This obituary appeared in The Daily Signal, Zanesville, Ohio Monday 16 February 1885 OBITUARY Anthony Slater Died on Thursday 12 February 1885, Mr Anthony Slater of Adams Township at the age of 95 years, 4 months and 10 days. The first thing that will attract the readers attention is the great age to which Mr Slater lived. It is the lot of few in his age of the world to approach as near the centenarian limit as did Mr Slater. In his case it was indeed a good grand old age. His life not only in its length but in its usefulness, it integrity and in the substantial good accomplished for himself and for those about him is excelled by very few if any. His life was that of a farmer and in pursuit of his avocation he acquired a goodly share of this world substance. Anthony Slater was born on 2 October 1789 in Loudoun County, Virginia eight miles below Harpers Ferry. here he spent his life up to manhood's years. he received a common school education in both English and German. He was married in 1812 to Miss Susannah Vensel of the same county. Mr Slater was a soldier of the war of 1812 entering the service on the same day on which the British burned the Capital at Washington. He was at Baltimore during the attack and siege of that place and Ft McHenry being one of the advance guards of the American army when the British landed there. In the year 1816 Mr Slater and his wife moved to Ohio. The first place of settlement was on what is now known as the Culbertson farm in Washington Township this county. Here they lived about one year. They then moved to the farm on which they lived all the remainder of their lives in Adams Township. This township however had at that time no existence and Mr Slater's farm was included in Monroe Township. It was in 1824 that a new township was formed of parts of Monroe and Madison and named in honor of John Q Adams who was then a candidate for President. That portion of country was then an almost unbroken wilderness and Mr Slater had no neighbor nearer than three or four miles. His mill and post office were at Zanesville, eighteen miles away. He was the first permanent settler in the territory now included in Adams Township. In his long and useful life a number of positions of trust were bestowed upon him. He was the first Justice of the Peace in Adams Township and held that office for twenty-one years in succession. he was once a candidate for County Commissioner on the Democratic ticket but was defeated as the Whigs carried the county that year. He always enjoyed to the fullest extent the esteem and confidence of his fellow citizens. The children of Mr Slater consisted of six sons. Of these but three are now living. They are among the most substantial and highly esteemed citizens of that section of the county. On 31 July 1878 Mr Slater's wife died at the age of 85 years. This made for Mr and Mrs Slater's married life of 66 years and continuos residence together at one place of 61 years. Mrs Slater was buried 1 August 1878 in the family burying ground in New Hope Cemetery. In politics Mr Slater was always an unswerving democrat. His not being a land owner when a citizen of Virginia debarred him from voting in that state. But during his long residence in this state he never voted any but the Democratic ticket. he has also been a constant patron of the Democratic paper of this county under its various names from the old Messenger to the present volume of the Signal. Mr Slater and his wife were during nearly all the many years of their residence in this state members of the New Hope Lutheran Church. They were consistent and exemplary in their Christian lives, instant in season and out of season in all religious duties the same one day with another. They both lived well rounded up lives of true Christian faith and doubtless are the blessed who die in the Lord. Mr Slater retained his strength and vigor in his old age to a remarkable degree. The last year or two of his life were however marked by a decline which foreshadowed a failure to live out a full century. About two before his death when walking about the premises he fell upon the ice and badly fractured one of his thigh bones. he never rallied from the shock of that injury and gradually sank until the day on which he died. He was buried on last Saturday the 14th in New Hope Cemetery by the side of his wife. The funeral sermon was preached by the Pastor Rev J Weber to a large assemblage of relatives and friends. The descendants of Mr Slater comprise three generations and the family relationship is quite extensive.