This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bainter, Wilcox, Adams Classification: obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.ohio.counties.muskingum/6181/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Zanesville Signal, May 21, 1901 DEATH OF AGED PIONEER Frederick Bainter of Otsego Answers Final Summons - Was 97 Years Old Frederick Bainter, aged 97 years, one of the oldest and most prominent residents of Muskingum County, died Tuesday morning at 2 o'clock at his home near Otsego. Death resulted from diseases incidents to extreme age, superinduced by a fall which Mr. Bainter sustained about a month ago. At the time little was thought of the fall, but since its occurance, Mr. Bainter had grown steadily weaker until death ensued as above stated. Mr. Bainter was born August 15, 1804 on what is now know as the Stump farm, near Dresden, where his parents, who had come from Pennsylvania, had settled two years previously. He was married in early manhood to Maria Wilcox and four children were born of that union. Two of these, J. A. Bainter of Adamsville, and Theodore Bainter of Otsego, who had made his home with his father for about sixty-five years, survive. Jonas Bainter and Mrs. William Adams, the two other children, have been dead for a number of years. The faithful wife and mother died eighteen years ago. In addition to the relatives named, the deceased is survived by sixteen grandchildren and twenty-three great grandchildren. Mrs. Robert Scott and Miss Nora Bainter of this city are grandchildren of the deceased and City Clerk C. N. Bainter is also related to him. Mr. Bainter was a stalwart Democrat of the old school and never, even after the hand of age had fallen heavily upon him, neglected to cast his vote at the various elections. He always attended the picnics and other neighborhood gatherings and in the course of his long life won hundreds of friends. The funeral will take place from the New Hope Lutheran Church, of which the deceased had been a member for years, Thursday morning at 10 o'clock, Rev. Mr. Harter officiating. The remains will be laid to rest at the New Hope Cemetery.