A few weeks ago I knew that I needed to take a recreational flight to record the current Scioto County Infirmary Cemetery located in West Portsmouth, Scioto County, Ohio near Earl Thomas Conley Park. This is the result.
Infirmary Cemetery
Winter at the Infirmary Cemetery
Infirmary Grave #21: George Mustard
In a corner of Earl Thomas Conley Park, and within the confines of the Scioto County Infirmary Cemetery, is Grave #21. Beneath this broken stone marker is the mortal remains of George Mustard. George Flood Mustard, son of Enoch Enos Mustard and Mary Smith, is believed to have been born Continue Reading
Infirmary Grave #3: Elizabeth Colegrove
Background In 2015 I began researching the Scioto County Infirmary Cemetery that sits adjacent to Earl Thomas Conley, on what was once the Scioto County Infirmary Farm. On a low rise, in the corner of a former milk cow pasture, are rows of freestone and marble grave markers. The earlier Continue Reading
Old Scioto County Infirmary Cemetery
I started several years ago researching the Scioto County Infirmary Cemetery and its numbered grave markers. About two years ago I came across evidence that what is now the infirmary cemetery wasn’t the first. When the Infirmary Farm was located at Mound Park, City Free Ground, also known as the Continue Reading
Dynamite Used in Murder at C & O Railroad Camp
List of Dead and Injured The Dead “Ben Harrison, 33, Covington, Kentucky, died in hospital. Intestines perforated, left leg and two fingers on right hand amputated, right wrist broken. Robert Banks, 38, Sixth and Quincy street, Ironton, both arms and legs fractured, right leg fractured in two places. Henry Carter, Continue Reading
Marvin Dinch Obituary
“Graveside services are to be conducted Monday afternoon in the Scioto County Home cemetery for Marvin Dinch, 77.” “Mr. Dinch died at 11:30 AM Thursday at Scioto County Home. He was born September 28, 1884, in the Otway community.” “Surviving are his wife, Etta, a resident at the Scioto County Continue Reading
Mrs. Bertie Wakefield Sines
“A visitor here from Oakland, Maryland, Mrs. Bertie A. Sines, 61, passed away at 2:30 PM Sunday in Portsmouth General hospital, where she was a medical patient two days. Mrs. Sines came three months ago to visit her brother, Van Wakefield, 2024 Robinson Avenue. She had been failing in health Continue Reading
Clayton Lewis
“Brief committal services were to be held today at 3 PM for Clayton Lewis, 61, resident of the county home, who died Thursday. Burial was to be in the infirmary cemetery.”
Identification Made of Victim of Train
“Social Security Card Numbers Help Locate Kin.” “Identity of the man found dead on the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway bridge over the Little Scioto river northeast of Sciotoville early April 23, has been established as Harold J. Grubb, 40.” “He had been a WPA worker in Toledo. Identification was established Continue Reading