Various Death Notices Of Pioneers from Washington County, Ohio 1819-1892 1. Abraham WHIPPLE 2. Herman BLENNERHASSET 3. Wm. PUTNAM 4. Augustus STONE 5. Samuel SHIPMAN 6. Joseph JOHNSON 7. Hon. William P. CUTLER (CULTER) 8. Louis SCHMIDT 9. Mrs. Catharine HIGHLAND 10. Joseph E. HALL 11. Mrs. Sophia B. WOODRUFF 12. Michael EARLY 13. Hannibal A. WILLIAMSON 14. Rev. J. B. BARTLETT 15. Rev. CURTIS 16. Prof. O. H. MITCHEL 17. Col. E. S. McINTOSH 18. Miss Addie B. SNYDER 19. Mrs. F. F. MARDEN 20. David Putnam 21. Mrs. Nancy FROST 22. Calvin STORY 23. Douglas PUTNAM 24. William C. SMILEY 1. Died at Marietta, (O.) on the 27th of May last, aged 86 years, Com. Abraham WHIPPLE, a native of Rhode Island---the first man that ever fired a gun, upon the water in defence of American liberty. Ohio Repository (Canton, Ohio) July 30, 1819 2. Herman BLENNERHASSET, son of the Irish adventurer of that na??, whose romantic residence on an Island in the Ohio, near Marietta, has been so famous in history, died in New York, on the 17th inst. There is one brother now living in Missouri. Ohio Repository (Canton, Ohio) September 27, 1854 3. A PIONEER GONE Hon. Wm. Rufus PUTNAM, of Marietta, Ohio , died on Monday, January 1st, aged 88 years. He was the son of Gen. Rufus Putnam, who established the first permanent white settlement north-west of the Ohio, in 1788. the deceeased settlede in Marietta in the fall of 1790, and has since continued to reside there. In 1801 he was elected one of the representatives from Washington county (then embracing nearly one-fourth of the present State), to the Territorial Legislature. He filled the measure of an honest, useful man, and died respected by all who knew him. Defiance Democrat (Defiance, Ohio) February 3, 1855 3b. ANOTHER PIONEER GONE The Hon. Wm. PUTNAM, of Marietta died on the 1st inst., aged 83 years. He was the son of Gen. Rufus PUTNAM, who made the first permanent white settlement northwest of the Ohio, in 1788. The desceased settled in Marietta in 1799, and resided there ever since. In 1801 he was chosen on of the Representatives from Washington county to the Territorial Legislature. The county then embarced nearly one-fourth of the present State of Ohio. He was an honest, useful man, and enjoyed the respect of all who knew him. Ohio Repository (Canton, Ohio) January 24, 1855 4. Col. Augustus STONE, aged 90 years, who came to Marietta with Gen. Putnam when a child, died at that city last week. Cambridge Jeffersonian (Cambridge, Ohio) June 12, 1879 5. Samuel SHIPMAN, on of the pioneers of Marietta, died quite suddenly Sunday evening. Cambridge Jeffersonian (Cambridge, Ohio) May 20, 1880 6. OHIO NEWS Joseph JOHNSON, a soldier of the war of 1812, died at Newport, the other day, aged 100. Cambridge Jeffersonian (Cambridge, Ohio) July 1, 1880 Page ? Col 4 7. Hon. William P. CUTLER (CULTER), ex-Congressman; and for three terms a member of the Ohio Legislature, died at his home in Marietta on the 11th. Elyria Democrat, The (Elyria, Ohio) April 18, 1889 8. Louis SCHMIDT, a Captain in the Sixty-third Ohio regiment during the war, died at Marietta, Tuesday. 9. An old Irish lady named Catharine HIGHLAND died at Marietta, on Wednesday, aged over 100 years. Marion Daily Star (Marion, OH) March 31, 1881 9b. Mrs. Catharine HIGHLAND, of Marietta, Ohio, died recently, aged 102 years. She had a brother 100 years old, and her granfather also completed a century. Marion Daily Star (Marion, OH) July 25, 1882 10. Joseph E. HALL, long identified with the business interests of Marietta, died at the residence of his son, John HALL, in that city, Sunday, at the age of 92 years. Marion Daily Star, The (Marion, Ohio) April 7, 1885 11. Mrs. Sophia B. WOODRUFF, widow of the late Asbel WOODRUFF, died at her hom in Marietta, Monday, aged 85 years. Marion Daily Star, The (Marion, Ohio) June 3, 1885 12. Michael EARLY died at Marietta, O., of injuries received in the late accident on the Mineral railroad. Marion Daily Star (Marion, OH) March 21, 1887 13. MARIETTA’S LAST VICTIM Marietta, August 21.---Hannibal A. WILLIAMSON, of the cals of ‘83 (1883), Marietta College, died at his home in Grandview, this county, of what has been termed typhoid fever. He was present and partook of the alumni dinner, and makes the eighth victim that has died from some cause or other of that banquet. This is the last critical case about here. The others are steadily improving, and a number of them are able to be on the streets again. Newark Daily Advocate (Newark, Ohio) August 21, 1888 14. Rev. J. B. BARTLETT, a Luthern preacher of Belpre, died very suddenly. Foul play is suspected. Newark Daily Advocate (Newark, Ohio) March 7, 1889 15. A MINISTER FALL OVER DEAD Wheeling, W. Va., March 25.--Rev. CURTIS, aged 65, circuit rider of the Methodist church, which headquarters at Hockingsport, died very suddenly at New Matamoras, Ol, Sunday. He had preached in the morning and ate a hearty dinner afterwards. As he was rising from the table, he gave a gasp and fell over dead. Newark Daily Advocate (Newark, Ohio) March 25, 1889 Pg. 1 Col. 4 16. A YOUNG LIFE, FULL OF PROMISE, ENDED Prof. O. H. MITCHEL, Ph. D., of Marietta college, died at his home in that city last Friday, after a brief illness of pneumonia. Prof. MITCHELL was a very brilliant and promising mathematician and astronomer. Although a comparatively young man, he was the author of several scientific articles that rank as standard authorities. Prof. MITCHELL was a native of Locke, this county, and life of great promise is this cut short in his death. A sad soincidenced connected with Prof. MITCHELL’S death is the fact that his younger sister, Miss Hattie N. MITCHELL, was married only the day before, at her home near Locke. Newark Daily Advocate (Newark, Ohio) April 1, 1889 17. Col. E. S. McINTOSH, of Beverly, died March 30, aged 96 years. He was one of the memarkable men among the pioneers of the Muskingum Valley. Cambridge Jeffersonian (Cambridge, Ohio) April 4, 1889 18. Miss Addie B. SNYDER, died on Tuesday, July 22nd of Gastric ?over. Mr. Snyder is a promant merchant of Marietta and was formerly well known in Cambridge as conductor on the C & M Railway. Cambridge Jeffersonian (Cambridge, Ohio) August 1, 1889 19. Died, on the 8th inst., Mrs. F. F. MARDEN, of Elba, Washington county, Ohio. a post mortem made by Doctor St. John, of Elba, Deereu, of Macksburg and Wall, of Cambridge, disclosed the fact that death had been caused by intenstal abstruction. A section of the small bowel becoming looped from some cause, a fivbrous band was developed across, in such a manner as to prevent it from resuming its normal condition again, this giveing rise to obstruction, which was quickly followed by inflammation ending in death. Cambridge Jeffersonian (Cambridge, Ohio) January 16, 1890 20. David PUTHAM, a grandson of General Israel PUTNAM, of Revolutionary war fame, and one of the first settlers of the Northwest Territory, died at his home in Marietta a few days since, aged 85 years. He was a very prominent and wealthy citizen, and was a distant connection of Probate Judge E. M. P. Brister, of this city. Newark Daily Advocate (Newark, Ohio) January 15, 1892 21. CALLED HOME AT LAST Zanesville, O., Feb. 11---Mrs. Nancy FROST died at her home near Lowell yesterday at the advanced age on one hundred and eight years. Newark Daily Advocate (Newark, Ohio) February 11, 1892 22. Calvin STORY, a young man of twenty-five, living at Coal Run, Washington county, with his widowed mother, took a dose of Rough on rats last Thursday evening, from the effects of which he died, Friday morning. He had been a sufferer from epilepsy for a number of years, and had become very despondent of late. He gave no reason for his rash act eccept that he was tired of live.---Marietta Register. Cambridge Jeffersonian (Cambridge, Ohio) April 28, 1892 23. Marietta, O., Dec. 20.---Douglas PUTNAM died this morning, aged 88. He leaves a widow and four children. He was a greatgrandson of Gen. Isreal PUTNAM, afamous in revolutionary history, and a grandson of Gen. Isreal Putnam, who helped to settle the Ohio valley. He had been sceretary of Marietta college since its foundatiuon, in 1835, and signed every diploma ever granted by it. His estate was valued at a third of a million. He was very benevolent and never had a lawsuit until a few years ago. Funeral services will be held Saturday. Sandusky Register (Sandusky, Ohio) December 21, 1894 Page 1, Col. 5 24. DEAD MAN’S PENSION INCREASED Marietta, O., Jan. 8---William C. SMILEY, who died at Waterford, this county, 14 years ago, has been granted a pension increase from $6 to $12. Marion Daily Star (Marion, OH) January 8, 1898 Transcribed by Debbie (Noland) Nitsche Diamonddeb@comcast.net Names have been captialized for easy identification. January 2004