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Early Deaths in Warrenton

Early Deaths in Warrenton, Jefferson County, Ohio

William Adam Welsh was a storekeeper and shoemaker in the town of Warrenton, Jefferson County, Ohio in the late 1800's, and he kept a journal in which he recorded deaths in the local community sporadically over the span 1875-1892. Given the time period, this may well be the only existing record of some of these deaths. The current whereabouts of this journal is unknown. However, Ella Boothe Welsh, as a girl of sixteen, received a Family Record Book from her father, the same William Adam Welsh, on Christmas Day, 1887, and after his death in 1892 she made the following entry in her book:

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Father died at 10:45 PM on Sabbath March 27, 1892 he was conscious until the last and died with hope of eternal life. Was buried Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock Mar 29, 1892. The following is taken from his Journal:

Died	Date	Notes
Minnie Spencer	Mch 27, 1885
Mrs. W. Brown	Dec 28, 1885	[poss Sarah, b. 1824]
Aunt Nancy Pope	May 28, 1886	[sister of Ella's mother]
Albert Keith	May 14, 1886
Benson Higgans	July 28, 1886
Erasmus Becket	Sep 19, 1886
Thomas Chamberlain Sn.	June 1, 1887
Mrs Sanders	July 9, 1887
Wm Ashby's son	July 12, 1887
Mrs. Free Bebout	July 23, 1887
Miss Trissy Higgans	Dec 10, 1887
Mother Higgans	Dec 18, 1887
John Niel Sn.	Dec 28, 1887
Eli Cusick Sn.	Jan 1, 1888
Jefferson Stringer	Jan 3, 1888
Clara Jackson	Jan 7, 1888
Bessie Jackson	Jan 9, 1888	Twins died of diptheria
Jessie Jackson	Jan 11, 1888
Mrs. J. C. McCleary	Feb 10,1888
Mrs. Ellen Hodgens	May 9, 1888
Jacob Welch	Oct 25, 1883	[b. 1805,mar. Charlotte Humphrey]
Frank Barr	Feb 25, 1889	[husband of Ella's sister, Mary]
Kirkwood Large	Apr 16, 1889
Wm Schamehon	Apr 22, 1889
Josiah Skeggs	Apr 22, 1889
Eva A. Welsh	Dec 6, 1875	[dau, age 12, of William A. Welsh]
Wm Stout	1875	[poss Ella's cousin, Wm S. Stout, son of John]
Taylor Bane	1875
Mrs. John Rouse	1875
Poll Chamberlain	1875
Daniel Higgans	Mch 10, 1876
Lee Chamberlain's child	Apr 21, 1876
Peren McGrew	Apr 21, 1876
Lyda Chamberlain	May 23, 1876
Wm Marshall	June 1, 1876
Mrs. Wm Marshall	July 29, 1876
Seely Collins	Dec 14, 1876	[poss Delia Collins 1849-1876]
Mrs. L. McCormick	Nov 27, 1876
Wimer Higgans	Sep 6, 1879
Chris Brandfass	June 3, 1889
C. D. Kaminsky	Aug 1, 1889
Jacob Creamer	Aug 11, 1889
Charley Pope	Feb 8, 1890
Mrs. Bigger	June 12, 1890	[Esther Bigger, w/o Samuel S.]
Senna Vervohlt	July 13, 1890
Alexander Hodgins	Aug 2, 1890
Ervard Lisby	Aug 2, 1890
Dad Gardner	Sep 6, 1890
Uncle J. Stout	Sep 20, 1890	[brother of Ella's mother, Sarah]
Wm Ashly	Nov 20, 1890
James Irwin	Jan 12, 1891
Mrs. Henry Oliver	April 9, 1891
Alex Mossgrove	May 28, 1891	[marr Jane Eliza]
Mrs Elizabeth Chamberlain	July 20, 1891
Aunt Rachel Miller	Aug 6, 1891	1 oclock AM [sister of Ella's mother]
John Medill	Aug 14, 1891
N. S. Gillespie	1892
Joe McKee	1892
Mr. Lisby	1892

[Added later:]
Robert John Prickman, Manton Mich Jan 16, 1898 [Ella's Father-in-law]

Sara Ann Welsh, Died at Warrenton, O. June 14, 1906 about 10:15, dropped dead among her flowers. [Ella's Mother and widow of William Adam Welsh]

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Comments entered in brackets [] have been added by myself to add clarification; information for those comments comes from family records and from A Time and Place in Ohio by Robert H. Richardson, 1983; Exposition Press.

Published in the Summer 1999 issue of The Report of the Ohio Genealogical Society.

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