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Source:  The Weekly Recorder - Ohio
Dated: Apr. 17, 1816
NOTICE.
     All persons, having demand against the estate of SAMUEL HUNTER, late of Highland County, Ohio, deceased, are hereby notified to bring them forward legally proved, for settlement, within one year; and all those indebted are requested to make immediate payment.
     SAMUEL M'CONNELL, Adm'r
March 4th, 1816.
Source: Pennsylvania Inquirer
Dated: Oct. 8, 1839
An Old Offender
     At a late session of the court for Highland county, Ohio, Asa Plummer, an old man aged about 70 years, was tried on an indictment charging him with setting fire to a barn of Mr. I. Pavey, of that county a few weeks ago. - He was found guilty of the crime, and sentenced to ten years imprisonment and hard laborer in the state penitentiary.
Source:  Pennsylvania Inquirer - Penn.
Dated:  Jan. 24, 1843
     A man named Carroll was shot by a constable in Highland county, Ohio, on Monday last.  The constable had levied on and was taking away personal property of Carroll, when the latter followed, assaulted him, and was killed by a pistol ball.  The constable was discharged.
Source:  Pennsylvania Inquirer - Pennsylvania
Dated:  Apr. 27, 1843
A Suicide
     William Pedrick, a respectable citizen of Highland County, Ohio, was found dead on Tuesday morning week, having hung himself in his own stable.
Source:  Tri-Weekly Ohio Statesman
Dated: April 28, 1847
ROBBERY AT FAYETTEVILLE, HIGHLAND COUNTY, OHIO - On the night of the 10th inst. the store of J. D. Edwards, in Fayetteville, Highland Co., Ohio, was entered by one or more persons and robbed of about $40 in gold and silver.  The locks of two trunks were broken, no goods were stolen.  An entrance was effected by making a hole through a solid inch wall.  No clue to the robbers had been obtained, when our informant wrote - Hillsborough Gazette.
Source:  The Sun - Maryland
Dated: Sept. 22, 1849
Kidnapping in Highland County, Ohio - We learn from the Hillsborough News, that an examination of a Mr. Cogzell, from Tennessee, and two persons of Ohio, has, for two days, been going forward in Hillsborough on a charge of kidnapping.  The person whom it was charged was attempted to be kidnapped was a colored girl who had been sent as servant to a lady, by the Tennessean, to Ohio last summer, she being his slave in Tennessee.  And it is alleged that he, in company with the two persons from Ohio implicated in the offence, attempted to take her back into slavery; for which attempt they were arrested, on the charge of an attempt to kidnap.  The girl had put herself under the protection of Mr. James Sloane.  The parties were held to bail in the sum of five hundred dollars, conditioned for their appearance at the Court of Common Pleas of Highland county, to answer the charge of kidnapping -  The black woman was admitted to testify as a witness in this case, perhaps the first case of the kind in Highland, sine the repeal of the Black Laws.
Source:  Lowell Daily Citizen and News  - Mass.
Dated: Oct. 22, 1857
Mr. Garretson of Richland, Iowa, has in his garden what he calls an "ever-bearing strawberry."  He found it growing wild in Highland county, Ohio, and it possesses the distinction of blooming and bearing fruit through the whole season.
Source: The Daily True Delta - Louisiana
Dated: Apr. 5, 1863
     Two hundred and thirty-one ladies of Highland county, Ohio have petitioned the Legislature of that State to pass a law prohibiting negro emigration there.
Source: Memphis Daily Avalanche
Dated: July 19, 1867
    Dr. Brice Cooper, a captain in the 70th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, during the war, was killed at Samantha, Ohio, on Saturday evening, by one John A. Starr, of that place
Source:  The Cincinnati Daily Gazette - Ohio
Dated July 30, 1867
Death of Dr. Fellers
     Dr. S. Fellers, who was shot in an affray with one Cameron, at Greenfield, Highland county, Ohio, last week, (an account of which was published in the GAZETTE,) died on Friday from the effect of his wound.
     Dr. Fellers had been a respected resident of Greenfield for a number of years.  He was somewhat extensively known as the manufacturer of various patent medicines.  After the war broke out he left his manufactory and entered the army in the capacity of Lieutenant in the 73d Ohio Regiment - one of the regiments that fought the "battle in the clouds," under Hooker, at Lookout Mountain.  During his service, Dr. Fellers was severely wounded by a shot through the lungs, but finally recovered, to be killed in an affray - the ball which killed him passing partly through the portion of his body pierced by the rebel bullet.  He leaves a wife and four children.
Source:  Cincinnati Daily Enquirer - Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., Ohio
Dated: Dec. 24, 1869
MARRIED: MUNN - CLING - At East Union Township Dec. 15, Warren Munn, of Nebraska City, to Miss Rachel Cling.
     SUTHERFIELD - SHOEMAKER - On the 16th of December, Mr. Noble Sutherfield, of Pike Co., to Miss Priscilla Shoemaker, of Highland Co., Ohio
Source: Times Picayune - Louisiana
Dated: Aug. 17, 1873
A young man named Moses PENTON, lliving near Hillsboro, Ohio, was on his way to be married, when he was struck by lightning and instantly killed.  Two years ago, his brother was thrown from his horse and killed, while going to marry the same lady.
Source:  The Wheeling Register - W. Virginia
Dated: Feb. 9, 1889
FLASHED FROM THE WIRES.
     Lung fever is prevalent in Highland county, Ohio
Source:   Anaconda Standard - Montana
Dated: Jan. 31, 1904
     Prolific Long-Living Family.
     Six Shaffer brothers, sons of John Shaffer of Highland county, Ohio, were photographed in a group at Hillsboro, Ohio, a few days ago.  The eldest is 86 years of age and the youngest 74.  Their united aged amount to 430 years.  Their father's children numbered 13, and the children of these 6 brothers number, respectively, 11, 8, 9, 13, 12 and 5, giving the list in the order of the fathers' ages.

 
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