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Source: The Sun - Maryland
John Best, the oldest Mason in America,
died in Guernsey county, Ohio on Tuesday. He was born in
county Tyrone, Ireland in May, 1780, was made a Mason in 1808?, and
emigrated to this country in 1811. |
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Source: Augusta Chronicle - Georgia Dated: Jan. 28, 1841 OLD AGE - We see by the last Western Recorder, published in Zanesville, that a Mr. Andrew Whittier, died near Cambridge, Ohio, July 25th, aged 125 years, less one month. The Rev. W. Marshall, in communicating the fact, stated one year ago last harvest, he reaped 8 sheaves of wheat and shocked them. (Transcribed by Sharon Wick on June 9, 2009 from Genealogy Bank) |
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Source: Cincinnati Commercial Tribune - Ohio Dated: July 11, 1869 A CARRIAGE-MAKER named Busby, from Wheeling, cut his throat, at Cambridge, Ohio, on Friday night. He died next morning, from loss of blood. (Transcribed by Sharon Wick on June 9, 2009 from Genealogy Bank) |
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Source: Cincinnati Daily
Gazette Dated: Apr. 12, 1880 Malcom Cameron, an aged and respected citizen of this place, died of pneumonia, and was buried Friday of last week in the Cambridge Cemetery. |
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Source: Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH) Page 1 Dated: Wednesday, Jan. 6, 1904 CAMBRIDGE, O., Jan. 5 - Miss Margarette McKinney, aged seventy-one years, a wealthy and highly respected woman, was found dead in her bed this morning by a neighbor. |
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Source: Dallas Morning News - Texas Dated: June 24, 1935 Missionary Dies in China TSINGTAO, China - June 23 (AP) The Rev. T. H. Thompson of Cambridge, Ohio, a Presbyterian missionary to China, died in Tsinanfu Sunday of tuberculosis. (Transcribed by Sharon Wick on June 9, 2009 from Genealogy Bank) |