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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DEA. TALIAFERO VICKERS was a leading citizen in Washington township.  He was born in Prince William's county, Virginia, on the 22d of September, 1789.  He came to Coshocton county in 1827.  Early in life, he identified himself with the Baptists, and he died in the Wakatomika Baptist Church on Sunday, Feb. 19, 1863.  He had gone to the church in his usual health, and his last utterance was an "amen" spoken while the minister was reading Rev. 1:18.  A moment after, the attention of the congregation was drawn to him, and those going to him found him dead. Source: HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS of COSHOCTON COUNTY, OHIO 1764-1876 by William E. Hunt. - Publ. Cincinnati - Robert Clarke & Co., Printers 1876 - Page 246

DR. W. H. VICKERS died in Linton township on the 12th of February, 1875.  On the evening of the 11th, he left his home, in Jacobsport, to visit a patient, Mr. M.B. Carr, one mile beyond Linton.  He found Mr. Carr very low with pneumonia, who, also, as well as to administer medicine, asked the doctor to write his will.  The doctor, after finishing the patient's will, conducted the evening devotions for the family, and was about to retire to bed, about eleven o'clock, when he complained to Mrs. Carr of feeling unwell, and asked for a little water and camphor, which were got for him, and after taking some he went to bed with one of Mrs. Carr's sons in an adjoining room.  The next morning he was discovered to be seriously ill, and, having been removed to his home, died about four o'clock in the afternoon.  He had established himself very thoroughly in the regards of the community, and was a prominent member of the Methodist Episcopal church. Source: HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS of COSHOCTON COUNTY, OHIO - 1764-1876 by William E. Hunt. - Publ. Cincinnati - Robert Clarke & Co., Printers - 1876 - Page 263