The Coshocton Age Friday, Jan 26, 1866
Mrs. Sarah Meek wife of Hamilton Meek, Esq. died of dropsy, on the 12th inst. at the residence of her sister in this place. Mrs. Meek was of the Tuttle family, and had long resided in this place. She was a devout Christian and most estimable lady. The bereaved husband and family, as well as the many friends she had in this community, will greatly miss her.

The Coshocton Age Friday Feb 2, 1866
Died on Monday the 22nd of January, 1866 at the resident of his father in Keene township Coshocton County O., of Liver Complaint, Robert S. McCormack, aged 24 years. The subject of the above notice died a martyr to the cause of the country – died from the effects of cruel and inhuman treatment received at the hands of the rebel officers at Andersonville and other Southern prison pens. In 1861, he volunteered in Company G. 80th O.V. I. and followed the fortunes of his regiment fighting in all its battles, up to the battle of Mission Ridge, Nov. 24, 1863, at which place he fell, wounded in the face, into the hands of the rebels, by whom he was marched, bleeding and sore to Belle Island. >From thence, in Feb 1864, he was marched to Andersonville prison – Here he was kept until some time the following October, during which time he contracted that terrible disease – scurvy. The rebel physicians there paid no attention to his suffering condition and he was forced to turn his own doctor, or die. He dieted himself upon raw potatoes; and, by bandaging his nether limbs in such cloths as were at his command and standing in water for hours each day effect a cure—but not until he had been reduced by disease and starvation rations from 200 lbs to less than 130 lbs weight. From Andersonville he was removed to Charleston, then to Fler?? Than back to Charleston and thence to Annapolis, where he remained for a month or more, very sick with typhoid fever. Here he was exchanged and permitted to return to his home. His term of enlistment expired previous to his exchange and since arriving home was put in possession by Governor of an honorable discharge from the United States service. The past summer his health had been quite poor and he spent some months in the State of New York hoping to recover but in vain. He returned to his home ….died the rest of the paragraph is unreadable. The writer of this knew Robert S. McCormack as an intelligent and reasonable young man, a brave and sturdy companion in arms and a true Christian patriot in death. Peace to his ashes.

The Coshocton Age Friday Feb 2, 1866
Died of Diptheria, Dec 7th 1865 at the residence of his father, Robert Irwin in White Eyes near Chili George B. Irwin in his 17th year.

The Coshocton Age Friday, Feb 23, 1866
Maggie Elliott Death, like an appalling specter haunts every pathway of life and dims every vision of joy. O, Death! Thou art “the King of Terrors” “The tear the groan, the knell, the pall, the heir and all we know, or dream, or tear, O! agony, are thine” No form, however, in which Death presents himself does he appear as appalling heartless and cruel, as when he drags down into his icy empire the tender wife and mother in the of her existence. To love deeply and tenderly and then to part; to gave upon that form cold in death; to imprint a kiss upon those bloodless lips; to follow the pale remains of death’s dark doings to the damp cradle of the earth, and then to return to our desolate home with a blank the in the region of the heart, this is the sharpest arrow in the quiver of the Almighty. Such was death’s doings when on the 6th instant he carried away Maggie, wife of J.S. Elliott, in the prime of her life. “Her sun is gone down white it was yet day.” And like the sun, lighting up the earth and filling the western horizon with his parting beams and setting splendor, so her son of life, as a daughter, as a wife, as a kind neighbor, scattered the radiant mellow influence of happiness and joy all around. But her son has gone down – down we trust, to rise and shine amid the splendors of an eternal day. May God bless the bereaved husband and mourning friends, in this, the night of their grief, with grace to live for that eternal life above. E. W. Brady

The Coshocton Age Friday March 23, 1866
Belle, daughter of Charles and Margaret McClosky died suddenly Wednesday afternoon, aged about 15 years.

The Coshocton Age Friday May 4, 1866
Mrs. Shaw, wife of Judge B.R. Shaw, of this place, died on Monday morning last. The funeral took place on Wednesday and was largely attended by relatives and friends.

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