VARIOUS 1875 DEATH NOTICES Found in various Thursday Morning editions of the Athens Messenger (Athens, Ohio) In the Surrounding Counties Section of Washington County, Ohio. Spellings of names are copied as printed in the newspaper. I have noticed many misspellings of names, probably due to the fact that the newspaper printed the name as it sounded. WASHINGTON COUNTY, OHIO NEWS February 25, 1875 Mrs. Betsy MANKINS, one of the oldest citizens of Dunham township, died on the 13 inst., aged 90 years. March 4, 1875 Mrs. Catharine THEIS, wife of Peter THEIS, of Harmar, died on Tuesday of last week, aged 55 years. March 4, 1875 Mr. and Mrs. John MOORE, aged respectively, 86 and 87, both died on the same day recently in Washington county. March 11, 1875 Mr. E. R. ROBINSON, of Robinson’s Mills, on Duck Creek, died on Wednesday, February 25th, aged 81 years. He settled there in 1829, and has remaines in the same place ever since. March 11, 1875 Donald GALBREATH, aged 75, died at his residence near Belpre on the 25th ult. He was a native of Scotland and had lived on the farm where he died about twenty years. March 18, 1875 Mrs. Martha A., wife of J. W. STURGISS, of Marietta, died Monday morning of last week. March 25, 1875 Mrs. Rebecca GODDARD, who had been a resident of Fairfield, Washington county, for 58 years, recently died in her 88th year. She was noted for her consistent christian character. March 25, 1875 Lieut. FOURAKER, who recently died in Marietta, had been an invalid since April 8th, 1862 in consequence of wounds received at the battle of Shiloh. His wounds paralyzed his lover extremities so that he has never been able to walk. April 1, 1875 Jacob PONTUS a middle aged resident of Salem township died quite suddenly on the 22nd of March. April 8, 1875 John MARKS, a former Marietta merchant, died on the 16th of January at Providence, Rhode Island. April 15, 1875 Miss Olive ROUSE, aged 56, a daughter of Stephen ROUSE, an orginial pioneer, recently deceased at Belpre. April 22, 1875 the wife of Capt. J. H. BERRY, or Williamstown, died Tuesday, March 30th, aged 60 years. April 29, 1875 Mr. DUNLEVY, aged 78, and Mr. Jos. MILLER, recently died in Belpre. April 29, 1875 Capt. Wm. W. SCOTT, formerly of Harmar, died recently at Alamedo, California. May 6, 1875 Peter BARNETT, of Barlow township, aged 90, recently fell into the fire receiving injuries from which he died on the following day. May 6, 1875 Gustave A. SCHERF, formerly teacher of German in the Marietta Public Schools died on the 1st of last month at Mt. Union College. May 13, 1875 Mr. Ellis RUSSELL, who was recently shot and killed at Cutler by a drunken negro, is represented as a kind and affectionate man and highly esteemed by all. May 13, 1875 On Monday of last week the death of Edward W. BUELL, of Marietta, was announced from New York City. H had been absent about ten days on a business trip and it had not been known that he was unwell. May 13, 1875 Henry NORTHOP, a carpenter who disapeared from Marietta, in January, was first heard from about the 1st of this month through the matron of a benovolent Hospital in Pittsburg, stating that he had died in that institution on the 28 ult. May 27, 1875 Mrs. Hannah Fay HATCH, sister of the late Wm. FAY, of Marietta, who was the last survivor of her family, recently died at Peoria, Illinois. June 10, 1875 Miss S. H. FAY, of Marietta, recently died, after a lingering illness of cnsumption. She is said to have been an artist of rare attainments. June 17, 1875 A midnight funeral occurred in Marietta, on Friday night the 4th inst.--A son of Mr. John SOIST--a lad aged eight or ten years, who died with small-pox the day previous--was laid in the grave at the solemn hour, by a few faithful friends. June 24, 1875 Mrs. Ann M. PORTERFIELD, aged 90, of Belpre, died on the 11th inst. June 24, 1875 Mr. John GAFFEN died in Marietta, on Monday of last week, of small- pox, after a few days illness. There were no new cases of that disease reported last week in that city. June 24, 1875 Mrs. Jan KITTS died, at “Fifteen,” on the 10th inst., of small-pox. This is the second fatal case that has occurred there; that of Mr. Hiram HENDERSHOT being the other. July 8, 1875 Mr. Collis DIBBLE, aged 80, and old resident of Marietta, died suddenly on the 26th ult. July 8, 1875 Johnny GLEASON, of Harmar, aged four years, was recently drowned in the Muskingum at that place. July 8, 1875 The death of Jacob DABOLD of Marietta, was the third fatal case of small- pox that had occurred in that city. July 22, 1875 The funeral services of Mr. Clouse DUDEN here held in the M. E. Church, at Harmar, on the 10inst., and were largely attended. July 29, 1875 Major George W. BARKER, a native of this county, died in Barton county, Missouri, on the 18th inst., aged 73 years. August 5, 1875 John O.CAMPBELL, formerly of Cutler, this county, fireman on a paymaster’s train on the Cincinnati, Indianapolis and Lafayette railroad, was shot and instantly killed, at Greensburgh, Indianan, on the night of July 21st. August 5, 1875 The following tribute appeared in the last number of the Marietta Register: Editor Register: We, the children of the Home, wish to express our sympathy with the family of Mr. OLDHAM, in the loss of a kind father, as well as our sorrow, in the loss of a true friend and guardian. We will remember his kind and cheering words on last Christmas Day. We also remember his self-sacrificing example at our Exhibition in giving up his place to others, when the schoolroom was full. We feel very sad to think that we shall see his smiling face no more, but home that we many live, so as to be prepared to meet him in that Home where sorrow and parting are not known. August 12, 1875 The late Hon. Wylie H. OLDHAM was in his 55th year at the time of his death. August 12, 1875 A colored man, by the name of JOHNSON, was drowned on the head of Blennerhassett Island, on Monday of last week, while drifting. August 12, 1875 Three children, members of a family, living near Harmar, by the name of BAUMGARTNER, recently died within a few days of each other, with diphtheria. August 12, 1875 Thomas J. MORRIS, colored, a driver of a private express in Marietta, was recently sticken with apoplexy while seated in his wagon, he died in a few hours. August 19, 1875 Mr. Daniel JOHNSON, aged 57, of the firm of John & Adams of Belpre, died Monday evening, August 9th, of brain affection. August 19, 1875 A man by the name of Lafayette PRICE, while trying to cross the Muskingum River, on Thursday, six miles north of Marietta, was drowned. August 19, 1875 Mr. Henry LANGLEY, a former well know citizen of Marietta died at St. Luke’s Hospital, St. Louis, on July 27th, from Injuries received May 13th while painting a water tank on a Railroad. August 19, 1875 Monday, of last week, as workmen were engaged in clearing the rubbish from the country road, passing through Dunham township, they discovered the body of a woman, in an advanced stage of decomposition. She was a young woman, probably not over twenty years of age; her head, arms and legs had been cut off with some sharp instrument, except the bone of one leg, which seems to have been cut off with an ax. No marks on the body and no clothing. The Corner’s jury found the woman came to her death at the hands of some person or persons unknown. August 26, 1875 A tramp named SHEILDS, who with two others was stealing a ride, was killed by the cars near Belpre, on Tuesday, 17th inst. August 26, 1875 At Lowell, on the 11th inst., a young man named Lafayette PRICE was carried over the dam in the Muskingum and drowned. He was crossing in a skiff and an oar breaking he jumped out, looing his life as stated. September 9th 1875 Miss Louisa ALCOCK, daughter of Mr. Nelson S. ALCOCK, died at her home in Harmar, on Tuesday forenoon of last week, of consumption. September 16, 1875 Miss R. A. FERGUSON, of Watertown, died in that place on the 2d. Her funeral was held on the 3d, at the Presbyterian church. September 16, 1875 Miss Alice C. MORGAN, foster-daughter of Mr. Wm. C. MORGAN, formerly of the National House, Marietta, died on the 4th of Aug., at their residence, near Cleves, Ohio, in the 25th year of her age. September 30, 1875 Robbie WILLIAMS, son of Robt. WILLIAMS, of Beverly, was drowned in teh Muskingum, at that place, last Thrusday evening, 16th inst. October 7, 1875 The Marietta Register learns that David Clough, of Iowa, a former resident of Belpre, was gored to death by a mad bull recently. October 14, 1875 A man named Augustus MUGRIDGE, whose famil reside in Macksburg, this county, fell from a freight train near Dover on the 2st ints., and was instantly killed. October 21, 1875 Mr. L. F. MOORE, who has been a resident of Marietta for some four or five years, died on the 10th inst., quite unexpectedly. October 28, 1875 Edgar H. STACY, son of Mr. C. F. STACY, of Rainbow, aged 24, died on the 2d inst., on Cave Creek, in Arkansas, from disease contracted while working in a lead mine. October 28, 1875 William NOTT, of Marietta, an employee at the Rolling Mills, was serously, perhaps fatally, injured on the forning of the 12th inst., by being struck on the head by a bar of iron which turned as it was being passed through a machine. November 4, 1875 The body of an infant child was found cncealed among the rocks in the quarry up Mile Run, recently.--The Corner’s jury decided that the child was still-born. November 18, 1875 Archibald MURPHY, of Dunham township, who died recently, bequeaths $300 to the United Presbyterian Church; $300 to the Home Mission of said church; and $300 to the Board of Education of the Church. November 25, 1875 Mrs. Eliza JACKSON, the oldest person in Belpre township, died Nov. 13, aged 90 years. December 2, 1875 Mrs. LAUER, aged 85(?), of Lower Salem, died last week. December 9, 1875 Mrs. J. G. CLIDDEN, of Marietta, died suddenly on the 29th ult., of paralysis. December 9, 1875 Wm. PAINTER, formerly of Marietta, and late of St. Joe, Missouri, where he was engaged as a superintentent of a section of bridge hands on the St. Joseph & Council Bluffs Railroad was recently killed by being run over by the cars. Extracted by Debbie Noland Nitsche August 2004 -------------------------------------------------------------- VARIOUS 1876 DEATH NOTICES Found in various Thursday Morning editions of the Athens Messenger (Athens, Ohio) In the Surrounding Counties Section of Washington County, Ohio. Spellings of names are copied as printed in the newspaper. I have noticed many misspellings of names, probably due to the fact that the newspaper printed the name as it sounded. WASHINGTON COUNTY, OHIO NEWS January 6, 1876 Mrs. Ichabod NYE, of Marietta, died on Tuesday of Last week. January 6, 1876 Mr. Vatchell BARNES, of Grandview township, died recently at his home at the mouth of Mile Creek above Matamoras. January 6, 1876 Rev. E. BATTELLE, Sr., aged ninety-seven years and six months, died in Marietta on Monday. He was the oldest man in the county, and perhaps the oldest minister in the State. January 6, 1876 On the day before Christmas, an eight year old boy named Charles YOUNG, youngest son of the late Theobald YOUNG, of Salem township, while crossing a food-log over Bear Creek, accidentally fell into the creek and was drowned. January 13, 1876 Polly ARMSTRONG, colored, aged 55, who lived at Devol’s Dam, dropped dead, in Marietta, on the 2d inst. January 13, 1876 a 14 year old boy, named YOUNG, fell from a fool log into Bear Creek, a few miles west of Salem, on the 31st ult., and was drowned. January 13, 1876 A little child of Mr. Vachel PARR, of Grandview, Washington county, fell over the river bank into the river the 28th ult., and although taken out within five minutes, life was extinct. January 13, 1876 The Marietta Times says: “A young lady, a daughter of Mr. August MILLER, of Grandview township, was drowned Sunday night, Dec. 26th, by falling off a foot-log, that crosses Archer’s Fork in front of her father’s store door, into the water. The heavy rains of Sunday had swollen the stream very much and whe was swept away rapidly and drowned. Her body was not recovered until the next day.” January 20, 1876 D. J. RICHARDS, Esq., a former prominent business man of this county, near Zanesville, recently lost two children, Lillie and Emmas, from diphtheria. January 27, 1876 Mr. Amos DYE, of this city, died Wednesday, 19th inst. He was about 70 years old. January 27, 1876 Richard SCOTT, Esq., of Ludlow township, died at his home near Scott Town on Friday, the 14th inst., after a protracted illness. January 27, 1876 John MARSHALL, for the last forty-five years a resident of Marietta, died after a brief illness, at his residence, on the 14th inst., at the age of 69. February 3, 1876 Mr. John MARSHALL, one of the oldest, most prosperous and best known citizens of Marietta, died quite unexpectedly, last month. February 3, 1876 It doesn’t appear from the report of the occurrence as published in the Marietta papers, that the recent death, by drowning, of Mr. August KROPP, of that city was the result of suicide. February 10, 1876 Edward LANE, a boy aged about 12 years, and son of Wm. LANE, was accidentally killed at Cliff Coal Mines, Adams township, about noon, Sunday, January 23d, by the giving away of a side track which threw a number of loaded coal cars upon him. February 17, 1876 M. Conrad BISZANTZ, who, at the time of his death, was the oldest German citizen , of this county, died on the 4th inst. February 24, 1876 Mr. ABBOTT, aged 68, a farmer near Belpre, died recently of cancer of the stomach. February 24, 1876 Mr. Henry FRANK, aged 75, clothing merchant of Marietta, committed suicide in Cincinnati, on Monday of last week, by hanging. February 24, 1876 Mr. Benjamin PARLIN, a highly respected citizen of Warren township, died at his residence near Tunnel Station, on Wednesday morning. February 24, 1876 Mrs. Eunice B. BUTLER, aged 72, mother-in-law of Mr. M. P. WELLS, of Marietta, was taken suddenly ill, on Monday evening of last week, and died in a a few hours. February 24, 1876 Miss Mary CONNELL, daughter of Mr. M. CONNELL, of Dunbar Station, this county, died very suddenly last Saturday evening, 12th inst. She was in her usual health until the hour of her death. March 9, 1876 Mrs. Rebecca L. SHARP, wife of Mr. Charles T. SHARP, of Harmar, recently dropped dead, instantly, while in apparent good health, and busy as usual with her household duties. March 9, 1876 Mr. Jeremiah GITTINGS for so many years proprietor of the American House, Beverly, and more recently of Zanesville, died in Harmar, February 24th of cancer of the stomach. March 16, 1876 Wm. H. ATKINSON, of Marietta, aged 27 years, died Sunday afternoon of last week. March 16, 1876 The dead body of a very young infant, with a brick tied to it, and wrapped in a piece of calico, was dragged out of the river, below Harmer Laning, on Tuesday of last week. March 16, 1876 Mr. Amos PORTER was the last of the 48 orginial pioneers who landed at point Harmar. He died in 1861, aged 92. He was says the Marietta Register, a resident of this county the interval of 73 years, being 19 when the settlement was made. March 23, 1876 J. P. GOULD, formerly a teacher in Marietta High School, and long a resident of this county, says the Register, died recently, at his home in Northern Ohio, of consumption. April 6, 1876 Moses CAMPBELL, of this county, recently deceased, us in his 76th year, and had been a resident of the outny 50 years. April 6, 1876 Mr. Coen ARNSTRONG, brother-in-law of Mr. NIXON, Coutny Recorder, died at his home in Waterford township, Sunday of last week. April 13, 1786 Mr. Wm PROCTOR, an esteemed citizen of Salem township, was, on Monday of last week, found dead by his daughter Lizzie, in a coal mine where he had been at work. A huge mass of slate stone which completely blocked the passage, had fallen upon him. April 13, 1786 Mr. James SPROUT, of Salem township, says the Register, went out Thursday mornining to help feed his stock, started to carry a bundle of hay to his sheep, when all at once he became faint and sat down. In a few monments he got up and went back to the house, complained of blindness and laid down on the bed and died instantly. He was in his usual health, save a cold, had no heart disease or any other as we could learn. April 20, 1786 Wm. C. MACKEY, of Harmar, died on the 10th. He was 76 years old. April 27, 1786 Mrs. Anna M. BEHRENDS, aged 55, of Adair county, Missouri, died very suddenly in Marietta, on the night of the 17th inst., at the residence of her sister, Mrs. HASKINS. May 4, 1876 (This was was very hard to read) The funeral of Mrs. LARKIN, ????? of Lyman LARKIN, took place on the 2?d ult., at the M. E. Church, of Barlow. She was a consistent member of that church for over sixty years. May 4, 1876 A three year old child of a Mrs. DRAKE, of Belpre, died Friday afternoon last, from the effects of alkali which it drank the day previously. --Its mother, says the Belpre News, “was washing and had a bottle of the lye standing by her for use, the child asked for a drink of water and immediately took up the bottle and swollowed the contents.” May 11, 1876 Miss Elizabeth THOMPSON, the “fat girl,” aged 10 years, of Liberty township, this county, died the 19th ult.--Her weight was about 400 pounds. May 11, 1876 Mrs. GRIMM, says the Register, whose death occurred at Pinchville, on the 24th, of pneumonia, lost a son about two weeks previous and there is another son also sick with the same disease. May 18, 1876 Lizzie, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. B. TORPY, whose birth we announced as of April 7th, says the Marietta Register, died last Friday, by a mistake in administering medicine. May 18, 1876 Geo. W. DYE, of Marietta, a recent graduate of the Columbus Medical College, died quite suddenly at Sisterville, West Va., on the 4th inst., at which place he as commenced the practice of medicine. May 25, 1876 Henry KELLY, who was Marshal of Marietta from 1860 to 1865, died at his residence in that city, on Tuesday night, 16th inst. June 1, 1876 Mr. John BABCOCK, of Harmar, was found dead on the steps of Washington Street School House early Wednesday morning of last week. At the time of going to press the Register had not learned the cause of his death. June 8, 1876 Jacob WEISMAN, aged about 7? years, died on Mile Run. Thursday of last week. June 29, 1876 The Register notices the probable fatal injuries to a ten-yeaar old son of Mr. Francis E. COLLINS of Grandview, by a runaway team. June 29, 1876 On the night of the 15th inst., the two sons and daughter of Mr. Calvin LASURE, who leves near Cedarville in this county, perished in the flames of their dwelling. Their ages were resspectively 23, 21, and 19. July 13, 1876 The Register says O. M. COOK, of Palmer, whose death occurred last Saturday, had lived all his life is what now is Palmer township. He had lived 27 years on the farm which he owned at his death. July 20, 1876 Miss Anna Belle PADAN, of Belpre, died on the 10th inst., of typhyoid fever. July 20, 1876 A little son of Mr. Peter EDDY, of this county, was recently drowned while bathing in the Ohio river at Cochransville, Monroe county. July 20, 1876 The Marietta Times says: William DYE, son of Mr. Jonathan DYE, of this city is, among the killed in the horrible massacre under General Custer by the Indians. July 27, 1876 Capt. Wallace S. STANLEY, of Salem, says the Marietta Times, died last Saturday morning after a lingering illness. He was a member of the 36th Ohio Regiment and served until the close of the war. August 3, 1876 Two old men, Mr. DAVENPORT, of Newport, and Mr. ELSTON, of Marietta, died on Saturday, July 15th. August 10, 1876 Mrs. Henry FRARING, of Harmar, died Sunday of last week, aged 75. August 17, 1876 Mrs. Sarah B. MARSHALL, says the Marietta Times, widow of the late John MARSHALL, died last Saturday night, of cancer of the womb. She was in her 47th year. August 17, 1876 Mrs. Ellen MENDENHALL, aged 28, died in Belpre on Sunday of last week, after a lingering illness, of cnsumption. She left two children wholly orphaned, she being a widow. August 31, 1876 An escaped lunatie, named Anthony DOBBIN, while attempting to cross the track of the M. C. railway at Marietta on Friday, was run over by a freight train, and instantly killed.--No blame attached to the company. September 7, 1776 Mrs. J. F. STONE of Belpre, age about 36, died in tht place on Tuesday of last week. September 7, 1776 On the 24th ult., while O. L. DAVIS and wife, near Belpre, were making preparations to go to the Harvest Home picnic, his horse reared up and fell over backwards, killing himself instantly. September 14, 1776 Last Friday, on the farm of Mrs. GATTON, near Barlow, while a boy was going to the house carring a pitch fork on his sholder, Mary GATTON, a child, came running after him and one of the tines entered her eye passing into the brain. She lived till Sunday, being unconscious from the time of the accident. She was about seven years old.--{Register. September 28, 1776 Mrs. Mary J. YATES, aged 24, died at her residence in Cedarville, on Friday last. September 28, 1876 John D. PORTERFIELD, of Commerce, Missouri, says the Register, came to Marietta, Where he formerly lived, last week to perform the sad duty of the burial of two children, whose remains he brought. September 28, 1876 A wretch named Bloomfield THOMPSON, who lives in the neighborhood of “Turkery Henn,” in Warren township, so abused his 17 year old daughter with lash and blows in the breast with his fist, one day last week, that she has since died of the injuries she recieved fro the unnatural brut; two other of his children, it is reported, are not expected to survive the unjuries which they recived at his hands at the same time. “Indulgence of an irritable temper over which he yielded all control” is the explanation which the Belpre News gives of this monster’s murderous and unnatural cruelty. October 12, 1776 Robert LEGET, a pioneer of Waterford, and an active and enterprising citizen, died Sept. 10th, being 81 years old. Extracted by Debbie Noland Nitsche August 2004 -------------------------------------------------------------------- VARIOUS DECEMBER 1779 DEATH NOTICES Found in various Thursday Morning editions of the Athens Messenger (Athens, Ohio) In the Surrounding Counties Section of Washington County, Ohio. Spellings of names are copied as printed in the newspaper. I have noticed many misspellings of names, probably due to the fact that the newspaper printed the name as it sounded. WASHINGTON COUNTY, OHIO NEWS December 18, 1879 Jackson A. HICKS, who was sheriff of this county from 1865 to 1869, died some time since. December 18, 1879 George H. FULLER, of Marietta township, died on Friday, December 5th, aged 11 years. December 18, 1879 Williametta, the little daughter of Ham. and Emma BOOMER, of Marietta, died recently of membranous croup. December 25, 1879 Mrs. Margaret CLAY died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Daniel HILL, in Marietta recently. December 25, 1879 Lizzie DOBBINS, an inmate of the Infirmary of this county, died on Sunday night of last week. She has been subject to epileptic fits, and was laboring in one at the time of her death. December 25, 1879 Mr. Thomas GALLAGHER, of Harmar died in Texas, on Tuesday of last week. He is a brother of Conductor Wm. GALLAGHER, of the M. C. R. R. His remains will be brought back for burial. December 25, 1879 Peter SCHMIDT, an old man, aged ninety-three, living in the lower part of Harmar, was suffocated by burning his clothing Friday night, and died Saturday morning. He fell asleep in front of the fire and his clothing took fire from the grate. December 25, 1879 Mr. James WEEKS, Sr., whose death, says the Marietta Register, took place on the 13th, was among the oldest residents of the county, having come to this county from Maine in 1833. His life from that time till 1858 was spent in Aurelius, since then Pinchtown, where his death occurred. 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