The exact date of publication of this issue of the newspaper is unknown. The obits were on a scrap of newsprint. Edges were badly crumbled. Other articles on the page gave me they year. JOHNSTON, FORSYTH, ELLIOTT, GARDNER, THOMPSON, POOL, PUZZI, STURGEON The death of Capt. William JOHNSTON, of general debility, occurred at the family residence in Mt. Pleasant township on Friday morning, May 6. Mr. JOHNSTON was one of the oldest citizens in the county, being ninety-two years of age at the time of his death. Mr. JOHNSTON was widely known for more than half a century in the northern part of the county as a man of unusual enterprise and public spirit. In early life he was a pioneer in the far west and was on the frontier at the time of the Black Hawk war where he met with Abraham LINCOLN who was a captain of Illinois volunteers. Captain JOHNSTON married Miss Mary MCCLAIN, who was one of the MCCLAINE (sic) family that lived near the County Home. Mrs. JOHNSTON still lives and among the earliest recollections of the writer are the motherly attentions of this good woman to those who had no mother. "JOHNSTON", as his admiring neighbors were wont to call the deceased, was a manly man. In religion he was a Covenanter and attended Rev. Wm. SLATER's Church until the outbreak of the war, when he went to the United Presbyterians that he might vote for every measure against slavery. In courage he was a match for "Old John Brown" any day. Thos who knew him know that he would without a doubt have undauntedly faced and fought Milton's Personal Devil himself. He was full of fun and at "raisings" and fall "butcherings" he was always the leading man. His family consists of Martha, wife of John P. MCCONNELL; Darlington, married and with a family living at the homestead; Jane, wife of Samuel WILLISON; Robert, a resident of Beaver county, whose wife recently died and left him with a large family. Mrs. Margaret FORSYTH died at her home at Burgettstown on Tuesday of paralysis. Deceased was the widow of the late Wm. FORSYTH and the mother of Thomas FORSYTH, the merchant tailor of this place. She was the daughter of Wm. HASTINGS and was born and raised near Hastings Station. Mrs. Mary ELLIOTT, widow of Morgan ELLIOTT, died at her home in North Fayette township on Monday, aged ** years. Interment at the Hill Cemetery. On Saturday, and infant son of Wm. GARDNER, of Thom's Run. On Thursday, at Rend's Shaft, a colored boy, 12 years old, named Harry THOMPSON. On Sunday, Paul POOL, 13 years old, who on Saturday had been crushed by a pit wagon at Laurel Hill. In the East End, on Saturday, a Belgian child. Last Saturday a 16-year-old son of Mr. PUZZI, a Frenchman living at Miller' s Crossing, was so badly injured in Laurel Hill mine by being caught between the dilly wagon and the wall of the mine that he died on Sunday. He was a driver in the mine. Interment at Arlington on Tuesday. (The brief notice of the death of Samuel STURGEON, Sr., which was so hurriedly inserted in the Outlook last week contained some discrepancies as will appear in the following.) DIED-At his home near Willow Grove Station, Allegheny county, Pa., on Sabbath May 1, 1902 at * o'clock p.m. Samuel STURGEON, Sr., aged ** years. Mr. STURGEON was born near Oxford, Adams Co., Pa., March * th, 1800, and removed with his parents, in the year 180*, to the farm on which he died. He resided on the same farm, and in the same house, for a period of ** years. He was the youngest brother of the Hon. William STURGEON, and the last survivor of a family of ten persons. Mr. STURGEON never married by resided with his parents, and at their death inherited the old homestead. He was an honest and industrious farmer, a consistent member of the Raccoon congregation, Candor, Washington county and regular in attendance upon divine worship although he had to ride six miles over a bad road, and often when the weather was inclement. After the organization of the McDonald church he transferred his membership to it, as it was more _ to his home. In politics he was a Democrat of the Jeffersonian school and during his long life he never wavered in his devotion to principle. A great reader and possessed of a retentive memory, he was well and intelligently informed in all that related to the history of his country. In person Mr. STURGEON was tall and slender, neat and careful in dress. Kind and courteous in manner, he ever commanded an influence for good upon all who came in contact with him. Although qualified to fill almost any office, he never sought distinction in that way, choosing rather to live an independent life of the farm. His body was quietly laid to rest by the side of his parents in the old burying ground at Candor Presbyterian church.