, ATTENDED THE FUNERAL FROM WEST UNION.

 

MISS IDA MATHENEY, AGED 20 YEARS DIED AT THE HOME OF HER UNCLE ELMER MATHENEY AT BEAVER POND. BURIAL LOCUST GROVE.

 

CHARLES BECK OF HUNTINGTON WEST VIRGINIA, 94 YEARS OLD, A NATIVE OF ENGLAND. SURVIVED BY A LARGE FAMILY. A BROTHER FRED BECK.

 

MRS. MARGARET BAIRD, WIFE OF LEWIS BAIRD OF MT. HOPE KANSAS, WAS A SISTER OF MRS. THOMPSON EDWARDS OF LAWSHE AND A AUNT TO MRS. A.W. PURDIN OF WEST UNION.

 

WILL GLASS THE ADOPTED SON OF THE LATE WILLIAM €M€€O€€R€€R€€I€€S€€O€€N€ OF ECKMANSVILLE, DIED AT HIS HOME IN OMAHA NEBRASKA. 51 YEARS OLD, LEFT THIS COUNTY 32 YEARS AGO. A.M. MORRISON AND W.C. MORRISON OF PEBBLES ATTENDED THE FUNERAL.

 

JOHN TAYLOR, FORMERLY OF WINCHESTER DIED AT CRYSTAL CITY TEXAS. THE BODY WAS RETURNED TO WINCHESTER FOR BURIAL. SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, ONE SON EARLE AND ONE DAUGHTER MRS. VIRGIE DARLINGTON OF WINCHESTER.

 

6, MARCH 1913

ELIZABETH MAHALA GREENLEE, DIED AT THE HOME OF HER MOTHER, MRS. ALICE GREENLEE, 41 YEARS OLD, DAUGHTER OF THE LATE WILLIAM GREENLEE. SURVIVED BY HER MOTHER, TWO SISTERS MRS. GRACE RUSSELL AND MRS. MAGGIE NEWMAN, THREE BROTHERS JOSEPH, CHARLIE AND JOHN. BURIAL ODD FELLOWS CEMETERY.

 

W.H. ARMSTRONG OF RIPLEY, A NATIVE OF ADAMS COUNTY, 68 YEARS OLD, DROWNED WHEN HE FELL OVER BOARD ON A FERRY BOAT. BURIAL RIPLEY.

 

MRS. CAROLINE BROWNFIELD VANCE, DIED AT HER HOME 1, MARCH 1913 IN MANCHESTER. 78 YEARS OLD, WAS BORN NEAR DECATUR 10, MAY 1835, MARRIED 27, JANUARY 1859 TO JOSEPH K. VANCE, TWO CHILDREN /MRS. LOU FITCH OF ABERDEEN ( THE ONLY ONE LIVING RELATIVE). BURIAL ODD FELLOWS CEMETERY.

 

EARL REISINGER OF HARPERS FERRY, 19 YEARS OLD, THE S/O JACOB REISINGER DIED 22,FEBRUARY AT HIS FATHERS HOME. FUNERAL PLEASANT HILL CHURCH.

 

FRANK TEST, AGED 51 YEARS DIED AT HIS HOME IN SEAMAN. SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE AND THREE CHILDREN.

 

MRS. W.T. ELLISON, DIED AT HER HOME IN SEAMAN. SURVIVED BY HER HUSBAND. BURIAL LOUISVILLE CEMETERY.

 

MRS. MARY ANN COMPTON, A FORMER RESIDENT, RESIDING ON POND RUN. THE WIFE OF CLARK COMPTON. SURVIVED BY HER HUSBAND, ADOPTED DAUGHTER ANNA, THREE BROTHERS WILLIAM, SAMUEL BIRDWELL OF PORTSMOUTH AND DAVID BIRDWELL OF LOSTINE OREGON, A SISTER MRS. SARAH HAMILTON OF PORTLAND OREGON.

THE D/O MR. & MRS. JAMES BIRDWELL AND WAS BORN IN ADAMS COUNTY 74 YEARS AGO.

 

THELMA McINTIRE, 8 YEAR OLD DAUGHTER OF MR. & MRS. C.H. McINTIRE, DIED AT THEIR HOME IN CHERRY FORK. BURIAL CHERRY FORK CEMETERY.

 

MRS. M.J. WOODROW, AGED 83 YEARS, A FORMER WEST UNION RESIDENT, DIED AT THE HOME OF HER DAUGHTER MRS. J.D. KIRKLAND OF COLUMBUS, THE WIDOW OF THE LATE NATHAN A. WOODROW WHO DIED IN 1884 IN PORTSMOUTH (BURIED IN WEST UNION ). SURVIVED BY ONE SON ATTORNEY ALEX WOODROW OF PORTSMOUTH. BURIAL PORTSMOUTH.

 

13, MARCH 1913

OTHA BLAKE OF STONE CHAPEL, 73 YEARS OLD, A VETERAN OF THE CIVIL WAR. SURVIVED BY A SECOND WIFE AND FOUR CHILDREN. BURIAL STONE CHAPEL.

POWELL SHISTER, FORMERLY OF ROCKVILLE, A NATIVE OF GERMANY DIED AT THE HOME OF HIS SON JOHN OF VANCEBURG KY., 85 YEARS OLD, SURVIVED BY TWO SONS JOHN AND PETER AND FIVE GRANDCHILDREN. BURIAL SANDY SPRINGS.

 

WILLIAM WILLMAN OF UNITY, 79 YEARS OLD A VETERAN OF THE CIVIL WAR SERVING IN CO. I 182nnd O.V.I., HE WAS BORN 20, DECEMBER 1833, MARRIED 31, AUGUST 1861 TO LUCINDA THOMPSON, NINE CHILDREN WERE BORN TO THEM, EIGHT SURVIVE ALONG WITH THE WIFE, DAVID N. OF WEST UNION, WILLIAM, WALTER, HARRY, OSCAR, TREBER, JESS AND MRS. WILBUR FULTON. BURIAL CHERRY FORK CEMETERY.

 

ROY HOWELL, 15 YEAR OLD SON OF MR. & MRS. BENJAMIN HOWELL DIED AT THE HOME IN BENTONVILLE. BURIAL MANCHESTER.

 

MRS. THEBA DRENAN, DIED AT HER HOME IN MANCHESTER AT THE AGE OF 81 YEARS, BORN IN HIGHLAND COUNTY. SURVIVED BY A SISTER MRS. E.M. YOUNG, PRECEDED IN DEATH BY A BROTHER J.N. PATTON. MARRIED TWICE ( 1 ) JAMES SILCOTT ( 2 ) JOHN DRENAN. BURIAL MANCHESTER.

 

CHARLEY SHATTUCK, AGED 24 YEARS DIED AT THE HOME OF HIS PARENTS MR. & MRS. DAVIS SHATTUCK NEAR GREENBRIAR. BURIAL FAIRFAX.

 

JOHN TAYLOR THE S/O LEVI AND ELIZABETH TAYLOR WAS BORN NEAR PEEBLES 16, JANUARY 1859 AND DIED AT CRYSTAL CITY TEXAS 21, FEBRUARY 1913. MARRIED 28, SEPTEMBER 1881 TO HARRIET A McMILLEN, TWO CHILDREN MRS. VIRGINIA B. DARLINGTON AND J. EARLE TAYLOR BOTH OF WINCHESTER. SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, TWO CHILDREN, A WIDOWED MOTHER, THREE BROTHERS R.F. TAYLOR OF PEEBLES, JAMES S. OF ANAMOSA IOWA AND GEORGE OF SEAMAN. BURIAL WINCHESTER.

 

20, MARCH 1913

MRS. RACHEL A. ELLISON, FORMERLY RACHEL A. HATTON, WAS BORN IN LOUDEN IN HIGHLAND COUNTY OHIO 20, SEPTEMBER 1869 AND DIED 27, FEBRUARY 1913. WIFE OF W.P. ELLISON. SURVIVED BY, HER HUSBAND, ONE BROTHER AND ONE SISTER. BURIAL LOUISVILLE CEMETERY.

 

MRS. LUCINDA COOK, FORMERLY OF ADAMS COUNTY, NOW RESIDING IN PORTSMOUTH. WIFE OF JOHN COOK. BORN 3, JANUARY 1849 IN ADAMS COUNTY OHIO, THE D/O MR. & MRS. WILLIAM EARLY OF ADAMS COUNTY. SURVIVED BY HER HUSBAND AND THE FOLLOWING CHILDREN, MRS.. EDITH ASTHOLZ, MRS.. BERTA NOURSE, SIDNEY AND ROBERT E. COOK OF PORTSMOUTH, MRS.. BELLE CLEARY OF CINCINNATI, JOSEPH H. COOK OF ANDERSON INDIANA AND JOHN H. COOK OF CIRCLEVILLE; THREE CHILDREN ARE DECEASED, 13 GRANDCHILDREN AND 3 GREAT GRANDCHILDREN. BURIAL FAMILY CEMETERY.

 

BENJAMIN FOWLER, DIED AT HIS HOME NEAR HARPERS FERRY AT THE AGE OF 31 YEARS. SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE AND FOUR SMALL CHILDREN. BURIAL WAS IN DAYTON, THE FORMER HOME OF MR. FOWLER.

 

MISS MAGGIE McNOUN, AN AGED MAIDEN LADY DIED AT HER HOME NEAR WINCHESTER. BURIAL WINCHESTER.

 

REVEREND R.F. WAMSLEY, 75 YEARS OLD OF OTWAY, DROPPED DEAD IN THE FIELD FROM A HEART ATTACK. SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE AND SEVERAL CHILDREN. BURIAL OTWAY.

 

ED RAZOR, A COLORED MAN DIED AT HIS HOME IN NORTH LIBERTY AT THE AGE OF 42 YEARS. SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE AND FIVE CHILDREN. BURIAL NORTH LIBERTY.

 

MRS.. MATILDA M. SCOTT, DIED AT HER HOME NEAR DUNKINSVILLE AT THE AGE OF 64 YEARS. BORN ON POPLAR RIDGE. TWICE MARRIED [1] JOHN CARSKADON [2] JOHN SCOTT BOTH OF WHOM ARE DECEASED. SURVIVED BY ONE SON WILLIAM CARSKADON. BURIAL ODD FELLOWS CEMETERY IN WEST UNION.

 

27, MARCH 1913

MRS.. JOHN R. MOSIER, BORN 3, OCTOBER 1863, THE D/O MR. & MRS.. ANDREW MILLER OF LIBERTY TWP., MARRIED 16, AUGUST 1892 TO JOHN RILEY MOSIER. SURVIVED BY HER HUSBAND AND ONE CHILD MISS FAYE. BURIAL KIRKER CEMETERY.

 

MRS.. AMANDA RATHBURN, DIED AT HER HOME IN ROME AT THE AGE OF 74 YEARS, BORN NEAR PORTSMOUTH. SURVIVED BY HER HUSBAND W.V.A. RATHBURN AND TWO BROTHERS JOHN CLARK THOMPSON OF ROME AND JOHN WILL THOMPSON OF BEATTYVILLE. BURIAL GREENLAWN CEMETERY.

 

HENRY PALMER, RESIDING JUST OVER THE LINE IN PIKE COUNTY {7 miles from Locust Grove}. 66 YEARS OLD, HE LEAVES A WIFE, SEVERAL BROTHERS AND SISTERS AND THE FOLLOWING CHILDREN " MERIDITH, LAFE AND THOMAS OF NEWTON; MRS.. MAGGIE, EMMA WOODS AND ALICE GROOMS OF CHENITH FORK; MRS.. ELLA CARTWRIGHT OF BAINBRIDGE, MRS.. SARAH BRUCE OF SINKING SPRINGS AND MRS.. REBECCA GROOMS OF SHIMAR. BURIAL CHENITH CEMETERY.

 

WILLIAM WYLIE GRIFFITH OF CINCINNATI, SURVIVED BY A SISTER MRS.. JOHN HUTCHINSON OF RIPLEY. THE S/O JESSE AND MALINDA GRIFFITH, BORN IN MANCHESTER. BURIAL FITCHS CHAPEL.

 

EDGAR P. BELCHER, DIED AT HIS HOME IN IRONTON AT THE AGE OF 65 YEARS. SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE AND TWO CHILDREN.

 

JOHN RITCHER OF CINCINNATI, DIED THERE AT THE AGE OF 60 YEARS. A FORMER RESIDENT OF SCIOTO COUNTY. SURVIVED BY HIS ONLY SON CHARLES OF BUENA VISTA AND A DAUGHTER IN CINCINNATI.

 

WILL McDANIEL DIED AT THE HOME OF HIS FATHER DAVID McDANIEL AT BLUE CREEK, AGE 22 YEARS. BURIAL RODGERS CEMETERY.

 

MRS.. BUD COPELAND, DIED AT HER HOME IN LOCUST GROVE AT THE AGE OF 63 YEARS. SURVIVED BY HER HUSBAND AND FIVE CHILDREN, MRS.. OLA TENER OF SINKING SPRINGS, MRS.. SAM ARNOLD, MRS.. SCOTT MASON, FRED AND BERT OF FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP, TWO BROTHERS M.H. NEWMAN AND PIERCE NEWMAN. BURIAL LOCUST GROVE .

MRS.. MARY MORRISON, AGE 83 YEARS. A PIONEER SETTLER OF ADAMS COUNTY, DIED AT THE HOME OF HER DAUGHTER MRS.. AMANDA PETERSON. SURVIVED BY FIVE CHILDREN AMANDA PETERSON OF PEEBLES, MRS.. VASTINE SHOTSMAN OF MACON, J.H. MORRISON OF PEEBLES, JOE MORRISON OF WARSAW INDIANA AND SANFORD OF MARION INDIANA. BURIAL LAWSHE.

 

MRS.. MARY PURTEE, WIDOW OF THE LATE NATHAN PURTEE DIED AT HER HOME ON RARDEN. THE DAUGHTER OF MRS.. R.A. CLARK OF PEEBLES. BURIAL NEWMAN CEMETERY.

 

MRS.. MARY BISSINGER, DIED AT HER HOME IN LIBERTY TOWNSHIP. WIDOW OF THE LATE JACOB BISSINGER WHO DIED SEVERAL YEARS AGO. AGED 80 YEARS AND A NATIVE OF GERMANY. BURIAL FAMILY CEMETERY IN FAIRVIEW.

 

3, APRIL 1913

 

MRS.. CARRIE BOUGHMAN OF YORK PENNSYLVANIA, THE DAUGHTER OF JACOB KLEINKNECT OF NORTH LIBERTY. SHE WAS A NATIVE OF ADAMS COUNTY, 36 YEARS OLD. SURVIVED BY HER HUSBAND, TWO SONS AND ONE DAUGHTER AND HER PARENTS.

 

WALTER COPAS OF BLUE CREEK, DIED AT THE AGE OF 27 YEARS. LEAVES A WIFE AND A DAUGHTER. BURIAL COPAS CEMETERY.

 

JOHN SHAMBLIN, 24 YEAR OLD SON OF MR. & MRS.. ELLIS SHAMBLIN OF BLUE CREEK. SURVIVED BY THE PARENTS, SIX BROTHERS AND FOUR SISTERS. BURIAL MOORES CHAPEL.

 

17, APRIL 1913

MRS.. MILTON COPAS, AGE 23 YEARS DIED AT HER HOME ON BEAVER POND, DIED OF TYPHOID FEVER. SURVIVED BY HER HUSBAND AND ONE CHILD. BURIAL JAYBIRD CEMETERY.

 

ATTORNEY E.H. KIRKPATRICK OF GEORGETOWN, DIED AT HIS HOME OF A HEART DISEASE, A NATIVE OF RUSSELLVILLE.

 

MRS.. SARAH EDWARDS, DIED AT THE HOME OF HER SISTER MRS.. JOHN HOWELL IN MANCHESTER. BURIAL M.E. CHURCH CEMETERY.

 

LUVIE CHANDLER, DAUGHTER OF MR. & MRS.. SAM CHANDLER, DIED AT HER HOME ON ISLAND CREEK OF WHOOPING COUGH. BURIAL I.O.O.F. CEMETERY.

 

 

BENJAMIN HANES, 95 YEARS OLD DIED AT THE HOME OF HIS SON WILLIAM AT WHITE OAK. A NATIVE OF PENNSYLVANIA, LOCATING IN THIS COUNTY IN HIS YOUTH, BESIDES WILLIAM HE IS ALSO SURVIVED BY ONE OTHER SON, JAMES OF CLINTON COUNTY AND ONE DAUGHTER MRS.. WHEELER FREEMAN OF PEEBLES. BURIAL BRUSH CREEK BAPTIST CHURCH.

 

MRS.. ELIZABETH EDGINGTON, 89 YEARS OLD DIED AT THE HOME OF HER SON CHARLES PUCKETT, IN FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP. BURIAL LOCUST GROVE CEMETERY.

 

MOSES WADE, AN INMATE OF THE COUNTY INFIRMARY DIED THEIR LAST FRIDAY OF TUBERCULOSIS AT THE AGE OF 65 YEARS. HIS ONLY LIVING RELATIVE IS A SISTER MRS.. SARAH NAYLOR OF MANCHESTER. BURIAL I.O.O.F. CEMETERY.

 

TWO YEAR OLD DAUGHTER OF MR. AND MRS.. HERBERT GROOMS DIED AT THE HOME ON TULIP { DIED OF WHOOPING COUGH }. BURIAL LIBERTY CEMETERY.

 

OTTO SHEELEY, 17 YEAR OLD SON OF MR. & MRS.. JOHN SHEELEY OF LICK FORK. SURVIVED BY THE PARENTS. FOUR BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS AND A UNCLE JOHN STECK OF WICHITA KANSAS { His mothers brother}.

 

24, APRIL 1913

FRANK E. LEONARD, DIED AT THE HOME OF HIS PARENTS, MR. & MRS. ALFRED LEONARD OF NEAR WRIGHTSVILLE, 23 YEARS OLD THE YOUNGEST CHILD OF THE FAMILY. SURVIVED BY THE PARENTS, FIVE SISTERS AND FOUR BROTHERS. BURIAL GIFT RIDGE.

 

DAVID FORD, 77 YEARS OLD DIED AT THE HOME OF HIS STEP DAUGHTER MRS. JESSE MANN OF PEEBLES. HE WAS A MEMBER OF CO. A 74th OHIO. BURIAL LOCUST GROVE.

HENRY ELLISON, DIED AT HIS HOME ON WAGGONERS RIPPLE, OF DIABETES. 50 YEARS OLD, SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE AND TWO CHILDREN. BURIAL McKEE CEMETERY.

 

 

MRS. NELLIE WILLIAMS SHELDON, WHO WAS BROUGHT TO MANCHESTER FROM LANSING MICHIGAN FOR BURIAL. SHE WAS BORN 6, APRIL 1893. HAD LIVED IN MANCHESTER ALL HER LIFE PREVIOUS TO HER MARRIAGE TO EUGENE A. SHELDON OF LANSING ON 23, SEPTEMBER 1911, SHE DIED 16,APRIL 1913 FROM MERCURIAL POISONING. THE FUNERAL WAS HELD AT THE HOME OF MR. & MRS. JOHN WILLIAMS. THE PALL BEARERS WERE MEMBERS OF HER CLASS IN THE MANCHESTER HIGH SCHOOL MISSES GRACE ELLIS, JULIA DARNELL, MARY LOUISE STABLETON, ANNA RYAN, RAYMOND ROUSH AND RAYMOND VANCE. BURIAL I.O.O.F. CEMETERY.

 

LEONA SCOTT, ONE YEAR OLD DAUGHTER OF MR. & MRS. GRANT SCOTT DIED OF SPINAL MENINGITIS, OF NEAR PEEBLES. BURIAL LOCUST GROVE.

 

1, MAY 1913

H.E. ALEXANDER, DIED AT HIS HOME IN WINCHESTER, 48 YEARS OLD. SON OF THE LATE JAMES ALEXANDER AND IS SURVIVED BY HIS MOTHER, ONE BROTHER TRUMAN AND ONE SISTER MISS ETTA. BURIAL CHERRY FORK CEMETERY.

 

CAPTAIN WATSON FOSTER, DIED AT SANDY SPRINGS FROM A HEART TROUBLE. A CIVIL WAR VETERAN, A CAPTAIN OF ONE OF THE COMPANIES OF THE 70th OHIO REGIMENT. SURVIVED BY EIGHT CHILDREN. BURIAL SANDY SPRINGS. RELATIVES MENTIONED HENRY FOSTER AND DAUGHTER MISS MARY OF ADAMS COUNTY.

 

MICHAEL THORONTON, AGED 88 YEARS DIED AT HIS HOME ON TULIP, HIS WIFE PRECEDED HIM IN DEATH TWO YEARS AGO. SURVIVED BY SEVERAL CHILDREN. BURIAL COX CEMETERY.

 

JUDGE J.W. MARKLEY, DIED SUDDENLY AT GEORGETOWN, ABOUT 65 YEARS OF AGE, AT THE TIME OF HIS DEATH HIS WIFE AND SON WERE IN NEW MEXICO, WHERE THEY WERE PLANNING TO MOVE TO IN THE SPRING.

 

ANNA WHARFF OF NORWOOD, THE D/O MRS. COLEMAN MOORE OF PEEBLES, 36 YEARS OLD. SURVIVED BY HER HUSBAND, ONE SON 11 YEARS OLD, HER MOTHER, FOUR SISTERS MRS. S.J. McDERMOTT OF McDERMOTT, MRS. EDWIN WALKER OF INDIANA, MRS. GEORGE THOMAS OF TRANQUILITY, AND MRS. RAY CONOWAY OF FRANKLIN TWP., TWO BROTHERS JOHN OF CINCINNATI AND EARL AT HOME. BURIAL LOCUST GROVE.

 

MRS. REBECCA TRICKLER 82, DIED AT THE HOME OF HER NEPHEW O.T. MONTGOMERY OF MANCHESTER. BURIAL I.O.O.F. IN MANCHESTER.

 

LORENZA LUNTZ 92, DIED AT HIS HOME IN LOUISVILLE. A VETERAN OF THE CIVIL WAR SERVING IN CO. E 1st OHIO HEAVY ARTILLERY. BURIAL LOUISVILLE.

 

MISS GENEVIVE ELLISON, GRANDDAUGHTER OF SAM ELLISON, FORMER RESIDENT OF WEST UNION DIED AT MASON OHIO. BURIAL MASON OHIO.

 

MARION PARR 80, DIED AT THE HOME OF HIS SON WILLIAM, IN MANCHESTER. BURIAL I.O.O.F. IN MANCHESTER.

 

WILLIAM CLARK, DIED SUDDENLY IN CINCINNATI OF A HEART DISEASE, 48 YEARS OLD. SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE THE FORMER CORA TUCKER, THE D/O MR. & MRS. S.S. TUCKER. THE BODY WAS ACCOMPANIED TO MANCHESTER BY MRS. CLARK AND CHARLES TUCKER, JAMES CLARK AND WIFE. OTHER RELATIVES ARE S.S. TUCKER, WILBUR TUCKER OF PORTSMOUTH, MR. & MRS. EMILL SCOTT, A BROTHER IN LAW.

 

WASHINGTON KIMBLE OF VANCEBURG KY., 80 YEARS OLD, SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE AND TWELVE CHILDREN. FORMERLY OF ROME OHIO. A NEPHEW ATTORNEY B.F. KIMBLE ALSO SURVIVES.

 

8,MAY 1913

JAMES TAYLOR 68, DIED AT HIS HOME ON FRONT STREET IN MANCHESTER. 1st MARRIED MAY JONES WHO PRECEDED HIM IN DEATH, TO THEM WERE BORN FOUR CHILDREN SUSAN, HERBERT, WILLIAM AND IDA, THE LATTER TWO ARE DECEASED. MARRIED 2nd CLARISSA FLOYD AND TO THEM WERE BORN THREE CHILDREN MRS. L.D. PARKER OF OEN ALBERTA CANADA, HERSHEL AND JUNA AT HOME. BURIAL MOORES CHAPEL CEMETERY.

 

MRS. LOUISE OSBORNE 54, DIED AT HER HOME IN FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP. SURVIVED BY HER HUSBAND AND A FAMILY OF GROWN CHILDREN. BURIAL OSBORNE CEMETERY.

 

HARRY CREED 11, THE SON OF MR. & MRS. WILL CREED OF PEEBLES. BURIAL LOCUST GROVE CEMETERY.

 

MISS ANGIE McCREIGHT 32, DIED OF A HEART DISEASE AT THE HOME OF HER PARENTS MR. & MRS. JESSE McCREIGHT OF TRANQUILITY.

 

OTTO EARLY SHEELEY, THE SON OF JOHN AND CAROLINE SHEELEY WAS BORN 10, OCTOBER 1895 IN ADAMS COUNTY, DIED 15, APRIL 1913. SURVIVED BY HIS PARENTS, FOUR BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS, PRECEDED IN DEATH BY ONE BROTHER.

 

THERESSA C.R. ( HITE ) SIMMONS WAS BORN NEAR GUYANDOTTE WEST VIRGINIA 25, AUGUST 1833 AND DIED 30, APRIL 1913, THE DAUGHTER OF WILLIAM AND JANE HITE, CAME TO OHIO IN 1857, MARRIED JOSIAH W. SIMMONS 17, AUGUST 1862 AND TO THEM WERE BORN FIVE CHILDREN, WILLIAM QUINTER OF DAYTON OHIO, IRA STROTHER OF GREAT BEND KANSAS, PRISCILLA EMMA SILCOTT OF SEAMAN, CORA VALANCHE BARNES OF TRANQUILITY AND SALOMA ALICE SIMMONS AT HOME. BURIAL TRANQUILITY U.P. CHURCH.

 

 

15, MAY 1913

MRS. ANNA E. JONES, A FORMER ADAMS COUNTY RESIDENT DIED AT THE HOME OF MRS. WILLIAM BRAMMER OF IRONTON OHIO. SHE WAS BORN IN ADAMS COUNTY 67 YEARS AGO IN JANUARY. MR. JONES DIED 15 YEARS AGO. BURIAL " FAIRMONT INDIANA, SHE WILL BE BURIED BESIDE THE DAUGHTER SHE HAD LIVED WITH; THREE CHILDREN ARE SURVIVING, A.V. JONES, O.H. JONES AND L.B. JONES OF MINNEAPOLIS MINNESOTA, AND A BROTHER GEORGE KING OF WILMINGTON OHIO ALSO SURVIVES.

 

ARNOLD WEBB 21, THE SON OF MRS. JANE WEBB OF BLUE CREEK, DIED AT HIS HOME. SURVIVED BY HIS MOTHER, THREE BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS. BURIAL COPAS CEMETERY.

 

SAMUEL C. MASTERS, WHO DIED AT HIS HOME IN PORTSMOUTH, WAS RETURNED TO WINCHESTER FOR BURIAL { WINCHESTER WAS HIS FORMER HOME }. 76 YEARS OLD , SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE AND ONE DAUGHTER MRS. O.E. CLUTTER. BURIAL WINCHESTER CEMETERY.

 

MRS. ROBERT ECKMAN 60, RESIDENT OF NORTH LIBERTY, SURVIVED BY HER HUSBAND AND EIGHT CHILDREN. BURIAL CHERRY FORK.

MRS. THOMAS JOHNSON OF PEEBLES, DIED AT THE HOME OF HER DAUGHTER MRS. OZRA HAINES, 70 YEARS OLD, SURVIVED BY HER HUSBAND AND THE FOLLOWING CHILDREN, GEORGE AND SPENCER OF MEIGS TWP., JAMES OF PEEBLES, MRS. AMANDA WINDALL OF CASTORIA, MRS. EVA WINDALL OF CINCINNATI AND MRS. OZRA HAINES OF PEEBLES. BURIAL PURTEE CEMETERY

 

MRS. JENNIE CHAPMAN 40, WIFE OF DR. CHAPMAN DIED AT THEIR HOME IN SINKING SPRINGS. SURVIVED BY HER HUSBAND AND TWO CHILDREN, THREE BROTHERS OREN REARICK OF MUNCIE, BERT REARICK OF DAYTON AND HARVE REARICK OF PEEBLES, THREE SISTERS MRS. OSCAR EYLAR OF SINKING SPRINGS, MRS. OSCAR CUMMINGS OF MARTINSVILLE AND MRS. ED JACKSON OF LOCUST GROVE.

 

 

22, MAY 1913

MRS. HENRIETTA PATTON 82, DIED AT HER HOME IN PEEBLES. SURVIVED BY THREE DAUGHTERS MRS. JOE McKEEHAN AND MRS. J.F. YANKIE OF PEEBLES, MRS. NETTIE GRIFFITH OF CARRY OHIO, AND ONE SON WILL PATTON OF ST. JOE MONTANA. BURIAL SINKING SPRINGS CEMETERY.

 

SOPHIA JANE BOYD 8, DAUGHTER OF MR. & MRS. N.A. BOYD DIED AT THE HOME OF TYPHOID FEVER, LIVED NEAR MINERAL SPRINGS. BURIAL NEWMAN CEMETERY.

 

MARTHA J. CLARK, DIED SUDDENLY AT THE HOME OF HER SON WILLIAM A. CLARK OF WINCHESTER, SHE WAS 80 YEARS OLD, SURVIVED BY THREE GROWN CHILDREN, ALBERT W. OF PRINCETOWN, MRS. C.S. RODGERS OF CLEAR WATER NEBRASKA AND W.A. WITH WHOM SHE MADE HER HOME WITH. SHE WAS LAID TO REST IN THE LOCUST GROVE CEMETERY, BESIDE HER HUSBAND THAT DIED TWO YEARS AGO.

 

MISS LETTA SHATTUCK 22, DIED AT THE HOME OF HER PARENTS MR. & MRS. DAVIS SHATTUCK OF GREENBRIAR. BURIAL FAIRFAX M.E. CHURCH.

 

 

29, MAY 1913

ROBERT W. MATHEWS 67, A FARMER OF LIBERTY TWP., DIED OF CANCER OF THE LIVER. SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE AND THREE BROTHERS, SYLVESTER OF SEAMAN, JOSEPH OF ECKMANSVILLE AND JAMES OF NORTH LIBERTY AND ONE SISTER MISS MARY. BURIAL CHERRY FORK.

 

CAPTAIN N.W. EVANS, HEART FAILURE CAUSED THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN NELSON WILEY EVANS, HE WAS BORN AT SARDINIA, BROWN COUNTY OHIO 4, JUNE 1842 THE SON OF EDWARD PATTON EVANS AND AMANDA J. KING. HE MOVED WITH HIS FAMILY TO WEST UNION IN 1847, A VETERAN OF THE CIVIL WAR, SERVING IN CO.G 129th O.V.I. AS CAPTAIN. GRADUATED FROM THE MIAMI UNIVERSITY IN 1864, FROM THE CINCINNATI LAW SCHOOL IN 1865. HE LOCATED IN PORTSMOUTH, IN 1866 AND ON 9, SEPTEMBER 1868 HE MARRIED ELIZABETH HENDERSON. IN CONJUNCTION WITH HON. E.B. STIVERS, CAPTAIN EVANS WROTE AND PUBLISHED AN EXCELLENT HISTORY OF ADAMS COUNTY. SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE. BURIAL PORTSMOUTH OHIO.

 

5. JUNE 1913

JOSEPH K. ELY 78, DIED AT HIS HOME IN PEEBLES. A VETERAN OF THE CIVIL WAR, SERVED IN CO. B 89th OHIO. SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE AND TWO DAUGHTERS, MRS. LOU DAVIDSON OF PEEBLES AND MRS. MARGARET ADAMS SON OF WILLIAMSBURG, TWO SONS ALVA AND CHARLEY ELY OF WILLIAMSBURG. BURIAL WILLIAMSBURG.

 

W.H. JOHNSON, A FORMER RESIDENT OF WAMSLEY, DIED AT HIS HOME IN OTWAY. HE WAS BORN IN WAMSLEY 56 YEARS AGO, THE S/O ELIAS M. JOHNSON AND MINERVA PURTEE. BURIAL WAMSLEY CEMETERY.

 

WHEELER MOORE 67, OF WEST UNION. SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE THE FORMER MISS CLARA BROOKS, TWO BROTHERS W.B. AND T.N., FOUR SISTERS MRS. M.J. FREEMAN OF MATTOON ILLINOIS, MRS. MARIAH REYNOLDS, MRS. ADA MASON AND MRS. ANN BAYLESS. BURIAL WEST UNION OFF FELLOWS.

 

FLOYD W. WHITE 79, OF SPRIGG TOWNSHIP, DIED AT THE HOME OF HIS SON HARRY E. WHITE OF BENTONVILLE. A NATIVE OF BROWN COUNTY, HAD BEEN MAKING HIS HOME WITH HIS SON, SENICE THE DEATH OF HIS WIFE. BURIAL PISQAH RIDGE CEMETERY.

 

ROSS KING 68 YEAR OLD BACHLOR, DIED AT THE HOME OF GRANVILLE WILLIAMSON AT SEAMAN, DUE TO CANCER OF THE STOMACH. THE DECEASED WENT TO SEAMAN ABOUT TWO MONTHS AGO FROM RED OAK, BROWN COUNTY. BURIAL RED OAK CEMETERY.

 

12,JUNE 1913

PHILLIP SHIVNER, A WELL KNOWN FARMER RESIDING ON THE SCOTT SPEARS FARM IN LIBERTY TOWNSHIP, PASSED AWAY DUE TO CANCER OF THE STOMACH.

 

DANIEL HAMER WOODS, A NATIVE OF ADAMS COUNTY, DIED AT HIS HOME IN PARKERSBURG WEST VIRGINIA, WHERE HE MOVED TO NINE YEARS AGO. BORN IN WAMSLEY 39 YEARS AGO, SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE THE FORMER MISS MARY MATHENEY AND THREE CHILDREN AND THREE SISTERS, MISS S.M. WOODS AND MRS. EMMA WHITAKER OF WEST UNION AND MRS. ANNA DOUGLASS OF EASTWOOD, ONE BROTHER SAMUEL C. WOODS OF CARTHAGE MONTANA. BURIAL I.O.O.F. CEMETERY IN WEST UNION.

 

HARRY WASHBURN 9 YEAR OLD SON OF MR. & MRS. ED WASHBURN, DIED AT HIS HOME IN JACKTOWN OF HEART TROUBLE. BURIAL JACKTOWN CEMETERY.

 

JOSEPH THATCHER 81, DIED AT HIS HOME IN PEEBLES. HE WAS MARRIED TWICE, TO THE FIRST UNION WAS BORN ELEVEN CHILDREN, WHO WITH THE WIDOW FROM THE SECOND MARRIAGE SURVIVE AS FOLLOWS, T.W. THATCHER OF YOUNGS, SAMUEL OF KANSAS, ALFRED OF MINERAL SPRINGS, CHARLEY OF SINKING SPRINGS, LEON AND WILLIAM OF PEEBLES, MRS. ANNA BENNINGTON OF CINCINNATI, MRS. VIOLA HIBBS OF NEW VIENNA, OSCAR AND FRANCIS OF INDIANA. BURIAL ELDRIDGE CEMETERY ON PEACH MOUNTAIN.

MRS. LUCINDA MEEKS 56, WIDOW OF MOSES MEEKS, DIED AT THE HOME OF HER SON IN LAW ERNEST MOORE, A SHOEMAKER OF NO. 423 BOND STREET. THE FOLLOWING CHILDREN SURVIVE, WILLIAM MEEKS OF PORTSMOUTH, JOHN MEEKS OF BLUE CREEK, MRS. ARTIE EVANS OF BEECHY FORK AND LIZZIE MOORE OF PORTSMOUTH, BROTHERS JOHN HUNT OF BLUE CREEK AND CHRIS HUNT OF PEEBLES. HER REMAINS WERE TOOKEN TO BLUE CREEK IN ADAMS COUNTY FOR BURIAL.

 

19, JUNE 1913

MRS. LELAH KIRKER, DIED AT THE HOME OF HER SISTER MRS. W.P. STEPHENSON, 34 YEARS OLD, DAUGHTER OF THE LATE D.R. AND MARY J. SHRIVER OF MANCHESTER. SHE HAD LIVED IN CINCINNATI FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS, BUT FOR SEVERAL MONTHS HAD BEEN LIVING WITH HER SISTER IN WEST UNION. SURVIVED BY HER HUSBAND P.B. KIRKER AND A LITTLE DAUGHTER CAROLINE, ONE BROTHER BYRON OF JACKSON AND SIX SISTERS MRS. W.P. STEPHENSON, MRS. C.R. GREGORY OF OREGON CITY, OREGON, MRS. P.D. DRGO OF CINCINNATI, MRS. F.H. ELLISON AND MISSES EMMA AND KATE OF MANCHESTER. BURIAL MANCHESTER

 

SAMUEL LUCAS 67, DIED AT HIS HOME AT MAYHILL, A NATIVE OF HIGHLAND COUNTY. SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE AND SEVERAL CHILDREN. BURIAL LOUDEN CEMETERY.

 

HENRY ROBINSON 81, OF ROME, DIED AT HIS HOME THERE. A FORMER UNDERTAKER OF THAT AREA. SURVIVED BY TWO CHILDREN WILL AND MISS ELLA AT HOME. BURIAL POINT CEMETERY.

 

PHILIP SHIVENER 48, SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE AND SIX CHILDREN. BURIAL LIBERTY CEMETERY.

 

WILLIAM B. KINKEAD 74, DIED AT HIS HOME IN NORWOOD. HE WAS A WELL KNOWN HAT DRUMMER, THAT TRAVELED THROUGH SOUTHERN OHIO FOR THE PAST THIRTY YEARS.

 

MRS. MARIAH BLAKE 87, DIED AT THE HOME OF HER SON " IN " LAW H.S. McCELLAND OF DUNKINSVILLE. BURIAL BLAKE CEMETERY.

 

TWO MONTH OLD CHILD OF MR. & MRS. FRANK RALSTON OF WAGGONERS RIPPLE, DIED AT THE HOME LAST THURSDAY. BURIAL LIBERTY CEMETERY, JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP.

 

MRS. SAMUEL GROOMS 75, DIED AT HER HOME NEAR WEST UNION. HER HUSBAND SURVIVES. BURIAL I.O.O.F. CEMETERY.

 

26, JUNE 1913

CLAYTON HOUSER OF GALLIPOLIS, THE SON OF MR. & MRS. SAMUEL SANTEE OF PEEBLES AND A BROTHER OF WILLIAM HOUSER OF WEST UNION; DIED AT THE HOME OF HIS SISTER MRS. ALLIE HARTSELL OF COLUMBUS, 46 YEARS OLD. SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE AND TWO CHILDREN. BURIAL GALLIPOLIS.

CHADWICK EASTMAN DIED AT DODD CITY KANSAS, THE REMAINS WERE SHIPPED TO PEEBLES FOR BURIAL IN THE SINKING SPRINGS CEMETERY.

MRS. JENNIE PETERSON 63, DIED AT HER HOME IN LAWSHE. BURIAL NEWPORT CEMTERY.

ALLEN RIGGS OF SEAMAN, WAS INJURED IN A AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT NEAR MILFORD THE 8, JUNE 1913, DIED AT THE GOOD SAMARITAIN HOSPITAL IN CINCINNATI. THIRTY YEARS OF AGE AND SINGLE. HE LIVED WITH HIS MOTHER MARTHA RIGGS. BURIAL KIRKER CEMETERY.

 

MRS. HARRISON HARPER, FORMERLY OF MANCHESTER, DIED AT CHRIST HOSPITAL IN CINCINNATI AT THE AGE OF 27 YEARS. D/O GEORGE DRAKE OF MANCHESTER, SURVIVED BY HER HUSBAND. BURIAL MANCHESTER.

 

MRS. R.F. TAYLOR 52, DIED AT HER HOME ON STEAM FURNACE. SURVIVED BY HER HUSBAND AND FOUR DAUGHTERS, MRS. SYLVIA WITTENMYER OF ST. FRANCISVILLE ILLINOIS, MRS. P.O. THOMAS, MISSES GRACE AND MAGGIE AT HOME. BURIAL STEAM FURNACE.

 

J.V. McNEIL 80, OF CHERRY FORK, A NATIVE OF WAYNE TOWNSHIP. SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE AND SIX CHILDREN, CHARLIE OF HIGHLAND COUNTY, ALBERT OF MONTANA, EDWARD OF TEXAS, ARCHIE AND MRS. MAY HOOK OF IDAHO AND MRS. MINNIE KIRKPATRICK OF CHERRY FORK. BURIAL CHERRY FORK CEMETERY.

 

MISS MAGGIE STEELE, DIED AT THE HOME OF HER MOTHER. MRS. WILLIAM STEELE NEAR STONE CHAPEL. BURIAL ODD FELLOWS.

 

3, JULY 1913

MRS. J.H. CONNER, THE FORMER JENNIE FRAME, WAS BORN IN SPRIGG TWP. OF ADAMS COUNTY ON 26, MARCH 1851. THE DAUGHTER OF JAMES AND NANCY FRAME, PIONEER SETTLERS OF ADAMS COUNTY. SURVIVED BY THREE BROTHERS AND FIVE SISTERS. ON 26, JULY 1868 SHE MARRIED J.H. CONNER WHO SURVIVES HER, AND TO THEM WAS BORN THREE CHILDREN, A SON DIED IN INFANCY, THE OTHER TWO ARE MRS. HARLEY DUNLAP OF WASHINGTON C.H. AND WILLIAM A. OF WEST UNION. BURIAL ODD FELLOWS CEMETERY.

 

MARGARET McGINNIS 8 YEAR OLD DAUGHTER OF, MR. & MRS. JOHN McGINNIS, WHO MOVED FROM ADAMS COUNTY TWO YEARS AGO TO HILLSBORO. CAUSE OF DEATH WAS A BRAIN TUMOR. BURIAL ODD FELLOWS CEMETERY.

 

THOMAS SHELBY, COMMONLY CALLED " UNCLE TOM " DIED AT HIS HOME IN LAWSHE AT THE AGE OF 68 YEARS. BETTER REMEMBER AS " NO - ARM - TOM " DURING THE CIVIL WAR HE HAD BOTH ARMS BLOWN OFF AT THE ELBOWS, HE WAS A MEMBER OF CO. E, 1st OHIO HEAVY ARTILLERY. SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE AND THREE DAUGHTERS MAY MALCOME OF LOUDEN, MYRTLE MALONE OF HILLSBORO AND REBECCA POWELL OF WHOM WITH HER HUSBAND HE MADE HIS HOME WITH, ONE SON ROBERT OF SCOTT TWP., BURIAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH CEMETERY.

 

MRS. W.F. LLOYD 74, SURVIVED BY HER HUSBAND AND THREE CHILDREN GEORGE AT HOME, LAFE OF LIBERTY AND MRS. PORTER WAMSLEY OF WAYNE TWP., BURIAL KIRKER CEMETERY.

 

JOHN TUCKER OF WINCHESTER, DIED AT HIS HOME. 66 YEARS OLD WAS BORN IN BENTONVILLE, THE ELDEST SON OF HUGH AND PATIENCE MATHENY TUCKER NOW LIVING NEAR PEEBLES. HE WAS THE FIRST TO PASS ON IN HIS FAMILY AND THE FIRST IN 50 YEARS IN HIS FATHERS FAMILY. FIVE BROTHERS, ALFRED M. OF BROWN COUNTY, WESLEY L. OF LATONIA KY., OLIVER OF SEATTLE WASHINGTON, KILBY OF WILMINGTON AND ALSON OF PORTLAND OREGON. ONE SISTER MRS. MARY ELLISON OF PEEBLES ALL SURVIVE. ALSO SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE AND THREE SONS NORVIA E., HARVEY O. AND WILLIAM P. OF WINCHESTER AND ONE DAUGHTER MRS. ETTIE McNEILAN OF COLUMBUS.

 

 

10, JULY 1913

THOMAS J. WILSON OF BENTONVILLE, 74 YEARS OLD. SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE AND FIVE CHILDREN, MRS. MOLLIE TUMBLESON, CHARLES, JOHN, WILLIAM AND JAMES. FUNERAL M.E. CHURCH OF BENTONVILLE.

 

EDWIN JESSE, LITTLE SON OF MR. & MRS. W.T. JESSE OF FLEMINGSBURG KY., DIED AT THE HOME OF HIS GRANDPARENTS. THE REMAINS WILL BE TAKEN TO MANCHESTER OHIO FOR BURIAL DR. AND MRS. JESSE FORMERLY RESIDED THEIR.

 

JOHN B. MARKIN SON OF ANDREW AND ELIZABETH MARKIN, WAS BORN 10, AUGUST 1836 AND DIED 12, JUNE 1913. ON 28, DECEMBER 1859 MARRIED MARY BROWNLEE AND TO THEM WERE BORN FIVE CHILDREN, MRS. MARY F. HAINES NOW DECEASED, EMMA E. HAINES, JOHN W. NANCY B. MOORE AND MINTA M. PRESSGRAVES. HE WAS A VETERAN OF THE CIVIL WAR, SERVING IN 173rd. OHIO INFANTRY.

 

WOODROW JUDSON MOORE, THE SON OF FRANK AND ERMA MOORE, WAS BORN 11, MARCH 1913 AND DIED 27, JUNE 1913.

 

24, JULY 1913

MRS. CATHERINE SUFFRON AGED 80 YEARS WAS FOUND DEAD IN HER BED, AT THE HOME OF HER DAUGHTER MRS. F.C. MOORE. SURVIVED BY TWO SONS J.F. SUFFRON AND C.E. SUFFRON THE ONE DAUGHTER, ALL RESIDING IN PEEBLES, ONE BROTHER JAMES ELGIN OF TRANQUILITY. BURIAL LOCUST GROVE CEMETERY.

 

MRS. MARTHA EYLAR WIDOW OF THE LATE DAVID EYLAR DIED AT HER HOME IN LOCUST GROVE AT THE AGE OF 79 YEARS. SHE AND HER HUSBAND RAN THE EYLAR HOTEL IN LOCUST GROVE. SURVIVED BY SIX CHILDREN - JENNIE ZILE OF FRANKLIN TWP., MISSES ELLA & RUTH AT HOME, DR. O.R. EYLAR OF RAINSBORO, OSCAR OF SINKING SPRINGS AND JOHN OF KANSAS CITY. BURIAL LOCUST GROVE CEMETERY.

 

JOSEPH BURBAGE OF BENTONVILLE, DIED AT RIPELY WHILE ON A VISIT TO HIS DAUGHTER MRS. ETHEL KIRK. THE DECEASED WAS 71 YEARS OF AGE, A VETERAN OF THE CIVIL WAR AND IS SURVIVED BY FIVE CHILDREN. BURIAL KIRKER CEMETERY.

 

EDWARD HARMON RALSTON DIED AT HIS HOME ON BRUSH CREEK AT THE AGE OF 34 YEARS. S/O MR. & MRS. ROBERT RALSTON. SURVIVED BY WIFE AND SON, THE DECEASED DIED OF HODGKINS DISEASE. BURIAL ODD FELLOWS CEMETERY.

 

JAMES MACE RESIDING ON STOUTS RUN, DIED FROM A SUN STROKE AT THE AGE OF 65 YEARS. SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE AND SEVERAL CHILDREN.

 

31, JULY 1913

MRS. EMMA SHUPERT WIFE OF FRED SHUPERT OF LIBERTY TWP., PASSED AWAY DURING CHILDBIRTH, THE CHILD A HEALTHY BABY GIRL. SHE WAS 40 YEARS OLD AND THE D/O MRS. LEWIS YOUNG, BESIDES HER HUSBAND SHE IS ALSO SURVIVED BY SIX CHILDREN. BURIAL ODD FELLOWS CEMETERY.

 

MRS. CAROLINE KAY KAUTZ DIED AT THE HOME OF HER DAUGHTER MRS. IRA MILLER OF RUSSELLVILLE. BORN NEAR GEORGETOWN 5, DECEMBER 1842 AND TURNED 70 YEARS OLD LAST DECEMBER. SHE WAS MARRIED AT GEORGETOWN 9, NOVEMBER 1869 TO HENRY KAUTZ, TO THEM WAS BORN THE FOLLOWING CHILDREN, MRS. SALLIE MILLER OF RUSSELLVILLE AND MRS. ELLA HOWLAND OF NORTH LIBERTY. BURIAL ODD FELLOWS CEMETERY.

 

MRS. DORIS {RICKEY} HERBERT DIED AT THE HOME OF HER PARENTS, MR. AND MRS. CAMPBELL RICKEY OF LOCUST GROVE, SHE WAS 33 YEARS OF AGE. SURVIVED BY HER PARENTS, ONE SISTER MRS. FRANK SNYDER OF BELFAST, TWO BROTHERS OSCAR OF KENTON IOWA AND CARL OF CINCINNATI. BURIAL LOCUST GROVE CEMETERY BESIDE HER HUSBAND WHO DIED FOUR YEARS AGO.

 

MANCHESTER OHIO

ALBERT BECKMAN 33 OF 946 ENRIGHT AVE., PRICE HILL, DIED IN HIS CHAIR IN THE REAR OF HIS STORE. HE WAS A DRUGGIST WHO HAD OWNED A DRUG STORE IN MANCHESTER FOR SEVERAL MONTHS. SURVIVED BY HIS MOTHER. BURIAL CINCINNATI.

 

MYRON AUBERY PLUMMER 2€«_€ YEAR OLD S/O MRS. LEXIE PLUMMER DIED AT THE HOME OF HIS GRANDPARENTS MR. & MRS. JEFF SWISSHELM IN FRANKLIN TWP., HE WAS A VICTIM OF CHOLERA. BURIAL LOCUST GROVE CEMETERY.

 

HON. WILLIAM M. TUGMAN DIED AT HIS HOME IN CINCINNATI. BORN IN THE MOUNTAIN REGIONS OF NORTH CAROLINA, HE CAME TO ADAMS COUNTY AT THE AGE OF 15 YEARS. HE LEAVES A WIFE AND THREE SONS.

 

7, AUGUST 1913

DON TEEGARDEN A FORMER RESIDENT OF JEFFERSON TWP. DIED AT HIS PLACE OF WORK IN SPRINGFIELD OHIO. 34 YEARS OLD, THE S/O MR. & MRS. CALEB TEEGARDEN OF WAMSLEY. SURVIVED BY 2 BROTHERS ARA AND PAUL AND 4 SISTERS ICY WHITLEY AND ELLA ASHCRAFT ALL OF WAMSLEY, 2 SISTERS MRS.JEAN GARRETT OF SEAMAN AND MRS. JOHN MURPHY OF KY., HE WAS TWICE MARRIED, HIS SECOND WIFE AND SIX CHILDREN RESIDING IN PORTSMOUTH. BURIAL CINCINNATI, BESIDE HIS FIRST WIFE.

 

MRS. LIZZIE { YOUNG } DEMINT DIED AT THE HOME OF HER SON EARL ON BOYD AVE. IN WEST UNION AT THE AGE OF 63 YEARS, WIDOW OF FRANK DEMINT. FIVE CHILDREN SURVIVE IRWIN, MRS. ELMER REYNOLDS OF CINCINNATI, MRS. MAGGIE DEATLY OF CHICAGO, EARL, MATT AND CLYDE ALL OF WEST UNION. BURIAL ODD FELLOWS CEMETERY.

 

 

MARY BERKS BAILEY, WHO A NUMBER OF YEARS AGO LIVED WITH HER UNCLE I.A. WALLACE, DIED WHILE ON A VISIT TO RELATIVES IN KY., SHE LIVED IN DAYTON WITH HER HUSBAND WHO SURVIVES HER, A SISTER MRS. C.V. THOMAS ALSO OF DAYTON SURVIVES. BURIAL DAYTON

14, AUGUST 1913

 

FRANK G. BLAIR DIED AT HIS HOME IN TRANQUILITY AT THE AGE OF 53 YEARS. THE S/O HON. ALFRED BLAIR. HE LEAVES HIS WIFE AND ONE SON, THREE BROTHERS, JOHN J. OF PEEBLES, BLANCHARD AND F.W. .

 

JOSEPH W. HAYSLIP QUIETLY PASSED AWAY AT THE OLD HOMESTEAD AT THE HEAD OF MAIN STREET, 87 YEARS OF AGE, HE WAS A LIFE LONG RESIDENT OF WEST UNION AND SINCE CHILDHOOD HAD LIVED IN THE HOUSE HE DIED IN. JOSEPH WARREN HAYSLIP WAS BORN THE 17, MAY 1826 THE S/O JOHN AND LETTIE CAMPBELL HAYSLIP WHO WERE THE EARLIEST SETTLERS OF ADAMS COUNTY OHIO. HE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO LEMIRA E. MONTGOMERY ON 25, DECEMBER 1849 AND TO THEM WERE BORN NINE CHILDREN, HIS WIFE DIED 24,MAY 1891 AND EIGHT CHILDREN PRECEDED HIM, MRS. MAGGIE SPEARS IS THE ONLY SURVIVING CHILD. A CIVIL WAR VETERAN OF CO. C 24th REGIMENT O.V.I., BURIAL ODD FELLOWS CEMETERY.

 

JAMES M. STEWART FORMER RESIDENT OF WEST UNION DIED IN A CINCINNATI HOSPITAL WITH BRIGHTS DISEASE, AGE 34 YEARS THE S/O OF THE LATE CAPTAIN WILLIAM STEWART. HE AND HIS MOTHER CAROLINE STEWART HAD BEEN LIVING IN THE WALNUT HILLS AREA FOR THE LAST TWELVE YEARS. BURIAL WEST UNION'S OLD CEMETERY.

 

MRS. ELIZABETH WILSON DIED AT HER HOME ON E. MULBERRY STREET, WIDOW OF THE LATE JAMES WILSON, SHE WAS 69 YEARS OLD, SURVIVED BY SIX CHILDREN, MRS. ELI THOMAS OF PEEBLES, SAM, GARFIELD, MABEL, TILLIE AND SALLIE OF WEST UNION. BURIAL WEST UNION CEMETERY.

 

MARY PRICE AN AGED MAIDEN LADY DIED AT THE HOME OF HER SISTER MRS. ALEC WILSON ON STOUTS RUN. BURIAL COX CEMETERY.

 

INFANT CHILD OF MR. AND MRS. HENRY JOHNSON DIED AT THEIR HOME IN MINERAL SPRINGS. BURIAL JAYBIRD CEMETERY

 

21, AUGUST 1913

MR. CONNIE LEEDOM A FORMER ADAMS COUNTY RESIDENT DROPPED DEAD ON A STREET IN THE CITY OF HEBRON NEBRASKA, THAYER COUNTY. OLDEST S/O DAVIS LEEDOM, WAS BORN AND REARED TO MANHOOD NEAR BENTONVILLE, BUT LEFT THERE WITH HIS FATHER IN 1866 AND WENT TO NEBRASKA. THE NEPHEW OF MRS. EMPIRE BAYLESS FORMERLY OF WINCHESTER. HE LEFT NO FAMILY BUT HIS WIFE.

 

 

GEORGE W. SMITH FAMILIARLY KNOWN AS " KIRBY " DIED AT HIS HOME IN DECATUR AT THE AGE OF 58 YEARS. SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE AND ONE DAUGHTER MISS RUTH.

 

INFANT CHILD {2yrs} OF W.R. WEBB DIED OF CHOLERA AT THE HOME OF THE PARENTS IN GREENFIELD. BURIAL N. LIBERTY.

 

MISS MARY E. MATHEWS DIED AT THE OLD MATHEWS HOMESTEAD NEAR N. LIBERTY AT THE AGE OF 71 YRS., BURIAL CHERRY FORK CEMETERY.

 

MRS. NELSON EDGINGTON DIED AT HER HOME NEAR N. LIBERTY AT THE AGE OF 74 YRS., SURVIVED BY HER HUSBAND, TWO DAUGHTERS AND ONE SON.

 

MRS. FANNIE NELSON DIED AT THE HOME OF HER DAUGHTER MRS. LAKEN MARTIN IN MANCHESTER.

 

28 AUGUST 1913

DR. J.W. BUNN, WAS BORN AT SUGAR TREE RIDGE OHIO 11, FEBRUARY 1842 THE S/O JOHN BUNN WHO CAME TO OHIO FROM PENNSYLVANIA. A SISTER MRS. ELIZA MILLER AND TWO BROTHERS DR. WILL BUNN OF SUGAR TREE RIDGE AND JOSEPH BUNN OF HILLSBORO SURVIVE HIM. A CIVIL WAR VETERAN OF THE 182nd O.V.I.. MARRIED MISS ANNIE HOOD 16, SEPTEMBER 1877 TO THEM WERE BORN THREE CHILDREN, ALL PRECEDING HIM DEATH. SURVIVED BY THE WIFE AND DAUGHTER - IN - LAW AND GRANDDAUGHTER. BURIAL ODD FELLOWS CEMETERY.

 

ASBURY M. PAGE OF CLERMONT COUNTY, THE S/O REVEREND WILLIAM AND ELIZABETH O.DELL PAGE, WAS BORN IN WEST UNION ADAMS COUNTY OHIO 14, MARCH 1819 AND DIED 17, AUGUST 1913. HE CAME WITH HIS PARENTS FROM WEST UNION TO MOSCOW, CLERMONT COUNTY IN 1834. IN 1845 HE MARRIED MISS HARRIET CARR OF MT. OLIVE, CLERMONT COUNTY OHIO, OF THEIR CHILDREN FOUR SURVIVE HIM, CHARLES W., BELLE, MRS. A. WOLFE, MRS. HARRY PHIPPS. HIS WIFE DIED 10,MAY 1903. ALSO SURVIVED BY TWO AGED SISTERS MRS. GEORGE SMITH OF INDIANAPOLIS INDIANA AND MRS. HANNAH THOMPSON OF WALNUT HILLS IN CINCINNATI OHIO.

 

 

CAMPBELL RICKEY OF FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP DIED AT HIS HOME IN LOCUST GROVE AT THE AGE OF 78 YEARS. VETERAN OF THE CIVIL WAR OF CO. I 39th REGIMENT O.V.I., SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE AND SEVERAL GROWN CHILDREN, ONE SISTER MRS. MARTHA DOWNING AND TWO BROTHERS WILLIAM AND ALBERT OF WINCHESTER. BURIAL LOCUST GROVE CEMETERY.

 

11, SEPTEMBER 1913

GERTRUDE RICHTER 18 MONTH OLD DAUGHTER OF MR. & MRS. JOHN RICHTER OF LOWER TWIN CREEK. DEATH OCCURRED FROM BEING SCALDED TO DEATH BY HOT COFFEE.

 

18, SEPTEMBER 1913

OBITUARY

ELROY HERBERT WHITMER SECOND SON OF ALBERT WHITMER AND ANGIE M. LUCAS WAS BORN THE 26, APRIL 1885 AND DIED 28, AUGUST 1913. HE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO MARY YOUNG 17, AUGUST 1910 THE D/O JOHN B. AND DESMONID YOUNG. ONE SON WAS BORN 28, MAY 1911 NOW DECEASED. HE WAS FORMALLY SET APART TO THE OFFICE OF THE MINISTRY AT NEW HOLLAND, OHIO 6, SEPTEMBER 1907.

 

25, SEPTEMBER 1913

EMILY BELL BRUMLEY D/O WILLIAM AND OLIVE JENKINS WAS BORN 14, DECEMBER 1852 AND DIED 29, AUGUST 1913. MARRIED JOSEPH BRUMLEY 6, JANUARY 1870, EIGHT CHILDREN WITH SEVEN SURVIVING. SURVIVED BY HER HUSBAND, SEVEN CHILDREN, FIFTEEN GRANDCHILDREN, THREE BROTHERS, TWO SISTERS AND ONE HALF SISTER

 

MRS. ELIZABETH TUCKER OF BENTONVILLE, DIED AT HER HOME THERE. THE WIDOW OF THE LATE LEE TUCKER. MRS. TUCKER WAS NEAR 80yrs. OF AGE, SHE HAD SPENT HER ENTIRE LIFE IN THE BENTONVILLE AREA, SURVIVED BY FOUR SONS AND TWO DAUGHTERS. BURIAL MANCHESTER.

2, OCTOBER 1913

OBITUARY

MARTIN VAN BUREN WILLIAMSON, THE S/O SAMUEL AND ELIZABETH KINGLET WILLIAMSON WAS BORN 6, MARCH 1842 NEAR TRANQUILITY OHIO. HIS FIRST MARRIAGE WAS TO EMMA CAMPBELL AND TO THEM WAS BORN THREE DAUGHTERS MYRTA, ELMA AND MAGGY ALL WITH THE MOTHER ARE DECEASED. 24,SEPTEMBER 1877 HE MARRIED HATTIE STORER. IN HIS FATHERS FAMILY HE IS SURVIVED BY ONE BROTHER A.P. WILLIAMSON OF PERTH KANSAS, TWO HALF " BROTHERS J.G. WILLIAMSON OF TRANQUILITY AND IRA WILLIAMSON OF CARLOCK ILLINOIS, ONE HALF" SISTER MRS. MELISSA SMITSON OF CARLOCK ILLINOIS. IN HIS OWN FAMILY HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, ONE DAUGHTER LULU, TWO GRANDDAUGHTERS ETHEL AND ADA JAMISON, ONE GRANDSON JOHN E. HAIGH. BURIAL BELFAST CEMETERY.

 

 

16, OCTOBER 1913

MONROE PATTON A FORMER NORTH LIBERTY RESIDENT, DIED IN COLUMBUS AT THE AGE OF 62 YEARS. SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE AND FOUR DAUGHTERS. BURIAL NORTH LIBERTY.

 

23, OCTOBER 1913

ALLEN T. WRIGHT DIED AT HIS HOME IN NEWPORT KY., A NATIVE OF ADAMS COUNTY, HE LEFT HERE 20 YEARS AGO. THE DECEASED WAS 65 YEARS OF AGE . HE LEAVES TO MOURN, HIS WIFE AND ONE SON, FOUR BROTHERS AND FOUR SISTERS ALL OF ADAMS COUNTY OHIO. ONE BROTHER W.H. WRIGHT OF ADAMS COUNTY ATTENDED THE FUNERAL.

 

MRS. FRANK FOSTER DIED AT HER HOME IN CEDARVILLE OHIO, HER HUSBAND WAS A NATIVE OF ADAMS COUNTY AND IS A BROTHER OF J.C. FOSTER AND W.H. FOSTER OF WEST UNION. SHE LEAVES FOUR CHILDREN. FUNERAL LOUDEN OHIO.

 

ANDREW JACKSON MATHEWS, WAS BORN IN HARRISON COUNTY 25, DECEMBER 1836 AND DIED 28, OCTOBER 1913 AT HIS HOME IN MANCHESTER. MARRIED 23, NOVEMBER 1865 TO MISS NAOMI LITTLE, SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE AND TWO SONS AND THREE DAUGHTERS. HE WAS A VETERAN OF THE CIVIL WAR OF CO. I 29th INFANTRY. BURIAL I.O.O.F. CEMETERY.

 

GEORGE HILL DIED AT HIS HOME IN BLUE CREEK, JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP. HE LEAVES HIS WIFE, AGED MOTHER AND ONE SISTER. BURIAL COPAS CEMETERY.

 

MRS. MEAD SEAMAN DIED AT HER HOME ON THE SOUTH SIDE. BURIAL THE OLD CEMETERY IN WEST UNION.

 

30, OCTOBER 1913

BERT NEWLAND, DIED AT PORTSMOUTH, WAS A FORMER RESIDENT OF PEEBLES, AGE 41 YEARS. SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE AND FIVE CHILDREN AND ONE SISTER MRS. JOEL THOMAS OF PEEBLES. BURIAL MT. JOY.

 

MRS. PHOEBA MILEY AGED 78 YEARS DIED AT HER HOME NEAR PEEBLES. SURVIVED BY A FAMILY OF GROWN CHILDREN. BURIAL LAWSHE CEMETERY.

 

MRS. I.D. YOUNG DIED AT HER HOME ON CHURN CREEK, THE D/O THE LATE PHILLIP KRATZER, SHE WAS 45 YEARS OLD. SURVIVED BY HUSBAND AND EIGHT CHILDREN. BURIAL DRAKE CEMETERY.

D.B. KIRKER DIED AT THE HOME OF HIS DAUGHTER MRS. JOHN BROWN IN LIBERTY TOWNSHIP. THE S/O THE LATE WILLIAM KIRKER AND THE GRANDSON OF GOVERNOR THOMAS KIRKER, HIS WIFE PRECEDED HIM IN DEATH ABOUT 15 YEARS AGO. SURVIVED BY THREE CHILDREN, ANNA PURDON OF BROWN COUNTY, MRS., JOHN BROWN AND GEORGE R. OF LIBERTY TWP., BURIAL DECATUR.

 

FRANK HEMPLEMAN FORMERLY OF ADAMS COUNTY AND A NEPHEW OF ATTORNEY F.D. BAYLESS OF ADAMS COUNTY, DIED AT HIS HOME IN WASHINGTON COURT HOUSE AT THE AGE OF 30 YEARS. S/O I.L. HEMPLEMAN OF MINERAL SPRINGS, SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE AND ONE INFANT CHILD. BURIAL WASHINGTON COURT HOUSE.

 

MRS.. F.M. STULTZ OF PEEBLES DIED AT THE HOME OF HER DAUGHTER, MRS.. MARY DOSLEY AT PEORIA ILLINOIS WHERE SHE HAD BEEN VISITING FOR ABOUT FOUR WEEKS, SHE WAS 58 YEARS OLD AND IS SURVIVED BY HER HUSBAND AND SIX CHILDREN, SAMUEL, OVE, STARL AND CURLESS OF PEEBLES, OSCAR OF WEST UNION AND MRS.. MARY DOSLEY OF ILLINOIS. THE REMAINS WERE BROUGHT BACK TO PEEBLES FOR BURIAL.

 

6, NOVEMBER 1913

CLAY LEE COOPER AGED 55 YEARS A LIFE LONG RESIDENT OF TWIN CREEK IN JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP, DIED LAST WEEK AND WAS BURIED ON THE HIGHEST POINT OF LAND BETWEEN UPPER AND LOWER TWIN CREEK IN COMPLIANCE WITH A REQUEST MADE BY THE DECEASED TO HIS FAMILY, ALSO HE REQUESTED THAT HIS RIFLE AND OLD FASHIONED POWDER HORN AND POUCH BE PLACED IN HIS COFFIN. HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE AND TWELVE CHILDREN (SIX BOYS AND SIX GIRLS ).

 

13, NOVEMBER 1913

HERBERT ELLIOTT OF BLUE CREEK DIED OF DIPHTHERIA; S/O CHARLES ELLIOTT AND THE GRANDSON OF THOMAS ELLIOTT. BURIAL SUNSHINE RIDGE CEMETERY.

 

FAY JONES SIX YEAR OLD DAUGHTER OF MR. & MRS.. HENDRIC JONES OF BLUE CREEK. BURIAL MOORES CHAPEL CEMETERY.

 

HARVEY ECKMAN DIED AT THE HOME OF HIS FATHER ROBERT ECKMAN OF NORTH LIBERTY, THE DECEASED WAS 23 YEARS OLD. MARRIED MISS NELLIE SUTTERFIELD THE D/O THE POSTMASTER AND MRS.. P.R. SUTTERFIELD OF NORTH LIBERTY, BESIDES THE WIFE HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS FATHER THREE BROTHERS AND FOUR SISTERS. BURIAL CHERRY FORK CEMETERY.

 

E.B. CROSS AGED 58 YEARS OF JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP, WAS FOUND DEAD IN HIS BED BY HIS WIFE. BESIDES THE WIFE HE IS SURVIVED BY A DAUGHTER AT HOME AND TWO SONS BEN OF PORTSMOUTH AND JOHN A MUSICIAN IN THE U.S. NAVY. BURIAL MOORES CHAPEL CEMETERY

 

MICHAEL BRAND WHO CAME TO ADAMS COUNTY FROM CLERMONT COUNTY THIRTY YEARS AGO, DIED AT HIS HOME NEAR WAMSLEYVILLE IN JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP AT THE AGE OF 84 YEARS. SURVIVED BY FOUR SONS AND TWO DAUGHTERS { ONE SON E.T. BRAND AND ONE DAUGHTER MISS CELIA BRAND OF WARREN COUNTY SURVIVE }. BURIAL WAMSLEYVILLE, BESIDE HIS WIFE.

 

DR. NELSON B. LAFFERTY DIED AT HIS HOME IN HILLSBORO. HE WAS BORN 1, JANUARY 1840 IN WEST UNION, HE LIVED THERE UNTIL THE CIVIL WAR BROKE OUT, HE THEN ENLISTED WITH CO. D 24th O.V.I., SOON TO BE DISCHARGED. MARRIED 4, FEBRUARY 1880 TO MISS KATE HOLMES OF HILLSBORO. SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE AND TWO DAUGHTERS AND ONE SON, A BROTHER AND A SISTER OF ADAMS COUNTY, JOSEPH, MISS JULIA, ANOTHER SISTER MRS.. SMITH GRIMES OF PORTSMOUTH AND ANOTHER BROTHER C.Q. LAFFERTY OF PITTSBURGH. BURIAL QUAKER HILL.

 

REVEREND DAVID A. MOORISON, DIED AT HIS HOME NEAR PEEBLES, AGED 59 YEARS. HE WAS MARRIED TO MISS SALLIE BILLINGS SOME THIRTY YEARS AGO. SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE AND THREE DAUGHTERS. FUNERAL PEEBLES OHIO.

 

MRS.. REBECCA PRATHER THE WIFE OF CAPTAIN W.W. PRATHER DIED AT HER HOME AT 4213 TURRILL STREET CINCINNATI OHIO. A FORMER RESIDENT OF MANCHESTER SOME 15 YEARS AGO. D/O THE LATE JOSEPH SHRIVER AND WAS 63 YEARS OLD. SURVIVED BY HER HUSBAND, FIVE DAUGHTERS AND TWO SONS, MRS.. ED.T. LAWILL OF MANCHESTER BEING ONE OF THE DAUGHTERS. BURIAL 13, NOV. 1913 IN MANCHESTER.

CLARENCE BENNINGTON S/O JAMES M. AND MARY A. BENNINGTON WAS BORN 8, MARCH 1888, DIED 1, NOVEMBER 1913. BURIAL WHITE OAK.

 

20, NOVEMBER 1913

MRS.. AMANDA J. GROOMS WIFE OF UNCLE BILLIE GROOMS OF WEST UNION DIED AT HER HOME AT THE AGE OF 83 YEARS, LIVED IN TIFFIN TWP. ALL OF HER LIFE. SURVIVED BY HER HUSBAND AND FOURTEEN CHILDREN, THIRTY " TWO GRANDCHILDREN AND THIRTEEN GREAT GRANDCHILDREN. BURIAL ODD FELLOWS CEMETERY.

MRS.. NANCY BURNS, WIDOW OF JOHN BURNS FORMERLY OF FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP DIED AT THE HOME OF HER DAUGHTER MRS.. LEWIS CALDWELL OF BROWN COUNTY INDIANA. BURIAL SINKING SPRINGS CEMETERY.

 

BLANCHE DOUGLAS THE FOURTEEN YEAR OLD DAUGHTER OF MR. & MRS.. CAREY DOUGLAS AND THE GRANDDAUGHTER OF MR. & MRS.. SOL CONOWAY OF FRANKLIN TWP. , DIED AT THE D.D. HOSPITAL IN COLUMBUS, OF DIABETES. BURIAL LOCUST GROVE CEMETERY.

MRS.. ELLEN MORRIS DIED AT THE INFIRMARY, 72 YEARS OLD. BURIAL WEST UNION CEMETERY.

 

MRS.. PETER HAMILTON OF HIGH HILL BACK OF ROME, DIED AT THE AGE OF 35 YEARS. THREE DAYS LATER THERE NEWBORN BABY DIED. SEVERAL OTHER SMALL CHILDREN ARE IN THE FAMILY.

 

FIFTEEN MONTH OLD CHILD OF MR. & MRS.. LEE COOPER OF BLUE CREEK DIED WITH PNEUMONIA.

 

 

27, NOVEMBER 1913

MISS MIMA COOPER D/O MR. & MRS.. JOHN COOPER OF MONROE TOWNSHIP PASSED AWAY. BURIAL MANCHESTER CEMETERY.

 

NATHAN PENCE OF BENTONVILLE DIED AT HIS HOME. 63 YEARS OF AGE. SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE AND FOUR CHILDREN, MRS.. DELMER JACKSON OF WEST UNION, MRS.. FRANK PIATT OF CARRS KY., CARL OF GILMAN ILLINOIS AND VIRGIL OF BENTONVILLE, SIX BROTHERS AND ONE SISTER GEORGE, HENRY, PETER, JERRY, BENJAMIN, LEWIS AND ELIZA TACKET. BURIAL KIRKER CEMETERY.

 

MRS.. HENRY SMALLEY AGE 20 YEARS DIED AT THE HOME OF HER BROTHER ASA PALMER AT NEWTOWN, NEAR CINCINNATI. BURIAL LOCUST GROVE.

 

 

MISS JANE LITTLE A MAIDEN LADY AGED 60 YEARS, DIED AT HER HOME IN MANCHESTER, THE D/O THE LATE JAMES LITTLE A PIONEER RESIDENT OF ADAMS COUNTY { MANCHESTER}.

 

HENRY KRESS, DIED AT HIS HOME IN MANCHESTER AT THE AGE OF 82 YEARS, A NATIVE OF BAVARIA, HE CAME HERE WHEN A YOUNG BOY. CIVIL WAR VETERAN OF CO. G 70th REGIMENT. MARRIED MISS JANE CALBERT OF MANCHESTER AND TO THEM WAS BORN SIXTEEN CHILDREN. SURVIVED BY THE WIFE AND TEN OF THE CHILDREN. BURIAL MANCHESTER CEMETERY.

 

ALBERT KENDALL OF HARPERS FERRY DIED OF CANCER AT THE AGE OF 60 YEARS. SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE AND THREE CHILDREN EDWARD, CURTIS AND MRS.. DORA D€Š_€VORE. BURIAL WINCHESTER CEMETERY.

 

4, DECEMBER 1913

DORA MAE CARAWAY BORN 17, MAY 1865 DIED 23, JULY 1913.

 

LULU BLANCHE DOUGLASS D/O CAREY AND IONA DOUGLASS WAS BORN 13, OCTOBER 1899 AND DIED 18, NOVEMBER 1913.

 

 

STEPHEN L. LAWILL A FORMER MANCHESTER MAN DIED AT THE HOME OF HIS DAUGHTER MRS.. D.C. MULLEN OF CINCINNATI, WITH WHOM HE AND HIS WIFE HAD MADE THEIR HOME WITH FOR SEVERAL YEARS. AGED 85 YEARS, BORN NEAR ELLSBERRY IN BROWN COUNTY, VETERAN OF THE CIVIL WAR OF CO. H 182nd REGIMENT O.V.I., BURIAL MANCHESTER/

 

CRAYTON DUNBAR A FORMER FRANKLIN TWP. RESIDENT DIED AT YUMA ARIZONA, AGED 37 YEARS OLD, THE S/O THE LATE CARY DUNBAR AND A GRANDSON OF THE LATE W.W. DUNBAR OF LOCUST GROVE. HE LEFT ADAMS COUNTY SIXTEEN YEARS AGO HOBOING HIS WAY TO ARIZONA. NEVER MARRIED. BURIAL LOCUST GROVE CEMETERY IN THE FAMILY PLOT.

 

OMAR WILSON A FORMER ABERDEEN BOY, DIED IN WASHINGTON D.C., BROTHER OF M.O. WILSON OF VANCEBURG. SURVIVED BY THREE CHILDREN.

 

MRS.. MARY MURPHY WIDOW OF THE LATE DARIUS MURPHY DIED AT THE HOME OF HER DAUGHTER MRS.. REBECCA WALKER AT DUNLAP. AGE 71 YEARS OLD. SURVIVED BY A FAMILY OF GROWN CHILDREN. BURIAL JAYBIRD CEMETERY.

 

BARBARA KATES A FORMER ADAMS COUNTY RESIDENT, 67 YEARS OLD DIED AT HER HOME IN RAREDEN. BORN 22,MAY 1846 IN ADAMS COUNTY THE D/O RICHARD AND CHRISTINA THATCHER , BEING ONE OF TEN CHILDREN SAMUEL THATCHER OF PORTSMOUTH, WILLIAM THATCHER WAGGONERS RIFFLE ARE THE SURVIVING BROTHERS. 3, NOVEMBER SHE MARRIED J.N. KATES, TO THEM WERE BORN TWELVE CHILDREN, SIX SURVIVE, MRS.. MINNIE KEAVEY OF RAREDEN, MRS.. T.C. MCCANN OF CINCINNATI, MRS.. HOADLY THOMAS OF DAYTON, CLYDE C. OF DAYTON, JAMES W. AND WILEY OF RAREDEN. BURIAL NEWMAN CEMETERY.

 

FRED WISECUP FORMERLY OF UNITY, DIED AT OXFORD AT THE AGE OF 58 YEARS. SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE AND SEVEN CHILDREN AND A BROTHER - IN - LAW THEODORE LEACH.

 

RUTH GARRETT, EIGHT YEAR OLD D/O MR. & MRS.. C.O. GARRETT DIED AT THE HOME OF HER GRANDFATHER CALEB TEAGAREDEN INN JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP OF TYPHOID FEVER. BURIAL WAMSLEY.

 

J.D. FORSYTHE OF GREEN TOWNSHIP DIED AT HIS HOME NEAR ROME. 69 YEARS OLD. SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE AND SEVEN BOYS AND TWO DAUGHTERS. BURIAL SANDY SPRINGS.

 

JOHN CLINTON COLVIN DIED AT HIS HOME ON TWIN CREEK AT THE AGE OF 50 YEARS. PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HIS WIFE AND TWO CHILDREN. SURVIVED BY FOUR SONS AND ONE DAUGHTER.

 

MRS.. MARIE BURBAGE DIED AT HER HOME IN WINCHESTER AT THE AGE OF 82 YEARS. NO IMMEDIATE RELATIVES SURVIVING.

 

MAURICE EVANS, AGE 33 YEARS DIED AT HIS HOME ON HOOP RIDGE. SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE AND THREE CHILDREN. BURIAL SCRUB RIDGE.

 

 

11, DECEMBER 1913

JOHN B. MITCHELL DIED AT LEESBURG. HE HAD SPENT NEARLY ALL HIS LIFE IN PEEBLES, 7, SEPTEMBER 1908 HE HAD MOVED TO LEESBURG. HE WAS 70 YEARS OLD AND SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE AND THREE CHILDREN, REVEREND W.C. MITCHELL OF CINCINNATI, I.V. MITCHELL OF LEESBURG AND MRS.. LIDA J. PETERSON OF PEEBLES. BURIAL LOCUST GROVE.

CHARLES D. YOUNG, THE YOUNGEST S/O THE LATE WILLIAM AND SARAH YOUNG WAS BORN AT YOUNGSVILLE OHIO 10, JULY 1867. MARRIED IN 1890 TO MISS MARY E. ALLISON OF SINKING SPRINGS OHIO AND TO THEM WAS BORN ONE SON CORWIN C. OF DETROIT MICHIGAN. HE DIED AT THE HOME OF HIS SISTER MRS.. J.C. BIDDLE OF SEAMAN 3, DECEMBER 1913. BURIAL MT. LEIGH CEMETERY.

MARION M. YOUNG, THE ELDEST S/O WILLIAM AND SARAH YOUNG, WAS BORN AT YOUNGSVILLE OHIO 24, JUNE 1850. FOR MORE THAN TWENTY YEARS HE HAD LIVED IN COLORADO. DIED AT HIS SISTERS HOME IN YOUNGSVILLE OHIO. OF THE TWO BROTHERS LISTED ABOVE THEY LEAVE TO MOURN, ONE BROTHER JOHN OF SEAMAN AND FOUR SISTERS.

 

18, DECEMBER 1913

SAMUEL WALKER 82 YEARS OLD DIED AT THE HOME OF HIS SON " IN " LAW REVEREND RABB AT TRANQUILITY. A NATIVE OF LOUISVILLE KY., BURIAL LOUISVILLE KY.

 

MISS OVA STEWART D/O MR. & MRS.. LOU STEWART, WHO WERE FORMERLY OF STEAM FURNACE, DIED AT HOME NEAR SINKING SPRINGS AT THE AGE OF 24 YEARS.

 

ELIZABETH MARY SPENCER MCCALL, DIED 5, DECEMBER 1913, WAS BORN IN ROME ADAMS COUNTY OHIO 7, JANUARY 1865, WITH HER PARENTS MOVED TO SCIOTO COUNTY WHEN SHE WAS A SMALL CHILD. HER PARENTS JOSEPH SPENCER DIED TEN YEARS AGO AND HER MOTHER DIED TWENTY " FIVE YEARS AGO IN BUENA VISTA. THERE WAS SEVEN DAUGHTERS AND THREE SONS IN THIS FAMILY, TWO BROTHERS AND TWO SISTERS ARE DECEASED, THOSE SURVIVING ARE EFFIE METZGER OF THIRD STREET, LAURA WAMSLEY OF ROME, GILBERT OF NEW BOSTON, MYRTLE MOORE OF WEST SIDE AND SALLIE HARVEY OF 7th STREET. MARRIED 28, JUNE 1883 TO JOSEPH MCCALL, NINE CHILDREN WERE BORN TO THEM, THOSE SURVIVING ARE DAVID OF MICHIGAN, SOPHIA MARTIN, HELEN MALONE, HARRY, LAURA, ROBERT AND BESSIE.

 

MINOR DUNLAP AGE SIXTY YEARS, DIED AT HIS HOME IN HILLSBORO. HE WAS BORN AND REARED IN FRANKLIN TWP., A BROTHER OF MARION DUNLAP. BURIAL LOCUST GROVE CE,ETERY.

 

 

ROUELLA ROMAINE WILLIAMS FIVE MONTH OLD DAUGHTER OF MR. & MRS.. NATION WILLIAMS OF PEEBLES PASSED AWAY. BURIAL LOCUST GROVE.

 

T.W. BROOMHALL OF COLUMBUS DIED AT THE AGE OF 60 YEARS. SURVIVED BY WIFE AND FAMILY OF GROWN CHILDREN AND A BROTHER G.W. BROOMHALL OF PEEBLES.

 

MRS.. ELANOR LEACH DIED AT HER HOME ON MULBERRY STREET, AT THE AGE OF 79 YEARS. D/O SAMUEL AND AGNES CHRISTIA WILSON AND WAS BORN NEAR MEADVILLE PENNSYLVANIA. IN HER GIRLHOOD DAYS SHE ACCOMPANIED HER PARENTS ON TWO RETURN TRIPS ACROSS THE ATLANTIC OCEAN TO IRELAND, THEIR NATIVE LAND. MARRIED IN 1855 TO ROBERT A. LEACH NOW DECEASED, TO THEM WERE BORN FIVE CHILDREN, TWO SURVIVING, WILLIAM C. OF CINCINNATI AND MRS.. J.S. MATHEWS OF WEST UNION. BURIAL TROTTER CEMETERY.

 

MRS.. NANCY ELLIOTT BLACK, WIFE OF P.K. BLACK OF BENTONVILLE DIED SUNDAY AT THE AGE OF 60 YEARS, BORN ON ISLAND CREEK. SURVIVED BY A NEPHEW REVEREND JOSEPH BLACK OF MACON. BURIAL ODD FELLOWS CEMETERY IN MANCHESTER.

 

TWO MONTH OLD CHILD OF MR. & MRS.. CHARLES WILLIAMSON, FORMER RESIDENTS OF HARSHAVILLE, DIED AT THEIR HOME IN HILLSBORO. BURIAL MT. LEIGH CEMETERY.

 

VERNON WALKER DIED AT FLAT RUN. THE FIFTEEN YEAR OLD S/O MR. & MRS.. DAVID WALKER. BURIAL TRANQUILITY CEMETERY.