Gallia County Newspaper Obituaries A-B

Adler, E Albert

Adler Rites To Be Held In Philadelphia
     Services for E Albert Adler, Jr., 31, of Rt. 1, Gallipolis, will be held this week in Philadelphia.
Mr Adler's body was recovered from the Ohio River Saturday. He was the 37th known victim of the Silver Bridge Tragedy.
     Mr Adler was employed by the Catalytic Construction Company as an instrumentation engineer and was supervisor of instrument maintenance at the Goodyear plant in Apple Grove, W.Va.
     He was born April 17, 1936, in Philadelphia, son of E Albert Adler, Sr., and Elaine Palsac Adler, who survive. Other survivors include his wife, the former Elaine Luehman, whom he married on Nov. 8, 1960, and two children, E Albert Adler, III, and Catherine Adler, both at home. Two brothers survive, Charles, of Havertown, Pa., and Lawrence, of Springfield, Pa.
     The Adlers have resided in Gallia County about a year and a half, having come here from Philadelphia.
He was a member of the St Matthews Lutheran Church in Springfield, Pa. Mr Adler was also a member of the Gallipolis Area Jaycees, Tri-County Concert Association, Instrument Society of America and Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers.
     Local arrangements were made by the Waugh-Halley-Wood Funeral Home.

Daily Tribune, Gallipolis, OH
Date Unknown (Probably January 12, 1968)
Page 1
Transcribed by Cheryl A. Enyart

Agee, Lydia (Lydia Mauck AGEE)

WAS RIPE IN YEARS
Mrs. Agee Dies at the Home of Her Son, Tuesday
Mrs. Lydia Agee died at the home of her son, Alva Agee, at 11:30 o’clock Tuesday forenoon. Eighteen months ago she suffered a stroke of paralysis from which she made only partial recovery. Recently she has been losing strength, due to the exhaustion of old age, and death came without a struggle. Her age was 80 years. Mr. and Mrs. Agee and son, Howard, leave with the remains tomorrow afternoon at 3:15 for Cheshire, Ohio, where the funeral services will be held at the house on Beall avenue by Dr. Hills.—Wooster Daily Republican 28th inst.

Funeral Services
The funeral services of Mr. Alva Agee’s mother was conducted at Cheshire Thursday at 1 o’clock by Rev. Wilson, of the Presbyterian Church of Middleport and Rev. H. B. Scott, of Marysville, O., who accompanied the funeral party to Cheshire. There was a large turn out of old friends and relatives. The Presbyterian Middleport choir officiated. Mrs. Agee was the last of the Joseph Mauck family and was highly esteemed at her old home. The interment was in the family lot at Gravel Hill cemetery.

Gallipolis Tribune
4/7/1905
Transcribed by Suzanne Giroux

[Note – daughter of Joseph Mauck & Elizabeth Whaley & wife of Jesse Thornhill Agee]

Allison, John J.

J.J. Allison, Former School Head Here, Dies
     John J. Allison, superintendent of the Gallipolis schools in the late ‘80’s, died Tuesday at his home in Caldwell, Idaho. He was past 82 and was quite feeble on the occasion of his last visit here some four years ago.
     Mr. Allison succeeded the late M. E. Hard as superintendent here. Those who remember Mr. Allison praised him highly as a man and an educator and one who knew him well said today that “he was pure gold.”
     During his stay here he married Jennie Bailey, daughter of the late C. D. Bailey. Two children were born of this union—Margaret and William—but the mother and daughter have been dead many years.
From Gallipolis the Allisons moved to Joliet, Ill., where he served as school superintendent. Their next move was to Boise, the capital of Idaho, where father and son engaged in the fruit business on an extensive scale. The son is still so engaged. At Joliet Mr. Allison married again; and his second wife and two children, Mary and James, survive him and are at home.
     Mr. Allison’s death came four days after that of L. W. MacKinnon, former prinicipal.

No paper given..probably Gallipolis Daily Tribune
February 26, 1935
Typed by Henny Evans

Anderson, Bernice

Gallia Native Dies in Illinois
     Mrs. Bernice Anderson, 70, a native of this county and a sister of Mrs. W. W. Sigler of First Ave., died Sunday in a Springfield, Ill., hospital, where she had been a patient since July 5.
     Mrs. Anderson was born on June 7, 1890 in Gallipolis, the daughter of the late Jacob and America Northup Baker. She was married to Emmett Anderson at Springfield, Ill., Nov. 1, 1924, and he survives. Other survivors are two step-daughters, Mrs. Zela Looker of Jacksonville, Ill., and Mrs. Vola Perry of Cheyenne, Wyo., and 15 step-grandchildren.
     Three sisters are Mrs. Sigler, Mrs. Jessie Berridge of Royal Oak, Mich., and Mrs. Pearle Heil of Malta. There are a number of nieces and nephews. Two brothers preceded her in death.
     Mrs. Anderson was a member of the Presbyterian church in Springfield, but had been active in the WSCS at Brooklyn Methodist church. Services were held Wednesday and burial was in Arcadia Cemetery.

Undated newspaper clipping
Death August 21, 1960
Transcribed by Joanne Galvin

Andrews, Irene

ANDREWS
     Irene Andrews, loving mother and granny, died following a brief illness on November 18, 1992. She was a Columbus Hilltop resident for 66 years. Born November 7, 1905, in Gallia County, Ohio to the late Elmer and Willie (Fulks) Wells.
     Preceded in death by her husband, Andrew H. Andrews; brothers, Virgil, Don, Justin, and Ray. Survived by son, Donald R. Andrews of Dublin; son and daughter-in-law, Dr. Michael R. and Susan E. Andrews of Tallmadge; daughter-in-law Phyllis Andrews of Hilliard; grandchildren Matthew R. Andrews of Hilliard, Ryan M. and Kara L. Andrews of Tallmadge; sister-in-law and brother-in-law, Dorothy and Raymond Patterson of Columbus.
     Funeral service Saturday, November 21, 1992, 10 a.m., Schoedinger Hilltop Chapel, 3030 W. Broad St., where friends may call on Friday 3-5 and 7-9 p.m. Burial Sunset Cemetery.

The Columbus Dispatch
19 November 1992
Submitted by Eve Hughes

Angel, Brady

     GALLIPOLIS – Brady Angel, 83, formerly of Rt. 2, Crown City, died at 5:05 a.m. Saturday at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Dorothy Perkins, Eureka Star Route.
     Born June 18, 1898, in Ohio Twp., Gallia County, son of the late Sheridan and Amanda Shaw Angel, he was a retired farmer and construction worker.
     He married the former Belva Martin on July 7, 1920, in Pomeroy, and she preceded him in death on Aug. 5, 1970. Also preceding him in death were two sons and two grandchildren.
     Surviving are six sons, James, Ralph, Brady Jr., Charles, Shirley and Raymond, all of Rt. 1, Crown City; eight daughters, Mrs. Betty Crouse, Mrs. Basil (Irene) Holley, Mrs. Donald (Dorothy) Perkins and Mrs. Barbara Clary, all of Gallipolis, Mrs. Irwin (Josephine) Gibson of Coshocton, Mrs. Kenneth (Lucy) Bray of Spring, Texas, Mrs. Cline (Audrey) Saunders of Rt. 2, Crown City and Mrs. James (Pauline) Jeffers of Westerville; 50 grandchildren, 37 great-grandchildren and two great-great grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. Mae Porter of Sandusky.
     Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday in King’s Chapel Church, with the Rev. Ernest Baker officiating. Burial will be in Bethel Cemetery. Friends may call at the Waugh-Halley-Wood Funeral Home from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Monday.

Unknown publication
October 17, 1981
Contributed by Jacquelyn Woolley

Angel, Cornelius

Cornelius Angel died this morning, April 23, 1894, aged 79 years. He was apparently well as usual up to Friday last about noon and was at work in his orchard when he was taken with a paralytic stroke from which he never recovered, remaining unconscious until this morning when he passed away.

April 25, 1895
Gallipolis Journal
Transcribed by Henny Evans

Angel, Henry H.

     Word was received here yesterday of the death of Henry H. Angel, 69 years old, a former resident of this city, who passed away at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Charles Ward, 1119 Third Avenue, Huntington, W. Va. Death was caused by paralysis. Mr. and Mrs. Angel made their home in this city with their sons, Curtis and Bronson Angel, who lived at 736 Eighth street for sometime. Later the sons moved to near Sciotoville and the father and mother went to live with their daughter in Huntington.
     Mr. Angel was born in Mason county, W. Va., October 22, 1853, and had resided in that vicinity his entire life. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Sarah Angel, two daughters, Mrs. Edna Long of Middleport, O., and Mrs. Charles Ward, Huntington; five sons, Joseph Angel of Huntington, Harry Angel of Charleston; Curtis and Bronson Angel, of Portsmouth, and Roy Angel of Mansfield.
     He is also survived by three sisters: Mrs. Fannie Tremble and Mrs. J. S. Cost of Gallipolis, and Mrs. Louisa Dixon of Portsmouth.
     Services were held Friday morning at the Christian church at Henderson, W. Va. Interment was made at Henderson.

The Portsmouth Daily Times (Portsmouth, Ohio)
Friday, June 23, 1922
Page 13
Transcribed by Ronni Mayes

Angel, Josie Ann

[Josie Ann Mayes, daughter of Alfred Clayton Mayes and Mary Ann Johnson, b. 30 Aug 1890, Ohio was married to Thomas G. Angel (or Angell). Josie died 24 Apr 1910 in Gallipolis.]

Death of Mrs. Angel -- Mrs. Jack Angel of Grape Street died about midnight Sunday night. The funeral will be Tuesday at 2 o'clock by Rev. Cartmill, the burial being at Mound Hill Cemetery by Wetherholt. She was 22 years old and left a little boy, James. She had been confined to her bed for two or three weeks with a dropsical affectin. She is spoken of as a very good lady.

Source:
Gallipolis Daily Tribune
Friday, April 29, 1910
Submitted by Ronni Mayes

[The name "Jack" is either a misprint or perhaps Thomas went by that name, but Thomas is clearly the name on their marriage record and he was the informant on her death certificate. There is a Thomas G.
Angel in the 1900 Gallia Co., census living with parents Henry and Annie, but he's about four years too old (b. 1881), a soldier, and born in WV whereas my Thomas Angel, according to the 1910 census records when he was was living with Josie, was born in Ohio abt 1885.]

Ankrum, Irene V.

The Columbus Dispatch Sunday,
November 27, 2005
Transcribed by Marian Schoonover

Death Brings End To Long Illness Of Mrs. Arnold
     Death has ended the several years’ illness of Mrs. Helen Koehler Arnold, 79, member of a prominent pioneer Meigs County family who had been for nearly three decades a Gallipolis hotel operator. Mrs. Arnold died at 2:30 a. m. today at the home of her daughter, Mrs. M. T. Epling, 603 First Avenue.
     Born Oct. 29, 1873 in Pomeroy, to Bernhart and Mary Anna Wink Koehler, the decedent married John Thurman Arnold Jan. 12, 1898. He passed away in November, 1948.

Methodist Church Member
     In her early life Mrs. Arnold had been a member of the Lutheran Church in Pomeroy, but she joined the Methodist Church in Flatwoods (Meigs County), and in Gallipolis she attended, both the Grace Methodist Church and the First Presbyterian Church.
     Her interests being both varied and wide, Mrs. Arnold was an omnivorous reader, and she loved travel more than anything else. During the last six months, however, her illness had been serious and her activities considerably curtailed.
     It was in Jan. 1, 1925, that she and her husband bought the Park Central Hotel, now operated by her son, Alfred Thurman Arnold.
     Survivors, besides him and Mrs. Evelyn Hortense Epling, member of the Gallipolis District Board of Education, are another son, John Bernard Arnold, New Kensington, Pa., and these other daughters: Mrs. E. K. Lippincott (Mary Susan), Pomeroy; Mrs. Clair Gettles (Dr. Helen Edna, Mason County coroner), Pt. Pleasant; and Mrs. Paul Healy (Zelda Irene), Albuquerque, N. M. Sarah Margaret died in infancy.
Also surviving are a brother and two sisters; Henry E. Koehler, Pomeroy; Mrs. T. S. (Mayme) Shannon, Hillsboro; and Mrs. Anna Cole, Logan.
     Final rites will be held, date unset yet, in the First Presbyterian Church, the Rev. Linson H. Stebbins, pastor, officiating, and burial will be made by Wetherholt Funeral Home in Beech Grove Cemetery, Pomeroy. Grandsons will serve as pallbearers.
     Friends may call after 1 p.m. Sunday at the home of Mrs. Epling, 603 First Ave.

Gallipolis Tribune
1952/1953
Transcribed by Lew Casey

Arrington Rites Sunday
     Point Pleasant -- Funeral services will be held at the Stevens funeral home at 2 p.m. Sunday for Edward P. Arrington, 83, who died Friday morning in Meigs General Hospital after an illness of three weeks. The Rev. Daniel M. Dorsey will officiate and burial will be in Lone Oak Cemetery.
     Mr. Arrington was born Jan. 11, 1869 at Gallipolis Ferry and was the last of 14 children of the late Josiah and Elizabeth Long Arrington. He attended Gallia Academy, then known as the Normal School, and for the last past 38 years had made his home in Gallia County. The Arringtons came to this section from Virginia in 1828 and settled at Gallipolis Ferry on the farm now owned by Everett Gills.
     Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Ida Mayes Arrington; two daughters, Mrs. Elizabeth Thornton, Buffalo, and Mrs. Esther Sheets of Gallipolis; two sons, Robert Arrington of Independence, Mo. and Edmond of Cheshire, Ohio.

The Sunday Messenger (Athens, Ohio)
Sunday, December 7, 1952, page 14
Transcribed by Ronni Mayes

Baine, R. M.

Dr. R.M. Baine, who has been practicing medicine in Gallipolis for several months past, died of consumption on the 16th inst. His remains were taken to Cambridge for interment.

Athens Messenger
April 29, 1972
Transcribed by Connie Cotterill Schumaker

Mrs. Baird Dies at 54 In Hospital
     Gallipolis -- Mrs. Nellie Baird, 54, died at 10:05 p.m. Saturday at Holzer Hospital, where she had been a patient for 11 days.
     Daughter of Mrs. Dillie Lemley Halfhill and the late Frank Halfhill, Mrs. Baird was born April 11, 1900, in Cheshire Township, one of nine children. One brother and five sisters survive: Ora Halfhill of Cheshire, Gail Baird of Bulaville, Mrs. Fonzo (Thelma) Taylor and Mrs. Walter (Vail) Pullins of Poplar Ridge, Mrs. Matthew
(Phyllis) Burns of Evergreen, and a half-sister, Mrs. Nora Adams, who is hospitalized in Los Angeles. Two brothers preceded her in death: Harrison and Bud Halfhill.
     She attended the Africa Road School in Cheshire Township (the school no longer exists), and she was a member of Kyger Council of the Daughters of America. As a girl she was a member of the Poplar Ridge Baptist Church, but moved her membership to Campaign Church after she was married Dec. 22, 1922, to Stacy Baird, who survives. They were married by Justice of the Peace A. E. Dunn in the Gallia County Courthouse. They moved from the Campaign vicinity two years ago.
     Their son, Charles William Baird, was killed in 1947 in Cheshire in an automobile accident. She is survived by these six daughters: Mrs. James (Sylvia) Mayes of Gallipolis; the other five at home -- Grace Baird, Nora and Stella, telephone operators; Mary Ann, a senior, and Anna May, a junior, GAHS students.
     Last rites will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday in Campaign Church, the Rev. Sherley Woods of Cheshire officiating, and burial will be in Campaign Cemetery. Pallbearers will be Maurice Thomas, C.E. Thomas, Carl Rife, Roy Thaxton, Virgil Thaxton, and Ernest Carpenter. The Rev. S.C. Hoelle, pastor of Gallipolis First Church of God, will assist the Rev. Mr. Woods. Friends may call at the last residence, 128 Fourth Ave. after 7 p.m. Tuesday.

Athens Messenger (Athens, Ohio)
Monday, April 19, 1954. Page 3
Transcribed by Ronni Mayes

Rites For America Northup Baker Are To Be Held Sunday
Time is 2 P.M. At Wetherholt Funeral Home
     Funeral services for America Northup Baker, who died Wednesday afternoon at 12:30 o’clock at the home of her daughter, Mrs. W. W. Sigler, 238 First Avenue, less than a month before her 89th birthday anniversary, will be held Sunday at 2 p.m. at the George J. Wetherholt and Sons funeral home.
     The venerable widow of J. N. Baker, whom she married March 24, 1880, in the same Green Twp. house in which she was born February 7, 1857 was strictly “a homebody”, was intensely interested in her family, and made her home a model of hospitality for all friends and relatives who called on her. Her husband died in the autumn of 1938 at the age of 88 years.
     Mrs. Baker spent all her life within a radius of one mile from her birthplace except for four years during which she and her husband lived in Hampton, Ia., and nearly three years just passed during which she resided with her daughter, Mrs. Garnet Sigler in Gallipolis. Infirmities of old age were the cause of her death, but she had been critically ill for about 10 days.
     Daughter of Ansel and Lavenia McCall Northup decedent is survived by Mrs. Sigler, Wilbur A. Baker, Springfield, Ill., Mrs. Pearl Heil, Malta, O., Mrs. Bernice Anderson and Charles E. Baker, Jacksonville, Ill., and Mrs. Jessie Berridge, Royal Oak, Mich.; eight grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren. Two sisters, who will be unable to attend the funeral, also survive: Mrs. F. C. Smith, Los Angeles, and Mrs. Mary Pickens Springfield. A daughter, Margaret, died in infancy.
     Rev. Charles G. Baird, rector of the St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, will officiate at the funeral; burial will be made in Mound Hill cemetery. Pall bearers will be Harry Maddy, Stanley Lanier, Dr. L. C. Cowden, H. W. McHenry, Elmer Hatfield, and Lew Grube.

Newspaper clipping, undated.
Date of death: 9 Jan 1946
Transcribed by Joanne Galvin

JACOB BAKER RITES TO BE HELD SUNDAY
One Of Grand Old Men Of Green Tp. Succumbs To Infirmities Of His Years
    Jacob N. Baker, whose death occurred yesterday at this home on Raccoon below Northup, had been an industrious, thrifty, prosperous and upright farmer. He never spoke ill of anyone, attended strictly to his own proper affairs, and commanded the respect and esteem of all who knew him and the abiding
love of those who belonged to his immediate circle by reason of kinship or association.
     For nearly a week he had lain in a coma, for a fortnight he had been unable to take nourishment except very sparingly of the lightest foods, and he passed away from this sphere gently and quietly and peacably and thus in harmony with the tempo of his long life. He was 88 Years old.
     Mr. Baker was born near Marietta and in Washington County, Oct. 15, 1850, having entered upon his 89th year. He was named for his father and his mother's maiden surname was Kasch. He was the last of his generation of his family. When he was quite young the family moved to this county. In his early days he worked for the Smithers family of this city.
     On March 24, 1880, he married America Northup, who survives him, and who looks back over nearly three score years of loving service to a loyal and devoted husband and six appreciative and worthy children.
     Except for four years at Hampton, Iowa, and two years on Little Bull Skin, the Bakers had spent their married life in the home in which he died.
     Surviving children are Garnet, wife of W.W. Sigler of this city; Wilbur A. Baker, Springfield, Ill.; Mrs. Pearl Heil, Malta, Ohio; Mrs. Bermice (sp) Anderson, Jacksonville, Ill.; Charles E. Baker, at the old homestead, and Mrs. Jessie Berridge, Royal Oaks (sp), Mich. One child died in infancy. There
are eight grandchildren and these two great-grandchildren, Sonny Withrow and Kenneth Baker, both of Springfield, Ill.
     Funeral services will be held at the residence at 1 o'clock Sunday, with Rev. L. W. Gishler of the Presbyterian church in charge. Burial in Mound Hill cemetery by George J. Wetherholt & Sons. For pall bearers have been selected Charles Northup, Henry Kerns, Lewis Grube, Luther Donally, Herman Northup
and Charles Rose.

Death of Infant
The nine months old baby girl of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Baker, of Northup died Tuesday morning, after a day’s illness with congestion of the lungs. Undertaker Wetherholt laid the little remains in its final resting place at Mound Hill Cemetery, Wednesday afternoon.

Transcribed from an undated newspaper clipping
Born 12 Feb. 1903 and died 1 Dec. 1903
Transcribed by Joanne Galvin

     Marita (Young) Baker, 81 ESR died Wendnesday Feb. 8 1989 at Holzer Medical Center. Born Oct. 30 1907 in Covington, Va. she was the daughter of the late George Wise Young and Fannie Bell (Wolfe) Young.
     Surviving are her husband Wayne Baker, whom she married Dec. 24, 1924 in Gallipolis. Also surviving are two daughters Patricia Compton and Mrs. Walter (Marian) Schoonover both of Gallipolis, five grandchildren; four great-grandchildren, three brothers, Paris Young and Carroll Caldwell, both of Gallipolis and Stanford Young of Columbus and four sisters, Beatrice White of St. Petersburg, Fla. Ruth Trout of Vandalia, Ohio and Irene Ankrum and Marguerit Cochran, both of Columbus.
     She was preceded in death by one sister. She worked at Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., of Akron and was a homemaker. She was a member of the Order of Eastern Star Lodge 469.
     Services will be Saturday, 1pm at the Willis Funeral Home. The Rev. Rick Vilardo officiating. Burial will be in the Clay Chapel Cemetery. Friends may call Friday 7 to 9 p.m. at the funeral home.

Baker, Joseph Newton

     Newton Joseph Baker 90 a native of Lawrence County died in the home of his daughter Mrs. Tressie Green of Patriot Rd. The deceased although born at Waterloo spent practically all his life in Gallia County where he farmed for the greater part of that period. His death occurred at 11:15 pm Thursday night Aug 19, 1954 and was due to his advanced years.
     Mr. Baker was born on Oct 2, 1864 the son of the late Newton A and Mary Frances Hively Baker. He was one of three children a brother and sister having preceded him in death. He was married on April 7, 1894 to Sarah Elizabeth Straight who passed away in 1934. To this union were born seven children of which there are six living. They are in addition to the ones already mentioned Mrs. Chloe Corbin, Springfield,; Mrs. Helen Evans, Oak Hill; Mrs. Lona Mossbarger, St. Paris; Ernest and Edwin Baker both of Patriot; One son John preceded him in death. There are 31 grandchildren and 25 great grandchildren.         During his active years Mr. Baker in addition to farming taught school for 11 year and for eight years he was connected with the Snyder Lumber Co. which operated in this county. He served several terms as a member of the board of education in Walnut Township. The deceased held a membership in the Flag Springs Methodist church.
     Funeral services for Mr. Baker will be held at the Olive Methodist church at 1 pm Sunday Aug 22. Rev Clifford Allen will officiate the last rites and burial will be made at the Flag Springs cemetery by Elliott and Sanders. The body will be removed to the home of the daughter Mrs. Tressie Green, Patriot Rd. at 5 pm Saturday afternoon where friends may call.

Gallipolis Daily Tribune
August 19, 1954
Transcribed by Cheryl A. Enyart

Dec. 28,1899
J.S. Barker of Raccoon Island is seriously ill at the residence of his son-in-law W. S. Boster of Huntington WV. He has pneumonia. (This should have been J. P Baker) He went to Huntington on the boat Carrie Brown

     Josiah Barcus, 79 of Albany, Ohio died suddenly Tuesday evening. He was a retired master sergeant of the U.S. Army after 25 years of service. He was born Aug. 30, 1896 in Gallipolis to the late Thomas J. and Alvira Whitaker Barcus.
     Survivors include his wife, Lavada Amos Barcus, whom he married Aug. 19, 1974. Other survivors are: two brothers, Clarence and Wyman, both of Gallipolis. Two sisters preceded him in death. He was a member of Mina Chapel Church.
     Funeral services will be 1:30 p.m. Friday at Waugh-Halley-Wood Funeral Home with the Rev. Bruce Unroe officiating. Burial will be in Mina Chapel Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Thursday. Military rites will be conducted by a military detachment from Ft. Knox, Ky.

SERVICES TUESDAY FOR W.R. BARCUS
     Funeral services for Wellington Ross Barcus, 59, Rt. 1, Bladen, who died of heart trouble at 11:30 a.m. Saturday in the Holzer Hospital, will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Clay Chapel Methodist Church, the Rev. Earl Cremeens, Gallipolis, officiating.
     Burial will be made by F. L. Stevers in Clay Chapel Cemetery. Friends may call at the home of a surviving brother, John Barcus, Rt. 1, Bladen, until hour for the funeral.
     Mr. Barcus was admitted to the hospital at 2:30 p.m. last Friday. A farmer, he was born June 9, 1890, near Bladen, to Alexander and Sarah Lewis Barcus. For 15 years he was a member of Providence Baptist Church.
     The decedent was divorced, but he never remarried. His former wife bacame Mrs. Harry Chambers, and she survives with one daughter, Mrs. James McCLure, Springfield, and three grandchildren.
     Three surviving brothers are Stanley, Rt. 2, Gallipolis; Truman, Columbus, and John Barcus, Rt. 1, Bladen.

OBITUARY OF ARNOLD BARRY
     PROCTORVILLE -- Arnold Barry, 84, of 106 Grant St., Proctorville, died Wednesday at St. Mary's Hospital in Huntington, W.Va.
     He was born Aug. 19, 1905, in Gallia County and was the son of the late John and Navada Moore Barry. He was a member of the Linville Church of Christ and was a retired employee of Carlisle Tile.
     He was preceded in death by his first wife, Charlene Wilson Barry; one son, Clovis Lee Barry; one sister; and five brothers. Survivors include his wife, Stella Stephens Barry; one daughter, Chloie Barry Whitehead of Ironton; two sons, Chancie Barry of Kitts Hill and Frank Barry of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; four stepdaughters, Betty Reed of Chesapeake, Mary Shepard of Hilliard and Doris Sexton and Selva Singer, both of Merrit Island, Fla.; four stepsons, Roger Stephens of Des Moines, Iowa, Frank Stephens of Peoria, Ariz., and Ralph Stephens and Gary Stephens, both of Virginia Beach, Va.; one brother, Lawrence Barry of Kitts Hill; five grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; 15 step grandchildren; 12 great-step grandchildren.
     Service will be 2 P.M. Friday at Linville Church of Christ with David Smith officiating. Burial will be at Ross Cemetery at Kitts Hill.
     Visitation is 6 - 9 P.M. today at Hall Funeral Home in Proctorville and one hour prior to service at the church.

Ironton Tribune
August 9, 1990, page 2
Contributed by Jeff Hayes Hiestzie76@aol.com

OBITUARY OF CHANCY BARRY
     Chancy "Buck" Barry, 88, of Willow Wood, Ohio, died Wednesday in VA Medical Center, Huntington.
He was born May 29, 1894, in Gallia Co., a son of the late John and Nevada Moore Barry. He was an Army Veteran of World War I and retired farmer. He was a member of the Linville Church of Christ.
     Survivors include one sister, Mrs. Sylvia Watson of Willow Wood; two brothers, Lawrence Barry of Aid, Ohio, and Arnold Barry of Proctorville; 15 nieces and nephews.
     Funeral services will be conducted at 2 P.M. Sunday at the Linville Church of Christ by Ministers Charlie Ross and Roy McKeand. Burial will be in Good Hope Cemetery. Friends may call at the Schneider Funeral Home, Chesapeake, from 3-5 and 6-9 P.M. Saturday.

SOURCE: Clipping from the Ironton Tribune. The clipping is in the possession of Ernestine Berry Hayes.
Contributed by Jeff Hayes Hiestzie76@aol.com

OBITUARY OF LAWRENCE BARRY
LAWRENCE BARRY, 99, of Kitts Hill, widower of Bessie Mae Wilson and Edith Carrie Hart Jenkins, died Thursday in Sunset Nursing Home. He was a retired truck driver with Allied Chemical Co.
Survivors include two sons, Billy W. Barry of Jamestown and Paul G. Barry of Ironton; three stepdaughters, Judy Daugherty of Deering, Susan Drummond of Pennsylvania and Jane Butler of Florida; one stepson, Everett Jenkins of Rock Camp. Funeral 2 P.M. Sunday at Phillips Funeral Home; burial in Linnville Lutheran Cemetery. Friends may call from 6 to 9 P.M. Saturday at the funeral home.

Huntington Herald-Dispatch
Friday, August 7, 1998, page 2-E
Contributed by Jeff Hayes Hiestzie76@aol.com

OBITUARY OF NAVADA (MOORE) BARRY
     Mrs. Navada Barry, 90, of Willow Wood died Friday at her home. Mrs. Barry was born in Noble Co., Ohio on August 18, 1869, daughter of the late Lafayette and Wilma (sic) Rossiter Moore.
     She was married to John D. Barry in 1887 and he preceded her in death in 1929. They spent most of their life in Gallia County, moving to Lawrence County in 1921.
     Surviving are one daughter Mrs. Sylvia Watson of Willow Wood, six sons, Arnold Barry of Kitts Hill, Charles Barry (sic) of Patriot, Jesse Barry of Huntington, Chauncey Barry at home, and Lawrence and Clovis Barry of Willow Wood, two brothers, Seldon Moore of Cheshire, Ohio, and Stanley Moore of Crown City, Ohio, two sisters, Mrs. Willa Rose and Mrs. Jessie Harrison of Crown City; 19 grandchildren, 26 great-grandchildren, and 5 great-great-grandchildren.
     Funeral services will be held today at 2 PM in Linville Church of Christ. Evangelists Arnold Taylor and J. W. Holcomb will officiate with burial in Good Hope Cemetery, Gallia County.
     The body was removed from the Phillips Funeral Home to the residence where friends may call.

The Ironton (Ohio) Tribune
Sunday, January 3, 1960, page 9.
Contributed by Jeff Hayes Hiestzie76@aol.com

Baxter, Chan H.

CHAN H. BAXTER DIED SUDDENLY LAST NIGHT
Born, Reared In this City--Funeral Services Are Set For Sunday At 2 O'clock
     Gallipolis was startled late last night and this morning as the news spread that Chancellor H. Baxter had passed away at his home at 721 Third Avenue. Few of his friends were aware of his illness; nor did he surmise the imminence of death. About 10 o'clock he went out on the sidewalk, walked a short distance up street; and suddenly collapsed in front of the home of Mrs. John Casey. He was carried into his own home and died in about 15 minutes, the victim of a heart attack. Mr. Baxter would have been 55 next Wednesday, July 15.
     He was born and reared here and was a son of the late Captain Zenas and Mary Dennis Baxter. The father managed the wharfboat here for many years and Chancellor was his assistant part of the time. Mr. Baxter married Miss Mary White, sister of Judge W. R. White, on Nov. 28, 1919. Since that time he had engaged in the grocery and restaurant business in Columbus and here and he moved back to Gallipolis from Columbus about three years ago. He is survived by his wife and by two sisters, Mrs. Lulu Rose of Huntington and Mrs. Bessie Stockhoff of Columbus. Preceding him in death were two brothers and a sister: Frank and Charles Baxter and Mrs. Lillie Kaneff.
     Funeral services will be held at the home at 2 o'clock Sunday, in charge of Rev. George Sagen. Burial in Pine St. cemetery by F. J. Entsminger. Friends may view the body up to a short time before the funeral hour.

Baxter, Charles Nevius

Sudden Death Comes to Charles N. Baxter
Revolver in his own hand discharged apparently by accident
     Mr. Charles Nevius Baxter, son of Capt. Zenas Baxter, of the Gallipolis Wharfboat, and a clerk and bookkeeper on the wharfboat, himself, died by his own hand Friday night, June 17, 1904, at 11:45 o'clock.
     The funeral services will be conducted Monday morning at the residence of Mrs. Julia Nevius, his aunt, with whom he has made his home since he was a child of two or three years, Rev. T. S. Armentrout, of the First Presbyterian church officiating. The interment will follow at Mound Hill cemetery under the direction of Undertakers Hayward & Son. The services will be at 10:30 o'clock and friends are invited. Burial will be private at the cemetery.
     Mr. Baxter's death is a sad one, whatever theory may be adduced as the cause. He was unusually strong-minded and was accounted by those on the wharfboat as having more than ordinary executive ability and was the possessor of shrewd, keen business ability that gave rich promise of him becoming a useful business man in this community. He had been out driving with his aunt Mrs. Nevius early in the evening and seemed to be in usual health and good spirits. He later went down in town and dropped in at the impromptu dance at the Buckeye Club rooms. He did not remain long, however, but disported himself around town at different places and falling in with his friend Mr. Verne Bostwick they started up Second avenue in his company. Just previous to this he had telephoned Miss Ida Nevius, his cousin, that he was coming up right away and she sat awaiting his coming. His aunt, Mrs. Julia Nevius, was at Capt. Ed Maddy's where Mrs. Maddy was entertaining the Jolly Sixteen Club.
     As he and Verne passed up the avenue and on the south side of it, and when at the upper end of the lot on which Mr. Henry Davis the saddle and harness merchant lives, he asked Verne if he had a revolver and to see it, as he had been thinking of buying one. Verne, in substance told him he had a self-cocking revolver of 38 caliber in his pocket, and suiting the action to the word pulled it out of his pocket and handed it to him, in the same breath telling him to be careful. Charles took the revolver and giving it a flourish pulled the trigger, it is believed by many, accidentally, or to shoot it off and frighten Verne. If the latter was his intention, he evidently put pressure on the trigger he did not intend, and discharged the weapon before he got the muzzle elevated sufficiently to miss his head.
     Dr. Bean's theory is that it was accident purely. His every action the day previous contradicts the idea that it was a suicide. He had daily access to his father's revolver on the wharfboat, and his folks do not harbor for an instant the idea that he shot himself intentionally. He fell instantly, with the report, upon his face, with his feet down street. Verne ran down street after some one and Dr. Claude Parker, the Coroner, and Dr. John Alcorn went up and Dr. Garfield Alcorn, a little above and across the way, went over. In the meantime two men from the O.H.E. came along in a buggy and were really the first ones to him. He was in a pool of blood when the physicians arrived with the revolver clinched (sic) tightly in his right hand. Drs. Alcorn and Parker and Mr. Tom Rhodes and someone else standing near picked him up and carried him over to Dr. Bean's office, nearly opposite, where his wounds were examined, but it was painfully evident that he could not live, and as stated before passed away in about 30 minutes after being shot and in from 10 to 15 minutes after being laid down in Dr. Bean's office. He was utterly unconscious and never knew for a moment what hurt him. The bullet had entered the right side of the head one and a half inches above the ear, and had passed clear through the head and out on the opposite side, two and a half inches above the ear and two inches front. Coroner Parker's verdict was that he came to his death by his own hand. Dr. Bean made the post-mortem report. After his death he was taken to the Nevius residence where he yet is.
     He leaves beside his father and aunt and several cousins one brother, Chancellor, clerking on the Bonanza, and sisters Mrs. L. A. Rose, Mrs. Warren Kaneff and Mrs. George Clark, all of Proctorville., Lawrence county, and all of whom will be in attendance upon the funeral serivces, and all of whom will have the kindest sympathy of all in their bereavement.

The Gallipolis Tribune
June 22, 1904

Funeral Services
The funeral services of the late Mr. Charles Baxter at 10:30 a.m. this Monday morning, were largely attended by friends of the family and the deceased. They were conducted by Rev. T. S. Armentrout assisted by Rev. W. H. Miller, the interment following at Mound Hill Cemetery. The floral tributes were many and beautiful, a large number being from among his young associates with whom the deceased was very popular. The pall bearers selected for the occasion were as follows: Messrs. Bert Rose, Chancellor Baxter, Ned Deletombe, Fred Ashworth, Henry Burton and Warren Kaneff. The floral escort was composed of Messrs. Frank Shaw, G. A. Roedell, H..L. Maddy, Fletcher Irwin and Herman Uhrig.

Baxter, Charlie

Death of Mr. Baxter
Mr. Charlie Baxter died at his home on Second avenue at eleven o'clock Sunday night. Although Mr. Baxter has been in very poor health for the past year this news will come as a sudden shock to his many friends in this city. He was out walking around Friday afternoon but took suddenly worse Sunday. He was seventy five years of age, born and raised here and a gentleman whom every one loved and respected. His wife Susan died over three years ago. Mr. Baxter leaves six children, four sons, Charlie who is in the South, Henry, of Huntington; Coleman who is at Athens Hospital and John of this city, also two daughters, Nellie and Fonnie who have been away from home some time. Mr. Baxter was a brother to Mrs. John H. Nevius, Mrs. Susan Johnston and Capt. Zenas S. Baxter.
The funeral services will be conducted at his late home Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 by Rev. Gelvin. The burial at Pine street cemetery by Hayward & Son. The pall bearers will be Capt. Charlie Small, Capt. Charlie Clendenin, Mr. Joseph Mullineaux, Mr. A. R. Chase, Mr. E. L. Neal and Capt. Edward Morgan

Baxter, Julius R.

     JULIUS R. BAXTER died in this city last Tuesday evening, November 7th, 1882, in his 57th year, having been born in August 1826. He was the second child of the late Zenas Baxter, and Mrs. Susan Baxter, the latter yet living. He was a baker by trade, and followed the business quite extensively until about eight years ago, when his health began failing him, and since which time he was only able to work part of the time, and latterly not at all, and for the past month he has been failing rapidly.
     He was a man of iron constitution, but contracted lung trouble by the excessive heat of his bakery and exposure to cold, which, complicated with other troubles, hastened his death. During the day preceding his death he seemed much better. At supper he ate heartily, but grew much worse about nine o'clock, and seemed to have no strength to relieve his lungs, and passed away easily and conscious to the last.
     Mr. Baxter was a kind hearted and very generous man, and in his best days would divide the last cent with a friend. He leaves a second wife and several children. He was buried by the side of his first wife, an English woman, in the old cemetery. Rev. G.J.E. Richards conducted the religious services at his home on Front Street.

Note: Julius' first wife was Elizabeth Priestley, born in England, and the second was Julia A. Martin.

Baxter, Sarah Margaret

MEMOIR
Sarah Margaret Baxter, wife of Capt. Zenas Baxter, of this city, was born at Bridgeport, Belmont county, Ohio, July 31, 1849, and died at Gallipolis, Ohio, October 6, 1886. Her illness was sudden and severe, being sick only 21 hours. She joined the Methodist Episcopal Church at Gallipolis in 1885. During the protracted meeting of the winter of 1886 (sic) she professed conversion. Since that time she has been a regular and faithful attendant upon all the services of the church. When she was taken sick she and her husband were getting ready to go to the Tuesday evening prayer meeting.
She leaves a husband and five little children to mourn her loss. Her last words were words of trust and faith. She commended her family to God and said she was ready to go. Her funeral services were conducted at the home on the 7th inst. A large concourse of sympathizing friends were gathered, and her remains were laid peacefully away in the beautiful grounds of the old cemetery. For the sorrowing family many earnest hearts sympathize and pray. J. C. Arbuckle

BAXTER - Captain Zenas Baxter, one of the best known rivermen of this section, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Kaneff of Proctorville, Monday morning at six o'clock. Captain Baxter has been ill for some time past and his death has been expected for some time. Captain Baxter spent practically all his active life in river services and has been connected with many well known boats upon the Ohio and Kanawha.
Of late his health has been failing and he has not been in active service. The remains were taken to Gallipolis his home Monday afternoon, were interred at Mount [sic] Hill, Tuesday afternoon. Captain Baxter is survived by one son, Chancellor Baxter, and three daughters, Mrs. L.A. Rose and Mrs. M.W. Kaneff of Proctorville and Mrs. Geo. Clarke of Pocahontas VA and two sisters Mrs. Susan Johnson and Mrs. John Nevius. He was born in Gallipolis and resided practically all his life in that city. Chancellor Baxter, his son, arrived Saturday evening, and was with his father during his last hours.

Ironton Ohio Register,
Feb. 15, 1906
Transcribed by Eve Hughes

Death of Capt. Baxter.
Capt. Zenas S. Baxter died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. W. N. Kneff, at Proctorville, O., Sunday morning, Feb. 11, 1906, aged 61 years after a two weeks' illness. The remains were brought to this city and taken to the home of his sister, Mrs. Julia Nevius, where the funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon by Rev. Lewis, interment following at Mound Hill cemetery by
Hayward & Son. The burial was under the auspices of the Knights of Pythias of which Capt. Baxter had long been an honored member.
Capt. Baxter was the son of Zenas and Susan Baxter and was born in this city. He was one of fourteen children of whom only two, Mrs. Nevius and Mrs. Susan Johnson, are left. Capt. Baxter went on the river at an early age and became one of the best pilots on the Ohio and Kanawha rivers. He steamboated out of this city and Cincinnati for many years but quit the river several years ago to assist in the management of the local wharfboat, which he left last fall on account of failing health. He was a jovial kind-hearted man and was well and favorably known all along the river. Besides his two sisters, he leaves one son, Chancellor, and daughters Mrs. L. A. Rose, Mrs. N. W. Kaneff and Mrs. George Clark, all of whom were in attendance at the funeral

Gallipolis Bulletin Friday
February 16 1906
Transcribed by Eve Hughes

Beard, John N. Esq.

John N. Beard, Esq., who is referred to as one of the most active and energetic young business men of Gallipolis, died on Monday of last week.

Athens Messenger
July 29, 1875
Transcribed by Connie Cotterill Schumaker

Beck, Leonard

ALMOST A HUNDRED
Leonard Beck Dies Lacking Only 15 Days of 100 Years Gallia County’s Oldest Citizen Passes to the Great Beyond
     Born on Sewickley Creek, Westmoreland County, seven miles from Greensburg, Pa. January 25, 1810. Died on Chillicothe road near Gallipolis, January 10, 1910.
     This is the span of life that Leonard Beck, one of the good citizens of these grand United States and of Gallia County, O. compassed in his career, only 15 days less than One Hundred Years. He came here with his parents Jacob and Mary Beck in 1815 and brother, George and sister, Betsey, both younger than he. Wilbur, Susannah, Sarah were all born here, but he survived them all.
     His parents settled on the David Lasley place, later known as the Pitrat farm just this side of Clipper Mill on the river. They lived there only a short time until they moved to Green Township, cutting a road across through the country which was then a woods and wilderness, and Gallipolis a city of cabins of the most primitive sort.
     The first acquaintances they made were John Sanns and Francis LeClercq and John Richardson, a tavern keeper at what is now the Stockoff Bros. wholesale Grocery house corner.
     They bought 62 acres of land of John Richardson and Ed and John Beck, Wm Beck’s grandchildren still own that property.
     Father Jacob prospered in the wilderness and bought afterward what is know as the Steinbeck place, Morgan Beck’s and Leonard Beck, Jr. place and the August Engel and John Preston place, in all 395 acres. The farm afterwards was di9vided among his childr3n and 50 acres fell to Leonard, the subject of this sketch, to he added 170 and owned at his death 110 undivided acres which he farmed as late as last summer and fall.
     In 1835 before most of us were born he married Mary A. Swigert, and they rode horseback over to Squire Giles Harrington on the Abe Hutsinpillar place where Henry Klicker now lives to be married and there was a big crowd there to see them arrive and see the marriage ceremony preformed and help eat one of the biggest dinners ever set in the county up to that date. They returned to Leonard’s home the next day and were received by his mother very coldly for she had her objections as mothers sometimes do. His father died in 1833 at the age of 43 of pleurisy. They got along however, after a until the next fall when they went to housekeeping and struggled along toiling industriously everyday, and each year saw them a little further ahead than the year before. Leonard never used liquor, nor tobacco, and very little meat, was a good eater and a good sleeper, paid every debt he owed and cheated nor gouged no one.
     His companion died in 1876 and for 34 years Leonard ha struggled on treading the wine press alone, and like an eagle never mated but once. The children who have been ever kind and attentive to him and survive him are Mrs. Jacob Schartz, mother of Billy, the single man, Mrs. George Anderson, mother of Charley, the grocer, Mrs. John McGath, of this city, Mrs. Silas Cheney and Leonard Beck, Jr. and he left 31 grand children and 5 great grand children, unless there are more born since last May when we last talked with Uncle Leonard and took these notes.
     When Mr. Beck got old enough to come to town and make notes of things the principal people that were prominent and talked about were Francis LeClercq, Charles Creuzet, John Sanns, Roman Menager, Jos. DeVacht, Peter Farrard, Christopher Ruby and Louis Souverain.
     LeClercq was Postmaster, John Sanns was the baker, Charles Creuzet, a cigar maker, Squire Bureau was a merchant, Memo DeVacht repaired watches, Farrard was a brick maker, Ruby kept store, Souverain was the Sheriff, Harry Cushing kept hotel where the “Our House” is. Not more that 50 homes in the place and they were occupied mostly by the Frenchmen, and mostly on the river bank, and he says the river was not more than a quarter as wide as it is now. Wolves, turkeys and Indians constituted nearly the entire country population. The Choctaw Indians had a trail through to Chillicothe. When he was married Royal Hayward, brother of undertaker Will C. Hayward’s father made his wedding clothes and Frank Cheney’s grandfather made his hat. Col. Robert Safford had a still house and made corn and rye whiskey.
     Uncle Leonard has seen wonderful changes in that span of life of his and we are all sorry that he could not have lived on for many years. Harmless, inoffensive, honest, upright, esteemed by everybody, he has finally gone down the oldest of all the oaks in the forest and may peace be with him everywhere.
     His body was brought to his daughter’s, Mrs. John McGath’s this Monday afternoon. The funeral services will be conducted by Rev. Father Kessler at St. Louis Catholic Church at 9 or 10 o’clock, Thursday morning, the interment by Hayward following at Mound Hill Cemetery.
     The pall bearers will be his grandsons---Will Anderson, Homer Beck, Luther Beck, Robert McGath, John Cheney and Blake Schartz.

Bennett Funeral Set For Sunday
    Funeral services for Mrs. Hattie Mauck Bennett will be held at 2 o’clock Sunday at the Rawlings-Coats funeral home in Middleport. Rev. Ralph Zundell of the Middleport Baptist Church will officiate. Interment will be made in Gravel Hill Cemetery.
     Death resulted from an arterial blood clot about 10 o’clock Thursday morning. Mrs. Bennett had eaten her breakfast, worked among her flowers, re-entered the house, and present complained of severe pains. Dr. Raymond Boice was summoned. He administered palliatives and arrangements were being made to bring Mrs. Bennett to the Holzer Hospital when she suddenly expired.
     Mrs. Bennett would have been 80 years old on September 5.
     Her first husband was William H. Kail. They were married in 1885 and lived for a decade at Augusta, Kans. His health having failed, they returned to the Mauck homestead near Cheshire, where he died in the summer of 1896. Some years later she married William C. Bennett of Middleport, remembered as a passenger-train conductor on what was formerly known as the Hocking Valley Railway. He died 14 years ago. Thereafter she and her only living sister, Miss Allie Mauck, and their brother-in-law, C. F. Besserer, lived together at the Besserer home in Middleport.

Undated newspaper article
Transcribed by Suzanne Giroux

[Note – Hattie died 7/23/1942 – daughter of Daniel Mauck & Mary Rothgeb]

C.K. Berridge
Formerly of Royal Oak
     C.K. Berridge, age 70, died of a heart attack Sunday at this home in Springerville, Arizona. Mr. Berridge was born Oct. 12, 1889 in Gallipolis, Ohio. He was retired from the building business five years ago and had built many houses in this area.
     During World War I he was a captain in the U. S. Army and had served in the Aleutian Islands during World War II.
     Surviving are two brothers, John F. of Gallipolis and Lester P, 622 North Main, Royal Oak. Services were held in Arizona.

Entered Into Eternal Rest Monday, Oct. 11, 1965
Mrs. Lester Berridge
     A resident of Royal Oak for 47 years, Mrs. Jessie Berridge, age 69, 622 North Main, died Monday in the University Hospital, Ann Arbor.
     Mrs. Berridge was born Aug. 6, 1896, in Gallipolis, Ohio, to the late Mr. and Mrs. Jacob N. Baker (America North(r)up). She was married to Lester P. Berridge on April 7, 1916, in Pomeroy, Ohio. He survives.
     Also surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Kenneth D. (June) Miller of Trenton; two grandchildren; and a sister, Mrs. William (Garnet) Sigler of Gallipolis.
     Mrs. Berridge was a life member of Royal Oak Chapter 392, OES.
     There will be a memorial service at 8:30 p.m., tonight, at C. F. Schnaidt Funeral Home, 1026 West Eleven Mile, Royal Oak. The Rev. Robert E. Holly, First Baptist Church, Royal Oak, will conduct funeral services at 10 a.m., Thursday, at the funeral home. Burial will be in Oakview Cemetery.

The Daily Tribune
Royal Oak, Michigan
Oct. 12, 1965
Transcribed by Joanne Galvin

OBITUARY OF CHARLEY BERRY
     Charles W. Berry, 79 of Patriot, Ohio, died Monday in a Huntington hospital. Funeral services will be conducted Thursday at 1:30 P.M. at the Schneider Funeral Home at Chesapeake. Burial will be in the Fox Fairview Christian Cemetery at Patriot, Ohio.
     A retired farmer, he was born on June 22, 1888, at Crown City, Ohio, a son of the late John and Nevada Berry (sic). He was a member of the Fox Fairview Christian Church.
     Survivors include the widow, Mrs. Dochia (sic) Berry; four daughters, Mrs. George Newton of Huntington, Mrs. Sesco Adkins of Fort Myers, Fla., Mrs. Sylvester Mount of Kitts Hill, Ohio, and Mrs. Donald Hayes of Proctorville; four sons, Stacy Berry of Patriot, James and John Emerson Berry of Columbus, and Charles O. Berry of Lucasville; four brothers, Arnold, Clovis, Chauncey and Lawrence Berry, and a sister, Mrs. Sylvia Wilson (sic), all of Linville (sic), Ohio, and 20 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren. Friends may call at the funeral home after 6 P.M. today.

The Herald-Dispatch
Tuesday, November 7, 1967, page 14.
Gallipolis Daily Tribune, Tuesday, November 7, 1967, page 1.
Contributed by Jeff Hayes Hiestzie76@aol.com

Berry, Doshie Myers

CHESAPEAKE -- Mrs. Doshie Berry, 84, Kitts Hill, a former resident of Patriot in Gallia County, died Saturday in a Huntington hospital following a brief illness.
     She was born Sept. 12, 1888, in Gallia County, daughter of the late John and Harriett Pyles Myers.
Her husband, Charles Berry, preceded her in death in 1967. She was a member of the Fox-Fairview First Christian Church in Patriot.
     Mrs. Berry is survived by four daughters, Mrs. Sylvester Mount, Kitts Hill; Mrs. Donald Hayes, Proctorville; Mrs. George Newton, Huntington; and Mrs. Sesco Adkins, Ft. Myers, Fla.; four sons, Stacy and James O., Tarlton, Ohio; John E. Berry, Columbus, and Charles O. Berry, Lucasville; two brothers, Amer Myers, Gallipolis and Alan Myers, Scottown; three sisters, Mrs. Martha Roach, South Charleston, Ohio; Mrs. Ora Burcham, and Mrs. Meda Boster, both of Huntington, and 20 grand and 18 great-grandchildren.
     Funeral services will be held 2 P.M., Monday at the Schneider Funeral Home, Chesapeake with Rev. Raymond Dillon officiating. Burial will be in Fox-Fairview Cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral home after 4 P.M. Sunday.

The Sunday Time Sentinel (Gallipolis Daily Tribune)
Sunday, December 31, 1972, page 9.
Contributed by Jeff Hayes Hiestzie76@aol.com

OBITUARY OF LENNA LAFON BERRY
     LENNA LAFON BERRY, 87, of Marietta, Ohio, formerly of Linnville, Ohio, died Saturday, November 15, 1997 at Marietta Center for Health and Rehabilitation.
     She was born May 29, 1910 in LaFayette, Ind., and daughter of the late Albert T. and Eva Miller LaFon. She was a retired school teacher of 37 years with the Symmes Valley School System, and a member of the Linville Church of Christ.
     She was preceded in death by her husband Clovis Berry, and two brothers, Kenneth and Clovis LaFon. She is survived by one daughter and son-in-law, Kay and Rod Hineman of Belpre, Ohio; two brothers, Samuel LaFon of Phoenix, Ariz. and Herbert LaFon of Baltimore, Md.; two grandchildren, David Hineman of Lancaster, Ohio and Kim and her husband Tom Weiner of South Parkersburg, W.Va.; and several nieces and nephews.
     Funeral services will be 2 P.M. Tuesday, November 18, 1997 at Schneider-Slack Funeral Home by the Rev. Donald Seevers. Burial will follow in Centenary Cemetery. Friends may call from 6 to 9 P.M. Monday at the funeral home.

Huntington Herald-Dispatch
Contributed by Jeff Hayes Hiestzie76@aol.com

    Mary Florence Besserer, daughter of Daniel and Mary Rothgeb Mauck, was born at Cheshire, February 23, 1855. She was educated at Cheshire Academy and Hillsdale college. She taught in the public schools and was a private teacher of music.
     On May 17, 1881 she was married to Charles Frederick Besserer. Thereafter her life was spent at Middleport where she died July 12, 1929, survived by her husband.
     These are the rough outlines of the useful life of a charming woman. She had too many interesting traits to be described with a phrase. Perhaps, however, after her devotion to her home, her love for beauty in general was her most outstanding characteristic. She loved music, painting, poetry and flowers and her devotion to the beauties of the external world brought her the natural reward of a beautiful inner spirit. She was a cultured woman and a merry one. Her wit was keen and her laughter infectious. She happily blended sympathy and sunshine and did her full part in bringing joy to a large circle of devoted friends.
     She had been a member of the Presbyterian Church for many years and was a charter member of the Middleport Literary club. Also one of the organizers and Past Worthy Matrons of the Order of the Eastern Stars.

Lorena May Bias Dies At Age 81
     Mrs. Lorena May Bias, 81, died at her home 103 Fourth Ave., at 3:30 pm Tuesday. She had been ill for four years, and was a patient in Holzer Hospital last fall.
     She was a native of Guyan Twp., where she was born on Oct. 7, 1874, the daughter of the late William and Ellen Lee Beaver. Her early years were spent in Guyan Twp., but she had been a resident of Gallipolis during her adult years.
     Mrs. Bias was twice married. Her first was to Reuben Rose in 1894 at Pt. Pleasant. He preceded her in death in February, 1939. To this union eight children were born of whom five survive, Edgar of Charleston, Mrs. Dorothy Harrington of Erie, Pa., Mrs. Elizabeth Hill and Mrs. Lavada Smith of Gallipolis and Lester Rose of Vinton. A son Horton, a World War I veteran, died in 1929 and another son, George died in 1954. The other child died in infancy. Other survivors are two brothers and two sisters, John of Columbus, Edgar of Washington, D.C., Mrs. Ola Bailey of Columbus and Mrs. Fronia Monk of Jackson.
     She was married the second time to Arbeit Bias who preceded her in death in December, 1952.
     At one time Mrs. Bias was a member of Grace Methodist Church. Funeral services will be held at Miller's Home for Funerals at 4 p.m., Thursday with Rev. John McCalla officiating. Burial will be in Mound Hill Cemetery. Friends may call at Miller's Wednesday evening and until the funeral hour.

Memoirs
Died, in Gallia county, Ohio, February 26, 1874, Mrs. Dinah Bickel, in the 78th year of her age. Sister Bickel was born in North Carolina May 19, 1796; and happily married to Mr. Anthony Bickel, of Virginia, July 7, 1814. Shortly after her marriage she removed with her husband and settled in Gallia county, Ohio, where they both soon became useful members of the M.E. Church. They raised nine children, all of whom became pious and useful members of the church; one of the sons, R.S. Bickel, of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, is well known and greatly beloved throughout the bounds of the Western Virginia Conference.
The husband, Bro. Anthony Bickel, died March 24, 1860, in full triumphs of a living faith and rest from his labors. Sister Bickel was one of those women of whom it may in truth be said, “she looketh well to the ways of her household and eateth not the bread of idleness, her children rise up and call her blessed.” And after struggling on for near a half century in the service of her blessed Savior she fell asleep in Jesus and has gone to that rest above where labor, pain and sorrow are felt and feared no more. Her children (though they weep and sorrow) have a bright hope of meeting her in glory.

“Hope looks beyond the bounds of time
When what we now deplore,
Shall rise in full immortal prime
And bloom to fade no more.”
C. F. Crooks

From a regional Methodist publication in Kentucky
Contributed by great-great-grandson, Neil Elvick

Bickle, Mattie

On Monday evening, September 18th, 1876, of dyptheria, Mattie, daughter of George and Ann Bickle, aged about 12 years.

Gallipolis Journal
September 21, 1876
Transcribed by Henny Evans

Bing, Billy

Bing Funeral Will be Held This Afternoon
Well Known River Captain to be Buried
     Middleport, April 23 -- Funeral services of Capt. Billy Bing, who died Thursday on Gravel Hill, will be held at the Cheshire Baptist church Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock. The Rev. Dr. Skinner will preach the funeral sermon.
     Captain Bing was a well known towboat pilot and master on the Ohio for 50 years. He was born in Cheshire 75 years ago and was the son of the late John (Jack) Bing prominent at Cheshire. Captain Bing was a relative of H. V. Carl of Pomeroy and of the late Mrs. Myra Bing Danley of Racine.

The Gallipolis Tribune says:
     For many years Capt. Bing was a Pomeroy Bend, Kanawha River and Cincinnati pilot. He had charge of the towboat Crown Hill for the Crane Lumber company, of Cincinnati and was a well known harbor pilot at Cincinnati besides making regular trips to Pomeroy and Kanawha river back in the days of the towboats Kate Waters, Abe McDonald, Buckeye Boy, J. S. Neel, Convoy, Eagle, Coal Bluff, Gate City and others.

Athens Messenger
April 24, 1917
Transcribed by Connie Cotterill Schumaker

Bing, Mary

Mary Bing
     Mrs. Mary Bing, wife of Samuel Bing, deceased, was a native of Augusta county, Virginia, and emigrated to Ohio in the year 1805, about fifty years ago. On her arrival in this State, she found it nearly an unbroken forest, and inhabited by the red man of the forest. Having shared the toil and peril of emigrants she was finally settled upon a farm not far from the mouth of Campaign creek. Here she raised a family of children all of whom have settled in life. Mrs. B., enjoyed generally good health, and had been blessed with an iron constitution.
     She was a kind and affectionate Mother__and a good neighbor. Her sickness was of short duration having been suddenly struck with the hand of death. It was my privilege to visit her at her son-in-law’s Mr. James Blake, where on the 26th of August she finished her earthly course in the 79th year.
As he awoke from sleep, and as her reason seemed restored, I asked her if she was trusting in the Savior, she responded, “yes.”
     Thus has passed away one much beloved and esteemed. May this affecting dispensation of Providence prove to her children, grandchildren and friends a blessing. E. V. Bing
Gallipolis, Sept. 20. 1855

Oct. 11, 1855
Gallipolis Journal
Transcribed by Henny Evans

Blackburn, Frances Lenora

FRANCES BLACKBURN
GALLIPOLIS --- Mrs. Frances Lenora Blackburn, 55, died unexpectedly at her residence here Monday.
     Born in Gallipolis. she was the daughter of the late Elmer and Sarah Nibert. Her mother died a week ago.
     She is survived by her husband, Randolph Blackburn, of Vinton; two sons, Lowell of Demiden, Fla. and John of Vinton; a daughter, Mrs. Ronald (Patty) Barton, Gallipolis, two grandchildren and a sister. Mrs. James (Elizabeth) Persinger, Gallipolis.
     In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by a daughter.
     Services will be Thursday, 2 p.m. at the Miller Funeral Home with the Rev. John Jeffrey officiating. Burial will be in Mound Hill Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday.

Athens Messenger
Tuesday, Oct. 26, 1976
Contributed by Joyce Robinson

Blackburn, Sherman

Sherman BLACKBURN, a young unmarried man who was hurt some time ago in a coal bank, and whose death was mentioned last week, was buried in the Shuler grave yard; the funeral services were held at Old Kyger Church by Rev. T. D. Davis, Monday, August 30; he was a patient sufferer and was a member of the church.

Gallipolis Journal Wednesday
September 08, 1886
Transcribed by Teresa Herrmann

Blake, Gratia Fuller

Mrs. Nat Blake Passes Away at Swan Creek Homestead, After Brief Illness
     Mrs. Gratia Fuller Blake, wife of former Sheriff Cincinatus B. Blake, popularly known as "Nat" Blake, died at the Blake home at Swan Creek, last Friday evening. Mrs. Blake was born at Rome, Lawrence County, and would have been 80 years old on Oct. 29, next. Her father was General Alphonso Fuller, a general in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War.
     In 1857 she was married to Mr. Blake and had since lived at Swan Creek, excepting two years spent in Illinois and a few years in this city in the late 70s and early 80s when Mr. Blake was sheriff. Last winter both of them were in Florida and Oklahoma. In the latter place she contracted a severe cold from which she did not recover and which hastened her death. Mr. Blake is 86 years old and in pretty good health. Mrs. Blake was a splendid woman and intensely devoted to her family. She was mother of six sons, five of whom survive her--A. F. of Huntington; C. O. of El Reno, Okla., and Ernest E. of Oklahoma City, both attorneys; Ed E., farmer, of El Reno; C. B., oil operator, Indianapolis. All attended the funeral, and they, together with Don Blake, a grandson of the deceased, served as pall bearers.
     The funeral was held at the residence at 10 a.m. Sunday, Rev. Ira J. Sheets officiating. Burial in the family cemetery by Hayward. There was a large crowd present. From Gallipolis were S. A. Moore, Mrs. Nevius, Miss Ida Nevius, W. B. McCormick, Mrs. John Rust and Miss Rose Hannan.

Note: A similar obituary appeared in the Gallipolis Bulletin, Thursday, May 27, 1915. The actual date of death on the death certificate was 21 May 1915.

Gallipolis Journal
28 May 1915
Submitted by Eve Hughes

Blazer, Emeline

Memoir
Mrs. Emeline Blazer, wife of Mr. Joseph Blazer of Gallia Ohio, was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.D. and D. Cowden. She was born August 8, and died June 14^th, 1862, in her 46^th year. Mrs. Blazer was long known in the community where she resided, as being a woman of superior principles, and possessing more than an ordinary mind. She was always ready to administer to the needy, console the bereaved, and relieve the destitute. Her community has lost one of its best members. She was remarkably attentive to the wants of her family. Her husband found in her not only a companion, but a safe counsellor. His loss is great, such as earth can never restore. Her children were the object of her motherly care and solicitude, to them she was kind, affectionate and attentive; she trained them up for God, and to be a blessing to the world; their loss is irreparable; she left them her example, her influence, and her instructions---a legacy to them too valuable for earth’s treasures to purchase. In her early life she became a member of the M.E. church. Her life was a beautiful example of Christian integrity, and her last days were days of patient waiting for her Lord. To the church, friends and relatives, the loss is great, but it is her eternal gain.

Gallipolis Journal
3 Jul 1862
Transcribed by Henny Evans

Board, Billy Snow

Billy Snow Board, 78, of Gallipolis, died Thrusday Aug. 26, 2004, at University Hospital in Columbus. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 29, 2004 at the Waugh -Halley-Wood Funeral Home. Burial will follow in Ohio Valley Memeory Gardens. Friends may call from 6-8 p.m. Saturday at the funeral home.'

Masonic services will be conduted at 8 p.m. Saturday by Morning Dawn Lodge at the funeral home. Military honors will be presented at the cemetery by the Gallia County Veterans Organizations. A complete obituary will be published in tomorrow's edition.

Gallipolis Daily Tribune

Friday, August 27, 2004

copied by Marian Schoonover

Bodimer, Charles Wesley II

    Charles Wesley Bodimer II, 58, a resident of Eureka Star Route, died in Holzer Medical Center this morning at 5 o’clock.
     He was born at Eureka Sept. 4, 1915, the son of the late Charles W. and Della Clark Bodimer. He attended Chambersburg Schook, and graduated from Gallia Academy High School with the Class of 1934. He was a salesman most of his life, was employed by Goldschmidt-Sydnor, Huntington, W. Va. and later operated a grocery store and service station at Eureka, and served as postmaster. He enlisted in the U. S. Navy during World War II. He served Gallia County two terms as Auditor in the 1950’s. He was a member of the Methodist Church at Chambersburg, and the Gallia Chapter of F. & A.M. at Chambersburg; was a member of the Rose Commandery No. 43, Gallipolis.
     He was married to Ruth Steele, a native of Logan, W. Va. In October 1943. She survives, with two sons and two daughters, Mrs. Larry (Anna Marie) Harrison of Erie, Pa. and Mrs. James (Charla) Ellott of Gallipolis; Charles W. III, a student at Ohio University and Lewis Claude, a student at Gallia Academy. Two grandsons and a grand-daughter survive. Two brothers, Byron E. Bodimer of Confluence, Pa. and Lewis H. of Eureka Star Rt. And one sister, Mrs. L. Claude (Iris) Miller of Gallipolis, survive.
     Funeral arrangements will be announced by Miller’s Home for Funerals.

Unknown publication
Contributed by Jacquelyn Woolley

Boice, Mary A.

Death of Mrs. Boice
Mrs. Mary A. Boice, wife of Mr. Wm. Boice, sister of Mrs. Wilson Kerns and Mrs. A. A. Clark of this city died at her home near Cheshire Saturday evening, Sept. 6, 1902, at 8 o’clock, age 65 years. Deceased had been a sufferer from cancer for a number of years. The funeral occurred at Addison M. E. Church at 1 p. m., burial following at Bethel on Chickamauga.

Gallipolis Tribune
9/12/1902 (Friday)
Transcribed by Suzanne Giroux

Boster, Dardin M.

Dardin M. Boster, Sycamore Street, Died At 5:30 A. M.
Dardin M. Boster, 43, who had worked for Raymond Hoy, furniture manufacturer here and in Huntington for 27 years, The Tribune was told, died at 5:30 a. m. He suffered from tuberculosis and had been ill since last December at his room in the home of Mrs. Dixie Bowen on Sycamore St.
He was born in Montgomery, W. Va., Aug. 7, 1903, a son of the late Reuben Boster and of Birdie Boster, who is still living in Huntington.
Dardin married a score of years ago and is survived by two sons, Charles, a soldier, stationed in Okinawa, and Dardin, Jr. of Barboursville, W. Va. He is survived also by the following brothers and sisters: Roy, also an employee of the Hoy furniture factory; Arnett Boster, Columbus; Carl and Burl Boster, Huntington; Mrs. Charles Walters, Gallipolis, (living on Shoestring Ridge).
Funeral will be held at Entsminger’s chapel at 2 p. m. Monday. Burial in Pine St. Cemetery.

Gallipolis Tribune
1946
Transcribed by Lew Casey

Boster, Delbert Eugene

McKinley High School Teacher Dies
     Delbert Eugene Boster, aged 29, of 406 Sixteenth Avenue , teacher of civics and history at McKinley Junior High School , died, Monday night, of peritonitis, following an operation for appendicitis, to which he submitted 10 days ago at University hospital.
     He was also a former teacher of civics and history at Eleventh Avenue Junior High School , and a former coach in football, basketball, and baseball in the Wellston High School . During the past three years he has been enrolled at Ohio State University , working for his master's degree, and was to have competed his study there next summer. He received his bachelor's degree at Rio Grande College .
Five brothers, Gordon of Beloit, Harry of Kinsman, Dallas of Cleveland and William and Lawrence of Columbus, survive. Mr. Boster was a member of the Masonic Lodge of Wellston, and the Christian Church of Gallia County .
     Funeral services will be held, Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. in the P. E. Rutherford County Chapel, a 2383 North High Street , and the body will be taken to Gallia County , Thursday, where services will be held in the Macedonia Church , at 10:30 a.m. , followed by burial in Macedonia Cemetery , by the P. E. Rutherford Co.

Civics Teacher at McKinley Dies
Peritonitis Follows Operation for Appendicitis – D. E. Booster's Career Cut Short
     Delbert Eugene Boster, 29, of 406 Sixteenth Ave. , died of peritonitis, following an operation for appendicitis at University hospital. Boster was a teacher of civics at McKinley Junior High School, and previously taught civics and history at Eleventh Av. Before coming to Columbus he coached athletics at Wellston High School . He had been ill for ten days, and since the operation last Thursday his condition was known to be serious.
     During the last three years he had been taking work at Ohio State University on his mater's degree. He obtained his bachelor's degree at Rio Grande State College. He was to have completed his work at Ohio State next summer. His plan for making additional preparation for his chosen work was in keeping with his conscientious effort to be every day the best possible guide an preceptor for those pupils with whom he came in contact.
     Many activities about the school will feel the loss of Mr. Boster. Besides his regular teaching, he has had charge of the Student Court , Student Council, and the Traffic Squad. These organizations are the channels through which student self-government found expression, and the success of students participation at McKinley is largely a tribute to Mr. Boster's organizing ability.
     In addition to this, Mr. Boster was the one who organized intramural athletics for the boys of the school for the lunch periods, giving a form of organized play in which all the boys could participate during this only play period of the school day. Great was the interest developed in this form of activity. Through these many activities he made many contacts with the pupils of the school, all if whom looked to him as a leader worthy of admiration and respect. Their liking for him was attested by their attitude of sincere mourning upon receiving word of his death.
     He was unmarried. He was survived by five brothers, Gordon, Beloit , Ohio ; Harry, Kinsman, Ohio ; Dallas, Cleveland , Ohio , and William and Lawrence of Columbus.
     Boster was a member of the Masonic lodge at Wellston and the Christian Church of Gallia County .
Funeral services were held Wednesday evening, at 7:30 at the chapel of the P. E. Rutherford Undertaking Company, which was largely attended. Floral offerings were furnished by the pupils and teachers of the school. Burial was to be made Thursday near Gallipolis, beside his father and mother.

Copied from pages typed by J. W. Chambers

Boster, Virginia

Mrs. Virginia Boster, 88, died Friday, Dec. 28, 1928 , at the home of her daughter, Mrs. W. E. Haskins, in this city. The funeral was Sunday at Macedonia Church in Harrison Township by Rev. J. L. Porter. Mrs. Boster was the mother of three children the late W. H. H. Boster, Mrs. Haskins, and Mrs. J. N. Kerns of this city.

Copied from pages typed by J. W. Chambers

Boster, William

    William Boster, 66 of Nitro, WV died in South Charleston WV in Thomas Memorial Hospital after a short illness Tuesday.
     Born Dec. 2 1926 in Gallipolis, he was the son of the late Kerns Boster and Lula Burnette. He is survived by one son William Boster Jr. of Nitro, WV, one step-son Paul Estes of Nitro WV, one brother Richard R. Boster of Deserts Springs, Calif. and one sister Geraldine Bostic of Hillard, Ohio.
     He was a disabled veteran of Workd War ll, serving in the U.S. Navy and a member of VFW and Amvets. He was a former employee of American Schools and The Gallipolis Daily Tribune as a sprots writer.
     Services will be 2 p.m. Friday at Bartlett Chapmean Funeral Home 409 Sixth Ave. St. Albans, WV. with Rev. Tom Huff officiating . Burial will be at Union Cemetery , Pliney, WV. Friends may call Thursday at the funeral home from 7 to 9 p.m.

Gallipolis Daily Tribune
Sept 16, 1993
Transcribed by Marian Schoonover

Bostic, John C.

     John C. Bostic 86, of Gallipolis, Ohio passed away on Friday, December 23, 2005 at the Holzer Medical Center.
     He was born on June 3, 1919 in Gallia Co., Ohio son of the late David V. and Nellie Collins Bostic. He was married to Gladys Donnally Bostic on June 24, 1939 and she preceded in him death on June 25, 1998. John was retired from the Evans Packing House with 40 years of service where he was a foreman and a butcher. He was a World War II US Navy veteran; a charter member of the V.F.W. Post 4464; and a member of the First Baptist Church in Gallipolis, and a former member of the Patriot Grange.
     Surviving is his daughter Rosalie and John Jarvis of Gallipolis, and four sons, Charles and Cathy Bostic, Kenny and Sue Ann Bostic, Rodger and Mary Bostic all of Gallipolis and Don Lee Bostic of Chicago, Ill.; a son-in-law Charles Meadows of Gallipolis, a sister-in-law Melba Abbott of Pt. Pleasant, WV; 12 Grandchildren; 21 Great Grandchildren; 1 great great grandchild; several nieces and nephews.
     He was preceded in death by his parents; wife Gladys Bostic in 1998, a daughter Betty Jane Meadows; 4 brothers Arnold, Ray, Emmett, and Emory Bostic; 2 Sisters, Audrey Malone, and Effie Mayes.
     Services will be 1 p.m. Wednesday, December 28, 2005 at Willis Funeral Home with Pastor Joseph Godwin officiating. Burial will follow in Ohio Valley Memory Gardens. Friends may call on Tuesday December 27, 2005 from 6-9 p.m. at the funeral home. His grandsons will serve as pallbearers.

Gallipolis Daily Tribune
December 24, 2005
transcribed by Cheryl A. Enyart

Boston, Clemma F.

Clemma F. Boston, 86, formerly of Eureka Star Route, Gallipolis, died Sunday afternoon at Pinecrest Nursing Center. She had been in failing health for several years, serious for seven months.
Born Oct. 5, 1891, in Ohio Township to the late John Elizabeth Halley Cox, she was married June 5, 1913, in Gallipolis to Harry A. Boston, who died Feb. 20, 1959. She is survived by two sons, Lowell M. Boston, Gallipolis, and Buell H. Boston, Columbus, and a sister, Mrs. Sadie Day, Gallipolis. There are six grandchildren. Three sisters and two brothers preceded her in death.
She was a member of Providence Baptist Church, where services will be held at 1 p.m. Wednesday, the Rev. Alfred Holley officiating, and burial will be in Providence Cemetery.

Gallipolis Tribune
Oct. 16, 1977
Contributed by Jacquelyn Woolley

Boston, George W.

Boston: GW, grandfather of Mrs I Kaufman, 2344 Eastern Ave. Funeral Friday 1 oclock pm from Fourth Christian Church, Eastern Ave and Waldon Street.
He died Oct 13 1903

Cincinnati Enquirer
1903
Transcribed by Jacquelyn Woolley

Boston, Ithamar J.

    Ithamar J. Boston, 72 of Rt. 2, Crown City, died at 11 p.m. Monday at his residence. Born March 15, 1909, in Gallia County, son of the late William and Emily Wooten Boston he was a retired electrician.
     Surviving are two sisters, Mrs. Flora Chambers of Rt. 2, Crown City and Mrs. Stachey Broyles of Centenary; a brother, William of Rodney. Two brothers and four sisters also preceded him in death.
     Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday in the Waugh-Halley-Wood Funeral Home, with the Rev. Frank Hayes officiating. Burial will be in Providence Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 6-9 p.m. Wednesday.

Unknown publication
July 17, 1981
Contributed by Jacquelyn Woolley

Boston, John

John Boston Dies At Martin's Ferry
     John Boston, formerly of this county, died at 3:15 Saturday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Catherine Houck, at Martins Ferry, Ohio.
     C. R. Halley brought the body to his mortuary and from there it will be taken to decedent's old home near Providence Church on Tuesday.
     Funeral services will be held at the home at 2 o'clock Wednesday, with Rev. Jennings Cremeens in charge.
     Surviving besides the daughter are these three sons: George, Isaac, and James Boston.

Gallipolis Tribune
1942
Transcribed by Lew Casey

Boston, Mary Jane

Boston: Mary Jane (nee Patton) beloved wife of George W. Boston, Jan 5, 1902 at 6:00a.m. age 80 yr
6 mo 27 day at home of grand daughter Mrs. I. Kaufman 2344 Eastern Ave city ( Gallipolis papers please copy)

Cincinnati Enquirer
1902
Transcribed by Jacquelyn Woolley

Boston, William B.

    William B. Boston, 90, Bidwell, died at 4:20 p.m. Monday in Pleasant Valley Hospital after a three-year illness. Born Dec. 1, 1892, at Guyandotte, W.Va., son of the late William and Frances Wooten Bosten, he was an employee of American Car & Foundry and a plumber. He was also a member of Eureka Masonic Lodge.
     He was married first to Florence Windom in 1914, and she also preceded him [in] death in 1959, and the second time to Edith Thompson, who survives. Also surviving are three sons, William L. Boston of Coolville, Joe Francis Boston of Franklin and Garland Boston of Jackson; nine grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren; a sister, Flora Chambers of Bladen; six stepchildren, 22 great-grandchildren and 22 step-great-grandchildren.
     Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday in Miller’s Home for Funerals in the former Warehime Funeral Home, with the Rev. Nathan Turner officiating. Burial will be in Calvary Cemebery, Rio Grande. Friends may call at the funeral home from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Wednesday.

Unknown publication
Oct. 3, 1983
Contributed by Jacquelyn Woolley

Bowen, Charles Edward

Charles Bowen Dies Saturday
Rites Wednesday For Coalton Native
     Charles Edward Bowen, 78, former steamboat man, railroad tie-maker, and Mound Hill Cemetery worker, died at 6:15 p.m. Saturday in Holzer Hospital, where he had been a patient for 29 days. Coronary thrombosis and heart trouble were listed as the causes of death.
     Mr. Bowen worked on steamboats until July 7, 1915, when two of his brothers, George and Tude, Kanauga, drowned in the sinking of the steamer Conroy at Cincinnati; then he quit the river and never went back to it. He left the business of making railroad ties to become an assistant at Mound Hill Cemetery, but he resigned three years ago because of poor health.
     One of nine children of Elias and Sarah Jane Statts Bowen, the decedent was born April 8, 1872, in Coalton, Jackson County. A sister and the two drowned brothers preceded him in death, but his surviving brothers and sisters are Noah, and Lewis, Gallipolis; William, Henderson, W. Va.; Mrs. Fred (Mary) Jolly and Mrs. Dan (Virginia) Lewis, Gallipolis.
     Mr. Bowen was twice married. His first wife, the former Mary Allen, died 25 years ago, and they are survived by a daughter, Mrs. Elmer (Edna) Ferguson, Huntington. His widow is the former Laura Norris, and Mr. Bowen is survived by two daughters born to this union: Cora, at home, and Mrs. Eugene (Helen) Lunsford, Harrodsburg, Ky.
     When he was a small boy, Mr. Bowen’s family moved to West Virginia, but he came here 50 years ago and had made Gallipolis his home ever since. His address was 648 First Ave.
     Friends may call at Miller’s Home for Funerals, where final rites will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday, the Rev. Vernon Shaffer, pastor of the Church of the Nazarene, officiating, and burial will be made in Pine Street Cemetery.

Gallipolis Tribune
June 1950 (DOD: 10 June 1950)
Transcribed by Lew Casey

Bradley, Anderson Thomas

Anderson T. Bradley
     Gallipolis -- Anderson Thomas Bradley, 78, of Proctorville, died Tuesday in a Huntington Hospital. He was the father of a Gallia County woman. Born in Lawrence County, he was the son of the late Lloyd and Lillie Sowards Bradley.
     Survivors include his wife, Ruby Shafer Bradley; three sons, John, of West Jefferson; Russell and Grover, both of Proctorville; five daughters, Mrs. Doris Callicoat, Crown City; Mrs. Sylvia Hayes, Mrs. Josephine Dalton and Mrs. Charlene Carpenter, all of Proctorville: and Miss Mildred Bradley, at home; one brother, Taylor, of Huntington; five sisters, Mrs. Mary Graham and Mrs. Ruth Shafer, both of Proctorville; Mrs. Myrtle Long, Huntington; Mrs. Nanny Simms and Mrs. Hattie Rice, both of Cincinnati; 16 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
     Services will be conducted at 1 p.m. Thursday at the Schneider Funeral Home Chesapeke, by the Rev. Raymond Bragg. Burial will be in Centenary Cemetery at Chesapeake. Friends may call at the funeral home after 6 p.m. Thursday.

Athens Messenger
May 13, 1970
Transcribed by Connie Cotterill Schumaker

Brown, Hearl

Hearl Brown
     Gallipolis -- Hearl Brown, 73, Gallipolis Route 2, died Friday at his home on Neighborhood Road. Born in Gallia County, the son of the late Richard and Nancy DeWitt Brown, he was a former employe of the state and Gallia County Highway Departments and the city of Gallipolis.
     Survivors include his wife, Ora M. McIntyre Brown; a son, Verne I. of Thurman; a daughter, Mrs. Ted (Mae) Baker, Columbianna; a sister, Mrs. Carl (Mervilla) Gothard, Bidwell; seven brothers, Everett, of Gallipolis; Denver and Fred, both of Gallipolis Route 2; Verne, of Patriot; Harvey, of Eureka; Herbert, of Bidwell; and Luther, of Chesapeake; and two grand-children.
     Services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Sunday with evangelist Lewis Mikell officiating. Burial will be in Mound Hill Cemetery. Arrangements are being made by McCoy-Weatherholt Funeral Home.

Athens Messenger
June 7, 1970
Transcribed by Connie Cotterill Schumaker

Broyles, Stachy B.

    Stachy Blanche Broyles, 96, Patriot Star Route (Centenery), died at 4:45 a.m. today at Holzer Medical Center, having been iln failing health for the past three years.
     Born Aug. 11, 1887, in Clay Township, Gallia County, daughter of the late W.D. and Emily Wooten Boston,. She was a member of Jehovah’s Witness Church inl Gallipolis. She was twice married: her first husband, Grover Harbour, preceded her in death in 1951 and her second husband, Foster Broyles, preceded her in death in 1963.
     Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Adeline Wallace of Patriot Star Route; a sister, Mrs. Flora Chambers of Crown City; a brother, Billy of Rt. 2,. Bidwell; and 14 grandchildren and several great-grancdhildren. She was also preceded in death by four sons, three brothers and four sisters.
     Funeral services will be held 1 lp.m. Saturday in Waugh-Halley-Wood Funeral Home, with Edgar Harrop Jr. officiating. Burial will be in Providence Cemebery, near Mercerville. Friends may call at the funeral home 3-5 p.m. and 7-9 p.m. Friday.

Publication unknown
Aug. 11, 1983
Contributed by Jacquelyn Woolley

Brucker, John A.

    John Adam Brucker, 90, Rt. 2, Gallipolis, died Sunday at the home of his nephew, Charles Plymale, in Sabina, Ohio, where he had made his home for the past year.
     Born March 28, 1892, in Gallia County, son of the late John and Anna Chevalier Brucker, he was a member of several Masonic organizations: Eureka Lodge 469, Rose Commandery 43, Knights Templar, Moriah Council 32, Gallipolis Chapter 79, Royal Arch Masons.
     Surviving is a brother, Nelson of St. Albans, W.Va., and several nieces and nephews. He was also preceded in death by two brothers and two sisters.
     Funeral services will be held at 1 lp.m. Wednesday in Willis Funeral Home, with the Rev. Charles Lusher officiating. Burial will be in Mound Hill Cemetery. There will be no calling hours. A Masonic graveside service will be held by Eureka Lodge 469. Pallbears will be lPete Nuckles, Harold Saunders, Don Perkins, Bill Brucker, Rodney Plymale and Ray Cartwright.

Unknown publication
Abt. 1982
Contributed by Jacquelyn Woolley

Brucker, Leslie

    Leslie Lawrence Brucker, 69 a resident of 936 Second Ave., Gallipolis, died Saturday at 9 p.m. in Holzer Medical Center. He had been hospitalized the past week following a stroke at his home on March 1.
     He was born Oct. 24, 1910, in Yellowtown, son of the late Adam H. and Mary Henshaw Brucker. He attended school at Mercerville High School. In his earlier years, he helped his parents run a fruit farm in the Yellowtown area. He was active in Gallia County Senior Citizens events.
     He was twice married, first to Catherine Wise of Yellowtown. Two sons were born to that union—Leslie, Jr., who was killed in combat during the Vietnam War, and Michael Keith, of Columbus. His second marriage was to Edith O’Dell Rowley on Oct. 5, 1961. Other survivors include twin brothers, Harvey, Greenfield, and Harley, of Upland, Calif.; Herman, Rt. 1, Crown City; one sister, Mrs. Edith Boster, Gallipolis.
     Mr. Brucker was superintendent of the Ohio State Fairgrounds for 10 years and was in charge of maintenance at the Ohio Youth Comission Honor Camp, located on the fairgrounds. Following his retirement three years ago, Mr. Brucker moved to Gallipolis. He was a member of Elizabeth Chapel Church.

Unknown publication
March 8, 1950
Contributed by Jacquelyn Woolley

Brumvield, Vance

    Vance Brumfield, 78, a resident of Eureka Star Route, died Monday afternoon at his home. Mr. Brumfield was a retired farmer and served as a Harrison Twp. Clerk for 10 years. He was born May 20, 1897, in Harrison Twp., son of the late James M. and Martha Lanier Brumfield.
     He is survived by his wife, Juhl Burnett whom he married May 20, 1933, in Gallipolis. One son, Vance Eugene Brunfield, London, Ohio, survives. Two grandchildren survive, along with one sister, Vada Brumfield Jackson. Three brothers and one sister preceded him in death.
     Mr. Brumfield spent all his life in Gallia County. He was a member of the Mercerville Baptist Church. He was a World War I army veteran.
     Funeral services will be held 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Mercerville Baptist Chuirch with Rev. Jack Templeton and Rev. Bruce Unroe officiating. Burial will be in Mound Hill Cemetery. Friends mayo call at the Waugh-Halley-Wood Funeral Home from 4 until 9 p.m. today.

Unknown publication
Abt. 1975
Contributed by Jacquelyn Woolley

Bruney, Ruth Helen

     Gallipolis -- Mrs. Ruth Helen Bruney, 47, Wellston, died at 12:45 p.m. Tuesday in Holzer Medical Center. She had been a patient there since Sunday. Born in Jackson County, the daughter of the late James and Annabelle Lee Stewart, she was a member of the Pentecostal Church at Wellston.
     Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. James Howard of Bidwell; two sons, William and Frederick, both of Wellston; two sisters, Mrs. Florence Rider, Wellston; and Mrs. Gertrude Harris, Columbus; and three brothers, Harry of Wellston; and George and Ernest, both of Columbus, and two grandchildren.
     Services will be held at 1 p.m. Friday at Miller's Funeral Home with the Rev. Moses Cuffie officiating. Burial will be in Woodson Cemetery in Jackson county.

Athens Messenger
May 13, 1970
Transcribed by Connie Cotterill Schumaker

Buckner, George W.

Death of Mr. Buckner
Mr. Geo. W. Buckner, who was so dreadfully burned by the explosion of an oil can while kindling a fire at his home near the Safford Schoolhouse, Tuesday morning, died Wednesday afternoon at half past 4 o'clock in his 41st year. He leaves a wife and five children, the youngest 18 months old and the eldest 13 years old. He will be buried by Wetherholt at Providence church Friday morning at 11 o'clock. His pare