“DIED- On Thursday evening, April 20th, at 6 o’clock. at the residence of his parents in this city, James Leonard Oscar Huston, son of Samuel Jones and Elizabeth Huston, aged 20 years, 5 months and 2 days.”
“Our young friend has fallen in the bloom and vigor of youth, and he bereaved relatives and a large circle of friends and companions mourn his untimely departure. A few weeks since, being in bad health, he returned home on sick leave, from the Military Academy at West Point, New York, where he was prosecuting his studies. Typhoid fever seized upon him and he laid down to die. On the day that his furlough expired, he breathed his last, and was released from all earthly duty. He was a young man of fine talents and possessed many excellent traits of character, as all who knew him can testify.”
“A his residence near this city, on Sunday, April 15, 1865, at 6:15 AM, Elvin Hyatt, aged 68 years, 7 months and 12 days.”
“The deceased was an old resident of Scioto county, and always bore the reputation of an upright man and good citizen.”1
