gallia county newspaper obituaries
The following obituaries
are from the files of various
Gallia County Newspapers and other publications. They
are listed below in alphabetical order of the surname.
O'Dell, Neva Smith
Neva Smith O'Dell
CHILLICOTHE - Neva Smith O'Dell, 91, Chillicothe, formerly of Gallipolis, died Friday, November 26, 1999 in the Adena Regional Medical Center in Chillicothe.
Born July 29, 1908 in Gallia County, daughter of the late Daniel Reese and Margaret Morgan Reese, she was an active member of Grace United Methodist Church in Gallipolis, and had been attending Tyler Memorial United Methodist Church in Chillicothe.
She was a member of the Order of the Eastern Star Gallipolis Chapter.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her first husband, Sterling B. Smith; her second husband, John E. O'Dell, a granddaughter, Lynne Burkley; a brother, Morgan Reese; and a son-in-law, Bill Trent.
Surviving are a daughter, Ann Trent of Chillicothe; a son and daughter-in-law, Richard S. and Nancy Smith of Columbus; four grandchildren, Debbie and husband Alan Harris, Jeff and wife Lori Smith, and Tom Rieser and Steve Smith; 10 great-grandchildren; a grand son-in-law, Mike Burkley; and a sister-in-law, Frances Reese of Columbus.
Services were held at 10:30 a.m. today Monday November 29, 1999 in [Note! Obit copy cut off]
Gallipolis Daily Tribune
No Date
Transcribed by Nancy S. Edwards
Oiler, Jasper E.
Three Deaths Occur Among Vinton Folk
Three residents of Vinton and vicinity have died during the last few days, according to
word from The Tribune's correspondent. (others found under Mrs. James Rose and Wm. Thompson)
Jap Oiler whose serious illness has been mentioned from time to time passed away at his
home Monday morning. His funeral was held at the residence Wednesday at 2 p.m. by Rev. Leveck, burial in the Holcomb Cemetery by Funeral Director H.K. Butler.
[Note: Jasper E. Oiler, born 1856, died 1932 is buried at Old Holcomb Cemetery.]
Gallipolis Tribune
February 25, 1932
Transcribed by Henny Evans
Oiler, Lucinda J.
A complication of diseases due to her advanced age resulted in the death Wednesday night of Mrs. Lucinda J. Oiler, aged, 81, widow of Jacob Oiler, at the home of her niece, Mrs. Alice A. Cole, 160 ?(169) South Scioto Street. Besides her niece she leaves 3 sons. The funeral will be held from the residence at 9:30 Friday morning, and the body will be sent to Delaware for burial by W. I. Winegarner.
[Lucinda Jane was the daughter of Daniel and Mary Louise Holcomb Polley. She was born March 24, 1835 in Ohio and died Nov 1, 1916 in Columbus. She had a least 9 siblings and she married Jacob Oiler and they had 6 children, both girls died young and they raised 4 sons. Jacob and Lucinda did live in Vinton, Gallia County.]
Unknown publication
Transcribed by Madge McClain Staley Top of Page
Oiler, Mrs. Charles
Death result of Attack of Acute Indigestion
Mrs. Charles Oiler aged fifty-four years, died very suddenly at her home at No.4 Commercial Street last night. Mrs. Oiler attended to her evening work and retired feeling as well as usual. During that early part of the night she was taken very ill of acute indigestion and died a short time later of paralysis of the heart.
The deceased is survived by her husband and eight children. Charles Oiler of Colfax, West Virginia, Mrs. Edward Ellington, and Mrs. John Ellington of Creola: William, Leslie, Hobart, Ahira and Nellie Oiler of this city. One son, Frank, is deceased.
Mrs. Oiler came here with her family from Vinton county about 2 years ago.
The funeral will be held from the late home Friday evening at 7 o'clock, Rev D.N. Kelly officiating . The remains will be shipped to Vinton, Gallia County Saturday morning over the Hocking Valley.
Burial: January 10, 1914, Vinton, Gallia Co., OH
Marion Newspaper
January 1914
Transcribed by Madge McClain Staley
Oiler, Pluma Mae
Pluma Mae Oiler,81,Rt. 2, Vinton, died at Scenic Hills Health Center Sunday evening following an extended illness.
Born May 19, 1906, at Eno, Ohio, she was the daughter of the late Howard and Ethel Darst Amos.
She is preceded in death by her husband, Isaac Oiler, Oct. 29, 1971, one brother, two sons and two daughters.
She is survived by two sons, Thurman Oiler and Billy Oiler, both of Vinton; three daughters, Mrs. Joe (Leona) Boston, Franklin Ohio; Mrs. James (Barbara) Ramey, Gallipolis and Diane Oiler of Vinton; 12 grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
Funeral will be Thursday 10 a.m. at the McCoy-Moore Funeral Home of Vinton, with the Rev. Jac Finnicum and the Rev. Dennis Fulks. Burial will be at the Pine Grove Cemetery.
Friends may visit at the funeral home Wednesday from 6-9 p.m.
[Note: Died Feb. 28, 1988]
Gallipolis Paper
March, 1988
Transcribed by F.K. Brown
Oldaker, Clarence H.
Clarence H. Oldaker, 192 W. 4th Avenue., age 62, died Sunday. Survived by wife, Zelva; daughters, Dorothy Campbell, Ann Huston, Thelma Rogers, Lula Winfree, Yvonne Oldaker; 2 sons, George H. and Rodger Lee; 1 brother, Clyde Oldaker. Friends may call at the residence 7-9 p.m., Monday and Tuesday. Funeral service 2 p.m. Wednesday in the Second St. Nazarene Church, Gallipolis, Ohio. Interment Pine St. Cemetery, Gallipolis, by Glenn L. Myers.
[Note: April 17, 1895 - October 6, 1957]
Columbus Dispatch
Monday, October 7, 1957
Transcribed by Sandy L. Milliron
Oldaker, Zelva A.
Death
Zelva A. Oldaker, age 67, of 461 E. Morrill. Member of Second St. Nazarene Church, Gallipolis, O. Survived by daughters, Mrs. Ann Huston, Mrs. Thelma Rogers, Mrs. Dorothy Campbell, Mrs. Lula Winfree, Mrs. Yvonne Manning; son, Roger Lee; sister, Mrs. Eva Burnette of Gallipolis; brother, Levi Rife.
Friends may call at the Shaw-Davis and Glenn L. Myers Funeral Home, 4341 N. High St. after 6 p.m. Monday. Service 2 p.m. Tuesday, Second St. Church of the Nazarene, Gallipolis. Interment Pine St. Cemetery by Glenn L. Myers.
Columbus Dispatch
Monday, January 29, 1968
Transcribed by Sandy L. Milliron
Oliver, James Dent
James D. Oliver Dies Thursday
James Dent Oliver, 86, died at his home 611 Third Avenue, at 6 A. M., Thursday. He had been in poor health for the past few years and during recent months had been confined to his bed most of the time. A retired engineer, he had had a long career from his earliest years.
As a young man he served on river boats as an engineer and after leaving the river he was for many years connected with the City waterworks. His father, John C. Oliver, was in charge of the installation of the present water system in the early 1890’s and was the head of that department before his son took over the duties.
Oliver left that post as city engineer in 1919 and on February 28, 1920 he became an engineer at the Gallipolis State Institute. He remained there until December 31, 1938 when he retired. He was a member of Grace Methodist Church and Morning Dawn Lodge of Masons.
Oliver was born in Gallipolis on April 14, 1869, the son of the late John C. and Caroline Damron Oliver. He was married to Katherine Curry, a resident of Gallipolis who preceded him in death on August 1, 1944. They were the parents of one son, John Oliver, who was killed in France during World War I. Mrs. Oliver was largely responsible for the placing of the Doughboy statue in the Public Square which marks the site of Company F camp where her son trained before going overseas.
Two sisters preceded Oliver in death and Mrs. W. N. Hayward of Gallipolis is a cousin. Mrs. Arthur Williams is a sister-in-law, made her home with Oliver.
Funeral services have been set for 2 P. M., Saturday at the Wetherholt Funeral Home. Rev. Paul M. Niswander will officiate and burial will be in Pine Street Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home Friday evening and until the funeral hour.
[Note: Previously typed transcription (author unknown) found in the Simmerman files, Damron file, Bossard Library.]
Gallipolis Daily Tribune
Volume 62
Number 245
December 22, 1955
Gallipolis, Ohio
Sent by Lynn Anders Top of Page
Oliver, John C.
Captain Oliver Gone
Passed to the Other World After a Hard Battle
Was a Superb Engineer and Water Works Superintendent
It is with much sorrow that we record the death of Captain John C. Oliver and feel certain that the announcement will be received that way by this community generally.
The end came to his sufferings and to a hard and well fought battle for his life at about 4 o’clock this Monday morning, January 17. 1910.
Mr. Oliver was tired and rather run down when, taken with appendicitis and when it was discovered that he had that trouble an operation was performed for it as speedily as a physician could be brought from Columbus. Dr. Gillian of that City performed the operation on the first day of December. At first there was but little thought, but that his rugged constitution would bring him through all right, but that was not taking into consideration his enfeebled condition at the time of attack. Days and weeks went by with varying conditions and complications began to develop and finally when pneumonia set in a week ago Sunday there were but few who believed he would survive. However in throwing off the pneumonia he was completely exhausted and prostrated and sank into eternal repose as does a child going to sleep upon its mother’s breast.
He was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. George Oliver of Wheeling, and was born there 62 years ago. He came to Gallipolis during the Civil War as a steamboat engineer and became one of the best, always in demand at the highest price the profession brought and was on perhaps nearly one hundred different boats and was well known and liked from one end of the river to the other.
He was united in marriage with Miss Caroline S. Damron in March, 1861, daughter of Mayor John G. Damron. They became the parents of Lulu Oliver who died in infancy, Gertrude, who died in 1902, and one son James Dent Oliver, engineer at the water works for the past five years. Mrs. Oliver and his son survive him and they will remember him as one of the kindest and best of husbands and fathers. His brothers and sisters are all dead. Two grandchildren survive him, also of whom he was very fond, Johnny, son of James and Miss Eleanor Nash, daughter of Mrs. Gertrude Nash.
Captain Oliver left the river to become the engineer at the O. H. E. and was there under Dr. Rutter’s administration for about two years when he became the Waterworks Superintendent, a place for which he seemed peculiarly fitted.
He devoted the best that was in him to this business. To those unacquainted with him he seemed rough and unkind, but a kinder heart did not beat in all Gallipolis than John Oliver’s. In business however all men looked alike to him and he could say no to a king as well as to a peasant. No man had warmer or more devoted friends and not a day passed in his illness, but that scores of people enquired as to his condition. He is gone and we will miss him as a friend and as a business man and his memory will long be cherished as a man who lived right up to what he conceived to be his duty without the slightest hypocrisy or even diplomacy. Rough, brave, generous and kind, unfashioned and unpolished, but a nugget of pure gold without alloy. Peace be with him evermore.
The funeral services will be conducted by Rev. A. P. Cherrington at his late residence Wednesday afternoon at 2 o’clock, the interment following at Vine Street Cemetery by Hayward.
[Note: Previously typed transcription (author unknown) found in the Simmerman files, Damron file, Bossard Library. From death certificate year of birth only as 1848. Buried at Pine St. CE (Gallipolis). Dates on his stone are 1846-1910.]
Gallipolis Daily Tribune
Volume XVI
Number 14
January 17, 1910
Gallipolis. Ohio
Sent by Lynn Anders Top of Page
Oliver, Kate
Mrs. James Oliver, 70, Long Ill, Died Last Midnight
Rites 2 [pm] Thursday at 3rd Avenue Home; Burial Pine Street
Mrs. Kate Oliver, wife of James Oliver, died about midnight last night at her home after a long and distressing illness, which her friends and family and she, herself, had realized for some time was hopeless.
Always a sufferer from asthma since young womanhood the ailment finally affected her heart and it was complications from this which hastened the end. Through all her long suffering she was most patient and cheerful.
Mrs. Oliver spent her entire life in Gallipolis, where she was born seventy years ago in September, the daughter of Louis and Louvisa Denney Curry. She and Mr. Oliver were married 48 years ago last April. Their union was blessed by the birth of a son, John, who lost his life in the First World War at the age of seventeen. This was a great grief to the parents, who have since been mutually devoted as well as in doing good for others.
Mrs. Oliver was one of the originators of the Auxiliary of Lafayette Post, American Legion, and it was through her influence that the “Doughboy” memorial was placed in the Park. When her health permitted she was an active worker in the women’s organizations of Grace Methodist Church.
Of her immediate family but one survives, a sister, Mrs. Etta Williams of Columbus, who has been in the Oliver home since the death of her husband, Arthur Williams, in February.
Rev. W. Scott Westerman will conduct the funeral service Thursday afternoon at 2 o’clock at her late home, 611 Third Avenue. Through her request the Legion Auxiliary will have a part in the service. Burial will be in Pine Street Cemetery by George J. Wetherholt and Sons. The body will be removed to the home tomorrow morning and friends may call there after noon.
[Note: Previously typed transcription (author unknown) found in the Simmerman files, Damron file, Bossard Library. From death certificate date of birth September 15, 1874, date of death August 14, 1944, and full name Sarah Katherine.]
Gallipolis Daily Tribune
Volume 51
Number 193
August 15, 1944
Sent by Lynn Anders
Oney, Mrs. Richard
Death of Mrs. Oney
Mrs. Richard Oney, of Greenfield township, died Monday night of spinal trouble, aged 31 years old, leaving a husband and five small children, the youngest being only six months old. She was a good woman and well liked by everybody that knew her. The funeral was held at the Gallia Baptist church Wednesday morning, Rev. Riggs conducting the services, interment by Undertaker Wiseman.
Gallipolis Bulletin
Friday, December 14, 1906
Transcribed by Sandy Lee Milliron Top of Page
Oty, Charles A.
Charles Oty, Gallia Native, Is Claimed
JACKSON, July 16 -- Funeral services will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Savageville Methodist Church for Charles A. Oty, 84 year old native of Gallia County who died Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Howard Shopshear of Rt. 1, Ray, after an illness of four years from complications. He was a farmer and was a member of the Savageville Church.
Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Shopshear and Mrs. David Meachem of Springfield; a son, William Oty of Jackson, and a half-brother, James Stewart of Gallia County.
Burial will be made in Fairview Cemetery by the Sperry funeral service.
Gallipolis paper
Date unknown
Transcribed by Theresa E. Smith Top of Page
Overall, Jacob
DIED
Jacob Overall
At his home, in Chambersburg, Gallia County, Ohio, May 12, 1886 Jacob Overall, aged 81 years, 4 months and 12 days of age. The deceased was born near Nashville, Tennessee, but came to this state a great many years ago, where he lived an honest, honorable life ever since, respected by all who knew him.
He cast his first vote for General Jackson and has voted for every Democratic nominee for President since Jackson down to Cleveland. Although a great sufferer from kidney disease and other infirmities of age, which greatly impaired his health,yet he was able to go about, eat his meals regularly and seemed to be well as common, until Monday morning, about 4 o'clock, he was stricken with paralysis, which rendered him entirely helpless and unconscious of everything, in which state he lingered until Wednesday evening, 4 o'clock, when he quietly passed away, no more to suffer, no more to trouble over the cares of this unfriendly world.
He leaves a wife and two children to mourn their loss. His remains were laid away in the Clay Chapel graveyard, attended by a large concourse of friends and neighbors, who came to pay the last tribute of respect to the deceased father.
Deceased was a member of the Second Advent Christian Church and a firm believer in the doctrines of the soon coming of Christ, and the resurrection from the dead; the establishment of the Kingdon on earth, etc. The last words he was heard to say were "Jesus, Jesus" and we trust when He shall appear Bro. Overall shall appear also with him to glory. R.A.G.
[Note: Burial Clay Chapel, Clay Township]
Gallipolis Paper
May 12, 1886
Transcribed by F. K. Brown
Owens, Taulby
Taulby M. Owens, 74, Rt. 1, Patriot, died 11 p.m. Sunday at Holzer Medical Center following a short illness. Mr. Owens was born March 8, 1908, in Clintwood, Va., to the late Andrew and Maude Lipps Owens. His wife, Lola Moore Owens preceded him in death in 1978. He served on the Gallia County School Board for several years.
Survivors include three sons, John of Patriot; Robert of Houston, Texas and Jack of Gallipolis; one daughter, Mrs. Lonnie Wooten of Gallipolis; one stepdaughter, Mrs. Leslie Mathias of Alexandria, Va.; one stepson, Lamar Whittaker of Columbus; two brothers, Glen and Treeman, both of Waterloo; one sister, Mrs. Della Osborne of Waterloo. One stepson preceded him in death.
Funeral services will be held 1 p.m. Thursday at Salem Baptist Church with Rev. Pearl Casto officiating. Burial will follow at Salem Cemtery. Friends may call at Willis Funeral Home 2-4 p.m. and 7-9 p.m. Wednesday. The body will lie in state at the church one hour prior to the service.
Gallipolis Tribune
January 17, 1983
Transcribed by J. Farley