Columbiana County OhArchives Obituaries.....Poe, Adam April 12 1896 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ohfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Sheila Fritts sfritts101@hotmail.com June 16, 2004, 7:37 pm EAst Liverpool Crisis 11 Apr 1896 pg 2 Adam Poe, a well known riverman, and grandson of the famous Indian fighter Adam Poe, died at an early hour yesterday forenoon at his home in Georgetown, opposite here, of pneumonia. The funeral will take place Sunday afternoon. He had been ill only two days. He had taken a heavy cold which had settled on his lungs. At the time of his death Adam Poe was aged 79 years. He was an extraordinarily well preserved man, mentally and physically. He leaves an aged wife living, and three sons and three daughters – six children in all – all grown and many of the with gray hair. Adam Poe was the oldest Mason in Beaver county at the time of his death. He had been for years a member of St. John’s Lodge, No. 219, Pittsburgh. He will be buried with full Masonic honors. Glasgow lodge No. 485 will conduct the funeral. Adam Poe was one of the best known men along this portion of the Ohio river. Owing partly to the historic associations which hover ‘round the family name, and to the fact as well that Adam Poe the business man became prominent throughout this section on account of his ownership of a fleet of Ohio river steamers, and his other big projects. In the palmy days of river navigation Adam Poe was wealthy. He and the Calhouns, of Georgetown, owned a steamboat line, and ran one boat, while Captain Tom Calhoun captained the other. The deceased was born at Lisbon – then New Lisbon, in November, 1816. He spent his childhood in this vicinity with the exception of a year spent in Wayne county. His father moved to Georgetown about 1824 where the Poes have since resided. The deceased was also a grandson of the famous Adam Poe, the Indian fighter, who the later part of the eighteenth century had the memorable battle with “Bigfoot”, near the mouth of Yellow Creek, on the West Virginia side of the river. Adam Poe was perhaps better posted on the history of the Indian fights of that day in this neighborhood than any other man. In 1887 91 he wrote a history of the life of Adam Poe, which included the story of most of the great Indian fights in this portion of the then far west. The history was published in the Crisis in June – October 1891, in serial form, and was later published in book form. It contains valuable data on early Ohio history. This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ohfiles/ File size: 2.8 Kb