Williams County OhArchives Obituaries.....Stout, William Drake July 3, 1893
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Tri-State Alliance, Volume XV, Number 3, Pioneer, Ohio, of Friday, July 14, 1893
     Dr. William Drake Stout

     Our "Old Pioneers" are rapidly passing away.  Fifty years ago this was a 
wilderness that tried men, soul and body and it is fitting for their children 
and those who occupy the land in these latter days to cherish the memory of 
those pioneers.
     Dr. W. D. Stout, the subject of this sketch was born in Lyons, Genesee 
County, N.Y., Dec. 25, 1811.  He passed his youth in that still new region as 
most boys do.  He commenced the study of medicine and spent some time in the 
Rochester University and was there at the time Sam Patch took his last leap; 
which he beheld.
     He was married to Betsy Garrett in 1835, and on June 16, 1836 he landed at 
Toledo, which then contained one log house.  Thus has the Dr. seen the growth of 
this country from its most helpless infancy.  He bent his way westward on the 
Territorial road landing in Amboy, Michigan.  He entered the piece of land west 
of the Baptist Church shortly afterward and put up a log house.  The year after 
his uncle, Dea. Amos Drake came into the country and other settlers dotted the 
wilderness here and there.  He moved to Cambria a short time and after living in 
this township for a couple of years, he moved to Bird Lake living near the 
southeast shore.  Here the Indians had their permanent homes and the squaws 
tilled the soil.  He was here when the government officers made the men drunk 
that they could remove them and their squaws and families into a more distant 
wilderness, driving them from their crops and homes like beasts and treating 
them far more brutally.
     He moved back to Amboy and in October, 1847, his wife died.  She was buried 
on the east bank of Silver Creek, southeast of the old red grist mill, but her 
grave is lost and will never be known till the last trumpet sounds.  Three 
children are the fruits of this union.  Mrs. Chloe Auble, now living in 
Bridgewater, Ralph, who died in the service during the "war for the union," and 
Mary, wife of J. M. McNitt of Wright Township, she having died some 7 years ago.
     He married Miss Abby Simonds his second wife in 1848 and in the fall of 
1858 his second wife died and was buried in the Bridgewater Cemetery. One child 
Marion, now residing in Kansas, was the result of this union. During all these 
years the Dr. not only traveled far and near to minister tidings and for the 
support of his family labored with his hands.  His was an unselfish spirit and 
he would travel as far to minister to the poor as he would to the rich.  His 
active life was not spent in the gathering of wealth but in doing good, and as 
one said, "if the Dr. had collected the bills due him for medical services, he 
would have been the richest man in the land."  But this was not the leading idea 
of this unselfish man.  He was too much of a pioneer for this and the wealth of 
this world had but little attraction to him.  He was a practitioner of no mean 
ability, for he was possessed of a sound judgement.  As a preacher he was not of 
that excitable nature that stirs up the emotions to the detriment of reason, but 
he was a plain, logical gospel teacher, a careful and continual student of the 
book of nature and the book of God were ever open before him, and he learned 
lessons therefrom that lifted him far above the average mind.
     But we pass to notice the rest of his active life: He lived in Bridgewater 
on the Angola road where he preached and practiced medicine from 1851 to 1858, 
the death of his wife breading him up again.
     He married Miss Lois Lickley in 1859, and commenced preaching and 
housekeeping near Lickley's Corners.  Here he resided till the death of his wife 
in the summer of 1880.  One daughter, now Mrs. Grubb of Amboy, was the only 
child of his last marriage.  After his wife's death he made his home with his 
daughter Mrs. O. Auble, where he died July 3, 1893, aged 81 years, 6 mo's, and 8 
days.  His last days were cheered by the loving attention of his daughter and 
her kindly hands made much easier the rugged road to the grave.  He was laid 
down to his long rest in the Bridgewater Union Cemetery on the 5th of July, and 
while his body crumbles to dust, may the sons and daughters of this generation 
and the generations to come rise and call his memory blessed. 

Additional Comments:
He is buried at Cogswell Cemetery in Bridgewater twp.. row 19/8. Information is 
as follows:

Stout, William D Dr.  B: 1811 D 1893  
VanOrsdale,Chloe D., wife of A. J. VanOrsdale B: 1840 D: 1919. 
Both on same gray sandstone stone,William on West side and Chloe on east .  Also 
small white sandstone name stone for Chloe D.


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