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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
CENTENNIAL HISTORY
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Troy, Piqua and Miami County, Ohio
And Representative Citizens.
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Edited and Compiled By
Thomas C. Harbaugh
Casstown, Ohio
Literary Journalist, Secretary of Maryland association of Ohio.
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"History is Philosophy Teaching by Examples."
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Published by
Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co.
Chicago.
1909
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David L. Face |
DAVID LOUIS FACE,
deceased was, for many years one of Covington's best known
citizens and one who will surely be remembered long after
many of those who, during their span of life, made much
larger pretentions. He was born at Covington,
Ohio, Feb. 6, 1851, and died at his comfortable home here,
Nov. 8, 1906, at the age of fifty-five years, nine months
and two days. He had survived both parents of his two
brothers. He was a son of Louis and Elizabeth
(Lindsay) Face.
Mr. Face obtained a good common school education in
his native city and when eighteen years of age, adopted the
stone quarry business, in which his father was engaged.
For some years he was at work on the south side of Covington
but later became interested in his quarry west of Covington,
which he continued to operate until the close of his life
and which enterprise is still continued by his widow.
At Xenia, Ohio, on Jan. 20, 1886, Mr. Face was
married to Miss Margaret Pierce, who is a daughter of
Henry and Ann Jane (Helmer) Pierce, old residents of
Greene County, and a great-granddaughter of Henry
Hill, of New York, who served as a drummer boy in the
Revolutionary War. Through this ancestor, Mrs.
Face is a member of the Daughters of the American
Revolution. Mrs. Face was born in
Champaign County, Ohio, but she was reared in Greene County,
and since her marriage has been a resident of Miami County
and is a very highly esteemed member of society at
Covington. To this marriage no children were born, but
Mr. and Mrs. Face reared and carefully
educated an orphan niece.
In the leading ideas of his life, the late David
Louis Face was a great and good man, one who was
fearlessly true to his convictions and at all times
outspoken in denouncing people and methods which did not
come up to his ideas of right and honest living. No
one ever came into close contact with him, however, without
being convinced of the real integrity of his motives and if,
at times, his language was more forcible than elegant, the
ring of real conviction was ever present. No more
generous man ever lived in Covington, benevolence flowed
from right and left hand, and the sum of his charities will
never be fully known to his fellow citizens, hundreds of
whom were benefited by him on many occasions. He was
notably loyal to his friends and to his city and while he
was fearless in his condemnation of what he believed to be
questionable in either, he gave warm-hearted support to both
private objects and public measures in which he saw genuine
worth. During the later years of his life bodily
affliction reduced his great strength but in no way changed
his noble native or lessened his tenderness to his devoted
wife and niece, who was almost a daughter.
Mr. Face had not united with any
religious body but he had accepted the truths of
Christianity and in June, 1902, had been baptized. He
was a member of the order of Knights of Pythias and his
funeral services at the cemetery were conducted with their
imposing ritual.
Source: Centennial History - Troy, Piqua and Miami
Co., Ohio - Publ. 1909 - Page 823 |
Mr. & Mrs.
Alonzo J. Furrow |
ALONZO J. FURROW Source: Centennial History - Troy, Piqua and Miami
Co., Ohio - Publ. 1909 - Page 412 |
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