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Allen County, 1942 [Maggie Stewart-Zimmerman <73777.25] #7 OBIT: MORRISON, Allen County, 1963 [Maggie Stewart-Zimmerman <73777.25] #8 BIBLE: ALCOCK, Muskingum County [Maggie Stewart-Zimmerman <73777.25] ------------------------------ X-Message: #1 Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 20:00:52, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: HEBER DWIGHT KETCHAM-KY/OH CONNECTIONS WEST VIRGINIA IN HISTORY, LIFE, LITERATURE AND INDUSTRY The Lewis Publishing Company, 1928 - Volume IV, page 269 REV. HEBER DWIGHT KETCHAM, D.D., pastor of the First Methodist Church of Fairmont, is one of the eminent divines of his denomination in West Virginia, and a man whose scholarship, high character, and executive ability place him in the front ranks of his Conference. The people of Fairmont, no matter what their religious faith, admire and respect him, and are willing to follow his leadership in matters of civic interest. His birth occurred at Kenton, Hardin County, Ohio, and he is a son of the late Rev. C.W. and Mary Dyer (Parkinson) Ketcham. The maternal grandparents of Doctor Ketcham were Joshua and Jane (Reed) Parkison. Joshua Parkinson's father laid out the town of Maysville, Kentucky. Mrs. Mary Dyer (Parkison) Ketcham was a granddaughter of John and Mary (Dyer) Reed. Mary Dyer was the daughter of John Dyer, who was a soldier of the American Revolution. The paternal grandparents of Reverend Ketcham of this review were Joshua and Mary (Livingston) Ketcham, and through his grandmother he belongs to the famous Hudson-River Livingston family. Her father, John Livingston, was a Revolutionary soldier, and his father, John Livingston, Sr., also served in the American Revolution, father and son enlisting in the Colonial army from Washington County, New York. Joshua Ketcham, grandfather of Reverend Ketcham, was born in Washington County, New York, as was his son, Rev. C.W. Ketcham, and he was a son of Joshua Sr., and Eleanor (Soule) Ketcham. Eleanor Soule belonged to the Soule family tracing back to the beginning of the history of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Joshua Ketcham, Sr., was a direct descendant of the first Ketcham in America, who came to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1637, having come to this country from Northumberland, England. Joshua Ketcham, the elder, was born in New York, and he, too, served in the American Revolution from Washington County, New York. Rev. C.W. Ketcham was an ordained minister at the time of the outbreak of the war between the states, and he became chaplain of the Ninety-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. After the close of the war he developed into one of the strongest factors of the Central Ohio, and Cincinnati Conferences. Sent to Toledo, Ohio, he built Saint Paul Church of that city; and built Saint Paul Church, Cincinnati, during his pastorate in that city. He also served Kenton, Sidney, Bellefontaine, Hillsboro and Springfield, Ohio, and he continued active in the ministry until his death, while presiding elder of the Cincinnati District, in 1889. The following children were born to him and his wife: Rev. Merrick E. who is a member of the West Ohio Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, residing at Delaware, Ohio; Reverend Ketcham, whose name heads this review; Mrs. Lulah K. Anderson, who is the wife of Bishop William F. Anderson, of Boston, Massachusetts; Doctor Charles, who died at Delaware, Ohio, January 29, 1927, after thirty years in practice as a physician and surgeon, twenty years of that time in Georgia; Miss Rosemary, professor of design in the Fine Arts Department of the University of Kansas. All of these children were graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University with the exception of Dr. Charles Ketcham, who was a student there until his senior year. Their parents were graduates of the same institution. Attending the public schools of Toledo, Springfield and especially Cincinnati, Ohio, as his father's pastorates took him to these several cities, Doctor Ketcham later entered his father's alma mater, and upon his graduation from Ohio Wesleyan University, entered Drew Theological Seminar, Madison, New Jersey, and upon his completion of its courses was ordained to the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church. For a few years thereafter he held pastorates in succession at Blanchester, Ohio, Mount Washington and Red Bank, suburbs of Cincinnati, Wilmington, Clifton, Cincinnati, Hillsboro and the Greene Street Church of Piqua, Ohio. While holding the latter pastorate he was appointed president elder of the Dayton District. His next pastorate was Trinity, Cincinnati. Transferring to Tennessee, he became pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Knoxville, then, in 1911, of the Firsts Church, Kankakee, Illinois, and from there in 1915 he transferred to the State Street Methodist Episcopal Church, Trenton,new Jersey. In 1920 he transferred to High Street, Muncie, Indiana, and in 1924 to the West Virginia Conference, to his present church. A very active man, not only in strictly pastoral duties, but in all departments of religious work, Doctor Ketcham served as president of the Epworth League of Ohio and Kentucky; represented the Cincinnati Conference as a delegate when the conference was held at Los Angeles, California, in 1904, and for ten years was a member of the Freedman's Aid Board of the church. In 1904 Miami University conferred the degree of Doctor of Divinity upon him. His contribution to the Pulpit Series issued by the church in 1905 entitled The Certainty of the Kingdom, is a very valuable work, and is accepted as a masterpiece by the clergy and laymen alike. A man of convincing oratory, his sermons command wide attention, and he not only reaches those of his own denomination, but many outside. Extracts from his sermons are frequently quoted by the secular press throughout the country, and his services are in demand whenever addresses are to be made all over his part of the state. Few can listen unmoved to his flaming words, and his arguments are so logical, his points are driven home with such telling force, that many who come out of curiosity remain to join in worship. In 1890 Doctor Ketcham married at Columbus, Ohio, Miss Bertha McVay, a daughter of Jason and Mary (Garvey) McVay. Jason McVay was at the time of his daughter's marriage one of the general managers of the Union Central Life Insurance Company of Cincinnati, Ohio. A prominent man politically, he represented his district in the Lower House of the Ohio State Assembly, was once chosen by his party as candidate for the attorney generalship, and belonged to one of the old pioneer families of the state. Mrs. Ketcham was born at Sidney, Ohio, and is a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University. She is now a trustee and one of the general managers of the Woman's Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, having served in that capacity for over fifteen years, from 1910, she had the general oversight of Bennett Academy, a school for white people in Northern Mississippi. While living in Piqua, Ohio, she was president of the Fortnightly Club, and held the same office with the Friday Club of Hillsboro, Ohio, and of the Contemporary Club of Trenton, New Jersey. Doctor and Mrs. Ketcham have three children, namely: Maria, who is a graduate of the University of Chicago, married H.L. Heinzmann, state secretary of the Young Men's Christian Association of Oklahoma; Bertha Louise, who attended Ohio Wesleyan University, married Otis Bowman II., of Tampa, Florida, and has two children, Otis III. and Louise Ketcham; and Emily Livingston, who was graduated in 1923 from Syracuse University, for two years was head of the Home Economics department of the New York State Institute of Applied Agriculture at Farmingdale, Long Island, near New York, City. Columbia University gave her the Master's degree in 1926, and she is now expert dietitian under the Millbank Fund in cooperation with the Health Department of Syracuse, New York. All of these sisters belong to the Daughters of the American Revolution, and their father belongs to the Sons of the American Revolution. He is a Scottish Rite Mason, Knight Templar and Shriner. Active as a civic worker, he belongs to the Fairmont Rotary Club, and finds social relaxation and congenial companionship as a member of the Fairmont Country Club. The family residence at 322 Fairmont avenue is one of the desirable homes of Fairmont, and here social, as well as church, activities are of frequent occurrence. ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 22:05:49 -0500 From: Maggie Stewart-Zimmerman Subject: ALLEN COUNTY HISTORY From: ldjdd@wcoil.com This area at one time a major thoroughfare for train traffic.In 1920,eight steam railroads operated in Allen Co. They included the Baltimore and Ohio,Pennsylvania,Erie,Detroit,Toledo and Ironton and Lake Erie and Western,all serving Lima; Northern Ohio,operating through Bluffton to Delphos;Toledo,St Louis and Western which had terminal facilities in Delphos;and Dayton,Toledo,and Chicago, which had track between Delphos and Dayton. The Hardin County village of Dola was at one time a hub of activity as trains on the Pennsylvania Railroad refueled there. Just west of Dola,water pans which stretched for one mile were laid on the tracks. The steam trains would take water on the fly.These trains traveling about 50 miles per hour,would force the water into the engine tender. In cold weather, to keep the ice from building up in the pans,workers would pull a U-shaped metal plate through the pans to force the ice out. ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 23:08:45 -0500 From: Maggie Stewart-Zimmerman Subject: OBIT: WEST, Allen County, 1939 From: ldjdd@wcoil.com Richard H West Richard H West 57, of 732 Catalpa Ave died of a heart attack Monday Dec 18,1939 while working on a road job in Perry Twp. Mr West a native of Hardin Co resident of Lima for the last 20 yrs. Born Apr 6,1881 to Montroville and Doxey(Wood) West.Surviving are his wife Maude(Little)Adams West;three step-daughters,Mrs Florence Bolender of 685 S Union St,Clara Brown of 327 E Second St, Mrs Joanna Blue of Toledo; two step-sons Harold Adams of Munith,Mi and Emanuel(Bud)Adams of Cordova,Alaska;three sisters;Mrs Elizabeth Benner and Mrs Grace Holycross of Kenton and Mrs Iva Burns of Lima. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m.Thurs at the Church of God with Rev C.L.Quinn,pastor officiating.Burial will be Shawnee cemetery,with Siferd & Son funeral home in charge of arrangements. The body will be removed Tues afternoon to the residence of Mrs Brown at 327 E Second St.to remain until time of services. ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 00:09:21 EST From: NJChrise2@aol.com Subject: (no subject) In Memoriam: Lola Bell, daughter of Alexander and Lucy South Linscott. Was born on Hoopers Ridge, Ohio, December 31st., 1867, and departed this life August 13th, 1940, at the home of her son Clifford on Sugar Creek, at the age of 73 years, 7 months and 12 days. She was united in marriage to Theodore H. Boudinot July 16th, 1891. To this union three sons and three daughters were born. Carl of Wooster, Sidney of Sunbury, and Clifford of Sugar Creek, Gertrude Keirns, Amesville, Irene McKibben, Sugar Creek, and Beulah Skinner of Athens. Three stepsons are also left, Marcellus of Galion, Gilbert of Amesville and Flether of Millfield. She had 27 grandchildren and one great grandchild all of which she was devoted. Two brothers Elza Linscott of Rockbridge and Albert Linscott of Amesville, and one sister Edna Kasler of Trimble are left. Her husband, two brothers, and one sister preceded her call. She united with the Church of Christ at Hoopers Ridge in Early life. Lola as all her friends knew her was an affectionate "Mother " and kind neighbor. "As time rolls by, and shadows fall, may we who are left behind, look up with that hope, and remember that even though she can come no more to us, but we can go to her." "Sunset and evening star, and one clear call for me and may there be no moaning of the bar, when I put out to sea. But such a tide as moving seems asleep, too full for sound and foam, But that which drew from out the boundless deep turns home again." "Twilight and evening bell, after that the dark, and may there be no sadness of farewell. When I embark; For though from out our borne of the time and place to Flood may bear me far, I hope to see my "Pilot" face to face, When I have crossed the bar." Recopied from my files. I assumed that Hoopers Ridge, was a family property someone. But I see that it says united with the Church of Christ at Hoopers Ridge Has anyone heard of Federal, Ohio? Is it possible that is where Hoopers Ridge is? Chris. ------------------------------ X-Message: #5 Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 04:00:10 -0500 From: Maggie Stewart-Zimmerman Subject: OBIT: CROSSLEY, 1942, Allen County From: ldjdd@wcoil.com Mrs Dessa Crossley Mrs Dessa Crossley 62,a resident of Lima for the last 27 yrs,died at 10 a.m. Thurs Feb 5,1942 at her home,109 1/2 N Union St after an illness of two years. She is surivived by her husband, Charles;three sons,William of Lima Route 5,Foster of Chicago, and Kenneth of 211 N Charles St;four daughters, Mrs Juanita Seman and Mrs John Weldy both of 211 N Charles St;Mrs Paul Crosser of Fremont and Mrs W H Wikel of 109 1/2 N Union St; two sisters, Mrs Rena Kintz of Dayton and Miss Gwen Stickell of Cleveland;12 grandchildren. The body will remain at the Chiles & Son funeral home pending arrangement of final rites. ------------------------------ X-Message: #6 Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 04:00:09 -0500 From: Maggie Stewart-Zimmerman Subject: OBIT: MUMAUGH. Allen County, 1942 From: ldjdd@wcoil.com Mrs Kathryn P Mumaugh Mrs Kathryn Mumaugh 63, of Lima Route 3 died at 3:15 p.m. Wed Feb 5,1942 at her home after an illness of six months. She was born in Pike Co(Bainbridge)Ohio Dec 25,1878 to John and Eliza(Bryan) Adams.She is surivived by two sons and two daughters by a previous marriage, Joseph L Morrison with whom she resided and Noah D Morrison of Tampa,Fl, Mrs Alvin Beggs of 206 N Collett St and Mrs Neal Northrup of 414 Findlay Rd; 18 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Sat at the Church of God,Catalpa Ave, of which she was a member.Rev C.L.Quinn,pastor,will conduct the services, with burial in Fletcher cemetery.Arrangements are in charge of the Chiles & Son funeral home.The body will be removed Thurs afternoon to the residence to remain until time of services. ------------------------------ X-Message: #7 Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 04:00:13 -0500 From: Maggie Stewart-Zimmerman Subject: OBIT: MORRISON, Allen County, 1963 From: ldjdd@wcoil.com Joe L Morrison Joe L Morrison 63,of Joe's Ranch,Rt.3,Elida died at his home at 8:15 a.m.Dec 3,1963.He had been ill three weeks. He and his son Jim,operated the Belmont Auto Wrecking Co.since 1929. He was born in McGuffy May 14,1897.He is surivived by his wife Clara,two sons Jack J 3590 Lima-Ottawa Rd and Jim of Rt 3,Elida, two daughters Mrs Virgil C(Martha) Sloan, 1475 Stewart Rd and Mrs Norman(Betty) Negelspach 322 Lincoln Ave;one brother Noah D of Anaheim,Ca;one sister,Mrs Alvin (Lida)Beggs also of Anaheim, 10 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. He was a WW1 veteran.He was a member of the Allen Co Mechanic's Assocation and Buckeye Riders. Funeral services will be at the Chiles &Son Laman Funeral home.Rev John Bricker will officiate at the service. ------------------------------ X-Message: #8 Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 07:16:01 -0500 From: Maggie Stewart-Zimmerman Subject: BIBLE: ALCOCK, Muskingum County From: Riner-Bracken homeseller@nmol.com BIBLE RECORDS: CHARLES T. ALCOCK b.1842 Muskingum Co. "Charley" Alcock member "H" Company d.1907 Muskingum Co. Seventh Ohio Cavalry Civil War. Chief Bugular. LEOLA ALCOCK STOTTS b. 1888 Muskingum CO d. 1966 Bernalillo Co,NM MARION W. ALCOCK b. 1867 Muskingum Co. d. 1936 Muskingum Co. STOTTS, ELMER C. b. 1886 Guernsey Co. d. 1945 Kanawha Co.WV -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V99 Issue #111 *******************************************