Ross County OhArchives Obituaries.....Hester, Frank March 19, 1962
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From a March 1962 "Greenfield Times" of Greenfield, Ohio.
                           Frank Hester.  
         Frank Hester, 84, Lyndon Rt. 1, was found dead of natural cause 
Monday at 4 p.m. at the home of a son, Harry Hester, of South Salem.  He was 
born Oct. 5, 1877, at Lyndon Rt. 1, a son of Joseph and Sarah Hanna Hester.  
He was married to Rosa Clark Hester, who died March 12, 1952.  In addition to 
his son, Harry, he is survived by a daughter and three other sons, Harold 
Hester, Greenfield Rt. 2, Hazel and Leslie Hester, Lyndon Rt. 1, and Floyd 
Hester, of Peebles; a sister, Mrs. Harrison Storts, Frankfort Rt. 1; 24 
grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren.  He was predeceased by two sons.  
Service will be held Thursday at 2 p.m. in the Murray funeral home, with Rev. 
Donald Cummans officiating.  Burial will be made in South Salem cemetery.  
Friends may call at Murray's after 2 p.m., Wednesday.

Additional Comments:
            From page 12 of the 1880 federal census of Buckskin Township, Ross 
County, Ohio, enumerated on 4 June 1880:  
             Hester, Joseph:  color - W, sex - M, age - 28, civil condition- 
married, occupation - farmer, unemployed in the census year, place of birth - 
Ohio, father's place of birth - Penn, mother's place of birth - Ohio.
	Hester, Hannah:  color - W, sex - F, age - 24,  relationship to head 
of family - wife, civil condition - married, occupation - Keeping House, place 
of birth - Ohio, father's place of birth - Ohio, mother's place of birth - 
Penn.
	Hester, Hattie:  color - W, sex - F, age - 4, relationship to head of 
family - daughter, civil condition - single, place of birth - Ohio, father's 
place of birth - Ohio, mother's place of birth - Ohio.
	Hester, Frank:  color - W, sex - M, age - 3, relationship to head of 
family - son, civil condition - single, place of birth - Ohio, father's place 
of birth - Ohio, mother's place of birth - Ohio.
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	Exerpt from pages 24 & 25 of  "History and Genealogy of The Ancestors 
and Relatives of Ralph William Cokonougher" by Ralph W. Cokonougher.  New 
Holland, Ohio: RALCO Publishing Co., 1979  : 	
	"Rosa Clark, also known as Rosie, was a very slender, good looking 
blond girl when she was a young maiden.  She was considered to be quite a 
catch for the man lucky enough to convince her to marry him.  Rosie's family 
lived near Lattas Ville, now Lattaville, and she was courted by quite a few of 
the boys in the area.  The competition was quite strong, and when Frank Hester 
from Lower Twin Creek became a suitor, the boys in Lattas Ville decided that 
they had had enough competition.  
	As Frank was driving his horse and buggy through town one day, a group 
of boys stepped in front of him and stopped his horse.  "Where do you think 
you're going?", one of them demanded to know.
	"Why, over to see Rosie Clark," Frank good naturedly answered.
	"No, you're not," the boy shot back.  "You're going to turn your horse 
around and go back where you came from.  You're not going to see Rosie Clark 
anymore!"
	Frank was thin and not very big, and because of his size, he wasn't as 
strong as the crowd of boys he was facing.  He seemed to be in quite a fix.
	Suddenly from behind the crowd, a voice boomed out, "Frank is going on 
to the Clarks' now, and he's going to keep on going to the Clarks' as often as 
he wants!"
	Everybody froze in place.  Then, looking back behind them, they saw 
that it was John Cokonougher who was speaking.  John Cokonougher usually meant 
what he said, and he was big enough to back it up, so the crowd very quickly 
dispersed.   Frank went on to Rosie Clark's and had no more trouble from the 
boys in Lattas Ville.  Eventually, he married Rosie Clark and took her home to 
Lower Twin where they lived together for almost 50 years.
	Many years later Frank and Rosie's granddaughter, Viola Hester, 
married John Cokonougher's son, Howard Cokonougher.  Both John Cokonougher and 
Frank Hester had many a chuckle when they were older by telling how John made 
it possible for Frank to continue his courtship of Rosie Clark."
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                  The following news note is from the Thursday, 2 July 1908 
issue of the Greenfield, Ohio "The Greenfield Republican", Vol. 47, No. 11.
                           "LOWER TWIN VALLEY.
            Mr. Frank Hester is quite ill at this writing."
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            The following news note is from the Thursday, 9 July 1908 issue of 
the Greenfield, Ohio "The Greenfield Republican", Vol. 47, No. 12.
                         "LOWER TWIN VALLEY.
            Mr. Frank Hester is still on the sick list."
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	+++	Exerpt from pages 23 & 24 of  "History and Genealogy of The 
Ancestors and Relatives of Ralph William Cokonougher" by Ralph W. 
Cokonougher.  New Holland, Ohio: RALCO Publishing Co., 1979  : 
	  "Frank was reported to be a very good saleman.  Each year he grew a 
large patch of watermelons on his farm to sell to prospective buyers.  To 
Frank, a sale was a sale, and if the melon was green as a gourd, instead of 
ripe, he sold it anyway.  His technique was simple.  He would pick up a green 
melon, thump it in front of a buyer, and say with just the right amount of 
mouthwatering temptation, "Oooh, boys!  That's a good un!", and sell the melon 
almost every time.
	People who knew Frank Hester called him "Mutt" because his features 
resembled the character Mutt in the "Mutt and Jeff"  comic strip popular 
during his lifetime.
	During the last few years of his life, Frank worked in his son, 
Harry's, produce store in South Salem.  Harry did quite a large business in 
furs, but quite often hunters brought a whole animal in to sell, instead of 
skinning it first.  Frank had the job of skinning the bodies of their furs.  
When he finished skinning an animal, he threw its carcass into an old 
cardboard box and set the box into the back room to freeze.  Since it was 
winter, the back room was almost always ice cold, but sometimes the weather 
would break for a day or two and the carcasses would ripen a bit.  When social 
security and welfare checks came out on the first of each month, Frank would 
send the carcasses to be sold in a hilly, black slum area in Chillicothe, 
locally known as ###### Hill.  The black people would send their children out 
to buy one or two of the animals at prices ranging from one to two dollars 
apiece.  It seemed that the riper or more spoiled the meat was, the better it 
sold.  Frank kept half the money, and his salesmen, usually his grandchildren 
Lawrence and Viola, and her husband Howard, got the rest.
	Rosa Clark was born 11 Dec. 1883 in Ross County, Ohio to William 
Wessly Clark and Mary A. Sinclair.  She died 31 March 1952 of a cerebral 
hemorhage due to arterioclerosis with hypertension in the Greenfield Municipal 
Hospital in Greenfield, Ohio.  Both Rosa and Frank were buried in South Salem 
Cemetery, South Salem, Ohio.  A large granite monument marks their grave.
	After Rosa died, and whenever Frank ate at home, he always ate from 
the very same plate.  For years, after he finished his meal, he sopped his 
plate clean with a piece of bread, and then turned the plate over to be used 
for the next meal.  The plate was very seldom, if ever, allowed to be washed."
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