The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1901-10-24
RA1NSBORo.
October 81. 1901

| Durg, were guests OI ner parents, MT
and Mrs. c. A. West, yesterday.
Misses Mae and Beatrice Davis
visited friends at Sinking Spring Sat
urday and Sunday.
James Rowe, Of Sugartree Ridge
has been spending few days here
with his mother, Mrs. Priscilla Rowe
Mrs. Ida Diehl, of Mowrystown, re-
turned home last Friday after a
pleasant visit at the home of Prof
Galliett.
John Hiatt and wife, of Carmel,
were guests of the families of Frank
Spargur and Dode Thoroman Sunday.
w. ]. Redkey is at Portsmouth at.
tending the U. b. Conference as a
delegate from this charge.
G. W. Badgely and daughter, Mrs.
H. B. Galliett, visited relatives at
Greenfield last week.
Edward Smith is reported seriously
sick with strong symptoms of typhoid
fever.
Newton Caudy has moved from
benson Ladds farm to the tenant
house on the lands of John Shipton.
A pie social will be held at the resi-.
dence of j. 1. Taggart next Saturday
night under the auspices of the
Epworth League, to which all are
cordially invited.
The old peoples meeting at the NJ.
E. Church will be next Sunday the
9th beginning at 1890 a. m. The
mistake in the announcement in the
paper last week caused several per-
sons to be disappointed.
Lee Stratten, who lives on L. b.
Boyd's farm, fell form the top of a
new barn that is in process of erec-
tion there by T. f. Mccoy, last Friday
and broke a bone in one of his legs
and was otherwise seriously injured.
Samuel Gossett, of Alert, Ind,
Mrs. Cora Mershon and Mrs. Lilly
Luba, of Columbus, e. A. Gossett and
son Harley, Frank Pomert and wife
and daughters, Hazel and Maud, and
son.. Harry, Frank f. Gossett and
wife and daughters, Inez, Pearl and
Ruth, and Mr.. and Mrs. Holiday, of
Greenfield, attended the funeral of
Mrs. Malinda Gossett here last Fri
day.
Mrs. Nancy Redkey, Mrs. j. w.
Upp, Mrs. Waverly Waddel, J. B.
Gossett and wife, ]. 1. Taggart and
wife and Misses Beavers and Myrtle
Baker attended the funeral of
Miranda Skeen at Greenfield yester-
day.
Aunt Betsey Spargur, one of our
aged ladies, has been quite sick DUR
ing the past ten days, but is better
new.
A letter from Crate Harrington,
who recently returned to Klonkike,
brings the intelligence that he had
succeeded in discovering some new
gold bearing territory that promises
to be renumerative.
Mrs. Malinda Gossett, whose maid
en- name was Mccoy, was born March
goth, 1922, in the northwest corner of
Paint township, Highland county, o.
Her parents afterwards moved to the
vicinity of Sugartree Ridge and there
on the 25 day of November, 1874, she
was united in marriage with Joseph
Ambrose Gossett, whose companion
ship she enjoyed till the day of May
1885, when he peacefully passed to his
reward. Of the 10 children born to
them the following are living; Mrs.
Sarah c. Scott, of Columbus, o.; Jas.
G., of Lindsay, Wis; Samuel A., of
Alert, Ind. Frank E. and Mrs. Minnie
Pomert, of Greenfield. The members
of her fathers family who survive are
David Mccoy, of Greenup county, Ky;
Mrs. Lois Igo, of Sugartree Ridge, and
Mrs. Celia Cook, of Cincinnati, o.
Mrs. Gossett probably resided in
Rainsboro more consecutive years
than any other citizen except aunt
Evaline Brown, and therefore needs
no words of mine in setting forth her
upright life, her devotion to her fam
lily and friends, her kindness to her
neighbors, her sympathy with the sor-
rowing, her ministrations to the
afflicted and her generosity to the
poor and needy.
We have no record at hand to de-
termine when she united with the M.
E. Church, but looking through her
bible since her death quarterly love
feast ticket was found, dated Dec. 2,
1856, setting forth the fact that she
was then a member of the M. e. Church
and signed by Rev. Catch as her pas
tor.
Since the death of her husband and
especially since the last one of her
children was married and left the
parental home, her life has been a