Gunnison Colorado Review 30 April 1883Death of Wm. W. Holroyd The public will be pained to learn of the death of Mr. Wm. W. Holroyd of typhoid fever, which occurred in this city at Newport this...
Obituaries
Mrs. Hester Aiden Obit
Another Pioneer Woman is Dead The Oregon Sunday Journal, Feb. 6, 1916, page 4 In the passing away of Mrs. Hester Aiken at her daughter's residence, Mrs. J. J. Sirey of 290 Thirteenth Street, Friday,...
Eliza Wortman Obit
Obituary of Mrs. Eliza A. WortmanMorning Oregonian., September 16, 1914, Page 4 Mrs. Eliza A. [Stumbo] Wortman, the widow of the late Jacob Wortman and mother of H. C. Wortman of the firm of...
Nettie May Pemberton Obit
Roseburg News, Roseburg, OR , Monday, April 6, 1925 Winston Resident Passes Sunday Nettie May Pemberton, the wife of Wesley Pemberton, passed away Sunday evening after a prolonged illness at the...
Traveler Smith Obit
Freed Enslaved Person Dead The Capital Terminal, Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, September 2, 1931 Huntington, WV. - Traveler Smith, 82-year-old, who was one of a group of enslaved people freed by their...
1998 Obituaries Index
These obituaries were abstracted from the Ironton Tribune newspaper in Ironton, Ohio by Dave Parsons and submitted to the Lawrence Register. 1998 Obituaries Taken from Ironton Tribune Submitted...
Mathilda Burcham
The Ironton Register of July 2, published at Ironton, Ohio, contained the subjoined article concerning the death of Mrs. Mathilda Burcham, grandmother of Mr. Louis Burcham who is situated at Wilbert in West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana. The obituary was handed a representative of the South by Mr. E.B. McCorkle who was born and raised in the same county as was Mr. Burcham, but didn’t meet him until they both came to Louisiana.
Samuel C. Wurts
Memories of older residents who resided here during the days when Lawrence and Greenup county (KY) furnaces were in their heyday, will be stirred by the following obituary of Samuel C. Wurts, furnace man of past years.
Josephine Ware Clemens Ferguson
Waverly Democrat, Waverly, Ohio21 Feb. 1912, front page The greatest and noblest earthly gift ever bestowed by God upon man is a woman. In the beginning, when God said in anticipation of her...
John Combs
Capt. John Combs died last Saturday and his funeral took place from the residence of Maj. Jere Davidson, Tuesday morning at 10 o’clock. Rev. E. E. Moran conducted the funeral services, and the interment was at Woodland.
Robert Scott
Last Saturday evening at 5 o’clock Robert Scott died in Ironton, andon Sunday morning at 9 o’clock, Thomas W. Means expired in Ashland. What vivid reminiscences do these names call up! How much of the past of Lawrence County is mingled in their lives!
Robert Scott was born near Paris, Ky., September 22, 1809. While yet a young man, he became interested in the iron business and was connected with several furnaces across the river.
Boudinot Seeley
Last December, Mr. T. R. Worthington came to this county to drum up laborers for the Oswego Iron Works, Oregon. Mr. Worthington is himself a collier,
Nelson Cox
Nelson Cox, the Nestor of the fruit growing industry in Southern Ohio, and one of the most widely known and best beloved residents of Lawrence County, died at 7:30 0’clock, last Thursday at his home. His death was due to a cancer and was expected, even by the deceased himself, who was thoroughly resigned.
Mr. Cox was born at Cox’s Landing, Cabell County, W.Va., May 21, 1828, being past 74 years of age at the time of his death. He was married to Miss Katherine Gardner in 1852, and eight children were born of the union, seven of whom, with the mother, survive the deceased.
Samuel W. Dempsey
Samuel W. Dempsey Obituary 22 Jan. 1880 Ironton Register Samuel W. Dempsey Obituary - Another old citizen has gone. Another link that held us to the fresh young days of Ironton has been broken. One...
Taps for Howard Lewis
TAPS FOR HOWARD - Another of our long ago friends answered the final roll call Sunday…Howard C. Lewis, the West Ironton boy who sang with the old Spanish-American War brass band died in Detroit...