OBITUARIES & DEATH
Newspaper Excerpts
Source: Washington Court
House Record Herald, Washington Court House, Ohio
Dated: Wednesday, Dec. 18, 1840
MRS. LETITIA DILL DIES AT OLD HOME.
Funeral Services To Be Held Friday Afternoon
Mrs. Letitia Hays Dill,
a member of one of the most prominent pioneer families in
Fayette County, died at her home on the Jeffersonville Road
at 5:40 o'clock Wednesday morning. She had been in
failing health for the past year but her condition did not
become critical until a week ago when she suffered a stroke.
She was 81 years old.
She had made her home with her son-in-law and only
daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Colin Campbell and her two
granddaughters, Clair Frances and Joan, for a
number of years when they lived in Washington C. H. on Ogle
Street and went back to the farm home where she had lived as
a young woman when they left the city.
She was the widow of Frank Dill and the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Morgan Hays. She was born on
her parents' farm less than three miles from the home where
she went to live after her marriage.
Her son, Hays Dill, died suddenly in Wheeling,
W. Va., about a year ago. A sister, Mrs. Gertrude
Lampe, and a brother, Scott Hays, survive.
They both live on nearby farms on the Prairie Pike.
Mrs. Dill was well known in Washington C. H. and
in the community in which she had lived for so many years.
She was a member of grace Methodist Church hree and
of the Spring Grove Methodist Church unit of the Woman's
Society of Christian Service not far from her home.
The body was taken to the Klever Funeral
Home and was to be returned to the home Thursday morning.
Funeral services are to be held at the funeral home at 2:30
o'clock Friday afternoon. Burial will be in the family
lot in the Washington Cemetery.
NOTE: This obituary was found at Newspapers.com ~ S.
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Source: Plain Dealer - Cleveland, Ohio
Dated: Oct. 26, 1850
Death on the Plains
The St. Louis Republican gives the deaths that
have been reported at Fort Laramie during the summer.
The number of names given is 262; many more deaths are said
to have occurred, but not reported. The record was
kept and furnished by the officers at the Fort. We
give the names from Ohio and Indiana, contained in the
Melancholy record:
D. WRIGHT, Fayette county, Ohio, died June 8th, at
Plum Creek, of cholera, aged 22 years.
Alexander DIXON, Fayette county, Ohio, died June 8th,
at Plum Creek, aged 23 years.
Robert DUNCAN, Fayette county, Ohio, died June 10th,
10 miles this side of Plum Creek, of cholera, aged 24 years.
Robert HENDRICKSON, Fayette county, Ohio, died June
10th, 15 miles this side of Plum Creek, of cholera, aged 26
years, leaving a wife and 1 child.
_____ MAHAN, Fayette county, Ohio, died June 18th, at
Ash Hollow, of cholera, aged 28 years. |
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Source: The Record Herald -
Washington Court House, Ohio
Dated:
Saturday, February 28, 1970
Elby Adams
- services for Elby Adams, 74, of
Sabina, were held at 2 pm Tuesday at the Littleton Funeral
Home in Sabina with the Rev. Robert Miller, pastor of The
United Methodist Church officiating. Mr. Adams died
Saturday.
Pallbearers for the burial at the Sabina Cemetery were
Ray Cartwright, Sr., Ray Cartwright, Jr., William Stewart,
John Spurlock, Wayne Howard, and Francis DeLuca.
(Contributed by Lori Hellmund
from family records)
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