The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1885-08-20
OBITUARY..

WATTs.-James Watts was born in Greenbriar
county, W. Va, August 18th, 1905, and died at his
home in Green township, Gallia caunty, Ohio Au-
gust 3 1885, where he had resided fortynine years.
He came to Gaia county in 1916 and has been identf
fed with all of her interests during his eventfu lfe
At the of sixteen he Joined the NJ. E. Church and
was happily converted at a camp meeting held in
Pocahontas county, Va. In all of his relations to the
church of his choice class-leader, steward and
private member he kept in view the prize at the end
of the row. which he met with degree of frmness
that was consoling to his manly friends, saying he
was ready and waiting and longed to be at rest and
to join his friends the other shore. In
lS30 he was married to Miss Margaret Waddell,
daughter of the Rev. James Wadden, who passed
away in holy triumph in 1855 They the parents
ofthirteen children, six of whom have passed be-
FORE August 25, 1861, he married to Miss Eliza
beth Mossman. She with their three children
left lonely at the old homestead await the call of
the Master. May they be ready For years
he has ever been ready with his to support the
church of his choice. Only few days before his
death he was inquiring of some of the members of
his class if his pastor had been paid in full For
nearly months he had been confined to his
room patiently waiting the Masters call. A large
congregation gathered at his home and after divine
services conveyed all that earthly the sacred
place where many of his neighbors and friends lie
to await the trump of God.
MD. VAUGHN.
[Mr. Vaughn informs me that the deceased the
father of Ross Watts of our county, and j. NJ. Watts,
many years q resident OF Jackson, anu now OF Web
ster, Scioto county.-D. NJ
GFrom the Stafford (Kansas) Herald, of Aug. 6, 1885,.
TYRRELL.-On Sunday, Aug. End, at 2.2O p. NJ, DR..
W. S. Tyrrell passed away. He was born at Ludlow,
Vt Aug. 31st, 1912, and therefore lacked month
of being 70 years of age. He graduated from Black
River College, VT, and afterwards graduated from
Ohio medical college i'll 1886, when he commenced
practicing and has followed his profession
stnce-about fifty years.
In 1878 he removed to Kansas, located Sterling,
where he lived one year, when he removed to STAFF
ford, where he has resided ever since. His chill
dren that living all married and well situated
During the war the doctor served his country as
physician and honorably discharged such.
He was buried with Masonic honors, of which order
he has been a member in good standing for fifty
years,
The doctor was a warm hearted, whole-souled
man, liked and respected by all who knew him. In
fact his good heartedness the of his not
amassing more wealth, there is probably not doc
tor in the state who has gratuitousy attended
poor people than DR.. Tyrrel and pressed them
little for his pay.
He was buried by the Stafford Lodge of Masons,
assisted by Ionic Lodge of St. John nearly the entire
Lodge coming in body to tender their respects
to the deceased brother; there being, including Wis
fttng brothers, over eighty Masons in line. The
funeral procession started from Masonic Hall,
led by the st. John Band, AS they passed Town Hall
FL. H. Post, G. A. R., of which he comrade and
an officer of the Post filed in, and the Womens' Re-
Hef corps, OF which his wife and daughter mem
bers. Joined in; did the Sons of Veterans when
the procession passed their temporary headquarters
making with the delegation of Odd Fellows, five
societies in line.
The procession when formed at the church to go to
the cemetery mile long, and the
largest procession have ever at the funeral
of private person, and although only twenty four
hours had passed since the death, universal was
the respect for the doctor, that it almost i'm
possible even out of doors for all to get within hear
ing of the services.
The doctor, in 1872 when our county first
ganized, was elected county coroner and has been
reelected continuously ever since without any
solicitation his part. He not only leaves wife
and three children, but an entire county to mourn
his loss. AS to personal feeling toward him
there has been since first acquaintance.
when the doctor came to the then frontier warm
personal friendship, and while feel the loss
society, we mourn the loss of valued friend, and
the family have the sympathy of entire COM
munity.
SHEwARD.-August 10th, 1885, of pyemia, James
Steward, of the late David Steward, of Franklin
township, this county Deceased was aged Is years
and one month. Funeral took place at the Four Mile
Church, on the 18th inst, conducted by S. 81. Bng
man, of Jackson. Mr.. Steward member of the |
Christian Church, at Four Mile, and his funeral
attended by large concourSe of people who sympa
thfze deeply with the widowed mother.