Union County OhArchives Obituaries.....Parthemore, Jacob April 12, 1882
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Marysville Tribune Apr. 19, 1882
Death of Old Pioneer Editors Marysville Tribune;
   Jacob Parthemore departed this life Wednesday morning,April 12th,1882,at 4
o'clock,a.m.. The deceased was born in Augusta county, Virginia, April
9th,1799,and was 83 years and 3 days old when he died. He came with his father's
(John Parthemore)family from Virginia, and settled on the Darby Plains in what
is now the Southern part of Union county, in 1812, and has resided within Union
county ever since. He bought land in the wild woods over fifty years ago, when
and where the howling of wolves and owls was an every night occurrence. Deer and
other game were also plenty, and he was a great deer hunter and killed his full
share of them.
   He married a Miss Thornton and settled on his land and commenced clearing it
up and made a good home for himself and family, and resided on the same till his
death. He raised a family of three daughters. His wife died many years ago, and
since that his youngest daughter died, leaving one child, a son. He leaves two
daughters, Mrs. Monroe, and Mrs. Gabriel and their families to morn his loss. He
was always industrious and honest, honorable in all his dealings with his fellow
man, always jolly and pleasant with his neighbors and friends when he met them,
and always had a joke of some kind, and a pleasant how do you do.I never new of
him having an enemy, but the respect of all who knew him. 
   Politically he was always a regular Jackson Democrat, and never let up.
Religiously he was liberal in his views, never made any profession, but tried to
do right because it was right to do so, and was content.
   Your correspondent has been personally acquainted with the deceased for about
seventy years. But he has gone now where sorrows and troubles do not exist. 
A Pioneer.

Additional Comments:
Jacob is my 2nd great granduncle

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