“Ellis, son of Sam Montgomery, formerly of the Greenup Lime works vicinity, was run over by a C and O freight train at Ashland last Friday, 31st ult, and instantly killed. He resided with an uncle at Kilgore and was on his way home. He was buried Saturday.
“The startling intelligence reached here Tuesday morning by wire, that Oscar Williams, son of Captain WB Williams of this city, had, while walking in his sleep, fallen from a window of the fourth story of the American House at Columbus, where he was boarded and was fatally injured. Later reports, however, bring the more gratifying …
“Clarence A., twelve-year-old son of J. Wllis Greenslate, of Malonton, Kentucky, died Wednesday night at 10 o’clock, of typhoid fever. His funeral took place at Fairview Thursday at 3 PM. He was a bright and studious lad and a general favorite with everybody. Three other children, two girls and one boy, are very low with …
“Taylor Burns, who has been in jail in default of bond for his appearance in probate court, has displayed some evidence of insanity. The sheriff has written his parents and it is probable that an inquest will be held in lieu of prosecution on a criminal charge. He was arrested on the oath of his …
“An infant child of freight conductor Taylor Barnes, of the CW&B Railroad, residing at Hamden, died Tuesday. The remains were brought to this city Wednesday and interred, the funeral services being conducted from the Irish Catholic Church.”
“Theodore Barnes, “Taylor,” yardmaster of the B&O SW Railroad at this place, while coupling cars last Monday, was caught between the bumpers and so severely crushed that he died the next evening at 8 o’clock. Mr. Barnes came to this city from Wellson about four months ago. He was a sober and hardworking man, and …
“Andrew, son of Robert Gordon, of Limeville, Kentucky, died last Friday and was buried Saturday at Mt. Ebo. He was eighteen years of age, industrious and sober in his habits.”
“James Bryson, a once prominent citizen of Portsmouth, died a few days ago at Brick Union, Kentucky, opposite Haverhill, aged 71 years.” “Mr. Bryson many years ago erected a flour mill near where the Grand Opera House now stands and afterwards operated a distillery in Kentucky as a member of the firm Brown, Bryson & …
“Mr. Homer Bedell, whose serious illness we mentioned lasted week, died Thursday last, at 11 o’clock, AM. He was a member in good standing of Aurora Lodge, No. 48, of Freemasons. He leaves a wife and three children, the oldest of which is eight years. The funeral services will be held at the late residence …
We were fortunate enough to attend the presentation “The Scioto County, Ohio, Infirmary Mounded Feature in Regional and Temporal (3000 BC to AD 400) Context by Dr. Jonathan E. “Jeb” Bowen. The presentation was sponsored by the Arc of Appalachia and presented at the Southern Ohio Museum and Cultural Center in Portsmouth, Ohio, on November …