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:

[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.

© Copyrighted 1999 by Harry W. Long.

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