These pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other persons or organizations. They are for individual research ONLY. They will remain the property of the OHMEIGS list serve and may NOT be FORWARDED on to any second party or group. Persons or organizations desiring to forward or use this material must obtain written consent from me or my legal representative and contact the archivist of the OHMEIGS list serve with proof of this consent. I have given permission for these files to be stored permanently for free access in the archives of the OHMEIGS list serve. SIDE NOTE: This information is being posted for individuals on this mailing list to use in their family research or written history of their surnames. It is not necessary for you to ask for permission to use them for that. I am mainly concerned about the transcriptions being forwarded on to others or groups taking the transcriptions and using them as a profit making adventure. My reason for posting these is that the information be made available free for you and future researchers. January 16, 1879 Athens Messenger Athens Ohio Meigs Alex. Steele, of Salem township, was lately found lying in his barn, suffering from an apoleptic fit. Mr. Roman Darst, for a long time the miller of the Pomeroy Flour Company died one day last week. Mr. James W. Allen, of Lebanon township, and Miss Julia O. Cooper of Pomeroy, were recently married. Mr. John Gorsuch 1st, an old citizen of the Pomeroy Precinct, who lived in the vicinity of the County Infirmary, died on Tuesday of last week, of lung fever. The ladies of Pomeroy were to have met in the Opera House at that place on Tuesday to effect an organization for charitable purposes. The 20th birthday of Miss Emma Day, of Orange, was recently made the occasion of a large social gathering at her home and an enjoyable time. Reuben Walburn a middle aged resident of Salem township, died recently, from the effects of a cancer, from which he has been suffering for about twenty-five years. Stephen Va????????. ? ?????? w???? home is near Mt. Gilead, and who escaped from the Columbus Insane Asylum about a year ago and has been supposed dead, has been discovered at Pomeroy. W. Hart, aged 22, of Bedford township, has had his left hand amputated as the result of an injury by the premature explosion of a toy cannon while he was engaged in loading it on New Year's Eve. [The above was transcribed as it appeared in the newspaper without making changes to spelling or grammar. ] Transcribed by: Connie Cotterill Schumaker [These newspapers which have news relating to Meigs Co., Ohio were sent to me from Joyce who lives near Columbus. She has given me permission to transcribe and posts them to the mailing list.]