Former Coshocton Attorney, Stricken

 

Robert B. McDermott, for may years a Coshocton attorney, died at 2:15 a.m. today in the Ohio Masonic Home at Springfield after two years' illness. He was 83.

 

He was born Nov. 8 1856, in Coshocton County, and spent most of his life here.  He became affiliated with the Masonic Lodge in 1882, and was admitted to the home in Springfield May 1936.

 

He is survived by two sons, Arthur R. McDermott, Washington, Pa., and Chester McDermott, and his former wife, Mrs. Effie McDermott, Warsaw.

 

Funeral services will be hald Friday at 2 p. m. in the Masonic chapel at Springfield, with burial in the home cemetery.

 

This was in the Coshocton Tribune on March 27, 1940.

 

 

Beulah Astle

 

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