The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1865-11-30
OBITUARY.

OBITUARY.
DIED-Octobcr 3lst, 1865. JOHN
LEST, aged 81 years, 6 months and
IL days.
Mr.. Leist was born April goth, 1884,
in Penns Township, Northumberland,
now Snyder County. Pennsylvania
In October 1907, he came to Ohio, and
settled in Clearcreek Township, Fair
field County. In August 1872, immo,
diately after Hul's surrender of our
army, he and others volunteered to
defend our Northern Frontier, under
Gen. Harrison, and assist in building
Fort Meigs at the Maumee River and
continued in the service in sll about
ten months.
In the fall of 1918, he was elected to
the Legislature, and was continued
with few exceptions, to and including
the session of 1824-5, when the Canal
Law-was passed, and in April, 1927,
he, was appointed by NJ. Il. Williams
and Alfred Kelley, acting Commission.
ers of Ohio Canal, one Of the Board of
appraisers to adjust and assess all dam.
ages sustained by individuals by the
location and construction of the Ohio
Canals and works necessarily connect
ed herewith, and in this capacity he
acted with some ten or twelve differ
ent Boards from April 1927 to lS45,
whom he declined serving any longer.
The field of operation of this Board
was large. 1t included tho National
Road from Springfield TO the Ohio Riv-
er at Wheeling, tho Ohio Canal and
Works connected herewith, the Wal
bounding Canal, the Dresden Side Cut,
the Muskingum Improvement, and
Hooking Canal. This Board consisted
of three members, and during the pc
riod before stated, decided some 800
cases or applications by actual view of
the promises complained of. Under
different appointments from the acting
Canal Commissioners, for the time be-
ing, or by special legislation, their pay
was the same as that of the General
Assembly,
Mr.. Leist was 80 years Of age April
Goth, 1854. Hc was married several
times, had IL children, of whom six
arc living only-fve sons and one
daughter, and he has at this writing,
Feb. 22d, 1865, G5 grand and 80 great
grand children. He was baptised in
his infancy, and in the goth year of
his age became member Of the En-.
Lutheran Church in which connection
he remained faithful unto death.
In all things Father Leist was an
Exemplary citizen, q good neighbor
and above all, Christian. After more
than folr-score years, his labor On
earth is finished, and he has gone to
his eternal reward.
At the residence of her daughter,
Mrs. Susan Stambaugh, in this city on
the 7th day of Nov. 1865, Mrs. ELIZ-
ABETH BOYLE, rclict of Hugh Boyle
dec.
Deceased was born in Western Pa,
on the It'll of March, 1886, and when
very young her father, Robert NJ Clel.
land with his family, emigrated west,
first to Kentucky, then in 1899, to the
present county of Fairfield, and in 1900
became q resident of the now town of
Lancaster, where the subject of this
notice lived down 10 the day her death,
The life.ti Of Mrs. Boyle is identi-
fled with both the rise and progress of
the city and county from. a bowling
wilderness to its present happy and
prosperous condition, and it may be
truly said of her that she fully shared
and bore the privations, toll, and dan
gers incidental to the settlement Of a
wilderness country, now so richly en-
Ijoycd by the present generation. Mrs.
Boyle was twice married, FIRST to Thos.
Hart in 1892. Ho dying in 1926, she
again united in wcdlock with Hugh
Boyle, who died in l649. She was for
several years previous to her death
much afflicted, bat Notwithstanding
her Affections sho closed her life on
earth in great peace. On the 9th day
of November, 1865, her remains were
inferred according to tho rites of the
Catholic Church, Of which she was a
member, ia tho presence of a large as.
sembly other children and neighbors
who. had convened for tho purpose of
paying their respects to the memory
of pioneer.
At her residence two miles west of
Lancaster, On the 2lst November, 1865,
Mrs. JANE WILSON.
Deceased was born in Cumberland
county, Pennsylvania, on the Goth of
of May, 1777. On the 1st of June,
1909, she intermarried with the late
Col. Robert Wilson, and then settled
lon the farm on which she died. Hor
husband departed this life in 1874.
1t is not saying too much to state that
Mrs. Wilson, throughout hor long res
idenco among us discharged the duties
of wife, mother and friend to all in tho
most eommendable manner, and that
her exemplary and useful lite will long
be remembered by all that enjoyed her
acquaintance. She passed away calm
ly, retaining her senses to the last
| On the second day after her death, and
after the delivery of very impressive
and appropriate discourse, by the Rov.
DR.. Phillips, her remains were con.
signed to their mother earth, by the
side Of her late husband, in the Lam
caster Cemetery, followed by largo
and respectable concourse of relatives
and friends, who had assembled on tho
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