“Roscoe Evans, about 38, father of five children, of Arion community, was killed on the Norfolk & Western Railway right of way about a mile east of Arion early today. Coroner WA Quinn returned a verdict of accidental death.” “The badly mangled body was discovered about 9 a.m. by the Continue Reading
Brush Creek Township
“This Languishen Hed Is at Rest”: A Child’s Epitaph from Young’s Station
In a quiet patch of trees along the former railroad line in Brush Creek Township, Scioto County, Ohio, stands a gravestone that has weathered nearly two centuries. It marks the grave of Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Isaac and Nancy McCan, who died on August 22, 1852, at the age of Continue Reading
Otway Council Cuts Down Tree Commemorating World War I Dead
“Final hearing on an injunction protecting several Otway trees from the ax was in progress today in Common Pleas Court.” “Judge James E. Kinnison of Jackson County resumed hearing of testimony Monday on the injunction granted last May 4 to 10 village landowners.” “The plaintiffs want the injunction made permanent. Continue Reading
The Sudden Death of Edmund Walsh
“Edmond Walsh, an old and highly respectable citizen of Brush Creek township, residing on Bloody Run, died suddenly, at the residence of John Spellacy, on the Calvert farm, in Washington township, last Thursday evening. Mr. Walsh and his son had been to the city with a wagon load of pork, Continue Reading
William Thompson Finds Wife Dead in Bed
“The wife of William Thompson, a stone cutter, who lives at Otway, was found dead in her bed Tuesday morning. Enfolded in the icy clasp of the mother’s arms was their youngest child aged five months. It was peacefully sleeping in its innocence unmindful of the fact that death had Continue Reading
Pistols and Knives for Two
“Information has reached us of an unfortunate affray, at the flats of Brush Creek, by parties living in Union township, on Monday last, by which one was stabbed in the face, and another was shot in the leg. Some persons from Lombardsville vicinity had been to town, and on the Continue Reading
Name of Persons Drafted in Brushcreek Township
“The following is a list of persons drafted in Scioto County, September 27th, 1864, including the 100 per cent additional:”
Delhotals Seeks Divorce for Injury
“Dora A. Delhotal vs August J.B. Delhotal. Petition for divorce and alimony. Petition alleges defendant not only beat, choked and kicked the plaintiff, but that on one occasion he shot her, inflicting a lasting injury upon her. From the schedule of property appended to the petition, it would seem that Continue Reading
The Epitaph of Mary Elizabeth McCan
Otway: Among the Hills
“Nineteen miles over the Ohio and Northwestern, along the banks of the Scioto river and thence along the green waters of the Brush Creek, a stream worthy a more euphonious and romantic name, through some of the most rugged and picturesque country that nature has seen fit to spread out, Continue Reading