gallia county newspaper obituaries
The following obituaries
are from the files of various
Gallia County Newspapers and other publications. They
are listed below in alphabetical order of the surname.
Cadot, Julius Seymour
Mr. Cadot's Funeral
Mr. Julius Seymour Cadot, who died suddenly of acute indigestion at his home in Maumee, near Toledo, a few days ago, was buried Tuesday afternoon.
He leaves a wife, formerly Vadie Summers, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Summers of this city, a daughter Frances and son Donald to mourn their loss, also two brothers Pearle and Will and sister Miss Blanche Cadot.
Mr. George Kinghorn, a brother-in-law, who travels out of Hartford, Conn., happened to be at Mr. Cadot's home dining with him when he died.
Gallipolis Daily Tribune
March 3, 1920
Transcribed by Henny Evans
Caldwell, Esta
Esta Francis Caldwell, 71, Inverness, Fla., died unexpectedly at 6 a.m. Monday at her home.
She was born July 30, 1904, in Gallia County, daughter of the late John and Lottie Sowards Beaver. She married Wyman Caldwell on Jan. 28, 1921, in Gallipolis. He preceded her in death in 1973.
The following children survive: Roy Caldwell, Mrs. Roosevelt ( Alma) McDonnell and Mrs. Kenneth (Hazel) Devault, all of Columbus; Mrs. William (Opal) Saunders, Rt. 2, Bidwell; Mrs. Weldon (Katy) Butcher, Columbus; James Caldwell, Griffith, Ind.; Kenneth Caldwell, Columbus and Miss Algean Caldwellk, Inverness. One son preceded her in death. Twenty grand and five great-grandchildren survive, along with one brother, Fred Beaver, Groveport. She spent most of her life in Gallia County.
Funeral services will be held 1 p.m. Friday at the Waugh-Halley-Wood Funeral Home with Rev. Alfred Holley officiating. Burial will be in Ohio Valley Memory Gardens. Friends may call at the funeral home from 3:30 until 5 p.m. and 7 until 9 p.m. or Thursday. Pallbearers will be Bobby Saunders, Bobby Morrison, Jerry Smith, Jim Stutes, Billy Caldwell and Sam Eisnaugle.
Unknown publication
Died Jan. 26, 1976
Contributed by Jacquelyn Woolley
Caldwell, Nancy Jane
Nancy Jane Caldwell, daughter of Nicholas and Sarah Fellure, was born Jan. 27, 1854, and departed this life Monday, Sept. 1, 1924, aged 70 years, 7 months and 4 days.
In 1871 she was united in marriage with M. G. Caldwell. To this union eleven children were born, two boys and nine girls. They are James and Everett Caldwell, Eva Clary, Garnet Sheets, Sophia Halley of Crown City, Wealthea Edwards, Ella Jones of Thurman, Cora Burnett of Patriot, Alma Irion of South Point, Celesta Sheets and Roma Wallace, deceased.
At the age of 16 years she united with the Siloam Baptist church and lived a consistent Christian until death. She leaves to mourn their loss her husband, children and six brothers, Nicholas, Thomas, Charles, Jesse and Joshua, living, and Garrison, deceased.
Beyond this realm of sighs and tears
There looms a brighter land,
Where myriads of angels play
Where hand is clasped in hand.
‘Tis where we’ll find them one by one,
Let’s make our purpose sure,
And anchor fast our trust in God
‘Tis there it is secure.
September 11, 1924
Gallia Times
Transcribed by Henny Evans
Caldwell, Wyman
Retired farmer claimed
Wyman Caldwell, 78, Rodney, died at 7 a.m. today at his home. He was a retired farmer.
Mr. Caldwell was born Aug. 12, 1894, in Gallia County, son of the late Clayton and Minnie Hively Caldwell.
He is survived by his wife, Esta Beaver Caldwell whom he married Jan. 28, 1921, in Gallipolis, and the following children: Roy, Columbus; Mrs. Roosevelt (Alma) McDonnell, Columbus; Mrs. Kennety (Hazel) DeVault, Columbus; Mrs. William (Opal) Saunders, Eureka Star Route; Mrs. Weldon (Katie) Butcher, Columbus; James, Griffith, Ind.; Kenneth, Columbus and Algean of Inverness, Fla. One son preceded him in death. Eighteen grand and three great-grandchildren survive. One sister preceded him in death. One half-brother and two half-sisters preceded him in death.
Mr. Caldwell spent most of his lifetime in Gallia County and had resided in Florida for the past 12 years.
Mr. Caldwell was a member of the VFW in Columbus. He was a World War I veteran.
Funeral services will be held p.m. Thursday at the Waugh-Halley-Wood Funeral Home with Rev. Alfred Holley officiating. Burial will be in Ohio Valley Memory Gardens. Friends may call at the funeral home between 7-9 p.m. Wednesday. Military graveside rites will be held by Post 4464, VFW.
Unknown publication
1973
Contributed by Jacquelyn Woolley
Call, Mary A. Baker
Thursday May 2, 1996
Call, Owen
Owen Call Crown City Owen Call, 90, a resident of Rt. 2, Crown City ( Call Rd.) died Saturday morning at the Best Care Nursing Home, Wheelersburg. He was a retired farmer and carpenter. Mr. Call was born Sept. 15, 1886, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Call.
He married Anna Elizabeth Cox on Oct. 23, 1913, in Gallipolis. She preceded him in death in July, 1959. Surviving are two sons, Woodrow of Dayton and Wymond of Florida; a stepson, Howard Whittaker, Gallipolis, and six grandchildren and fifteen great grandchildren. Six brothers and three sisters preceded him in death. He was a member of the Mercerville Baptist Church.
Funeral Services will be held at 1 p.m. Tuesday at Providence Church. Burial will be in Providence Cemetery. Friends may call at the Waugh-Halley-Wood Funeral Home on Monday from 6 until 9 p.m.
Contributed by Jacquelyn Woolley
1977 obituary
Campbell, Frances
Mrs. Campbell, 87, Dies at Bidwell
Mother of Cecil Denney…Funeral at 2 Sunday
Mrs. Frances Campbell, 87, died at 1:30 this morning at the home of her son, Cecil Denney, Bidwell merchant. She was in her 88th year and had been gravely ill for a week.
Mrs. Campbell was born at Kerr June 11, 1855, the daughter of Wesley and Susan Stevens Cherrington. She was twice married, both of her husbands, Daniel M. Denney and J. J. Campbell, having preceded her in death; and for 20 years she lived with only son and his family. A daughter, Mrs. Seymour Lawless of Porter, also survives and there are two brothers and three sisters: Ernest K. Cherrington of Yakima, Washington; Ezra Cherrington of St. Joseph, Mo.; Mrs. Ross Saunders of Denver, Colorado; Mrs. Dora Pollet, Marion, and Mrs. Ruth Noce, Fresno, Calif.
Funeral services will be held at Westerman Methodist Church, of which decendent was a member, at 2 o’clock Sunday.
Rev. R.R. Denney, if physically able, will officiate. Interment will be made in the cemetery there by J.L. Coleman and Son.
Gallipolis Daily Tribune
Dec. 24, 1942
Transcribed by Henny Evans
Carter, Robert
Death of Judge Robert Carter, A Pioneer.
Death has claimed another one of our pioneer residents, Judge Robert Carter. His death was not an untimely one, for his life has been withering for the past year. Few men living outside of Gallipolis are better known than he was who has been called beyond, and his death will bring sorrow to the hearts of his host of friends. Deceased was a man of straightforward and dignified demeanor, strict
integrity, and his death is sincerely lamented.
Deceased was born in Walnut township, this county, Jan. 15, 1814, and was 83 years of age at the time of his death. The ultimate cause of his death was the infirmities of old age. His wife preceded him a number of years ago and beside her his remains were interred Thursday afternoon in the burial grounds at Salem church.
He was the father of ten children, five of whom survive him. Viz: William A., Missouri, John H., Anna and James P. Carter, who will cherish the memory of a good, kind, indulgent father. Judge Carter served as Probate Judge of this county about a quarter of a century ago and was elected county commissioner two consecutive terms. He became a member of the Odd Fellows twelve years ago, joining Patriot lodge, and under their ritual be laid to rest.
Wetherholt had charge of the funeral.
The Galllipolis Journal
Tuesday, April 27, 1897
Contributed by Cheryl Enyart
Casey, Donna Jean
Donna Jean Casey, 27, of Gallipolis, O., was recovered from the river Wednesday evening.
Born Jan. 28, 1940, in Mason County, she was a daughter of Harold and Mabel Madden Oliver of Gallipolis and was a part time employed waitress at the Dance Restaurant at Kanauga, O. She was a member of the Church of God at Gallipolis.
Surviving besides her parents are the husband, Harold Casey; two children, Richard Lee, 2, and Cathy, 9 months; and a sister, Mrs Barbara Donahoe of Chesapeake, O.
The body is at the Miller Home For Funerals in Gallipolis.
Point Pleasant Register, Point Pleasant, WV
Thursday, December 21, 1967
Transcribed by Lew Casey
Casey, Hazel
Hazel Lee Casey, 54, a resident of 421 First Avenue, died in Holzer Medical Center around 9 p.m. Saturday.
She was born at Monessen, PA, on March 13, 1920, daughter of the late Charles Richard Kinder and Abbie Stedman Kinder, who survives.
She married Raymond S. Casey on May 8, 1937. He survives. Three sons survive: James, Dayton; Harold, Columbus; and T-Sgt. Lewis Casey, Ft. Meade, MD; two daughters: Carol Sue Worby, Teheran, Iran; Miss Linda Casey, at home. Eight grandchildren survive.
Two sisters survive, Mrs. Virginia Day, Gallipolis and Mrs. Margaret Riffle, Addison. One brother, Richard Kinder, preceded her in death.
Funeral services will be held 2 p.m. Wednesday at Miller's Home for Funerals with Rev. Joe D. Will officiating. Burial will be in Pine Street Cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral home from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Tuesday. In lieu of flowers, friends and relatives are asked to contribute to the cancer fund.
Gallipolis Tribune
18 Nov 1974
Transcribed by Linda Lane
Casey, John Alexander
JohnAlexander Casey was born June 5, 1866, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sinclair Casey of Mason County, W. Va. and died at 10:30 o'clock a. m. May 23, 1939 at the home for Aged conducted by Mrs. Bessie Higgins, 439 Second Avenue.
Mr. Casey was married three times. He was married to Sarah Bateman, now deceased. Born to this union was one daughter, Mrs. Mary Slayton of Gallipolis. His second marriage was to Sarah Jane Lewis, now deceased. He is survived in this union by one daughter, Rozella Gale of Ashley, Ohio, and five sons, Carl, John, Lincoln, Clarence and Raymond Casey, all of Gallipolis.
He is also survived by his third wife, Ethel Raike, and fifteen grandchildren, 1 great grandchild, and three brothers, George Casey of Apple Grove, W. Va., James Casey of Gallipolis Ferry, W. Va., and Samuel Casey of Rodney, Ohio.
One sister, Jane, and three brothers, Edward, Albert and Wesley, preceded him in death.
Gallipolis Tribune
May 1939
Transcribed by Lew Casey
Casey, Raymond S.
Raymond S. Casey, 76, 430 First Avenue, Gallipolis, died Sunday, May 2, 1993 at Holzer Medical Center. He was a retired employee of the Ohio Valley Bank and a World War II U.S. Navy and Army veteran. He was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 4464, Disabled American Veterans Post 5 and the Gallia County Senior Citizens Center.
He was born October 9, 1916 in Mason County, W.Va., the son of John and Sarah Lewis Casey. Survivors include his wife, Katherine Sims Boster Casey; three sons, James W. Casey of Paris, TX; Harold L. Casey of Columbus and Lewis E. Casey of San Angelo, TX; two daughters, Carol Sue (David) Varney and Linda Lane, both of Gallipolis; one stepson, Ron Boster of Smithville, N.C; one stepdaughter, Kathleen (William) Darnell of Centerville; 10 grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren, six step-grandchildren and two sisters, Rosella Gale of Cardington and Mary Slayton of Gallipolis. He was preceded in death by his parents, his first wife, Hazel Lee Casey, in 1974 and three brothers.
Friends may call 6 to 9 p.m. Tuesday at the McCoy-Moore Funeral Home, Wetherholt Chapel. Services will be held 2 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home with the Rev. David S. Varney officiating. Burial will be in the Pine Street Cemetery with military graveside rites conducted by the VFW Post 4464 of Gallipolis. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Gallia County Senior Citizens Center, 220 Jackson Pike, Gallipolis.
Gallipolis Daily Tribune
May 3, 1993
Transcribed by Lew Casey
Caudill, Emily
Mrs. G. Caudill Died Last Night
Mrs. Garland Caudill, who has been ill since May, died at 11:30 last night at the Holzer Hospital. Suffering from a grave heart condition that made it necessary for her to lie as near motionless as possible, she was brought to the hospital from her home just above the mouth of Raccoon Creek on Nov. 23.
Mrs. Caudill was 36 years old and lifelong resident of that section. She was a daughter of the late W. D. Boston.
She is survived by her husband, who is a merchant and farmer and a member of the County Selective Service Board, and four children, Eddie and Jimmie, twins; Wayne and Anita Marie. Then there are these sisters and brothers: Mrs. Stacy Harbour, Mrs. Clara Chambers and Ithamar J. Boston, all of Bladen. W. B. Boston, Mrs. Myrtle Dewitt and Harry Boston, all of Eureka.
The body was removed to C. R. Halley’s mortuary at Mercerville and no funeral arrangements had been announced early this afternoon.
Gallipolis Tribune
1953
Transcribed by Lew Casey
Cavin, Clarissa
Death of Mrs. Clarissa Cavin
Mrs. William or Clarissa Cavin, the oldest female, resident, perhaps, in town or county, passed away peacefully to her eternal home, on last Friday evening, January 4, 1889, at the hour of 6 o’clock, at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Hobson McClurg of this city.
Mrs. Cavin’s maiden name was Clarissa LeClare. Her parents came here with the second installment of emigrants from France, in the early days of the settlement of Gallipolis by the French. Clarissa was the seventh of seven daughters, born inside the old Fort on the Public Square, August 30, 1797, and was consequently, well advanced in her 92nd year. Mrs. Adelaide Maguet, who died last March, lacking but 18 days of 100 year was a sister, and Mrs. Lewis Denney, of near Porter, this county, is now the only surviving sister, Mr. Wm. Cavin, her husband, to whom she was married when but fifteen years old, died 43 years ago. By him she became the mother of thirteen children, seven of whom were reared to an adult age, Daniel, William, Lewis, Frank, Louise, Mary and Eliza. Four of these are yet living---Mrs. Louise Baltzell of Mt. Vernon, Ill. And William Cavin, Mrs. Zachariah Denney, and Mrs. Hobson McClurg. Twenty three grandchildren, twenty great grandchildren and one great-great grandchild survive her also. The last, Guy Tippens, son of Mr. Jas. Tippens, is seven years old.
Mrs. Cavin always resided here. After the death of her husband, she lived with her son Frank, on the corner of Third and Cedar Streets, until he died in 1877, and since then most of the time she has lived with her daughter, Mrs. McClurg. About four years ago, she received a slight paralytic stroke, which affected nearly all of her senses and general health to a greater or lesser extent, and it may be said that she has been in constant failing health ever since. She was a very remarkable woman in many respects. She had been a member of the M.E. Church for half a century and was devoted to her bible and Christian duties. She was extremely industrious and looked with disfavor on those who were not. She was an agreeable companion and an eminently good woman.
Her funeral services were conducted at her late residence at 3:30PM Sunday, by Rev. M.V.B. Euans. Her burial was conducted by Hayward & Sons at the old cemetery. It will not be long until the link is broken which binds our people with those sterling characters, that came here and planted the seeds of civilization on the banks of the Ohio a hundred years ago. It excites our feeling as they are called one by one to join the great majority that are buried in the past. Peace be with them.
Gallipolis Journal
January 9, 1889
Submitted by Dorothy Frazier
Chambers, Madelaine
WIFE IS DEAD IN HONOLULU
Mrs. Madelaine Chambers, wife of Richard Chambers, who is an officer in the Navy, died Tuesday, June 10, in a hospital in Honolulu, Hawaii, according to word received by the bereaved husband’s father, W. F. Chambers of Eureka.
No particulars of her illness and death are known. The body, however, will be returned to the United States and brought to Gallia County for burial at Clay Chapel, although no date has been set.
Mr. Chambers and his eight-months-old son, Richard Fletcher, are expected to arrive from Honolulu about June 17. Mrs. Chambers was a native of New York. She had joined her husband in Hawaii about a year ago.
Chambers Funeral Set For Sunday
Funeral services for Mrs. Richard H. Chambers, who died in Honolulu last Tuesday, will be held at 2 p.m. next Sunday at the Chambersburg Church. Burial of the ashes will be made at Clay Chapel Cemetery.
The delay was deemed advisable so that relatives living at a distance may arrange to attend. Mrs. Chambers was born and reared in New York City. Her death resulted from a cerebral hemorrhage.
Surviving, besides the husband, is an eight-months-old son.
The bereaved husband is a son of W. F. Chambers of Chambersburg (Eureka post office) and is a naval officer. He has been stationed at Honolulu about 16 months and his wife had been there almost as long. Three years had passed since his previous visit to the parental home.
Gallipolis Tribune
June 1947
Transcribed by Lew Casey
Chambers, Margaret Ethel
Margaret Chambers
GALLIPOLIS - Margaret Ethel Chambers, 51, Rt. 2, Gallipolis, died at 1:25 p.m. Friday at her residence, having been in failing health for the past six months.
Born Dec. 24, 1929, in Marysville, W. Va., daughter of the late Nelson and Hazel Swain Pierce, she was an employee of Gallipolis Developmental Center. She was married to Harry Chambers, who survives, on May 29, 1953, in Henderson.
Also surviving are five daughters, Mrs. Barbara Nelson of Caldwell, Mrs. Deborah Pratter of Chillicothe, Mrs. Diane Young of Gallipolis, Mrs. Darlene Saunders of Bidwell, and Ellen Chambers of Gallipolis; seven grandchildren; five sisters, Mrs. Jenny Baker of McConnelsville, Mrs. Sylvia Ferguson of Joseph's Mill, W. Va., Mrs. Betty Gorrell of Malta, Mrs. Rosallen Violand of Virginia Beach, Va., and Mrs. Norma Jean Scott of Pennsville; three brothers, Olin of Friendly, W. Va., Rodney of Long Bottom, W.Va. and Raymond of Philadelphia, Penn.; a stepsister, Mrs. Charlotte Smit of New York.
She attended the First Presbyterian Church ofGallipolis.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Monday at the Waugh-Halley-Wood Funeral Home, with the Rev. Frank Hayes officiating. Burial will be in Providence Cemetery. Friends may call 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. today.
Unknown publication
April 3, 1981
Contributed by Jacquelyn Woolley
Chapline, John
A SUDDEN DEATH.
On the 27th of April, 1859, JOHN CHAPLINE came to his death, on the farm of the Rev. J. D. Ray, in Harrison township, Gallia county, Ohio, by the falling of a tree, which struck him on the head and back, and produced instant death. This melancholy catastrophe has been followed by lamentation and astonishment throughout the neighborhood and community in which he resided. The deceased was a young man, generally respected for his good behavior, and for his peaceful, quiet and orderly manner of life. It was truly said of him by one of his neighbors, that "he died without an enemy." He was suddenly cut off in the flower of his youth, being in the fifteenth year of his age. Serious and thoughtful, upright in his conversation and deportment, and being much given to prayer and the reading of the Scriptures, it is fondly hoped that the germ of spiritual life was implanted within him by the spirit of Christ, and that it now buds and blooms in the life and immortality of the heavenly world. His mortal remains were conveyed to Rome township in Lawrence county, Ohio, and were deposited with the dust of his kindred until the judgment of the great day.
John Chapline was the only son of John and Matilda Chapline, deceased, late of the township, county and State just referred to. He and a younger sister were put under our care nearly six years ago, by Col. Lewis Anderson and Mr. Jacob Proctor, their legal guardians. They are dear in us, and it is like spilling our heart's blood to part with them. With wounded spirits we mourn over the sad calamity that has befallen our beloved boy amidst the charms of youth and the pleasing anticipations which he so fondly cherished in regard to the pleasures and prospects of this life. But severe as is this sudden and unexpected calamity, we desire to pray for submission to the will of God, and to say to Him with penitent and believing hearts: "Not my will, but thine be done."
This melancholy occurrence will be deeply felt and lamented by his surviving sisters, his brother-in-law, his guardians, and by other numerous relatives and friends. The light of the Chapline family is probably extinguished by the untimely death of this only son.
PILGRIM
Mr. Ebenezer, Ohio, May 6th, 1859
Ironton Register, Ironton, Lawrence County, Ohio
May 19, 1859
Transcribed by Jean Griesan
Chapman, William Greer
W. G. Chapman Dies
Ex-C&O Security Captain
Funeral servives for William Greer Chapman, 78 of 827 25th St. a former captain of Chesapeake Ohio Railway special agents at the Huntington shops will be conducted Saturday at 1 p m at the Ninth Avenue United Methodist Church by the Rev Kenneth Cain and the Rev Newlon Shock. Burial will be in Greenbottom Cemetery at Lesage, WV. Members of the Huntington Post 16 of the American Legion of which he was a member, will conduct graveside rites and serve as pallbearers.
Mr. Chapman died Thursday in a Huntington Hospital. Born 5 May 1890, in Gallia County, Ohio, a son of the late William G. & Susan Chapman, he came to Huntington as a youth. He was an Army Infantry Vetrean of World War I and served in France. He was associated with C&O for 47 years before his retirement 13 years ago. He was a member of the Brotherhood of Railroad Steamship Clerks and Huntington Council 182 of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics.
Survivors include the widow Mrs Dottie Ennis Chapman, three sons William N. and George A Chapman of Huntington and Joseph W Chapman of Lesage; a daughter, Mrs C.E. Rappold and a foster-daughter, Miss Susan B. Harris of Huntington and 13 grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
Huntington Hearld Dispatch
14 Feb 1969
Submitted by Ernie Wright
Chappelle, Abigail Belle Bierce
Abigail Belle Bierce, the eldest of a family of thirteen, the children of Marcus and Laura Sherwood Bierce, was born at Nelson, Portage County, Ohio, January 1st, 1823, and died at Columbus, Ohio, March 4, 1913, aged over 90 years. On January 1st, 1844, she was married to Dwight W. Chappelle, and they became the parents of eight children, Laura, Amelia, Elizabeth, Lucy, Bierce, Warren, Ambrose and Parker. Her husband and two children, Laura and Elizabeth, preceded her to the Great Beyond. Besides the six remaining children she is survived by three brothers, Albert, Andrew and Ambrose, the well known writer, and one sister, Almeda Pittinger; she also left thirty-two grandchildren and thirty-eight great-grandchildren.
At an early age she united with the Presbyterian church and was a devout, christian lady, of a very cheerful and hopeful disposition, keeping sweet and placed under the most adverse circumstances. The last year and a half of her life was spent in St. Anthony’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. The most of her long life was passed in Cheshire, Ohio, where her funeral was held in the Baptist church by Rev. Sprouse. She was laid to rest beside her husband in Gravel Hill cemetery on March 5th, 1913.
Undated newspaper article
Transcribed by Suzanne Giroux
Cherrington, Annie
Death of Mrs. Cherrington
Mrs. Annie E. Cherrington died last Friday morning at her home in Mason City, after a lingering illness. Funeral Sunday afternoon at the M.E. church, conducted by Rev. Gibbons, of Pt. Pleasant and burial in Adamsville cemetery. Middleport Republican
Mrs. Cherrington was the widow of Dr. Charles Cherrington, son of the late Jefferson Cherrington and brother of Caleb W. Cherrington. She was a splendid woman and the Pt. Pleasant Gazette contains a column of obituary about her. Her maiden name was Limrick. She was an only child and had no brother or sister to smooth the pillow of the dying She could grace a palace with her elegant manners, or bless a hovel with her sunny smile and cheerful presence. All claimed her as a friend and her funeral was largely attended. Her husband whom she idolized, died a dozen years ago. She was 55 years of age.
Gallipolis Daily Tribune
no date, but Charles died in 1891
Transcribed by Henny Evans
Cherrington, Wesley Fletcher
Former Resident Dead
Wesley Fletcher Cherrington passed away at his home at Marion, Kansas, on July 14, 1914, aged 89 years. He was a resident of Gallia County for over 50 years and was a half-brother of J.S. Cherrington of Bidwell and J.H. Cherrington of Gallipolis. Mrs. Fannie Denney of Evergreen is a daughter of the deceased.
Gallipolis Bulletin
August 20, 1914
Transcribed by Henny Evans
Chevalier, Cecil F.
Cecil F. Chevalier
Cecil F. Chevalier, 77, of Rockbridge, died Tuesday, March 3, 1998, at his residence. Born April 30, 1920, in Gallipolis, son of the late Finley and Emma Mae Chick Chevalier, he was a retired aviation mechanic from Rockwell International, Columbus, and a World War II Army Veteran. He was a member of First United Methodist Church of Lancaster, and the Avery Lodge 493 F & AM of Hilliard.
Surviving are his wife, Harriet Logan Chevalier, of Rockbridge; a son, Barry L. Chevalier of Sarasota, Fla.; a daughter, Sherry Chevalier of Bradenton, Fla.; five grandchildren and a great-grandchild; and a sister, Ella Belle McDonald of Gallipolis.
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by a brother, Lawrence Chevalier; and a sister, Emma Frances Dabney.
Services are 1 p.m. Saturday at the Cardaras Funeral Home, Logan, with Dr. Brooks W. Heck officiating. Burial will be at the Sunset Cemetery, Galloway. Friends may call at the funeral home on Friday from 4-8 p.m. on Friday. The family suggests that contributions be made to Hospice of Fairfield County, 1111 E. Main St. Lancaster, Ohio 43130
Gallipolis paper
3-5-1998
Submitted by Charles & Fran Longsdorf, Midland, MI
Chevalier, Lawrence J.
Lawrence Chevalier
Lawrence J. Chevalier, 76, 1414 Alvina Drive, Columbus, died Monday, Jan.2, 1995 at Kobacker House in Columbus. He was a retired machinist from Dennison Apex Co. and a World War II U. S. Army veteran.
He was a member of McKendree United Methodist Church, Columbus Lodge #30 F&AM, Scottish Rite, Dennison Old Timer's Club and Oakland Park Conservation Club.
Born Sept. 10, 1918 in Gallia County, he was the son of the late Finley and Emma Chick Chevalier.
Survivors include his wife, Louise; one son, John (Jodi) Chevalier of Delaware; one sister, Ellabelle McDonald; one brother, Cecil (Harriet) Chevalier; and three grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents and one sister, Frances Dabney.
Friends may call 2 to 4 p.m. and 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at the Schoedinger North Chapel, 5554 Karl Road, where services will be held 11 a.m. Thursday with the Rev. Sue Ellen Miller officiating. Burial will be in Northlawn Memorial Gardens, Westerville. Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice at Riverside.
Gallipolis Daily Tribune
1-3-1995 pg. A3
Submitted by Charles & Fran Longsdorf, Midland, MI
Chick, Carrie
Carrie Chick
Carrie Chick 83, Portsmouth Road, Gallipolis, died at 9 a.m. today in Holzer Medical Center.
She retired as a telephone operator with Ohio Bell Telephone Co. in 1958 after 30 years of service.
The daughter of the late Ira and Ella Baker Chick, she is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Esther Plymale of Gallipolis and Mrs. Eula McConnehea of Sarasota, Fla.
Arrangements will be announced later by Waugh-Halley-Wood Funeral Home.
Unknown publication
Thursday, November 13, 1986
Submitted by Charles & Fran Longsdorf, Midland, MI
Chick, Elizabeth Luella (Ella)
Mrs. Ella Chick Dies Tuesday
Mrs. Elizabeth Luella (Ella) Chick, 76, died Tuesday at 8:30 a.m. at her home, 1824 Eastern Ave., after a lengthy illness. She had been in ill health for a period of 22 years, and bedfast for 15. Her condition became critical three weeks ago.
Mrs. Chick was a native of Mason county, where she was born Sept. 14, 1879, daughter of the late Allen and Amelia Martin Baker. She was the last of her family, having been preceded in death by the following brothers and sisters William, Samuel, John, Charles, Mrs. Emma Queen and Mrs. Kitty Ramey. She was married to Ira Chick on Aug. 18, 1900, and he survives along with the following daughters, Miss Carrie L. at home, Mrs. S. V. (Esther) Clonch of Gallipolis, Mrs. Everette (Irene) Delaney of Evansville, Ind., and Mrs. Harry (Eulah) Mcconnehea of Lake Jackson, Tex. There are a grandson and great grandson who also survive.
Mrs. Chick was a member of the Baptist church. The couple moved to Gallipolis in 1900 and has lived here since.
Funeral services will be held Friday at 2 p.m., at the C. J. Waugh Funeral home. Rev. E. C. Venz, assisted by Rev. H. M. Smith, will officiate and burial will be in Pine Street cemetery. Friends may call at Waugh's after noon on Wednesday and until the funeral hour.
Unknown publication
[no date for the paper, but Ira's obit states she died March 20, 1956.]
Submitted by Charles & Fran Longsdorf, Midland, MI
Chick, Ella M.
Mrs. Ella Chick Dead
Mrs. Ella M. Chick, wife of James F. Chick, died at her home on the Chillicothe road Sunday morning at 6 o'clock, after an illness of several weeks of heart disease.
She was 59 years of age, was the daughter of the late Marion and Rachel Trotter and was born in this city. She is survived by her husband and the following children: Mrs. Robert Johnson of Chambersburg, John of Huntington, W. Va., Miss Rosa at home and Mrs. Elman Maddy of this city, also one sister and two half sisters.
She has been a member of Ohio Chapel M. E. Church for many years and was a devoted wife and mother.
The funeral services will be from the home Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock, conducted by Rev. R. P. McCarley, the interment following at Mound Hill under the directions of Wetherholt and Entsminger.
Unknown publication in Bossard Memorial Library in Gallipolis
10-7-1925
Submitted by Charles & Fran Longsdorf, Midland, MI
Chick, Ira H.
Ira H. Chick, Taken Friday
Ira H. Chick, 81, a retired concrete finisher, died at his home 1602 Eastern Ave., at 7:30 p.m. Friday. He had been in failing health for three years, and a heart attack Friday resulted in his death.
He was born on Little Bull Skin, this county on June 8, 1877, the son of the late Thomas and Elizabeth Boster Chick. His marriage to the former Ella Baker took place in Gallipolis on aug. 18, 1900 and she preceded him in death on March 20, 1956.
Four daughters survive, Miss Carrie Chick, an Ohio Bell telephone operator here, Mrs. Everette (Irene) Delaney and Mrs. S. V. (Esther) Plymale Clonch, both of Gallipolis and Mrs. Harry (Eulah) Mcconnehea of Middleport.
Other survivors are three sisters, Mrs. Clarence (Mabel) Betz of Gallipolis, Mrs. E. C. (Jessie) Waugh of Portsmouth and Mrs. Harry (Mina) Burkett of Tiffin. A surviving grandson is Garland Plymale and a great grandson is Richard Plymale. A brother, Charles D. Chick, preceded him in death.
Mr. Chick spent all of his life in this county with the exception of 15 years in Portsmouth. He returned to Gallipolis in 1937 and had lived here since.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Waugh-Halley-Wood Funeral home. Rev. Vernon Shafer will officiate and burial will follow in Pine Street cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 4 p.m. Sunday and until the hour of the service.
Unknown publication
3-13-1959
Submitted by Charles & Fran Longsdorf, Midland, MI
Chick, James Chauncey
Chauncey Chick
Chauncey Chick died at his home on Second Avenue Thursday, October 24, 1918 after two weeks' illness with pneumonia. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. James Chick, who reside on the Pete Thompson farm.
Rev. D. F. Wood conducted the funeral services at the residence Saturday. Burial was in the Mound Hill Cemetery.
Mr. Chick married Miss Mary Calhoun and is survived by her and one daughter, Norma. Mr. Chick was employed as train dispatcher on the K & M railroad and a very efficient and well liked young man.
[and]
Chauncey Chick
After two week' illness with influenza, Chauncey Chick died at his home in this city Thursday. He was the son of James Chick and wife on the Peter Thompson farm in Green township. He leaves his wife, formerly Mary Calhoun, and a young daughter. The funeral was Saturday afternoon.
[and]
Mr. James Chauncey Chick was born near Gallipolia, October 4, 1894 and died Thursday afternoon, October 24, 1918, aged 24 years and 20 days. His death was caused by pneumonia after an illness of about ten days. He was a son of Mr. and James Chick andhis wife was Miss Mary Calhoun of this city, who, with their little daughter Norma, survive him. He is also survived by his father, mother, five sisters and one brother.
For several months previous to his death Mr. Chick had been employed as express messenger on a K & M train. He was an honest, industrious young man, devoted to his family and genial and kind to every one.
A host of friends sympathize with the wife and little daughter and feel a personal grief over his departure. We cannot understand why he should be taken, but we must submis to the wisdom of Him who "doeth all things well.
Gallipolis Tribune
11-1-1918 Pg 4
Submitted by Charles & Fran Longsdorf, Midland, MI
Chick, James F.
James F. Chick Passes Suddenly In His 82nd Year
Funeral Is Set For 2 Thursday At Eureka
James F. Chick died very suddenly Tuesday at the home of his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Johnson. Mr. Chick had been here the day before and seemed about as well as usual. While seated in front of a grate fire in the Johnson home about 8:45 Tuesday morning, Mrs. Johnson heard a strange clink or rattling of the coal scuttle and then found her father collapsed and dying. His age was 81 years, 3 months, 27 days.
His wife and five children preceded him in death, but these three children, in addition to Mrs. Johnson, survive: Mrs. Elman Maddy, Gallipolis; Mrs. Joe West, Kansas, and John Chick, Nitro.
For many years Mr. Chick was a resident of Gallipolis and he had a wide acquaintance in the county. Once he was a central figure in a controversy relative to a local option campaign.
Funeral services will be held at the Johnson home at 2 o'clock Thursday, with Rev. R. P. McCarley in charge. Burail in Mound Hill cemetery by Stevers.
Unknown publication in Bossard Memorial Library in Gallipolis
Wed. 1-21-1942 Front Page
Submitted by Charles & Fran Longsdorf, Midland, MI
Chick, John
Mr. John Chick, uncle of Mrs. R. K. Sisson, died Saturday of paralysis. Mr. Chick was more than 80 yearsof age and was from England. He possessed many noble qualities. He left considerable estate which he disposed of by will.
[and]
Mr. John Chick, aged 80 years, a quite wealthy bachelor, uncle of Mrs. Sisson of this city, died last Saturday. (April 1880 Gallipolis)
Unknown publication in Brossard Library in Gallipolis
April 23, 1880
Submitted by Charles & Fran Longsdorf Midland, MI
Chick, John D.
John Chick
John D Chick, 79 a resident of 116 State St., was found dead around 8 a.m. today in front of his automobile. According to Gallia County Coroner Dr. Donald Warehime, Mr. Chick died of an apparent heart attack around 10 p.m. Sunday. He had just returned from church and was placing a blanket over the windshield of his automobile.
He was born Jan. 7, 1896, in Ohio Twp., son of the late James and Ella Trotter Chick. He was a retired night clerk at the Libby Hotel. One son survives by a previous marriage. Two sisters survive, Rosalee West, Kanauga and Mrs. Robert Johnson, Eureka. One brother Chauncey, preceded him in death,
He was a lifelong resident of Gallia County. He was a member of the Bell chapel Church, and was a World War I veteran.
Funeral services will be held 2 p.m. Wednesday at Miller's Home for Funerals with Rev. Everett Delaney officiating. burial will follow in Mound Hill Cemetery, Friends may call at the funeral home from 4 p.m. Tuesday.
[and]
Man found dead early this morning [1-5-1976]
John Chick, 79, a resident of State St. Gallipolis, was found dead at 7:50 a.m. today. Chick's body was found lying along side his car.
Dr. Donald R. Warehime, Gallia County Coroner, said death was caused by an apparent heart attack. He said Chick died around 10 to 10:30 Sunday night. The body was removed to Miller's Home for Funerals.
Gallipolis Daily Tribune
Monday, Jan. 5, 1976
Submitted by Charles & Fran Longsdorf, Midland, MI
Chick, Joseph B.
ILLNESS CLAIMS JOSEPH CHICK
Retired Foundry Man Is Stricken At His Home Wednesday
Joseph B. Chick, 76 year old retired Crown Pipe & Foundry Co., employee, passed away at his home on Jackson route 3 Wednesday morning following an illness of two weeks. A native of Gallia county, Mr. Chick was the son of the late Jefferson and Charity Woodruff Chick.
He is survived by his wife; three sons, Carl, of Jackson; Emory and Oakley, of columbus; three daughters, Mrs. Violet McAffee, of columbus; Mrs. Indials Withrow, Dayton; and Mrs. Earnestine Vulgamore, Portsmouth; three sisters, Mrs Letha Davis and Mrs. Myrtle Tope, Gallipolis; and Mrs. Allie Eisnaugle, Jackson and one brother, Theodore Chick, Jackson, Miss.
Funeral services will be conducted Saturday at 2 p.m. in the Mayhew funeral home with Rev. Evan D. Jones officiating. The body may be viewed prior to the funeral at the Mayhew funeral home. Burial will be made in Fairmount Cemetery.
Unknown publication from Brossard Library in Gallipolis
9-5-1947
Submitted by Charles & Fran Longsdorf, Midland, MI
Chic, Thomas
Unknown publication
Approximately July 1924
Submitted by Charles & Fran Longsdorf, Midland, MI
Chick, Thomas D.
Thomas D. Chick
Thomas D. Chick, 63, Hilliard, O., died Sunday at the Dayton V. A. Hospital. The former Gallipolis resident was an Air Force Veteran of World War II.
He is survived by his wife, Mary, of Hilliard. Also surviving are one sone, Danny Chick, Columbus; four daughters; Annette Thompson, Westerville; Mari Beth Williams, Dallas, TX; Robin Mayer, Columbus; and Jill Chick at home; and one sister Rosemary Davis, Columbus.
Friends may call at the Tidd Funeral Home, Hilliard, this evening from 7 p.m. until 9 p.m. Services will be held at the funeral home on Wednesday at 1:30 p.m., with Dr. Weir Harman officiating. Burial will be at the Wesley Chapel Cemetery.
[son of Charles D. Chick]
Unknown publication from Brossard Library in Gallipolis
11-12-1985
Submitted by Charles & Fran Longsdorf, Midland, MI
Wall, Claibourne D., Dr.
Dr. Claibourne D. Wall, of this city, died at noon Thursday, after a long and distressing illness. The funeral services were held Saturday at the family residence, Rev. C. F. Creighton conducting the ceremonies. Dr. Wall was a school teacher in his youth, teaching in Henry county, Virginia, where he married. He came to Gallipolis in 1854, and attended courses of lecture in the Miami Medical College of Cincinnati, graduating at the Eclectic Medical College of that city.
His practice was very extensive for many years. For twelve years he was Coroner of this county and at one time he was U.S. Deputy Revenue Collector. The wife of Dr. Wall died in 1878 and he never recovered from the loss of his companion, failing gradually since. Probably no citizen ever lived here whose love of truth, honesty and right was stronger than in him. As a father he was indulgent and his large heart had the constant tendency of bankrupting his purses. Six sons and one daughter survive him. He died in his 58th year. Let the earth cover a pure man.
[Note: both Claibourne and his wife Elizabeth Smith Wall are buried in Pine Street Cemetery.]
Gallipolis Jounal
August 3, 1882
Transcribed by Henny Evans
Clark, Amos
Amos Clark Dead
Prominent Gallia County Citizen Passed Away at Xenia
Auditor James S. Clark received the sad news, this morning, that had been foreshadowed in these columns, of the death of his father at the home of his daughter Mrs. Ada Lackey of Xenia, O. It is thought that the body will reach here Wednesday evening, when Undertaker Wetherholt will have charge, but further details of the funeral and burial cannot be given at this time, being undetermined.
Mr. Clark was born at Winterport, Maine, 72 years ago the 8th of last December. He came to New Orleans when only 19 years of age, and followed the river up to Chambersburg, and later he and brother Joshua went to merchandizing together and running the wharfboat there. Later on he bought a farm and became a farmer prominent as such and later on formed a partnership with Capt. William Graham and Jacob Riggs, under the firm name of Graham, Clark & Riggs, and boated produce south for perhaps 30 years and bought up large quantities of fruit, running into immense transactions some years. A year ago he sold his farm to John Sanders and has done nothing since but try to recuperate his failing health which began several years ago, but in the last two years particularly so. Last fall he went to Florida and spent his winter at St. Petersburg with his wife, they only arriving North recently, and going immediately to Xenia where they have been sojourning until the end.
Mr. Clark was a member of the State Board of Equalization a few years ago, and had been often spoken of for high places in the State, but shifting conditions in politics never seemed to be quite opportune, but he was recognized as capable and worthy of distinguished preferment.
He was married first to Miss Fannie Riggs in June, 1865, and became the father of Mrs. R. B. Ewing of Carlisle, O., Mrs. Dr. Lackey of Xenia, and Mr. J. S. Clark, the present auditor of Gallia county.
Mrs. Clark dying, he was united in marriage the second time to Mrs Sallie Harper, widow of the late Attorney Eben Harper, in October, 1881, and she survives him without children.
He was a member of the M.E. church and a highly moral christian main of a kindly and agreeable nature and much respected and admired by a large acquaintance and sincerely and devotedly loved by family and relatives.
[Note: Amos is buried in Mound Hill Cemetery in Gallipolis.]
Gallipolis Daily Tribune
June 7, 191
Transcribed by Henny Evans
Clark, Andrew J.
RIO GRANDE LOSES A SPLENDID CITIZEN
Andrew J. Clark dies Suddenly of Heart Attack on Wednesday Night-- Funeral was Friday
Failing to recover from a sudden heart attack, Mr.Andrew J. Clark, 75. a native of Raccoon township and prominent merchant there, died Wednesday afternoon, July 3, 1935. His deathcame as a great shock to his family and friends, and many expressions of sympathy were extended them.
He is survived by his wife, formerly Miss Lola Tobin, six daughters and a son . They are Mrs. sophia Liggett of Detriot; Mrs. Edith Henson and Mrs. Ted Merriam of Ann Arbor of Thurman; Mrs. Talmadge Cottrell of Trenton and W.E. Clark near Rio Grande. Joe Clark of Adamsville is a brother. A sister, Mrs. Ida Kent, lives in Columbus and two others. Mrs. Jessie Haller and Mrs. Rose Childers in Dayton.
Mr. Clark was a splendid citizen , a longtime member of the Methodist church and enjoyed many warm friendships. Funeral services were at the family residence Friday afternoon by Rev. L.C. Watts and Rev. C.O. Clark burial following in Calvary Cemetery.
Card of Thanks--We wish to express our sincere thanks to those who were so kind and sympathetic during the illness and death of our dear father. A.J. Clark: also to those who were so helpful after his death , to those who sent flowers, to Rev. Watts and Rev. C.O Clark for their consoling words, those who sang, the pall bearers, the undertaker and Mrs. Jessie Davis for her assistance. We also wish to thank those who have been so kind to our mother in her long illness. ---- The Clark Family.
Gallipolis Tribune
July 11, 1935
Contributed by Cheryl Enyart
Clark, Bessie
Mrs. Bessie Clark Died Sunday P.M. Rites Here Tues.
Mrs. Bessie L. Baxter Clark, born reared here and again a resident of this city after her marriage, died at 5:30 last evening in a Huntington hospital. For some years she had lived in Columbus but was brought to Huntington after she became ill about three months ago.
Interment will be made on the Nevius lot in Mound Hill at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday.
Surviving are a son, George Erwin Clark, with the Army in New Guinea, and a sister, Mrs. L. A. Rose, Huntington.
Mrs. Clark, a daughter of Captain Zenas Baxter, was reared at the Nevius home at 626 Second Ave., now occupied by the A. W. Fish and family.
Her second husband was the late Charles F. Stockhoff.
Gallipolis Tribune
1945
Transcribed by Lew Casey
Clark, Carter S.
Carter S. Clark
Carter Clark, 81, was dead on arrival at HMC yesterday at noon.
Mr. Clark was born July 23, 1898, one of seven children born to the late Curtis and Eva Carter Clark. He attended Providence school and was married to Myrtle Boston, Chambersburg, who preceded him in death. They had three children, Curtis Clark, California; Mrs. James (Geneva) Engle, Columbus; and Mrs. Clay (Evelyn) Williams, Crown City. His second marriage was to Frankie Brothers, who survives.
He also is survived by one sister, Mrs. Frank (Audrey) Frounfeller, Temple City, Ca; and one brother, Charles Abraham (Abe) Clark, Columbus.
He served in the Navy in WW II; he was a carpenter for all his life, and worked at GDC for several years; he also operated a shoe shop in the Park Central Hotel for several years, which closed out in 1965. He was a member of the American Legion.
The funeral will be 1 p.m. Sunday at Miller's Home for Funerals with the Rev. Carles Lulsher officiating. Burial will be in Providence Cemetery, Leaper.
Unknown publication
January 17, 1980
Contributed by Jacquelyn Woolley
Clark, Frederick P.
CLARK
Frederick P. Clark, age 65, Tuesday, late of 869 Montrose
Survived by wife, Stella; daughter, Mary Jane Clark of the residence; 4 brothers, Curtis and Homer Clark of Columbus, Joseph Clark of Delaware and Harry Clark of Florida; 3 sisters, Mrs. E. R. Bolin, Akron, Mrs. J. W. Gilkey, Lancaster, Mrs. William Van Gilder, Gallipolis. Friends may call at the WEIR-AREND EAST CHAPEL, 2154 E. Main St., Thursday afternoon and evening, where service will be held Friday, 10 a.m. Interment, Forest Rose Cemetery, Lancaster. (Lancaster papers, please copy.)
Columbus Dispatch
Date unknown
Transcribed by Suzanne Giroux
[Note – Frederick probably died in 1962 – Frederick was born and raised in Cheshire - son of Wilber W. Clark & Mary Agnes Blackburn]
Clark, Geneva I.
Geneva Isabel Clark, 87, of Roush Lane, Route 1, Cheshire, died Friday at Pinecrest Nursing Care Center following a lengthy illness. She retired from Gallia and Meigs County School Systems after 38 years of teaching. Born December 31, 1899 in Cheshire Township, Gallia County, she was a daughter of the late Taylor Gordon and Rhoda Jane Davidson. She was preceded in death by her husband, Harry Oscar Clark in 1978, two sisters, Mrs. Velma Ely and Margaret Cunningham. Surviving is a sister, Bessie Rose of Gallipolis.
She attended Cheshire Baptist Church and was a member of the Gallia County Retired Teachers Association and an honorary member of Cheshire Garden Club.
Services will be conducted at 1 P.M. Monday at Waugh Halley Wood Funeral Home, Rev. Ron Hammond officiating. Burial follows in Gravel Hill Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home Sunday, 2 to 5 p.m.
Gallipolis Daily Tribune, November 20. 1987
Submitted by Dorothy Frazier
Clark, Homer C. (Homer Clyde Clark)
CLARK
Homer C. Clark, Riverside Hospital, Friday, age 76, residence 55 E. Henderson Road, Bethal(?), district manager, southern division Columbus and Southern Ohio Electric Co., Member, North Broadway Methodist Church, Columbus, Rotary Club, Columbus Lodge of Masons No. 30, Scottish Rite, Aladdin Temple Shrine, Zanesville Rod and Gun Club, Quarter Centrury member of CSOE. Survived by wife, Martha; 2 sons, Dr. Thomas E. Clark, 6165 McVay(?) Blvd., Carl S. Clark, 386 Arden Rd.; 7 grandchildren; 3 brothers, Curt, Harry and Joseph; 3 sisters, Mrs. Garnet Gilkey, Mrs. Ethel Bolin, Mrs. Marie VanGilder. Friends may call at the SHAW DAVIS and GLEN L. MYERS NORTH CHAPEL, 4341 N. High St., after 7 p.m. Saturday, where service and Scottish Rite will be held Monday 1 p.m. Interment, Walnut Grove Cemetery by Shaw Davis. Friends, if the wish, may contribute to the Heart Fund.
Columbus Dispatch
11/23/1963
Transcribed by Suzanne Giroux
[
Note – Homer died 11/22/1963 (same day as JFK) – Homer was born and raised in Cheshire - son of Wilber W. Clark & Mary Agnes Blackburn]
Clark, James C. (James Curtis Clark)
Private funeral services will be held Thursday morning in the Darfus Funeral Home, Groveport, for James C. Clark, 76, whose death occurred Monday afternoon.
The father of Dr. Charles F. Clark, 901 Sheridan Dr., Mr. Clark lived at 3750 Bixby Rd., Groveport. He was a retired agent of the Chespeake and Ohio Railroad and member of the Methodist Church.
Clark’s survivors include his wife, Mary; daughters: Lois of the home, Mrs. Paul (Helen) Harmon, Canal Winchester, Mrs. Robert (Virginia) Kessler, Groveport; son, Dr. Clark, 8 grandchildren; sisters: Mrs. Garnet Gilkey, Lancaster, Mrs. Ethel Bolin, Greensburg, O., Mrs. Marie VanGilder, Gallipolis; brothers: Joseph, Delaware, O. and Harry, Cheshire, O.
Friends will be received at the Darfus Funeral Home this Wednesday evening from 7 to 9:30. Burial in Union Grove Cemetery, Canal Winchester.
Undated newspaper article
Transcribed by Suzanne Giroux
[Note – James died 6/7/1965 – James was born and raised in Cheshire - son of Wilber W. Clark & Mary Agnes Blackburn]
Clark, Leonidas
Clark
Leonidas Clark, formerly of Gallia county, died Friday morning at 10:15 o’clock at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Arthur Boice, on Gravel Hill. He had been in poor health for some time and on account of his advanced years his death was not unexpected. He was in his seventy-eighth year and leaves besides the daughter two sons William Clark, of Athens, and Herbert Clark, of Cheshire. He was a good christian man and was patient during his illness and resigned to his fate. The funeral occurred Saturday afternoon at two o’clock from the Cheshire Baptist church, being conducted by Rev. F. E. Powell and the interment was made in the Gravel Hill cemetery at that place.
Meigs Co. Republican
Probably 4/8/1912 (Monday)
Transcribed by Suzanne Giroux
[Note – Leonidas died 4/5/1912 – son of Joseph Clark & Rachel Watkins & husband of Maria Smith]
Clark, Mary Agnes (Mary Agnes Blackburn CLARK -AKA Luda Blackburn CLARK)
Mrs. Mary Agnes Clark, one of Cheshire’s oldest residents and church workers, died about noon Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Ralston. She was 86 and the widow of William Clark, railway section foreman, who died in 1928.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Tuesday at the Cheshire Methodist Church, of which she was a member, with Rev. J. V. Speer in charge. Burial in Gravel Hill Cemetery by Rawlings and Coats of Middleport. The body will be brought from Middleport to the church at 1 p. m.
Mrs. Clark was a native and life-long resident of the Cheshire community and was a daughter of Squire William Blackburn.
She has spent most of the summers since her husband’s death, alone in her own home. Because of failing health, she went to the home of her son-in-law, William Van Gilder, Gallipolis Dam lockmaster in the fall. A month ago she was taken to the Ralston home, where Mrs. Ralston, a nurse, cared for her.
Mrs. Clark is survived by eight children, 18 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren. The children are Mrs. Marie Van Gilder; H. C. Clark, general manager of the Columbus and Southern Ohio Electric Co., and Fred Clark, both of Columbus; Harry Clark, Cheshire; Curtis Clark, C & O station agent at Lancaster, who has been seriously ill for several weeks; Mrs. J. W. Gilkey, also of Lancaster: Joe E. Clark, Delaware, and Mrs. E. R. Bolin, Akron.
Decedent was long a member of the Eastern Star and highly esteemed by the people of her community.
Undated newspaper article
Transcribed by Suzanne Giroux
[Note - Mary Agnes died 1/4/1948 – Husband’s actual name was Wilber W. but he often went by name of William. Although obituary says she was daughter of Squire William Blackburn, her death certificate and other documents show she was the daughter of Jacob Blackburn & Elizabeth A. McMillon. According to her granddaughter Lois, she changed her name from Luda to Mary Agnes to avoid being called “ludicrous”.]
Clark, Mary M. (Mary Ann Mauck CLARK)
CLARK
Mary M. Clark, age 99. Formerly of Circle Dr., Pickerington. Widow of James Curtis Clark, 1965. Member Gahanna Community Church. Survived by daughters, Mrs. Robert (Lois) Kessler, Canal Winchester, Mrs. Paul (Helen) Harman, Pickerington; son, Dr. Charles Clark, Lancaster, 7 grandchildren; 9 great-grandchildren. Preceded in death by daughter, Virginia Kessler.
Friends may call at the MYERS FUNERAL HOME, Groveport, Thursday, 2-4 and 7-9 p.m., where service will be conducted Friday, 1:30 p.m. Rev. Richard Kuhn and Rev. John W. Selvey officiating. Interment, Union Grove Cemetery. Memorial contributions may be made to the Forest Rose School or the charity of your choice.
Columbus Dispatch
1/21/1988
Transcribed by Suzanne Giroux
[ Note – Mary was born and raised in Cheshire - daughter of Isaac Noah Mauck & Annie Sherwood Good]
Clark, Mary M. Grover
Death of Mrs. J. W. Clark
Mrs. Mary M. Grover, wife of J. Warren Clark, of this city, and daughter of Mr. Wm. H. Grover, of Kyger, Cheshire township, died last Sunday evening, April 7th, 1889, after a severe illness of five weeks with typhoid malaria, but after declining health of about one year. She leaves a husband and one son, Brandon G., sixteen years old, to mourn their great loss. Her father, also, survives her. She was a member of the New, or Swedenborgian Church, and Rev. Daniels, of Middleport, and of that denomination, conducts her funeral services at her late residence on Pine street, at 11 a.m., today, her burial following at the old family burying ground at Kyger.
Mrs. Clark was an eminently sweet tempered and good dispositioned woman, who endeared herself to all who knew her, and through her long suffering had the kindest intentions of a large circle of friends, for which Mr. Clark and son return their heartfelt thanks.
“It easeth some, tho’ none it ever cured,
To think their sorrows others have endured.”
Gallipolis Journal
April 10, 1889
Transcribed by Henny Evans
Clark, Merch
Merch Irwin Clark, 91, a resident of 64 Pine St., Gallipolis, died in Holzer Medical Center around 2 p.m. Sunday.
Mr. Clark was the son of the late William Henry and Lelia Belle Kennedy Clark. He was born Oct. 11, 1883 in Morgan Twp. He was one of five children and the last of his immediate family.
Mr. Clark attended school at Clark Chapel near Porter. He married Sara Hoffman of Meigs County on July 13, 1907.
One daughter survives, Mrs. Robert (Lyvonia) Bunce, Gallipolis; one grandson, Prof. William Robert Bunce, Cincinnati, survives.
Mr. Clark left farming in 1940 and worked as a carpenter in construction at the TNT plant and Marietta manufacturing above Pt. Pleasant. He also worked for the railroad. He was a member of Bulaville Grange and Grace United Methodist Church. He loved to hunt.
Funeral services will be held 2 p.m. Wednesday at Miller’s Home for Funerals with Rev. Paul W. Hawks and Rev. Art Lund, officiating. Burial will be in Pine Street Cemetary.
Friends may call a Mr. Clark’s home on Pine Street Tuesday afternoon and evening.
The Gallipolis Daily Tribune
Monday, June 2, 1975
Transcribed by Sandy Bledsoe
Clark, Sara A.
Sara A. Clark, 88, a resident of 64 Pine St., Gallipolis, was pronounced dead upon arrival at Holzer Medical Center at 9 a.m. Sunday. She had been ill the past five years.
She was the only child of the late William C. and Ella Mink Hoffman, born April 30, 1891 in Meigs County.
She moved to the Bidwell-Porter Community with her parents when she was 12 years old. She married Merch Clark on July 13, 1907. He preceded her in death in 1975.
One daughter, Mrs. Lyvonia Bunce survives. The late Howard Hardway was a foster son reared in the Clark home. One grandson, Prof. William R. Bunce, Cincinnati, survives.
Mrs. Clark was a member of the Grace United Methodist Church. She was active in the WSCS until her health failed.
Holy Eucharist will be said by Rector A.H. MacKenzie, St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, at 9 p.m. Tuesday following the calling hours for relatives and friends. Last rites will be held 1 p.m. Wednesday at the Cremeens Funeral Home with Rev. James V. Frazier, Jr., and Rev. Charles Lusher officiating.
Burial will be in Pine Street Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 7 until 9 p.m. Tuesday. Pall bearers will be James McDougal, Paul Tope, Lambert Bush, Henry Norman, Richard Knohl and William R. Bunce.
The Gallipolis Daily Tribune
Monday, July 16, 1979
Transcribed by Sandy Bledsoe
Clark, Sylvester V.
Sylvester Vance Clark , 99 a resident of Eaglewood Care Center, Springfield, died Wednesday, Sept. 27, 1995.
He was born Feb. 20, 1896 in Gallia County, son of the late Issac Newton and Rachel Waugh Clark.
Mr. Clark was retired from the Railway Express Agency with 35 years service.
He is survived by two sons and three daughters-in-law, Alfred G. and Patricia of Urbana; Ned A. and Mary Lou of Springfield; Dorothy Clark of Venice Fla; seven daughters and three sons-in -law, Mary D. Jarnette of Hawesville, Ky, Grace McKee of Northfield; Thelma and San Dunkel, Englewood; Leeanna and Mark Alberts, Cedar Creek, Texas; Ethel Brust, West Liberty; Nancy and John McKeen, Srpingfield; Marlene Hendren of Canal Winchester; a brother, Elmer, Kettering; three sisters , Frances Jones , Kettering; Mary Notter, Gallipolis; Naomi Myers, Logan; 26 grandchildren, 52 great grandchildren and four great great grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his first wife of 50 years, Satia A. Houck in 1966 and his second wife Gertrude Tayor in 1986, one son, Maurice in 1983.
Friends may call at the Jackson Lytle Ingling Williams Funeral Home, North Limestone Chapel, Springfield, from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday.
Services will be held at 1p.m. Saturday with Rev. George Reed officiating. Burial will be in Rosemill Burial Park.
Gallipolis Daily Tribune
1995
Submitted by Marian Schoonover
Clark, William
Death of William Clark
William Clark, aged 75 years and 6 months, died at his home in the Fourth Ward this morning at one o’clock. He had been sick but a few days with neuralgia of the heart. He leaves a wife, two brothers and four sisters. They are Richard Clark, of Middleport; Daniel Clark, Maryanna Irwin, Caroline Wetherholt and Elizabeth Irwin, who live in Gallia county. His remains will be buried in the Clark cemetery in Gallia county, Friday afternoon. …From Middleport in Pomeroy Telegraph
Gallipolis Journal
March 2, 1894
Typed by Henny Evans
Clark, William
Relatives here received word Saturday morning of the death of William Curtis Clark, 58, at his home in Ridgecrest, Calif. Son of the late Carter and Myrtle ( Boston) Clark, he spent the early part of his life in Gallia County, graduating from the Gallia Academy High School in 1940. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II and was aboard the U.S. Aircraft Carrier, Lexington, when it was sunk in the Coral Sea, but he was rescued.
The latter years of his life was spent in California. He retires as a Chief Petty Officer from the U.S. Navy in 1961. He is survived by his wife Lorene and three daughters and one son by a former marriage. The daughters are Patricia, Rhonda and Coleen, and son, Michael, also 7 grandchildren. He also leaves two sisters, Mrs. Genevieve Engle, Columbus and Mrs. Evelyn Williams of Crown City and a step-mother, Mrs. Franki8e Clark, Gallipolis.
Services were held at the funeral home in Ridgecrest, and at Mr. Clark’s request, the Navy took charge of the body, with full military burial at sea.
Gallipolis Tribune
May 15, 1981
Contributed by Jacquelyn Woolley
Cochrane, Samuel Jr.
Coffman, Monroe (Roy)
Roy Coffman, Stogie Maker, Competitor In Trapshoots, Is Victim
Charles Monroe (Roy) coffman, aged stogie maker and longtime competitor in the Vandalia Grand American trapshoot, was fatally injured Wednesday night when he was struck by a car at the intersection of Locust St. and Third Ave., near his home, 530 Third Ave. Driver of the automobile which hit him was a resident of the same house in which Mr. Coffman resided with his sister, Mrs. Kate Cherrington. He is Herbert O. Pepper, instrumental music director of the Gallipolis schools who was exonerated of blame on testimony of three witnesses.
Death came to Mr. Coffman at 11:45 p.m. Wednesday in Holzer Hospital, where he had been taken in the ambulance of Miller's Home for funerals. Fractured skull was the cause of death.
Born to James Monroe and Elizabeth Chick Coffman at Clipper Mill, the decedent had spinal meningitis when he was three years old, and, as a result, was a deaf mute. Slender and of erect bearing Mr. Coffman conversed with his friends by means of a pad on which he wrote statements and on which rejoinders were written.
He was well educated in a Columbus school. He manufactured stogies at his home and personally delivered many boxes of them to dealers in Gallipolis. He had orders to fill at the time of his death. His late father, a one-time Gallia County farmer, was a prominent fruit dealer in this area.
Besides Mrs. Fred Cherrington, he is survived by another sister Mrs. Effie Jackson of Jackson, who are the only survivors of nine brothers and sisters.
Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. sunday at his late home, and the officiating minister will be the Rev. L. A. Donally, pastor of the Grace Methodist Church, of which decedent was a member.
Burial will be made by Miller's Home for Funerals in Mound Hill Cemetery.
Unknown publication in Brossard Library in Gallipolis
Sept. 29, 1948
Submitted by Charles & Fran Longsdorf, Midland, MI
Coleman, Caroline
Mrs. Caroline Coleman, one of the oldest lady residents of this city, and widely known and respected for her man noble attributes of character, departed this life at about ten o'clock, last Saturday morning, at the residence of her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cochrane.
Mrs. Coleman was for so many years a prominent figure before our people that a brief outline of her history cannot but be interesting to our readers. She was the daughter of Commodore Samuel Swain and wife and was the seventh daughter among eight sisters and four brothers. She was born on the Island of Nantucket, Mass., her parents removing to Lawrence county, this State, in October, 1814, and from there to this place, the year following, where she has resided almost continually ever since.
She was married to Mr. S. H. Coleman November 22, 1832 in Teay's Valley, W.Va., where she was teaching school, at the residence of Mr. Charles Miller, father of Mr. J. H. Miller, now living at Five Mile, in the Kanawha Valley. By this union she became the mother of five children, two of whom, Mrs. Helen Cochrane and Mrs. Kate Williamson, of this city, survive her. Out of the eight sisters and four brothers, only a sister, Mrs. Susan Baxter, who will reach her 83d year next March, survives her.
In 1852, Mr. Coleman, her husband, moved to Ironton and opened the Ironton House, and died there April 27, 1853. The family returned here soon after his death and have resided here without interruption ever since. Mr. Coleman was elected Sheriff of Gallia county in 1834, from Raccoon township, being a member of the old Ridgeway family at the time. He was a saddler by trade, but for many years was proprietor of the Our House on Front street, that in its day was the leading hostelrie of this section. In this connection he and Mrs. Coleman made a wide and favorable acquaintance and are not yet forgotten by many old residents of towns and cities all over the State. After the family returned from Ironton following Mr. Coleman's death, Mrs. Coleman opened a boarding house which has been the home and abiding place of many of the old residents, of this city, during their lives, among them being the editor of the Journal, to whom she was ever a warm friend and mother and who will miss her with the same grief and sorrow as nearer members of her household.
Mrs. Coleman was a woman of more than ordinary ability, taking great interest in the political and important affairs of her country which she patriotically revered. Her memory was excellent and was the means of making her always interesting company to both old and young, the wise and the uninformed. She was eminently charitable and no person was ever turned unfed or unclothed from her door if these necessities were required. Besides her own family she raised three children who were not her own among them Mr. Wm. Ferguson, now with Capt. John M. Alexander, who looked upon her as a mother, and whom Mrs. Coleman had great affection for. During the war for the Union, Mrs. Coleman's heart, as ever, was found to be in the right place, and went out in great sympathy and enthusiasm for those who enlisted in their country's cause, and many were her deeds of kindness to them, for which she will never be forgotten in this world nor in the next. She was very industrious, economical and discreet and had accumulated considerable property. Being a Quakeress by faith, she possessed in a marked degree all of those respected virtues pertaining to that sect. For the last twenty years she has not kept house, but made her home with her daughter, Mrs. Robt. Cochrane. For fifteen years, she has been to a greater or less extent an invalid, and during the whole of that time has received every filial devotion due an idolized mother from an affectionate family.
About three weeks ago, she began to succumb rapidly to the demands of age, but did not take to her bed until the first of last week. Her death was painless and she passed away in sleep, being fully conscious at six o'clock on the morning of her death and dropping to sleep awakened in another, happier and more enduring world. She passed her 80th mile-stone Oct. 10, 1888, and went to her Creator full of years and with a well spent life to receive the reward of a Saviour's love. Her funeral services were conducted by Rev. John Moncure, at St. Peters Episcopal Church at 3:30 p.m., Monday, in the presence of a large and sympathizing congregation, after which her remains were laid away by Hayward & Sons, in the old cemetery by the side of her husband. May she ever be remembered in kindness by those who knew her.
Gallipolis Journal
12 January 1889
Submitted by Eve Hughes
Compton, Jim N.
Corbin, Charles Emerson
Charles Emerson Corbin
Emerson Corbin, 79, 1111 Teodora Drive, Gallipolis, died Friday May 20, 1994 at the home of his son in Grove City. Born Dec 16 1914, the son of the late George and Clona Rice Corbin. He was a retired employee of the Gallipolis Developmental Center. He was a member of the First Baptist Church of Gallipolis, where he served as a deacon for many years. He was bestowed the honor of deacon emeritus by the church in 1991.
He was preceded in death by his wife Inis L Salisbury Corbin on Nov 14, 1993 and also by an infant son, Nolan Richard Corbin. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Charles Norma Scouten, and Darlene Carmichael of Gallipolis; two sons and daughters in law, Larry and Susan Corbin, and Charles and Pam Corbin, all of Grove City; 11 grandchildren and seven great grandchildren; two brothers and sisters in law, Emil and Betty Corbin, Oscar and Nora Corbin all of Gallipolis; a sister and brother in law, Lillian and Joe Carter of Gallipolis.
Services will be at 1 pm Monday in the Willis Funeral Home with the Rev. Archie Conn and the Rev. Alvis Pollard officiating. Burial will be in the Pine Street Cemetery, Gallipolis.
Corbin, Clona Rice
Mrs. Clona Rice Corbin 72 of 1110 Tedora Ave Colonial subdivision, died while in route to Holzer Medical Center at 9:30 am today. Her death ended a lingering illness extending over several years.
She was a native of Walnut Twp born on Oct 21 1886 to Enoch and Sarah Maddy Rice. She was married to George Corbin on June 13, 1907 and they spent the greater part of their lives in Gallipolis where they operated a store on Eastern Ave. Also surviving are three sons and a daughter; Emerson, Oscar and Emil all of Gallipolis, and Mrs. Lillian Carter of Patriot; 14 grandchildren a great grandchild; three brothers, Glen Rice of Gallipolis, Leonard Rice of Columbus, Chester Rice and Mrs. Ida Green of Patriot. A son George preceded her as did two brothers, Charles and Nelson and a sister Mrs. Goldie Harrison. Services will be held at 2 pm Tuesday at the Garfield Church of God. Rev. Otto C Miller and Rev. Cecil Mayle will officiate with the burial in Pine St. Cemetery under the direction of the Wetherholt Elliott Sanders Funeral Home. The body will be in state for an hour before the service at the church. Friends may call at the funeral home Sunday night and until one hour of the service.
Gallipolis Daily Tribune
Apr. 18, 1959
Transcribed by Cheryl A. Enyart
Corbin, George W.
GEORGE W CORBIN
George W. Corbin 87 a resident of 846 First Ave. Gallipolis, died at 10:15 pm Saturday in Holzer Medical Center. He had been in failing health the past five years. Mr. Corbin was a retired farmer and merchant.
He was born May 30, 1887 in Aurora Indiana, the son of the late Bassett and Mary Vanosdol Corbin. He was twice married, first to Clona Rice on June 13, 1907. She preceded him in death in 1959. His second marriage was to Elva Cremeens on Nov. 19, 1960. She survives. Three sons and one daughter from his first marriage survive; Emerson Corbin and Emil Corbin of Gallipolis, Oscar Corbin of Dayton and Mrs. Joe (Lillian) Carter of Gallipolis. One son preceded him in death; sixteen grandchildren and 25 g-grandchildren survive. Five brothers and two sisters preceded him in death. He resided in Gallipolis 59 years.
Mr. Corbin operated a farm in Perry Twp. for several years. He moved to Gallipolis in 1939 where he operated a store on Eastern Ave. for several years. He was also a school bus driver for the Gallipolis City Schools approximately 10 years. He was a member of the First Church of God.
Funeral services will be held 2 pm Tuesday at the First Church of God with the Rev. James Bunn officiating. Burial will be in the Pine St. Cemetery, Gallipolis. Friends may call at Waugh Halley Wood Funeral Home between 2-4 and 7-9 pm today. Pallbearers are Charles Corbin, Larry Corbin, Garland Carter, Gary Carter, Virgil Green and David Rice.
Gallipolis Daily Tribune
Jan. 5, 1975
Transcribed by Cheryl A. Enyart
Corbin, Inis L. Salisbury
Inis L. Corbin 76, a resident of 1111 Teodora Avenue, Gallipolis, died Sunday November 14, 1993 at Holzer Medical Center. A retired Gallipolis Developmental Center employee, she was born July 10, 1917 in Clay County W. Virginia, a daughter of the late Sherman Salisbury and Alma Salisbury who survives and resides in Gallipolis. She married Charles Emerson Corbin on July 13, 1936 in Gallipolis. Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Charles Norma Scouten and Darlene Carmichael both of Gallipolis; two sons and daughters-in-law, Larry and Susan Corbin and Charles and Pam Corbin all of Columbus, Oh; one sister, Lois Green of Gallipolis; five brothers, Noah Salisbury of Procious WV, Warren and Alden Salisbury of Gallipolis, Harold Salisbury of Columbus and Sherman Salisbury of San Diego CA; 11 grandchildren and seven great grandchildren. One son, Nolan Richard Corbin preceded her in death. Mrs. Corbin was a member of the First Baptist Church of Gallipolis. Services will be held at 1 pm Wednesday Nov 17, at the Willis Funeral Home with the Pastor Alvis Pollard officiating. Burial will be in the Pine St. Cemetery, Gallipolis.
Cottrell, E. L.
E. L. COTTRELL, 81, Retired Businessman
E. L. Cottrell, 81, a retired businessman and prominent resident of Porter, died around 3:30 a. m. Monday in the Holzer Medical Center.
Mr. Cottrell was owner and operator of the E. L. Cottrell store in Porter from 1921 until 1967. After 46 years survive, he retired and sold the store to the late Paul Phillips and son Bill.
Mr. Cottrell was born Sept 24, 1892, in Hurricane, W. VA., son of the late Virginia Ervin and Jonathon E. Cottrell.
He married Georgia Smith in 1914, at Hurricane. She survives, along with three sons: Harold W. Cottrell and Ferris Ronald Cottrell, both of Cincinnati and Donald D. Cottrell, Porter. One son, James Edward Cottrell, preceded him in death. Seven grand and four great grandchildren survive.
One brother, Homer J. Cottrell, Hurricane, survives. One sister preceded him in death.
Mr. Cottrell was a member of the Porter United Methodist Church, and served on the Bidwell- Porter Board of Education for several years. He also taught school in West Virginia before moving to Ohio. Funeral services will be held at Porter United Methodist Church 1 p. m.
Wednesday with Rev. John Bryant and Rev. Freeland Norris officiating. Burial will be in Vinton Memorial Park.
Friends may call at the McCoy- Moore Funeral Home in Vinton from 3-5 and 7-9 p. m. on Tuesday. The body will lie in state at the church one hour prior to the services.
Gallipolis Daily Tribune
June 18, 1973
Transcribed by Kathy Lynch
Coughenour, David
DEATH OF DAVID COUGHENOUR
Mr. David Coughenour died at his home near Cheshire, Saturday, April 14, 1900.
He was born in Augusta Co., Va., August 6, 1820. He came to Gallia county with his parents in 1830. and settled in Cheshire township, where he has always lived. He married Rachel McCarty in 1843. They were the parents of elven children, two sons and nine daughters , all save two daughters survive him.
He held membership with the First Kyger F. W. B. church since 1841. He was a man of great worth to the church and community.
His funeral was held Monday morning at the church, services conducted by
Rev. W.J. Fulton of Rio Grande, which was highly attended
Gallipolis Bulletin
April 21,1900
Contributed by Cheryl Enyart
Coughenour, Rachel McCarty
Mrs. David Coughenour, living in Cheshire township, died Wednesday night of a complication of troubles. She was the mother of a large family, an active member of the Kyger Baptist church and a venerable lady, who commanded the universal esteem of a wide circle of acquaintances. Interment took place Friday at Grave Hill cemetery. "Peace be to her ashes."
([Rachel McCarty Coughenour, b. 04 Feb 1822, d. 05 Aug 1896, )
Gallipolis Journal
Aug 11,1896
Contributed by Cheryl Enyart
Cousins, William
William Cousins Dies on Birthday
William Alexander Cousins, 88, died at 11:20 p. m. Thursday night at his home, 76 Pine St. His death occurred on the same date as his birthday, April 29, 1866. For 85 years he had lined in the home in which he died. He was the last of his family and his parents were the late James and Emalie Cousins.
Will, as he was called by a wide circle of friends, was through the years one, if not the most, highly respected members of his race and he has left a mark of friendliness and good will that will be long remembered in years to come. He was a fine citizen and his precept and example was one of high principles. He was an employee of the local postal service until his retirement in 1932. His government service extended over a period of 20 years.
He was united in marriage with Sadie Greenlace on August 9, 1908, and she survives. Mrs. Cousins has been ill and has been bedfast for the past three years.
Cousins was a member of the Paint Creek Baptist church, a 32nd degree Mason, Shrine and Eastern Star.
Services will be held Sunday at 12:30 p.m. at the Paint Creek Baptist church with Rev. Preston C. Smith in charge. Burial will be in Pine Street Cemetery under the direction of the Wetherholt Funeral Home. Friends may call after 7 p.m. Friday evening at the Wetherholt Funeral Home.
Gallipolis Tribune
April 30, 1951
Transcribed by Lew Casey
Cowden, Alice A.
Death of Mrs. Cowden
We regret to record the passing of one of the truely [sic] good christian women of this city, Mrs. Alice A. Cowden, widow of the late Judge S. D. Cowden, mother of Dr. L. C. Cowden, daughter of the late Capt. W. Lewis Gardner and Mrs. Harriet M. Gardner, the latter yet living in her 90th year. The sad event occured after months of decline Sunday evening at 9 o'clock, May 19th, 1912.
The funeral services will be conducted at her late home, at half-past 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon by Rev. F. M. Evans, pastor of Grace M. E. church, the interment following at Mound Hill cemetery by Hayward. The pall bearers selected are Messrs. A.W. Kerns, Samuel T. Cook, J.G. Damron, Frank M. Snead, C.H.D. Summers and E.N. Deardorff.
Mrs. Cowden is survived by mother, brother Benjamin L. Gardner and son Dr. L.C. Cowden. Her brother James W. Gardner preceded her only a few weeks ago. Her sister Flora, wife of the late Cyrus Mollohan, died many years ago and a brother David when a little boy of only four years.
Mrs. Cowden was born July 25, 1846. She was united in marriage with Judge Cowden October 17, 1872, and Dr. Cowden was their only child. Judge Cowden died 12 years ago this fall.
Mrs. Cowden had been a member of the M.E. Church since childhood and lived a life devoted to her home, husband and son and to her Creator. Her passing is that of a consistent amiable christian character beloved by people of all classes who were fortunate in her acquaintance. She was an object of deep solicitude during all of her illness and scarcely an hour passed but that some friend called to inquire after her condition. The surviving relatives will have the deepest sympathy of all who knew her.
Gallipolis Tribune
May 24, 1912
Transcribed by Henny Evans
Cox, Clan B.
Retired Carpenter Succumbs
Clan B. Cox, 75, of 223 Second Ave., died at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the McConnellsville Convalescent Center. He had been in failing health one year. A retired carpenter, Mr. Cox was born May 9, 1896, in Gallia County, son of the late John and Elizabeth Halley Cox. He was twice married, first to Marie Blazer, on Nov. 29, 1919. She preceded him in death in July, 1966. His second marriage was to Ida Clifton, in October, 1971.
The following children survive: Raly, Breman, Ohio; Mrs. Milford (Gail) Sheets, Gallipolis; Mrs. Ralph (Doriso) Ventresca, Columbus. Nine grand and 10 great-grandchildren survive.
Two sisters survive, Mrs. Sadie Day and Mrs. Clemma Boston, both ofGallipolis. Three sisters and one brother preceded him in death. He spent most of his life in Gallia County. He attended the First Baptist Church. He spent most of life in Gallia County. He attended the First Baptist Church.
Unknown publication
Died about 1971
Contributed by Jacquelyn Woolley
Craig, Joseph W.
Joseph W. Craig Missing In Action
Parents, Living On Chatham Ave., Get Death Message
Another Gallia County boy is believed to have given his life for his country. At any rate Pvt. Joseph W. Craig has been missing in action since Nov. 26 in North African area, according to a telegram received Monday by his parents, Arthur and Dora Mae (Elkins) Craig, 1837 Chatham Ave.
Seven weeks had passed since the parents had heard from their only son and youngest child and they were fearful that some serious mishap had befallen him.
The death message, which came from Adjutant General Ulio, promised further details if and when they are learned by the War Department.
Pvt. Craig was inducted into the army at Fort Thomas, Ky., last Jan 18. He was a native of Ohio Twp. but the family moved to Gallipolis about three years ago. Besides the parents there are two sisters, Mrs. Hester Gooldin of Monaca, Pa., and Mrs. Hazel Call of Eureka.
Gallipolis Tribune
1943
Transcribed by Lew Casey
Cremeens, Horace Donald
Victims of the Bridge
The body of Horace Donald Cremeens, 49, Addison, was recovered at 1:30 pm Sunday from the Ohio River at the scene of the Silver Bridge disaster. Mr Cremeens was born January 22, 1918 in Ohio. He was a laborer at the Marietta Mfg. Plant. He was a member of the Baptist Church, Addison, the American Legion Post, Pt. Pleasant, a veteran of World War 2. He was the son of the late Victor and Ruth Cremeens.
Survivors include his wife Hazel; two daughters, Donna, at home, and Mrs. Charles (Vivian) Taylor, Addison; two sisters, Mrs. Raymond (Elsie) Taylor, Chicago, and Mrs. Clarence (Opal) Jones, Gallipolis, and three grandchildren.
Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday at 12:30 pm from Poplar Ridge Church with the Rev. John Jeffers officiating. Burial will be in the Poplar Ridge cemetery. Friends may call at Rawlings Coats funeral home anytime
Daily Tribune, Gallipolis, OH
Monday, December 18, 1967
Transcribed by Cheryl A. Enyart
Crouse, Janie Barcus
Mrs. Crouse, 72, Died Sunday A. M.
Funeral Is Held Today At Swan Creek Chapel
Mrs. Janie Barcus Crouse, 72, died at 12:50 Sunday morning on Hazel Ridge back of Eureka where she had lived with her youngest son, Nathan Crouse. She succumbed suddenly to a heart attack.
Mrs. Crouse was a daughter of Alex and Sarah Ann Lewis Barcus and her whole life was spent in the section where she passed away. Her husband, Charles Crouse, died 18 years ago.
Surviving children, besides the one named, are Joshua and Willie Crouse, Gallipolis; Charlie, Columbus, and Clemma, living near Eureka. There are six living brothers, Robert, John and Ross Barcus, all of Eureka; Sherman Barcus, Columbus; Tom and Stanley, Gallipolis.
Funeral services were held at 2 o’clock this afternoon at Swan Creek Chapel, in charge of Rev. Earl Cremeens. Burial there by Coleman R. Halley. Mrs. Crouse was a member of Bethel Methodist Church.
Gallipolis Tribune
1946
Transcribed by Lew Casey