HISTORY OF CLAY COUNTY	547

Thomas Evans=Eliza J. Brown.
	Isaac Hubble=Sarah N. Barnes.
	John L. Somerville=Nancy James.
	James L. Donham=Mell C. Gregory.
	George Campbell=Mary Straley.
	William Culley=Eliza J. Richards.
	Almond D. Austin=Lydia L. Nance.
E.	G. Payne=Mary J. Bonewitz.
	John J. Hayden==Elizabeth Bohannon.
	Thomas Gardner=Mary J. Parker.
	Hiram Teter=Frances M. Ringo.
	Millard J. Pittinger=Belle Cliver.
	Jasper N. Gibbons==Sarah McAllister.
	Jacob Steuerwald=Mary Redenbacher.
	William Heckelberg==Henrietta Menning.
	John H. Fisher=Olive Brackney.
	Milton B. Phillips===Sarah Males.
	George B. Lipps=Fanny E. White.
	Garnett Corbin=Caroline Ringo.
	John G. Nussel=Caroline Smith.
	Henry G. Ahlemeyer~Catharine A. Dial.
	Nicholas Pearce==Elizabeth P. Williams.
	John W. Heuring=Mary A. Danhaner.
	James H. Torbert=Margaret P. Adamson.
	John Morgan=Jane Morgan.
	John W. Knipe==Mary Stucky.
	Benjamin Harris==Ada S. Gardner.
	Levi Damer=Mary D. Wolford.
	Nicholas Reed=Elizabeth P. Williams.
	John M. Keller=Louisa Brown.
	Joseph B. Niece=Catharine Smith.
	Paulus Siegelin=Phoebe Boyer.
	Conrad Koehler=Barbara Raab.
	Albert F. Stonehart=Lou A. Anderson.
	Daniel Howard=Anna Creamer.
	John R. Foreman=Mollie S. Stone.
	John M. Archer=Matilda Martin.
	Thomas Kerins=Ellen O’Donnell.
	William G. Reed=Sarah J. Cook.
	Jesse P. Boston==Eliza E. Trinkle.
Strange Requests Made by the Dying.
	Nathaniel Modesitt, a pioneer of the county, who died at the family
homestead in Perry township, in the latter part of the month of April,
1873, and Was buried in the Rule cemetery, made the request of his wife
that when he should expire the announcement of his passing away should
be made by the ringing of their large dinner bell for one half hour; and
that on leaving the house to go to the place of burial, it should be rung
until the funeral procession should have passed off the farm. The request
was strictly complied with.
	Previous to his death, John D. Thompson, of Bowling Green, for
many years proprietor of “The Thompson House,” directed that his
casket, or coffin, should he a home product, made of two-inch plank,
that instead of a hearse a sled should be substituted for conveying his