SOURCE: Vinton County Republican Newspaper Jan 18, 1903 Hiram McDonald's Death Hiram McDonald, living near Abram Hoffhines southeast of Town, died of bronchitis or consumption., Sunday morning about 8 o'clock , aged 70 years. He leaves a second wife, and fourteen children, three of whom were by his first wife. The body was interred Tuesday at two o'clock in the Elk Fork cemetery.