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Killed at Sistersville
Superintendent Anderson's Brother Killed at Sistersville
The sad news reached the city yesterday that James Anderson, brother of Superintendent
of Schools Anderson, of this city, was killed by the train yesterday at
Sistersville. Mr. Anderson was a well-known contractor and builder of
Sardis, Ohio. How the accident occurred could not be learned last night.
The deceased was about 59 years of age. He leaves a wife and a family of
grown up children.
~ The Wheeling Register ~ November 27, 1890 ~
Submitted by C. Anthony
Susan R. Ankrom Died
March 6th, 1875, at her home in Tyler county, West
Virginia, Susan R., wife of John D. Ankrom, Esq.
Mrs. Ankrom was
born August 16th, 1827. She was the last survivor of a large family. The
subject of this notice married, at the age of nineteen, Mr. J. D. Ankrom, with whom she walked in
the quiet paths of unobtrusive usefulness the remainder of her life. She
had been for many years a consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. In her death we mourn the loss of one who as a wife was ever
thoughtful, loving and devoted; as a mother, wise, tender and
self-sacrificing, who breathed her own gentle spirit into her children,
and whose constant aim it was to lead them into the walks of usefulness;
as a neighbor she was kind and considerate; as a friend found and
sympathizing. Her trust in the Savior was that of a little child; in
times of trial the unseen comforter was ever near; and during the weary
weeks of suffering that preceded her departure, her hopes, we have
reason to believe, grew stronger as the hour of her release approached.
Her consistent life and her peaceful death, justify the assurance, so
comforting to bereaved relatives and friends, that though absent from
the body she is forever present with the Lord. B.
~ Wheeling Register ~ March 23, 1875 ~
Submitted by C. Anthony
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Editor J. W. Barnes
In the death of Editor J. W. Barnes of the Tyler county
Star, the editorial fraternity of West Virginia loses a brilliant and
valued member. Mr. Barnes' afflicted family has the earnest sympathy of
all his journalistic brethren.
~ The Wheeling Register ~ October 7, 1889 ~ Submitted by C. Anthony
Suicide at Pruntytown
Special Telegram to the Register.
Grafton, W. Va., April 7.--News
reached here to day by telephone from Prunty-town that Mrs. Betts, an aged lady at that place,
cummitted suidide this morning by jumping into a cistern of water and
drowning. Her daughter had left the house but a short, distance, and ou
returning and not finding her in bed where she had left her, went in
search and finding her shoes near the cistern looked in the water and
saw her body, which was at once taken out, but life was extinct. Her
mind had been deranged for some months.
~ The Wheeling Register ~ April 8, 1892 ~ Submitted by C.
Anthony
Geo. Bradley
On Sunday morning, the 7th
inst., Geo. Bradley, son of Tyranus
Bradley, was drowned at Shanklin's Ferry, on New river. He with
others went in bathing when he got beyond his depths, and not being able
to swim, sank before help could reach him. His lifeless body was not
found for near an hour. He was an estimable youn man, and leaves behind
him a host of friends and relatives to mourn his sad and sudden fate.
~&nbps;The Wheeling
Register ~ August 15, 1892 ~ Submitted by C. Anthony
Drowned at Sistersville
Special to the Register.
Sistersville, W. Va., July 14.--Late yesterday
afternoon a young negro, named Brown, was drowned while attempting to get
away from an officer. Brown was at a sporting boat up along the river,
and when he saw the officer coming he took off part of his clothes and
jumped into the river. He could not swim and before assistance could
reach him he had sunk out o' sight. An attempt is being made to recover
the body but so far without avail.
~ The Wheeling Register - July 15, 1896 ~ Submitted by C.
Anthony
Sistersville
Sistersville, W. VA., July
20--THe body of the negro named Brown, who was drowned a short distance
above this city about a week ago while he was trying to evade arrest,
was found a couple of days ago at Raven Rock and was shipped to this
city where it was interred. The remains were in a bad state of
decomposition from having been in the warm water so long.
~ The Wheeling Register - July 21, 1896 ~ Submitted by C. Anthony
The Body of Butler, Who was Drowned Monday Found Yesterday
Morning - A Lively Fight.
Special Correspondence of the Register.
Sistersville, W. Va., July 23.--The
body of Geo. Butler, the driller
drowned near Friendly yesterday morning, a detailed account of which
appeared exclusively in the Register to-day, was found this morning
about 11 o'clock at a point on the West Virginia shore about three miles
below where the accident occurred. The remains were taken to Friendly,
where they were prepared for burial, and will be brought here this
morning for internment.
~ The Wheeling Register ~ July 24, 1895 ~ Submitted by C. Anthony
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William H. Calvert
William H. Calvert, who projected the Venture well, died at Sistersville,
West Virginia, on February seventeenth, 1896. He had drilled on Oil
Creek and at Pithole, operated in the southern field and was negotiating
for a block of lands near Sistersville when a clot of blood on the brain
cut short his active life.
~ Wheeling Register, July 15,
1894~ Submitted by Rodney Henthorn
Hon. Friend Cochran Died.
Parkersburg, W.Va., July 14--
Hon. Friend Cochran died yesterday
afternoon near Salama eighty-five years old of heart disease and
infirmities incicent to old age. He was born in Tyler county, and was
eight years magistrate of that county. He was distinguished for his
sound judgment and strict integrity.
In 1861 he was sent as a delegate from
his county to the state convention, which assembled in Wheeling for the
purpose of restoring the state government of Virginia to its relations
to the Federal Government. By diligence and frugality he accumulated
valuable property. He was a faithful member of the Baptist church at
Willow Island. The funerla takes place Monday.
~ Wheeling Register,
July 15, 1894~ Submitted by C. Anthony
Mrs. M. Cusick
The remains of Mrs. M. Cusick , who died at noon
yesterday, were shipped to Pittsburg on the evening train, where they
will be interred under the auspices of Catholicism.
~ The Wheeling Register ~ May 4,
1896 ~ Submitted by C. Anthony
Mr. Patrick Cusick
A very sad death occurred at the home of Michael Cusick, early this morning. The
details are as follows: Mr. Patrick
Cusick, who is boarding with his brother, got up at his usual
hour, six o'clock, and as breakfast is not served until seven o'clock,
he went to the pantry and got a piece of pie and devoured it. Sunday
evening he was taken with pains similar to the cholera morbus and could
not trace the cause of same until asked what he had eaten. It was then
discovered that he had got hold of the piece of pie which the servant
girl had sprinkled with Rough on Rats to rid the pantry of the
mice. Dr. G. B. West was called
Monday morning and relieved his misery, but the poison had got in its
work and that was all the could be done. He died about one o'clock in
terrible agony.
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Wheeling Register ~ September 17, 1896 ~ Submitted by C.
Anthony
William Cupp (Born 06
Dec., 1853, Died 04 April, 1934)
William Cupp, well known farmer of
Klondike, died at his home there on Thursday morning aged 82 year. He
was a native of Randolph County and came here half a century ago.
He was married to Anna
Hennegan and to this union were the following children:
Howard, Mrs. Maude Moffit of
Alma, Mrs. Mae Baker of Kidwell and Mrs. Ella
Conner of West Union. These with their mother survive him.
He was an active
member of the United Brethren Church and this pastor held the service
Friday afternoon. Interment was in Beechwood, Alma. In charge of
Strathers and Furbee.
~ Submitted by JoAnn Cupp on September 8, 2008 ~
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WEST VIRGINIAcan certainly show some
remarkable instances of longevity, and Tyler county aids materially in
sustaining that reputation. Mr. JACOB THOMAS and Mr. CALIB
DAVIS died in that county last week, the first being ninety-three, and the second ninety. Each had lived in
Tyler county over sixty years.
~ Wheeling Daily Register -
April 29, 1878 ~ Submitted by C. Anthony
Sistersville.
Frank Deutz died yesterday morning with typhoid
fever at the Pennsylvania House, after a protracted illness.
~ The Wheeling Register, June 12,
1897 ~ Submitted by C. Anthony
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A Young Man Drowned.
Special to the Register. Sistersville, W. Va., April 27--
Yesterday afternoon while Arch
Gaimich , a young man, was assisting in locating a pipe line
out near Braden station, from a boat, he lost his balance and fell into
the creek and was drowned.
~ Wheeling Register, April 28, 1897 ~ Submitted
by C. Anthony
Dr. John B. Gorrell
Hebron, W.Va., February 9--
News has just reached here of the death and confession of Dr. John B. Gorrell,
who resides on Indian creek, Tyler county, and who died there last week,
to the murder of Alex Campbell, a
prominent citizen of that place, aged 78 years.
The murder occurred eight years ago to-day.
Campbell had gone on a visit to Dr. Gorrell's, a former neighbor,
intending while there to collect a small debt due him from the
doctor.
The Gorrell's claimed that some time after retiring for the night the part of the house occupied
by Mr. Campbell was blown up by means of some powerful explosive,
completely wrecking the building and killing him instantly. Strange to
say the family escaped unhurt.
Suspicion has always pointed to Dr. Gorrell as
knowing more about it than he cared to disclose. Detectives were called
in but they failed to find anything that would even
justify his arrest. There the matter rested, until the hour of
death, when he made a full confession.
He said he became angry at
the old gentleman for dunning him, and killed him with a club, then
placed him on a bed, and removing his family to a place of safety, blew
up that building to hide the evidence of his own guilt.
Dr. Gorrell was born and
raised in this community on a farm almost adjoining farms to Mr.
Campbell's. He served in the late war as a member of Company K Third
West Virginia Infantry. Calvin Campbell, of this city, a son of
Alex Campbell, the murdered man, was seen by the Register man
to-night. He is much affected by the news, and said:
"About eight years ago, on a Friday, my father left on horseback for the waters
of Fishing creek, in Tyler county, to see Dr. Gorrell, and try to
collect $50, which was paid to him. Father was 78 years of age at the
time and could travel only slowly. The first night out from his home,
near Hebron, Pleasants county, he stopped with an old friend named Hill,
and did not reach Gorrell's house till Saturday. On the night of that
day the dynamite explosion occurred. There was a hold in the
foundation of the house immediately under the room, where my father
was sleeping. In this hold the dynamite was placed. When the body of my
father was found there was a wound on the head, but it has always been
supposed that that injury was caused by a rafter falling due to the
explosion. Gorrell was suspected at the time, and was under surveillance
for a while, but was never arrested".
~ Wheeling Register ~ February 10,
1897 ~ Submitted by C. Anthony
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A Sad Accident.
A peculiarly sad accident happened at the Gorrell Run oil
well at Middlebourne, in Tyler county, last Thursday.
Wilson Hogue, one of the drillers was
engaged at his work, when the heavy crane pulley accidentally fell from
the top of the derrick, striking him on the right knee, and so badly
injuring his left leg that it was found necessary to amputate
it. He was thought to be getting along well when gangrene suddenly
set in, and he died last Sunday at noon. He was a man well liked by all
the oil workers in that region, and his sudden death caused much sorrow.
His age was 35 years, and he leaves a wife and four children. His
remains passed throught the city yesterday en route to Oil City in
Pittsburg, accompanied by the family of the deceased. John M. Goodwin
and William Smith, will accompany the body as far as Pittsburg.
~ Wheeling Register ~
September 2, 1890 ~ Submitted by C. Anthony
Clarington Items.
Mr. Samuel Hofer died at Bearsville last
Saturday, and was buried yesterday. Mr. Hofer belonged to the Clarington
Lodge of Free Mason.
~ Wheeling Register ~ July 30, 1877 ~ Submitted by C. Anthony
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Col. Dan Johnson
The death of Col. Daniel D. Johnson of Tyler county, yesterday, makes the third
removal from the ranks of West Virginia's prominent public men within the past month.
Col. John son was one of the best known
men in West Virginia. A college graduate and an exceptionally bright man
he naturally drifted into public life though his private occupation was
that of farming, of which he made a study and at the time of his death
held the position of State Lecturer of the Agricultural Experiment
Station at Morgantown. Previously he had served several terms in the
Legislature, during one of which he was President of the Senate. He was
a finished parlamentarian and was chosen presiding officer of almost
every political convention of which he was a delegate.
He was a thorough Democrat
and very popular particularly in the agricultural sections of the State,
and deservedly so, for Col. Johnson was one of the most approachable of
men, whole-souled and honest and as modest as he was learned. His death
will be regretted by a host of warm friends and admirers.
~ The
Wheeling Register ~ December 19, 1893 ~ Submitted by C. Anthony
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Sarah Keller
Of near Middlebourne,Tyler county, fell over a bank, by the road-side, on the 10th inst., and
received injuries from which she died in an hour. She was 66 years old.
~ Wheeling Register ~ October 20, 1890 ~ Submitted by
C. Anthony
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Special to the Register.
Sistersville, November 7.--Yesterday morning a very
sudden and sad death occurred near Friendly, the news of which was brought to the city last evening. For about three months a man named
John P. Madden has been pumping for the Carter Oil Company on the Moore farm back of Friendly. Where the man
came from or who he was no one seemed to know. He was very reticent and told no one who he was or where he lived. About a week ago he contracted
pneumonia of the lungs and after only being sick about four days died. The remains were buried this afternoon, as nothing could be heard from
friends telegraphed to.
~ The Wheeling Register ~ November 8, 1895 ~ Submitted by C.
Anthony
Mrs. D. H. Matheny
An old and respected citizen, Mrs. D. H. Matheny, residing in South
Sistersville, died at 11 o'clock Saturday morning from old age. She was 70 years of age, and leaves a husband and four children.
Interment took place at 5 o'clock this evening. Funeral well attended.
~ The Wheeling Register ~ May 4, 1896 ~ Submitted by C. Anthony
LONG LIFE
Death of an Aged West Virginia Lady
There recently died at her home near Sistersville, Tyler county, a lady who has lived under the
administration of every President since Washington. This was
Mrs. Sarah McCoy. The Sistersville Democrat says of her:
She was born in Brooke county, W. Va., in 1793; she
came to this place with her father's family of twenty-two children in
1806. She was the mother of eight children, six of whom are
dead. She has been a widow since 1835. As a child she
gathered wild flowers where the streets of the town now are. She
attended school in the old house, the very site of which is
gone--engulfed by the river. She saw the keel boats float down the
river, then a narrow and deep stream. She has seen the flat boat
superseded by the steamer, a magnificent floating palace. Again,
she saw the steamer partially fall into disuse by the railroad.
She has seen the log cabin with its puncheon floors replaced by elegant
houses with carpeted floors and fine furniture. The linsey dress
has given place to silks and satins, and the handkerchief tied over the
head is replaced by the artistic hat or bonnet. She has lived
under every President of the United States from George Washington to
Grover Cleveland.
Sistersville, she saw planted in the wilderness
when she was a child, and hunted "ground berries" among the corn, where
now stand substantial houses and handsome stores.
The Wheeling Register - December 27, 1887 ~ Submitted by
C. Anthony
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Deaths.
At Long Reach, on the 29th of November,&nssp;Mrs. Rebecca Parker, aged 87.
~ Wheeling Sunday Register ~ December 15, 1884 ~ Submitted by C.
Anthony
Funeral of Mrs. Philips.
The last sad rites over the remains of Mrs. Jean S., beloved wife of Mr. Peter Philips, took place from the
family residence, on South Chapline street, last Thursday afternoon. The services were attended by a large concourse of sorrowing friends.
Dr. W. H. Cooke made a touching address. Mrs. P. Tatum and Mrs. F. Williams and
Mr. Chas. Zulauf rendered "Nearer, My God, to Thee," and "Some Sweet Day." At the conclusion of the services the
interment took place at the Peninsula cemetery. The floral offerings were elaborate and profuse. Mrs. Philips had been married almost sixty years.
~ Wheeling Sunday Register ~ August 4, 1895 ~ Submitted by
C. Anthony
Mr. E. K. Pollock
The accidental death by drowning of Mr. E. K. Pollock, of
Paden's Valley, yesterday, will be a severe shock to his numerous
friends. He was well known and respected at his home and in
Sistersville, where he was prominent in business, and in Wheeling. He
was a most amiable young man and his death is a severe affliction to his
family. He was a son of Mr. Mortimer Pollock,
of this
city.
~ Wheeling Sunday Register ~ January 1, 1895 ~ Submitted by C. Anthony
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Jake SALISBURY , the man who was shot by the officers near
Sistersville, Sunday, died at 5 o'clock Monday morning. Wright, who was so badly beaten by Salisbury, is getting much better and there
are some hopes of his recovery provided inflammation does not set in.
~ Source: Wheeling Register, December 19, 1877 ~ Submitted by C. Anthony
Mabel M.
SPENCER
Mabel M. Spencer, 84, of Middlebourne, Blue
Community, died Sunday, May 3, 1992, at her residence. She was born in
Tyler Co., a daughter of the late James L. and Maude Cupp
Moffett. She was a homemaker and teh last surviving member of
the immediate family.
She was preceded
in death by her husband, Delbert J. Spencer, in 1984; 3
brothers: Herman D. Moffett, Clint R. Moffett and Lester C.
Moffett; 3 sisters: Minnie Wise, Jessie Burrows, and
Mary Meredith.
Surviving are
several nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be held today at the
Furbee Funeral Home, Alma, with the Rev. Louise Baker officiating.
Interment will follow in Beechwood Cemetery, Alma.
~ Submitted by
JoAnn Cupp on September 8, 2008 ~
Nina L.
SESSLER, 72, of Kampsville, died Monday, Feb. 14, 2011, at
Blessing Hospital in Quincy with her family by her side. She was a
homemaker. She graduated from Clendenin High School in Clendenin, W.Va.
and upon graduation joined the U.S. Navy, where she proudly served her
country. Born June 6, 1938, in Wilbur, W.Va., she was the daughter of
the late Everett and Lucy (Hickman) Stewart. Surviving
are a son, Ron Sessler of Scott, Ark.; two daughters,
Deanna Stamper of Pittsfield and Kim (Dan)
Wilcox of Kampsville; 18 grandchildren, nine
great-grandchildren. She was preced in death by a son-in-law,
Ron Drummond.
A memorial
visitation will be held Thursday, Feb. 17, 2011 from 6 to 8 p.m. at
Hanks-Gress Funeral Home in Hardin. Burial will be private and at a
later date in West Virginia.
Pike Press ~ Submitted by Bill
Browning ~
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WEST VIRGINIA
can certainly show some remarkable instances of longevity, and Tyler county aids materially in
sustaining that reputation. Mr. JACOB THOMAS and Mr. CALIB DAVIS died in that county last week, the
first being ninety-three, and the second ninety. Each had lived in Tyler county over sixty years.
~ Wheeling Daily Register ~ April 29, 1878 ~ Submitted by C.
Anthony
Deaths
On Thursday, July 13, 1882, Charles William, infant son of Wat H. and Julia H. Tyler, aged 14 months.
Funeral services at the residence of C. D. Hubbard on Saturday morning at 9 o'clock. Interment private.
~ Wheeling Daily Register ~ July 14, 1882 ~ Submitted by
C. Anthony
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Mrs. Josie Wehrman, wife of Dr. E. A. Wehrman, and an only sister of Captain A. W. and
Jacob Voegtly, died at the residence of her husband, in this place Saturday, with the typhoid fever. Her remains will be taken to
Bearsville for interment. In the death of Mrs. Wehrman the community looses a most estimable lady.
Dr. E. A. Wehrman is very low with typhoid fever.
~ Wheeling Daily Register ~ July 30,
1877 ~ Submitted
by C. Anthony
Deaths - Nicholas Wells
On February 28, 1877, at 10:25 P.M., Nicholas Wells, aged 91 years and 8 days, at his residence in Tyler County.
~ Wheeling Daily Register
~ March 5, 1877 ~ Submitted
by C. Anthony
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