Samuel Ketchum died June 29, 1871, aged about forty-three years.  His father was from the State of new York.  With good common education, he entered upon active life.  He was well known as the treasurer of Coshocton county, and from his difficulties growing out of that position he found relief only in death.  Having plead guilty to the charge of embezzlement, he was sentenced to the penitentiary for five years, and became an inmate of that institution on the 1st of march, 1870.  His health rapidly failed him, and in fifteen months he was pardoned, on representations made by the warden and physician, by Governor Hayes, and returned to his home.  While in prison, he professed thorough penitence, and claimed to have little hope for the present life, and none for that to come, save by the mercy of God in Christ Jesus.  In the hope of this mercy, he passed away--recognized by the world as a man of considerable refinement and of generous impulses, to be pitied, however much blamed.  An aged, faithful mother, a wife true when all else failed, and two children bitterly lamented his death.

Source:  Historical Collections of Coshocton County Ohio 1764-1876
Author: William E Hunt, pub. 1876