Source: Salem Gazette - Massachusetts
Date: Jan. 29, 1830
On Friday night, the 25th ult. died Richard Fulk, of
Hocking county, Ohio. The deceased had during Christmas day been
drinking with his companions at Nelsonville, and on the
following morning was found dead on his way into Hocking county,
with his whiskey jug by his side! What renders the awful event
more to be noticed, his companions left him on the spot alive,
on which he was found the following morning dead! |
Source: The Ohio Statesman - Ohio
Date: Feb. 28, 1843
(Matrimony Notice)
In Circleville, on Thursday the 23d inst., by the Rev. Mr.
Roof, Mr. John Atkinson, of Logan, Hocking county,
Ohio, to Miss Sarah Ellen Easterday, of the former place. |
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Source: New Mexican
Dated: May 31, 1895
AN OHIO LYNCHING.
Cincinnati - A dispatch from Logan, Ohio, says that
a mob last night took Nelson Federoff, aged 50, from the
lockup at Laurelville and hanged him. He was charged with
a brutal assault upon a little girl. |
Source: The Anaconda Standard
Date: Dec. 3, 1899
W. L. Souders of Missoula came to Butte and secured a
divorce from his wife, Amy E. Souders. He told the court
that he was married to the defendant in Hocking County, Ohio, on
April 3, 1873 and that she deserted him without cause at
Frankfort, Kan., on Aug. 3, 1898. He said that so far as he knew
she was still living at the latter place. |
Source: Idaho Statesman
Dated: Oct. 13, 1913
MARRIAGE LICENSES.
Walter STROUS, Laurelvill, Ohio; Dottie B. LaFavour,
Boise. |
Source: The Daily Herald - Mississippi
Date Dec. 27 1919
(Mortuary Notice)
ALMOST AS OLD AS THE NATION
Negro In Ohio Died Yesterday at the Age of 128 Years - One of
the Country Oldest Men.
Parkersburg, W. Va., Dec. 27 - William Peyton, a negro,
128 years old and said to have been one of the oldest men in the
United States, died yesterday at Little Hocking, Ohio. He began
life as a slave and served a Virginia family through six
generations. |
Source: The Idaho Daily Statesman - Idaho
Date: Dec. 28, 1919
(Mortuary Notice)
Former Slave Served Same Family During Six Generations.
PARKERSBURG, W. Va.
William Peyton, a negro, one of the oldest men in the
United States, died Friday at Little Hocking, Ohio, near
Parkersburg, at the age of 128 years.
As a slave and a freedman he served one family through six
generations, it is said. Peyton was in full possession of his
faculties until within a few weeks of his death. |
Source: Aberdeen Daily News
Dated: Mar. 8, 1928
THIEF ROUSES COMMUNITY
Logan, Ohio (AP) - A Laurelville resident had his automobile
stolen, and fellow citizens were so incensed they made up a
community purse to prosecute three youths charged with the
theft. The Youths were convicted. |
Source: Dallas Morning News Historical
Archive - Texas
Date Sep. 25, 1931
Mother of E. R. Brown Dies at Home in Ohio.
Mrs. Isabel Shaw Brown, mother of E. R. Brown and
grandmother of Mrs. George T. Lee and Murphy
Williams, died at her home in Little Hocking, Ohio,
Wednesday and will be buried Saturday at 10 a.m. at Little
Hocking.
Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Lee
and Murphy Williams are all in Little Hocking. |
Source: Dallas Morning News Historical
Archive - Texas
Date: Feb. 4, 1937(Mortuary Notice)
Sister of Oil Official Dies at Home of Niece
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at the home of
Mrs. George T. Lee, 6801 Baltimore for Miss Mary E.
Brown, 72, of Little Hocking, Ohio, sister of E. R. Brown,
Dallas oil company official, who died Wednesday at a local
hospital after a brief illness. Dr. Floyd Poe and Dr.
Frank C. Brown will officiate. Burial will be in Grove Hill
Cemetery.
Miss Brown had been spending the winter with her niece, Mrs.
Lee, when she became ill. |
Source: Plain Dealer - Cleveland
Dated: Oct. 12, 1965
Ohio Marine Killed in Viet
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Defense Department yesterday
identified 17 U. S. Servicemen dead in Viet Nam. They
include Marine Cpl. Ronald J. Ash, the son of Mr. and
Mrs. George H. Ash, Laurelville, Hocking County, Ohio,
who died of wounds. |
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