“Clarence A., twelve-year-old son of J. Wllis Greenslate, of Malonton, Kentucky, died Wednesday night at 10 o’clock, of typhoid fever. His funeral took place at Fairview Thursday at 3 PM. He was a bright and studious lad and a general favorite with everybody. Three other children, two girls and one boy, are very low with …
“Andrew, son of Robert Gordon, of Limeville, Kentucky, died last Friday and was buried Saturday at Mt. Ebo. He was eighteen years of age, industrious and sober in his habits.”
“James Bryson, a once prominent citizen of Portsmouth, died a few days ago at Brick Union, Kentucky, opposite Haverhill, aged 71 years.” “Mr. Bryson many years ago erected a flour mill near where the Grand Opera House now stands and afterwards operated a distillery in Kentucky as a member of the firm Brown, Bryson & …
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 …
“James Murphy, age 57 years, a well-known Greenup county man, was killed by a fall of slate in the mines of the Main Island Creek Coal Company at Barnabus, West Virginia, several days ago. The remains arrived in Ironton and were intrerred in Lawrence cemetery. Reverend Sampson conducted the funeral. This is the third member …
“Just so drunk was George Royal that he staggered against Robert Foster, a youth from Carey’s Run, Saturday afternoon and then seized the lad by the throat and began choking him. Officer Harry Dunham happened along and picked up Royal and took him to the city jail.” George Royal’s World War I Draft Registration Card …
“Announcement is being made of the marriage of Miss Alma Fraser, the only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Fraser, prominent residents of Logan, West Virginia, and John Byron Hannah, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. James E. Hannah, 2214 Waller hill. the ceremony was performed in the manse of the Second Presbyterian church at …
“Marshall Schmitt received a letter today from Robert Kress, of Buena Vista, stating that he brought a man to this city Tuesday night whom he has every reason to believe was the man who threw muriatic acid in the face of Captain Hoobler, near Vanceburg, Tuesday evening.” “It was about two o’clock Wednesday morning when …
“After having survived weeks of pain as a result of burns on her face and body from the abdomen up, little Margaret Ginn died unexpectedly yesterday at Haywood hospital. Margaret was 2 years old and the second youngest of the four daughters of Frank Ginn and Rose Ginn, who live at Salt Lick in Lewis …
“A former Portsmouth resident, John O. Royal, 72 of Cedarville Route 2, died Monday in a Xenia hospital.” “A native of Greenup County, Kentucky, he was a member of the South Shore Church of Christ. He was a retired employee of the Detroit Steel Corporation in New Boston.” “Surviving are his wife Hattie; three daughters, …