OHIO STATEWIDE FILES OH-BMD Project Mailing List Issue 7 ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES(tm) NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgenwebarchives.org ************************************************************************** OH-BMD-D Digest Volume 06 : Issue 7 Today's Topics: #1 Oh-Warren Co. Obituary (Mull) [Archives ] #2 Oh-Allen Co. Obituary (Smith) [Archives ] #3 Oh-Allen Co. Obituary (Cunningham) [Archives ] #4 Oh-Putnam Co. Obituary (Slusser) [Archives ] #5 Oh-Allen-Putnam Co. Obituary (Slus [Archives ] #6 Oh-Allen-Putnam Co. Obituary (Coll [Archives ] Administrivia: To unsubscribe from OH-BMD-D, send a message to OH-BMD-D-request@rootsweb.com that contains in the body of the message the command unsubscribe and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. To contact the OH-BMD-D list administrator, send mail to OH-BMD-admin@rootsweb.com. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #1 Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 11:52:21 -0500 From: Archives To: OH-BMD-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <200601041652.k04GqL614538@genrecords.org> Subject: Oh-Warren Co. Obituary (Mull) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Warren County OhArchives Obituaries.....Mull, Benjamin June 15, 1933 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ohfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Arne Trelvik atrelvik@earthlink.net January 4, 2006, 11:52 am Unnamed paper A transcription of the Benjamin Mull obit was added to the Warren County OHGenWeb project today at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohwarren/Obits/mull.htm#BenjaminMull BENJAMIN MULL, 93 SUCCUMBS TUESDAY AT MIDDLETOWN Was Native Of Turtlecreek Township In Warren County AT DEDICATION Of Methodist Episcopal Church At Lebanon In 1863 A long and useful life was brought to a close early Tuesday morning with the death at Middletown of Benjamin Mull, aged 93, native of this county who until the end retained a keen interest in the affairs of Lebanon and surrounding community. A month ago his many friends here were grieved to learn that he had suffered a broken hip as a result of a fall at his daughter's home in Middletown. Since that time he had been a patient in the Middletown Hospital and was believed on the road to recovery until pneumonia developed last week resulting in his death. Funeral services will be held from the resident at 113 Monroe street, Middletown, at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon. The Rev. Ray L. Cross, pastor of the Lebanon Methodist Episcopal Church, assisted by Rev. Armacost, of the Middletown Methodist Church will have charge of the services. Born in 1840 Benjamin Mull was born in Turtlecreek Township near Lebanon January 29, 1840, the son of Reuben and Catherine Spindler Mull, natives of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, who came to Ohio in 1835. His father was of Scotch ancestry. He was reared on a large farm one mile northeast of Lebanon and the old colonial home still stands. In Civil War At the outbreak of the Civil War Mr. Mull joined the "Squirrel Hunters" for state service and afterwards volunteered for United States service enlisting in Company A. Regiment 146. At the time of his death he was the oldest surviving Civil War veteran residing in Middletown and one of the oldest veterans in southern Ohio. Married Warren County Girl Following the war he was married to Miss Katherine Hathaway on August 3, 1865, uniting two of Warren county's most prominent pioneer families. They were the parents of four children, Sarah L., who died at the age of four years; Bert F. Mull, a retired attorney of Los Angeles, California; Lula Pearl Hawthorne, of Middletown; and Ernest C. Mull, who is associated with the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. Bertric Mull of California is the only grandson. Mr. Mull was one of nine children and had six brothers and two sisters. One brother, Charles, aged 86, who had spent most of his life in Dayton survives. Wife Died in 1926 Mr. and Mrs. Mull were permitted to celebrate their golden wedding anniversary in 1915. At that time they enjoyed a trip to the Atlantic coast cities and visited his father's home in Pennsylvania. In 1925 they celebrated their sixtieth anniversary at their county home near Lebanon where they resided for 48 years. One year later, Mrs. Mull died at the age of 82 years. It was then that Mr. Mull retired from active life dividing his time with his son in California and his daughter at Middletown. Interested In Church His great interest centered in the Methodist Church and particularly the Methodist Church at Lebanon of which he had been a member for 76 years, having joined the congregation in 1857 under the pastorate of the Rev. Enoch West. He was at various times a class leader, teacher, leader in prayer service and at the time of his death was an honorary trustee of the church. He is the last member who was present at the dedication of the Lebanon church in 1863 and held the record both as to age and length of years in membership. When unable to attend church during the closing period of his life, he "listened in" each Sunday on radio sermons and hymns. Mr. Mull was possessed of a strong personality and was well known and highly respected by a wide circle of friends. Among his outstanding characteristics, his goodwill and hospitality among his fellow men. Source: Unnamed paper dated 15 June 1933 [copy obtained from obituary collection at the Warren County Genealogical Society] File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/warren/obits/mull91gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ohfiles/ File size: 4.6 Kb ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: 4 Jan 2006 18:05:16 -0000 From: Archives To: OH-BMD-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20060104180516.10138.qmail@leaf3.bananic.com> Subject: Oh-Allen Co. Obituary (Smith) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Allen County OhArchives Obituaries.....Smith, O. Warren October 26, 1908 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ohfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Judy Woerner judyw0113@yahoo.com January 4, 2006, 6:05 pm Lima Daily News, October 27, 1908 Lima, Ohio "STRICKEN In Death as the Result of an Accident in Fall from Bridge. Passing of a Veteran in Dean of Lawyers. O.W. Smith, Ardent Prohibitionist and Life Long Attorney. O. W. Smith, attorney at law, and one of the most widely known men in Lima, fell from the bridge over the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton railroad at Elm street, at about 6:30 O’clock last night, sustaining injuries which resulted in his death. He is supposed to have struck the bank beneath the bridge. The force crushed his skull, and he lived only a short time after the accident without regaining consciousness, to tell how he became the victim of so peculiar an accident. Mr. Smith is 76 years of age, and this, together with the force of the fall, caused the injuries to be more severe than would have ordinarily happened to a younger person. The most plausible theory is that to escape death by being crushed under the wheels of the approaching train, he jumped from the bridge. The truth in the case will hardly be known, for Mr. Smith was the only witness, and his lips are closed in death. He may have fallen from the bridge upon seeing the approaching train. Mr. Smith had a law office in the Cincinnati block. He was an ardent supporter of temperance, and a Prohibition in name and in truth. He was candidate for the office of probate judge on the Prohibition ticket in the present campaign. Deceased was born in Marion county, Ohio. He has lived in Lima for many years, where he was so well known. Surviving are the wife and four daughters – Ethelwyn, Helen, Marion and Lenora, all of whom live in Lima. Funeral services have not yet been arranged, but burial will be made at Woodlawn. Lima Daily News (Lima, Ohio) October 28, 1908 FOUL PLAY Theory in Smith Death is not Bourne Out by Police. Coroner Will Also Hold Thorough Inquest. Marks on the Body Could Have Been sustained in the Fall. Chief of Police Heffern and the two plain clothes men who have been working on the Smith death, in an endeavor to ferret out any possibility of foul play, now scout the idea. Not a clue can be found to lead to such a belief. The marks on the body and back of the ear could have been sustained in the fall from the bridge. So far as known, the pockets of the dead man had not been touched, and missing keys in his headlong drop from the high bridge. Evidences of foul play were at first thought to be apparent, but a thorough investigation by the police leads to the one theory that the aged attorney took a misstep and fell head long. Coroner Steiner will hold an inquest, however, and examination of the officers and those who first discovered the unconscious body. That it is barely possible he may have been struck from behind, and knocked from the bridge, is admitted, but if such were true, the murderers, it is believed, gained nothing. And this theory of the death is not bourne out by the circumstantial evidence at hand." File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/allen/obits/smith84nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/ohfiles/ File size: 3.6 Kb ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: 4 Jan 2006 18:40:58 -0000 From: Archives To: OH-BMD-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20060104184058.24512.qmail@leaf3.bananic.com> Subject: Oh-Allen Co. Obituary (Cunningham) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Allen County OhArchives Obituaries.....Cunningham, Letitia Elizabeth April 24, 1881 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ohfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Judy Woerner judyw0113@yahoo.com January 4, 2006, 6:40 pm Allen County Democrat, April 28, 1881 "Death of Miss Tisha Cunningham On Sunday morning last, at Fremont, Ohio, Miss Tisha Cunningham departed this life after an illness of but a few days. Miss Tisha was the sixth and next to the youngest daughter of the late Scott Cunningham, and was born and raised in this place. She had been in Fremont but a month or two when she was taken sick. Her remains were brought here on the 1:30 a.m. train Monday, the funeral taking place yesterday from the West Market Street Presbyterian church. She was about 25 years of age and is the first one of a family of seven daughters grown to adulthood to die. She was a very estimable young lady, and leaves a large circle of relations and friends to mourn her departure." Additional Comments: Father: Archibald Scott Cunningham Mother: Matilda Beatty File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/allen/obits/cunningh85nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/ohfiles/ File size: 1.4 Kb ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: 4 Jan 2006 18:58:50 -0000 From: Archives To: OH-BMD-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20060104185850.31958.qmail@leaf3.bananic.com> Subject: Oh-Putnam Co. Obituary (Slusser) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Putnam County OhArchives Obituaries.....Slusser, William S. August 8, 1916 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ohfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Judy Woerner judyw0113@yahoo.com January 4, 2006, 6:58 pm Lima Times Democrat, August 8, 1916 "FARMER DIES ON PUBLIC HIGHWAY William S. Slusser, prominent farmer of Vaughnsville, dropped dead on the public highway two and one-half miles east of Middleport, on Sunday morning at 10 o’clock. He died in the presence of his son-in-law, Dr. Clarence Turner, formerly of Columbus Grove, who had been summoned to assist him in caring for a punctured tire he had experienced with his motor car. Mr. and Mrs. Slusser and his mother, Mrs. Jane Slusser, were on their way to Middleport to visit Dr. and Mrs. Turner. Death was instantaneous, and is believed to have been due to heart trouble, from which he has suffered for some time. He was 58 years of age and was born on a farm two and one-half miles southeast of Vaughnsville, where he resided until fifteen years ago, when he retired from active life and moved to Vaughnsville. Funeral services were held at the Slusser residence in Vaughnsville this morning at 10 o’clock. Interment was in the Clevenger cemetery near Vaughnsville." File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/putnam/obits/slusser86nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/ohfiles/ File size: 1.6 Kb ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #5 Date: 4 Jan 2006 19:50:01 -0000 From: Archives To: OH-BMD-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20060104195001.22956.qmail@leaf3.bananic.com> Subject: Oh-Allen-Putnam Co. Obituary (Slusser) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Allen-Putnam County OhArchives Obituaries.....Slusser, Jane Elizabeth July 11, 1915 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ohfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Judy Woerner judyw0113@yahoo.com January 4, 2006, 7:50 pm Lima Daily News, July 12, 1915 "HEART FAILURE ATTACK FATAL Mrs. Jane Slusser of West Spring Street, Dies Suddenly Sunday Jane Elizabeth Slusser, 82 years old, died at her home, 207 west Spring street, Sunday morning at 1 o’clock from a sudden attack of heart trouble with which she was seized five hours before her death. She was born March 3, 1833, in Culpeffer county, Va. Four children survive; Mrs. Ida Bailey, Toledo; Mrs. Eva Doan, Bowling Green; James Slusser, Edgerton, and Mrs. A. G. Collins at whose home the death occurred. The funeral services will be held from the First Christian church, where she was a charter member, Tuesday morning at 10 o’clock and interment will be made in Woodlawn. Rev. Gilbert will officiate." Additional Comments: Correction: "Culpeffer, VA" S/B "Culpeper, VA". Maiden Name: Elizabeth Jane Smith. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/allen/obits/slusser87nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/ohfiles/ File size: 1.4 Kb ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #6 Date: 4 Jan 2006 20:04:06 -0000 From: Archives To: OH-BMD-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20060104200406.29038.qmail@leaf3.bananic.com> Subject: Oh-Allen-Putnam Co. Obituary (Collins) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Allen-Putnam County OhArchives Obituaries.....Collins, Alfred G. September 9, 1916 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ohfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Judy Woerner judyw0113@yahoo.com January 4, 2006, 8:04 pm Lima Times Democrat, September 9, 1916 "COL. ALFRED G. COLLINS YIELDS TO DEATH Veteran Newspaper Man and ex-Confederate Soldier, Meets Last Foe The death of Captain Alfred G. Collins, 67 years old, residing at 207 West Spring street, occurred this forenoon. While for the past few weeks that he was confined to his bed. Death was due to dysentery, aided by complications. He was born in Greenville, S. C., July 16, 1849. He served the southern army, where he was given the commission of captain. Practically his entire life he has been in newspaper business, in one way or another. He was a versatile writer and served any cause he espoused well. He was a member of the Masonic lodge at Greenville, S. C., and the Episcopal church. Two years ago he was married to Miss Bell Slusser, formerly of Columbus Grove, but who resided on West Spring street, after her coming to this city. He was known about the city as Colonel Collins and was a popular and unique gentleman. He spent some months in newspaper work on the Lima Daily News and at the present time was engaged in special work. This work he was compelled to suspend because of ill health. No arrangements have been made for the funeral which will probably depend upon the arrival of the Rev. Arthur M. Griffin, the rector of Christ church, Episcopal, from Mackinac Island. He will officiate at the services. Interment will be at Woodlawn." Additional Comments: Note: Miss Bell Slusser is Sarah Belle Slusser, daughter of Peter Slusser and Jane Elizabeth (Smith) Slusser. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/allen/obits/collins88nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/ohfiles/ File size: 2.1 Kb -------------------------------- End of OH-BMD-D Digest V06 Issue #7 ***********************************