Obituaries & Deaths

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Obituaries & Deaths

This topic appears in 406 indexed records between 1817 and 1977.
406 Indexed Records
1817 Earliest Record
1977 Latest Record
Bakerton Strongest Location
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August 18, 2023

Arthur G. Homer Funeral Announcement

HOMER, ARTHUR G. At Detroit, Mich., on Monday, August 21, 1933, at 6 p.m, ARTHUR G. HOMER, beloved husband of Mamie K. Homer (nee Kaldenbach). Funeral from the chapel of Thomas S. Surgeon, 1011 7th at […]
August 17, 2023

Arthur Homer, Death Notice

HOMER, ARTHUR G. At Detroit, Mich., on Monday, August 21, 1933, at 6 p.m., ARTHUR G. HOMER, beloved husvand of Mamie K. Homer. Notice of funeral hereafter.
August 7, 2023

Spirit of Jefferson Deaths, July 1885

DIED. At the residence of her half-brother, Mr. John H. Allstadt, in this county, on Wednesday, July 15th, 1885, Miss HANNAH HALL, at an advanced age. She had been a consistent member of the Methodist Church […]
August 2, 2023

Tamson Flanagan, died at home.

Mrs. Flanagan, wife of Mr. John J. Flanagan, died at her home near Moler’s Cross Roads on Wednesday.
August 1, 2023

Fatal Casualties (Irish Laborers in Wells)

Mr. DENNIS O’LEARY, an eminently worthy and industrious Irish laborer, well and favorably known by the citizens and farmers of this neighborhood, came to his death on Thursday last under very painful circumstances. He was engaged […]
July 18, 2023

Mary E. Grim, Ever-Busy Death

A couple of weeks ago Miss Mary E. Grim, who lived with her brothers near Bakerton, this county, came to Shepherdstown to visit her sister, Mrs. Sarah Jones. Wednesday she was taken suddenly ill, and by […]
July 18, 2023

Geo. W. Smith, dead at Weston

Mr. Geo. W. Smith, an aged man from Bolivar, who was taken to the Insane Asylum at Weston less than a month ago, has since died in that institution.
July 18, 2023

Death of Rev. Geo. Hildt

Rev. Geo. Hildt, with one exception the oldest member of the M. E. Church, died in Baltimore city, Tuesday, in his 79th year. He was born in Baltimore, and served in the battle of North Point. […]
July 18, 2023

Death of E. Morton Lackland

We very much regret to chronicle the death of Mr. E. Morton Lackland, which took place on Thursday of last week, the 9th of March, by suicide, at his home near Charlestown, in this county. He […]
December 11, 2020

Dead – Consort of Michael Walsh

Died,On Thursday morning last, in the 11th year of her age, Miss Hannah A. daughter of Mr. John Moore, of this county.On Wednesday, the 24th ult., Mrs. Nennis, of Halltown.On Friday last, Mrs. Walsh, wife of […]
December 11, 2020

Halltown Workmen Death

On the same day [Saturday last], in this town, Mr. John Still, one of the workmen from Halltown, who had recovered from cholera, but whose disease assumed a typhoid character.
December 11, 2020

Halltown Cholera

AWFUL MORTALITY.It becomes our duty this day to make a most appalling record of “Death’s Doings,” in our neighborhood. The desolating malady which has swept over our country, has no where been more fatal in its […]
December 11, 2020

Lawrence Murphy, death.

In this town [Charles Town], on Friday morning last, of an illness of 36 hours, Mr. Lawrence Murphy, a native of Ireland, aged about 27 years. He was a stranger here, and had been engaged upon […]
December 10, 2020

House, Watson, cholera death

THE CHOLERA. — Since our last publication, Mr. Wm. C. House, and a Mr. Watson, died of cholera. They resided in Bolivar. — Free Press.
December 10, 2020

Halltown Cholera Death

No new case of Cholera has occured in town for more than two weeks— the laborer from Halltown, who brought the disease with him, is dead— and we can again pronounce our village almost entirely free […]
December 4, 2020

Death Notice: Mary Hunter

Near this place, June 1, 1865, George William Thompson, son of Boston Thompson, aged 4 years, 5 months and 6 days. At Duffield’s Depot, Oct. 30, 1861, Mrs. Mary Hunter, aged about 58 years. On the […]
December 4, 2020

Death Notice, Mary Hunter

DIED. Near Charlestown, September 30th, 1879, of Scarlet Fever, FANNIE AMELIA, youngest daughter of D. H. C. and A. A. Beckham, aged 2 years. “She is not dead, — the child of our affection. — But […]
December 4, 2020

Obit, Hunter, Funk

Sudden Deaths. — Last Sunday night Miss Mary Hunter, an aged resident of Shepherdstown, was suddenly taken ill, and before a physician could arrive she had died. The deceased was a sister of Capt. J. H. […]
Time Periods

Time Period Concentration

This topic appears most frequently during the following decades.

1910s 60 records
1900s 54 records
1930s 50 records
1890s 44 records
1920s 39 records
1950s 35 records