LAWRENCE COUNTY OHIO - OBIT: ORT, Lewis P. (d. 1891)
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Ironton Register
Thursday, November 26, 1891
Vol. 43. No. 20

Death of L. P. Ort

        Last Friday night, between 10 and 11 o'clock, Lewis P. Ort
breathed his last.  He had been sick since the Monday previous, but no
alarming symptoms appeared until the day of his death, and then only a
few hours before.  The malady of which he died was inflammation of the
bowels.

        Mr. Ort was born at Marietta in 1836, and was past 55 years of
age.  He moved to Maysville when a boy, and married there in 1860.  In
1867, he came to Ironton, to take the position of foreman with the
Ironton Journal.  He has been in the printing business here ever since.
 He was engaged in the Commercial office with Mr. Lawson, a part of the
ten years succeeding his arrival at Ironton, and a part of the time he
ran a job printing office, from which he began to issue in 1877, a small
weekly paper, which grew in size, until 1888, he began the publication
of the Daily Irontonian.  He was a fine workman, of good taste and
judgment, and one of the most industrious men we ever knew.  He was a
conscientious, honorable man; of quiet ways and modest bearing.  The
writer of this has been in the printing business alongside of Mr. Ort,
and competing with him in trade, and opposed to him in politics, ever
since Mr. Ort's arrival here, but all this time, our relations have been
most cordial and friendly, and there was not a moment in all the
twenty-five years that one did not feel perfectly free to ask favors of
the other.  We always found Mr. Ort a gentleman and a true hearted
neighbor.

        We join in the grief of his stricken family.  A good citizen, a
kind neighbor, a loving father and husband, has gone, and so suddenly
that we can hardly realize it.

        On the night of his death and an hour or two before, he sent for
Father Cotter, of the St. Lawrence Catholic church, who administered to
the dying man, the holy sacraments of that church.  Mr. Ort was not a
member of the church, but had regularly attended with his wife and
children who were, and so, in the last dark hors of life, when eternity
is before him, and his heart longs for consolation, he asks for the
comforts of his wife's faith and his children's, and when they were
cheerfully given, he died in peace.

        The funeral occurred at the church, last Sunday afternoon, and
was attended by a large throng of citizens.  Father Cotter preached a
most interesting and eloquent discourse, after which the coffin was
borne from the church, the six sons of the deceased acting as pass
bearers.  The burial took place at Sacred heart cemetery.

        This is the first death that has occurred in Mr. Ort's family.
His wife and nine children are left to mourn.


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