BIOGRAPHIES

Source:
HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS of
COSHOCTON COUNTY, OHIO 1764-1876
by William E. Hunt. - Publ. Cincinnati - Robert Clarke & Co., Printers
1876

Unless otherwise noted

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GEORGE DARLING, youngest son of Isaac and Jane Darling, died at Holton, Kansas, Oct 30, 1870, aged twenty-five years.  His mother had gone on a visit to a daughter in Kansas, and was there taken sic with typhoid fever.  After a lingering illness, her recovery was despaired of, and her friends notified.  George went to be with her in her last moments, and was himself smitten with the same disease, and in one week died, the mother following in a few hours.  The bodies were brought to the old home, near Warsaw.  George had only been married a few months (to Miss Foster), and was a very popular young man, and the circumstances of the death made the event a notable one in his old neighborhood. Source: HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS of COSHOCTON COUNTY, OHIO 1764-1876 by William E. Hunt. - Publ. Cincinnati - Robert Clarke & Co., Printers 1876 - Page 262

ISAAC DARLING died at his residence in Jefferson township, Mar. 26, 1869. He was born in Eastern Virginia in 1796, and emigrated with his parents to Ohio in 1806, settling at his manhood upon the place on which his early life was spent, and remaining there till his death. He was for many years a prominent member of the Jefferson Baptist church. Source: HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS of COSHOCTON COUNTY, OHIO 1764-1876 by William E. Hunt. - Publ. Cincinnati - Robert Clarke & Co., Printers 1876 - Page 254

THOMAS DARLING was born in Hardy county, Virginia, Nov. 7, 1799.  His father brought the family to the Walhonding valley (near Warsaw) in 1806.  The journey was made on horseback, the mother having an infant on the horse before her, and the little boy, Thomas, holding on to her, as he rode behind.      His life was mainly given to farming.  He was, however, a public-spirited citizen, and for a number of years served the county as a commissioner, the record of which service appears in another part of this volume.  In later years, he was much interested in blooded cattle, and introduced some valuable stock into the valley in which he lived.  He died Dec. 27, 1874, being seventy-five years and about one month old.      He married Miss Demie Butler, and reared a considerable family; and his family connections enter largely into the social fabric of the Walhonding valley, as well as ex tending into other localities. Source: HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS of COSHOCTON COUNTY, OHIO 1764-1876 by William E. Hunt. - Publ. Cincinnati - Robert Clarke & Co., Printers 1876 - Page 236

ASA G. DIMMOCK was well known to the people of Coshocton county, as being for ten years editor and publisher of the Coshocton Democrat.  He was also, for two terms, prosecuting attorney of the county, and at that most important era in its history, the robbery of the county treasury, made his mark in that capacity.  He was the son of a Baptist clergyman, was bred to the newspaper business, and was connected largely with the press, editing or publishing papers in Harrison, Holmes, Wayne, and Erie counties.  He was in the Ohio State Senate as a member and also as clerk.  He also served several years as warden of the Ohio penitentiary.  In 1867 his health very seriously failed him, and on May 17, 1869, he died at the house of his sister, in Montrose, Penn., in the fifty-sixth year of his age.  Of exceedingly pleasant manner, shrewd in management, and exceedingly self-sacrificing, he was always popular, commonly poor.  He was twice married—had one child by first wife.  His surviving widow resides at Millersburg. Source: HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS of COSHOCTON COUNTY, OHIO 1764-1876 by William E. Hunt. - Publ. Cincinnati - Robert Clarke & Co., Printers 1876 - Page 259

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