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Ratcliffe" Subject: Obit- Brown- 1909- Columbiana County ------------------------------------------------------------------ FORWARDED MESSAGE - Orig: 29-Dec-98 23:43 From: Nl123willi@aol.com ------------------------------------------------------------------ ALLIANCE REVIEW JANUARY 19,1909 HANOVER DEATH Mrs.I.J. Brown of Hanover died Monday evening at her home after an illness with heart trouble. She was 64 ears of age and is survived by her husband and one son, A.R. Brown of Alliance, also by three sisters, one brother and four grandchildren. Mrs. Brown was a member of the Christian Church at Hanover. She had a wide acquaintance in Alliance. The funeral services will be held from her late home at Hanover Thursday afternoon at 1 o'clock. ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 13:48:49 -0500 From: Maggie Stewart-Zimmerman Subject: Article on death-BROWN- 08-Sept.-1911 ------------------------------------------------------------------ FORWARDED MESSAGE - Orig: 29-Dec-98 23:14 From: Nl123willi@aol.com ------------------------------------------------------------------ ALLIANCE REVIEW Sept.8, 1911 FRIDAY OLD VETERAN PASSES AWAY Isaiah Brown, Member of John C. Fremont Post, G. A. R., Dies as Years Toll Seventy-Five. Isaiah Brown, father of Councilman A.R. Brown died at his home on Vine, street Friday shortly before noon. Deceased was seventy-five years of age. Death was due to a complication of diseases. Mr. Brown was a valued member of the John C. Fremont Post, G.A. R. For many years he has resided in this city and was highly esteemed by all. The remains will be taken to Hanover. Announcement to this effect will be made Saturday. ALLIANCE REVIEW SEPT. 9,1911 SATURDAY G.A.R. MEMBERS AND THE D. OF V. Will visit the House of Death of Comrade Isaiah Brown Saturday Evening. All members of John C. Fremont Post G.A.R. and the Daughters of Veterans are requested to meet at the foot of the stairway leading to the G.A.R. hall at 6:30 this Saturday evening and proceed in a body to the home of A. R. Brown, 165 West Wayne Avenue to pay their last tribute to deceased , Comrade Isaiah Brown who died Friday morning. The remains will be taken to Hanover Sunday morning where funeral services will be held in the Christian Church. The remains will repose in the Hanover Cemetery by the side of the loved wife, who preceded him to the silent land. ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 15:49:07 -0500 From: Maggie Stewart-Zimmerman Subject: MEDARY, Samuel - Franklin County, OH From the "History of Franklin & Pickaway Counties, Ohio", 1880: Page 163 - THE DEAD. "The Crisis" was a weekly paper, which had an existence during and after the war of the Rebellion. It was started by ex-Governor Samuel Medary, January 31, 1861. "The Crisis" was established as an advocate of the Monroe doctrine. It was essentially a States'-rights paper. Samuel Medary, so well known in Columbus journalism and in State politics, continued to control the paper until his death, November 7, 1864, and edited it with great ability. After his death it passed into the possession of Willoughby W. Webb, who bore the responsibility of its management for a short time and until Dr. William Trevitt became its owner. ... Soon after Webb sold his interest to Matthews, and, after a very brief period of ownership, the latter transferred the property to R. Nevins and F. H. Medary, who merged it with the "Statesman". ... "The Ohio Monitor" was the third paper started in Franklin County, and was the root from which sprung the "Ohio Statesman". It was begun in 1816, by David Smith and Ezra Griswold, jr. It underwent various changes, and, in 1836, was sold to Jacob Medary, who merged it in the "Western Hemisphere", and ultimately in the "Ohio Statesman". It was a Whig paper, originally, but became Democratic in 1828, supporting General Jackson for president. Page 223 - When he [Mr. Thrall] was at the head of the "Ohio State Journal", Samuel Medary was at the head of the "Ohio Statesman", the former being the leading Whig editor of the State, the latter being the Democratic Editor. There were years of bitter warfare between the two, and yet when Mr. Medary died, his relatives came to Mr. Thrall to write his obituary, which he did. Page 537 - 1846 Appointed Commissioner of Franklin County Ohio. ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 16:16:32 -0500 From: "S. K. Ratcliffe" Subject: Noble Co. Civil War letters from home Please post: Thank you, Susan Kellar Ratcliffe Delaware, Ohio skrat@midohio.net KELLAR, MILLER, BORUM, HATTON Two letters written from Caldwell, OH, (from mother to son, a soldier stationed in DC to serve as bodyguard to President Lincoln) referring to Uncle Isaac Borum's capture as a confederate soldier and prisoner at Camp Chase in Columbus, OH. The KELLARS AND HATTONS of this family left Shenandoah County in the 1820's for Noble Co.; the Jacob MILLERS and some of the BORUMS remained in Strasburg. For more information see the home page at http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/r/a/t/Susan--K-Ratcliffe/ From Catherine Miller Kellar, the mother of John Francis Kellar, a member of the Union Army's special group of the Ohio Light Guard chosen by the governor of Ohio to guard President Lincoln in DC, a letter written to her son from Noble Co., OH, on July 17, 1864: "Well John, As your Pap is so busy that he can't take the time to fill this sheet, I guess that I will try to write you a little . But won't promise to fill the balance of this sheet, for the baby is so cross and troublesome and I guess that you would think so if you was home. What will you think when I tell you that Uncle Isaac Borum is a prisoner in Columbus. He wrote to you Pap and wanted him to send him $5 and wanted him to come to see him as soon as he could. He said that he was taken prisoner, the 18th of May, and that he was ragged and without a coat and he also said that he did not know what he was taken for, and that his family did not know where he was, and that he did not know how he would get home, without some friend that would help him. Your Pap has not answered his letter as yet, and I don't know what he will do. What would you do? I guess that you would let him stay a prisoner, would you not? But I can't help but feel bad for him, and feel as though I would like for your Pap to help him, and see him, and if it was so that he could. He said that three of his neighbors was in the same fix that he was. That is in money matters, and that he had not a change of clothes..." Letter dated August 23, 1864, also from Catherine Miller Kellar to son, John Francis Kellar: "...John, do you know that Isaac Borum wrote to Dick Hatton and said that he was a rebel and that his Pap was a rebel, and that he gloried in it, and he was in that raid into Maryland and that Bush was prisoner in Maryland, and he wanted Dick to find out where his Pap was and to get anything for him. Your Pap has not received his letter and I guess he don't mean to either, but said that his Pap went over the river to get potato plants and that someone reported him as a bushwacker and spy and had him taken. Don't you think that he is becoming very humble when he wants help?" From Betty Jo Tilly, dated May 23, 1997: "...Grandfather Isaac was in Camp Chase, Ohio, (a prison of Confederate soldiers in Columbus, OH) from May 22, to Sept. 9, 1864. Isaac Borum was the PM (postmaster) in Strasburg for about ten years. His son, George Michael was also a PM for two years in the 1850's. Grandfather, Bushrod Borum and his three brothers were all POW's. Grandfather was captured just outside of Vicksburg. I have a picture of him in his Confederate uniform and he was a handsome man." ------------------------------ X-Message: #5 Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 16:12:11 -0500 From: espowell@juno.com (Elissa S Powell) Subject: Obit: EVERHARD / WAHL, Medina Co. From Wadsworth Enterprise, 30 Aug 1876: "Everhart - On August 23, 1876, Mrs. Catherine, consort of Jonathan Everhart of Sharon township, at the age of 65 years, 2 months, and 14 days. Her burial place at the Bates's Corners church graveyard, attended by a large number of sympathizing relatives and friends, Rev. J.H. Smith, officiating." ------------------------------ X-Message: #6 Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 16:14:40 -0500 From: espowell@juno.com (Elissa S Powell) Subject: Tombstone, Wayne Co. "High Church," Doylestown, OH Tombstone Reading (in German): "Ein / ___chiniss / Catharin ein ___ / _____ weib / von Christian / Wall und tachter / von Nicolaus / Bachman m_____ / E:a. und ist gb. 1785 / Dec 16 und gestor(-)/ ben 1837 den 16 Hor. ibr gans alt / war 51 jahr." which means: [In remembrance] Catharin, ___ wife of Christian Wall and daughter of Nicolaus Bachman born 16 Dec 1785 and died 16 Feb 1837 her whole age was 51 years. ------------------------------ X-Message: #7 Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 16:23:49 -0500 From: espowell@juno.com (Elissa S Powell) Subject: Bible: HARTMAN of Medina Co. The Augustus Hartman family of Medina Co., OH, Bible printed in 1885 is in the possession of Marion (Everhard) Bell and has the following dedication: "To Mrs. Nora B. Hartman from Augustus Hartman, September 25, 1886" Events recorded in the Hartman family Bible are as follows: Holy Matrimony : Augustus F. Hartman of Sharon, O to Nora B. Harnden of Akron, O on September 8, 1881 in Wadsworth, O by Sebastian C. Goss, Minister. Witness: Hannah Hartman Effie Hartman to Durbin D. Everhard on June 14, 1905 Charles Hartman to Mayme Graham on May 30, 1910 Births: Augustus F. Hartman on July 1, 1860 Nora B. Harnden Hartman on July 6, 1865 Charles A. Hartman on March 12, 1883 Effie Leona Hartman on March 22, 1888 Deaths: Augustus F. Hartman on February 9, 1920 Nora B. Hartman on November 25, 1925 Effie L. Everhard on January 27, 1960 Durbin D. Everhard on March 13, 1975 ------------------------------ X-Message: #8 Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 14:50:48 -0500 From: espowell@juno.com (Elissa S Powell) Subject: 4-generation photo in newspaper, Cuyahoga Co., SCHMIDT / BRIGGS Picture in PARMA POST for 30 Mar 1967, page 2: Three month old David Bently wore the gown originally made by hand 78 years ago for Mrs. Dorothea Briggs (nee Schmidt) at his Christening on Sunday, March 19, at St. Paul United Church of Christ. He is the first boy on his mother's side of the family in 4 generations. Shown with him are (left to right) Mrs. Briggs; his grandmother Mrs. George Young, 6906 Gerald Ave; and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. David Bentley. The Michael Schmidts, parents of Mrs. Briggs had a farm on land now occupied by St. Francis de Sales Church. ------------------------------ X-Message: #9 Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 14:51:04 -0500 From: espowell@juno.com (Elissa S Powell) Subject: Obit: SCHMIDT / WELTZIEN, Medina and Cuyahoga Cos. OBITUARY OF CATHERINE E. WELTZIEN (d. 15 DEC 1956, Wadsworth, OH): Wadsworth News-Banner "WELTZIEN RITES HELD Funeral Services were held Tuesday afternoon at the Hilliard funeral home for Mrs. Cathryn (sic - her family knew her as Catherine) Elizabeth (sic - her baptismal certificate says Elisa) Weltzien, 76, of 139 Euclid ave., who died last Saturday at Wadsworth Municipal hospital. Mrs. Weltzien was born in Parma and had been a resident of Wadsworth for 35 years. She was a member of the Wadsworth Church of Christ. She leaves two sons, Clyde and Victor, both of Wadsworth; a daughter, Mrs. Lola Webster of Sharon Center; a sister, Mrs. Dorothe Briggs of Fairview Village; nine grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Rev. Philip L. Gould, pastor of the Church of Christ, officiated at the rites and burial was in Woodlawn cemetery." ------------------------------ X-Message: #10 Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 14:52:39 -0500 From: espowell@juno.com (Elissa S Powell) Subject: Obit: WELTZIEN / WEBSTER, Medina Co. Lola's Obituary appeared in the Akron Beacon Journal for Sunday, Dec. 28, 1997: "Lola M. Webster (nee Weltzien), 83, passed away Dec. 24, 1997, in Medina. She was a member of St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Sharon Center, and a retired secretary for Highland School. She is survived by her son and daughter-in-law, Thomas and Lavonne Webster; son, David; brother, Victor Weltzien; grandson, Douglas (Stephanie) Webster; granddaughters, Tracy (Donald) Kelling, Lisa (Edward) Trudell; stepgranddaughters, Sue Ann (Dennis) Few, Linda (Ronald) Isom; and 14 great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, Floyd; brother, Clyde; great-grandson, Jordan Webster; and parents, Carl and Catherine Weltzien. Funeral services at 11 a.m. Monday at St. Paul's Lutheran Church, 6462 Ridge Rd., Sharon Center. The family will receive friends Sunday, 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m., at the Waite & Son Funeral Homes, Medina Chapel, 765 N. Court St. The family suggests memorial contributions to St. Paul Lutheran Church. (Waite & Son, 723-3229.)" -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V98 Issue #45 ******************************************