Obituary: Stephens Isaiah Gadd

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STEPHENS I. GADD.

    Stephens Isaiah Gadd, aged 90, died at 11 o'clock Sunday 
morning at the home of his son, Stephen W. Gadd, at Centerville, 
Washington county, where the family moved last spring from Uniontown.
    Deceased was a man of great physical vigor, had such a rugged 
constitution and enjoyed such good health that his friends and 
relatives believed he had a good chance to survive to reach the 
century mark.  Mr. Gadd always took good care of himself.  
He was always a hard worker, but in his own words was a "good
sleeper and good feeder", as well.  He chewed tobacco moderately, 
but was always a total abstainer from the use of liquor.
    Mr. Gadd was born March 7, 1824, in German township on the Masontown 
road on a farm owned in recent years by the late Dr. T. N. Eastman.  
His father, Elijah Gadd, was a blacksmith and Stephens learned the 
trade under his father and worked there till he became of age.  
After that the son managed his own blacksmith business and pursued 
it actively till after he was 80 years of age, all the time in 
Fayette county except three years at Ottawa, Ill.
    During his career Mr. Gadd taught 19 boys the blacksmith trade, 
including his three sons, Stephen, George and Frank.  Deceased was an 
industrious worker and could fit and drive 50 shoes a day in his prime.  
He made tires four inches wide and an inch and an eighth in thickness.  
In recalling the past Mr. Gadd often told of ironing the old English 
wagon beds that they used in the early days on the national pike.  
He made axes, hoes, forks, mattocks, picks and knives of all kinds,
and shod horses all night many a time.
    In 1862 Mr. Gadd was mercantile appraiser of Fayette county.  
He was a lifelong Democrat, was loyal to the party at all times and 
never scratched his ticket.  In former years Mr. Gadd was a great 
fox hunter and had one of the best fox hounds in the county.  
For many years Mr. Gadd had been a member of the Odd Fellows. 
He was a man of high christain character and was respected and esteemed  
by all who knew him.
    Short services Wednesday at 10 a. m. at the son's home, followed 
by services at 2:30 p. m. at the Second Presbyterian church, in charge 
of Dr. W. Scott Bowman.  The Odd Fellows will have charge.   
Interment in Oak Grove cemetery.