“Some Democrats in the vicinity of Mt. Carmel voting precinct, Madison township, while ratifying the Presidential election recently, had two pounds of powder which they intended to discharge from a hollow casting of a cane mill, when some sparks from a stump hard by, exploded the powder, badly burning Joseph Continue Reading
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John Canaan Captured: Murderer of Joe Gentil Arrested After Months on the Run
“John Canaan, who murdered Joe Gentil at Hanging Rock on the evening of July 4th last, was captured by Sheriff Ward of Ironton at Manchester, Adams County, Saturday morning. He was taken over to Peebles and brought to this city on the night C., P. & V. train and then Continue Reading
Death of Mrs. Alena Stanfield, Wife of Portsmouth Barber
“Mrs. Alena Stanfield, wife of George Stanfield, the barber, died Sunday morning at half past ten o’clock. She had been sick over three months with lung trouble. Deceased was 22 years old. She was married two years. The funeral will be held tomorrow afternoon at two o’clock.” The Headstone of Continue Reading
A Young Life Cut Short by Typhoid
Miss Katie Gately, an estimable young lady, in her 18th year, and daughter of Barney Gately, after an illness of three weeks from typhoid fever, died at the residence of her father, on Front street, near Sinton street, last Monday morning. She was a member of the Sodality in the Continue Reading
Widow Seeks to Reclaim Name After Husband’s Tragic Death
Mrs. Mary Kugelman, whose husband suicided in the Leet Lumber yards April 13th, has commenced proceedings in common pleas court to have her old name of Mrs. Mary Schirrmann restored. She says in her petition that she was born in Germany 53 years ago, but came to this country when Continue Reading
Former Portsmouth Plasterer Dies in California
“Word reached here Thursday of the death of John Graham, a former Portsmouth plasterer, which occurred on February 20 at Van Nuys, California, where he moved with his family last April, when they left here. Mr. Graham was 60 years of age and the immediate cause of his demise was Continue Reading
Jackson Man Goes Insane
“J. W. Lewis, a carpenter, of Jackson, who has been employed here for the past six weeks and boarding at the Biggs house, has become mentally unbalanced and is now a raving maniac. He set the Biggs house on fire the other evening and Friday night he drank the oil Continue Reading
Our America 250 Ohio Milestone
This weekend marks an important milestone in our participation in the America 250 Ohio initiative. We have now located and documented the burial site of our 25th Revolutionary War veteran, Joseph Williamson—a number that represents far more than a tally. It reflects miles walked, records consulted, and names brought back Continue Reading
Infant Son Of Seventh Street Couple Died In Hospital
“Thomas Franklin Vanhoose, four months old son of See and Virgie Salyers Vanhoose of 2330 Seventh street, died at 2 p.m. Sunday in Portsmouth General hospital of complications. He is survived by his parents, a brother James, 6, and a sister Mae Etta, 12. Funeral services were held at the Continue Reading
The Sleeping Child: The Monument of Mary E. Davis at Friendship Cemetery
In Friendship Cemetery, nearly hidden from view from the nearby highway passing through Nile Township, Scioto County, Ohio, lies the grave of Mary E. Davis, an infant whose life was measured in months rather than years. Her monument, however, speaks with the voice of a family’s grief and the artistry Continue Reading