“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 …
“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.”
“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 …
“What is there in modern civilization to cause the awful increase of sudden deaths? Is it the penalty inflicted upon mankind for seeking to become possessed of knowledge beyond the limit of Divine intent, and pushing of the life powers beyond what they were intended to perform? Has the race become over-wrought and over-educated? In …
“Henry Seibert, a farmer, who lives near Union Mills, was missed the latter part of last week. He was last seen at the opera house Wednesday. On the Monday following a man named Anderson was hunting in the Scioto bottoms west of Kaps’ brick yard. Approaching what he tool to be a log, he was …
“Tragedy halted a marriage planned for Greenup Saturday night when Misses Kathryn Truesdell, 18, of Friendship was injured fatally in an automobile accident on Route 125 about a half mile west of Friendship about 3:30 PM yesterday.” “She died from a broken neck while en route to Mercy hospital in an automobile.” “Miss Truesdell and …
John McElhaney, well-known in this city, where he resided for many years, died very suddenly at his residence, in Lewis county, Kentucky, six miles from Portsmouth, last Thursday morning, at seven o’clock, of rheumatism of the heart, in his fifty-ninth year. He had been in his usual health, and his sudden death was a shock …
“The community was shocked last Wednesday morning to learn of the sudden death of Philip Jacob Herder, a respectable German farmer of Clay township, which occured at the house of his son, Jacob, at 3 o’clock that morning. The circumstances of the painful accident are as follows:” “Mr. Herder was in the act of feeding …
“This lady, wife of James Salsbury, who has been a patient sufferer for many years, died at her residence, on Second street, Thursday morning, aged fifty years. The deceased was born in this county November 23rd, 1829, and was married to Mr. James Salsbury January 8th, 1851. Her husband and two sons, John and Charles, …
From an entry in Portsmouth, Ohio’s Greenlawn Cemetery Sexton’s register is this entry from October 17, 1912. It notes: “These bodies were taken from a private burial ground on what is known as the Tieman farm about 2 1/2 miles below Pond Creek. They were re-interred on Lot 144 Section Evergreen. A review of the …