OHIO STATEWIDE FILES OH-FOOTSTEPS Mailing List Issue 010 *********************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ *********************************************************************** OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 02 : Issue 10 Today's Topics: #1 Birth: Fern Hester, Fern Tapp, 194 ["Ralph W. Cokonougher" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: Subject: Birth: Fern Hester, Fern Tapp, 1947, Ross County Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed MIME-Version: 1.0 Fern Hester Tapp died of cancer on 15 May 1986. The following is a transcript of her birth certificate. "OHIO DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH. COLUMBUS. CERTIFICATE OF LIVE BIRTH. Department of Commerce. Reg. Dist. No. 1127. Primary Reg. Dist. No. 5722. Registrar's No. 3. 1. Place of Birth: (a.) County - Ross. (b.) City, Village, Township - Buckskin. (c.) Name of Hospital or Institution - (blank). (d.) Mother's stay before delivery in this community - 10 yr. 2. Usual Residence of Mother: (a.) State - Ohio. (b.) County - Ross. (c.) City or village - Lyndon. (d.) Street No. - Route # 1. 3. Full Name of Child: Fern Louise Hester. 4. Date of Birth: April 4, 1947. 5. Sex: Female. 7. Number of months of pregnancy: 9. 7a. Weight at birth: 8 3/4. 7b. Congenital Malformation: None. 8. Is mother married?: Yes. FATHER OF CHILD: 9. Full name: Harold D. Hester. 10. Color or Race: White. 11. Age at time of this birth: 39 yrs. 12. Birthplace: Ross Co., Ohio. 13. Usual occupation: Laborer. 14. Industry or business: B&O R.R. MOTHER OF CHILD: 15. Full maiden name: Nora Ellen Spurgeon. 16. Color or race: White. 17. Age at time of this birth: 36 yrs. 18. Birthplace: Greenfield, Ohio. 19. Usual occupation: Housewife. 20. Industry or business: Own home. 21. Children born to this mother not including this child: 10. 21a. How many other children of this mother are now living? 8. 21b. How many other children were born alive but are now dead? 2. 21c. How many children were born dead? 0. 22. Date serologic test for syphilis: Oct. 1946. 23. Mother's usual mailing address: Route #1, Lyndon, Ohio. 24. I hereby certify that I attended the birth of this child who was born alive at the hour of 4:20 P.M. on the date above stated and that the information given was furnished by Harold Hester related to this child as father. Signature - Theodore Cutright, M.D. Address - Bainbridge, Ohio Date signed - 4-4-47. 25. Registrar's signature: Maude S. Rea. 26. Date received by local registrar: May 6, 1947. I HEREBY CERTIFY THIS IS A TRUE AND EXACT COPY OF THE BIRTH RECORD AS ON FILE IN THIS OFFICE. Signed/ Donna Atchison, Registrar. Date: 1-18-83." _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 23:14:11 +0000 From: "Ralph W. Cokonougher" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: Subject: Obit: John Hoffman, Ross & Highland Co. Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by ohmx01.mgw.rr.com id g0DHgo717519 The following is a transcript of a newspaper clipping of the obituary of John Hoffman, a native of Ross and Highland Counties. The clipping is from the Greenfield, Ohio newspaper, but has no date on it. John was the husband of Mary Elizabeth McFarland, daughter of Jake and EllenMcFarland. "DEATH OF JOHN HOFFMAN. John Hoffman, age 77, died at his home on McClain avenue Saturday morning following a lingering illness. He is survived by the widow and five children - James E. of Lawrenceville, Ills., John B. of Newark, O., Cary T., Ralph and Fred of this city. Also seven grandchildren, three great-grandchildren, two sisters and two brothers. With the exception of a few years, Mr. Hoffman had resided all of his live in the vicinity of Greenfield, having been born in Buckskin township. Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at the Church of Christ in Christian Union, McClain avenue and Fifth street, and burial made in Waugh's cemetery." *********************************************** The following obituary is from an old newspaper clipping, circa 1942. The clipping does not have the date or name of the newspaper, but the newspaper is most likely a Greenfield, Ohio newspaper. "MARY E. HOFFMAN CLAIMED HERE. Mrs. Mary E. Hoffman, 83, life-long resident of this community died at 11 o'clock, Wednesday night at the home of a son Fred, 636 Dickey ave. The daughter of Jake and Ellen McFarland, she was born April 30, 1859, in Ross County near Greenfield. Rev. Hubert Sharp will conduct last rites at the R.B. Walker funeral home at 2 p.m. Saturday, and interment will be made in Waugh's cemetery near Thornton. Friends will be received at the funeral home. Mrs. Hoffman is survived by five sons, Fred of Greenfield, Ralph and John of Fruitdale, James E. of Lawrenceville, Ill., and Carey of Springfield; a sister, Mrs. Lizzie Stakely of Clarksburg." ****************************************************************** _________________________________________________________________ Join the world=92s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail.=20 http://www.hotmail.com ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 23:26:54 +0000 From: "Ralph W. Cokonougher" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: Subject: Obit: Charles Clouser, 1967, Ross & Highland Co. Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed MIME-Version: 1.0 The following obituary is from an old newspaper clipping with the date Dec. 29, 1967 written on it. The name of the newspaper is not shown, but the format shows it to be a Greenfield, Ohio newspaper. "CHARLES CLOUSER. Service for Charles Franklin Clouser, 59, 1013 McClain ave., will be read at 2 p.m., Saturday, in the Murray funeral home, in charge of Rev. John Hays. Burial will be made in Greenfield cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 2 p.m. Friday. Mr. Clouser died at 11:05 a.m., Wednesday, in Greenfield Municipal Hospital where he had been admitted Dec. 15. He was born in Ross county April 19, 1907, a son of Frank and Amanda Storts Clouser. He was married on Aug. 10, 1929 to Rosa Benson, who survives. He leaves three sons and two daughters, Herman, Charles, Jr. and Max Clouser, and Mrs. Glenn Depoy and Mrs. Robert Giffin, all of Greenfield, and 11 grandchildren and one great-grandchild; four brothers and two sisters, Carse Clouser, Leesburg Rt. 2, Heber, of Bainbridge, Wilbur, of Dayton, Wilby, of Lyndon, Miss Maude Clouser, of South Salem, and Mrs. Marjorie Dove, of New Martinsburg. Mr. Clouser was a member of the Church of Christ." _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 17:41:10 +0000 From: "Ralph W. Cokonougher" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: Subject: Mar record: William Clark & Mary Sinclaire, 1882, Ross Co. Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by ohmx01.mgw.rr.com id g0DHgo717519 The following is a transcript of the marriage record of William Wessley Clark and Mary Ann Sinclair, on file in the Ross County, Ohio Probate Court. William was the son of Robert Clark and Julia Ann Miller Clark. Mary was the daughter of Erin Sinclaire and Judith Eidenoure. Other spellings of the names of the involved parties in other records were William Clarke, Wessley Clark, Mary Sinclair, Mary Sinclaire, and Mary Sinkclair. William and Mary were my great-great grandparents through their daughter Rosa Clark Hester, grandson Harold Hester, and my mother and their great-grandaughter, Viola Hester Cokonougher Cassidy. "Page 340. Marriage Record. Parties. No. 1015. William W. Clark and Mary Ann Sinkclair. License Issued the 9th day of Sept. A.D. 1882 to the above named parties. Affidavit. THE STATE OF OHIO, ROSS COUNTY, ss. John W. Copper having made application for a LICENSE for William W. Clark and Mary Ann Sinkclair and being duly sworn, says that William W. Clark is of the age of 21 years, and has no wife living; and that Mary Ann Sinkclair is not of the age of 18 years, step father consent, a resident of said county, and has no husband living, and that said parties are not nearer kin than second cousins. His mark/ X John M. Copper. Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 9th day of Sept., A.D. 1882. Signed/ (illegible) L. Stone, Probate Judge. Return. THE STATE OF OHIO, ROSS COUNTY, ss. I DO HEREBY CERTIFY, That on the 11th day of Sept. 1882, I solemnized the Marriage of Mr. William W. Clark with Miss Mary Ann Sinkclair. Signed/ J. McHouser Jr. Filed and recorded 9th day of April 1883. Signed/ (illegible) L. Stone, Probate Judge." _________________________________________________________________ Join the world=92s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail.=20 http://www.hotmail.com -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V02 Issue #10 ******************************************