MATTHEW FERGUSON, a well-known resident of Roscoe, died of apoplexy on Mar. 4, 1871, in the eightieth year of his age.  He was born in Pennsylvania in 1792, lived for a time in Zanesville, then ten years in Coshocton, passing thence to Roscoe, where was his home for thirty-seven years.  He was a hatter by trade.  He was several times elected a justice of the peace.  He married Miss Mary Smeltzer in 1819, by whom he had twelve children.  He was a "charter member of Coshocton Lodge of Masons."
Source: HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS of COSHOCTON COUNTY, OHIO 1764-1876 by William E. Hunt. - Publ. Cincinnati - Robert Clarke & Co., Printers 1876 - Page 255