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"Uncle Mike" Hartzell Dead Michael Hartzell, of Oliver township who was reported seriously ill in our last issue, died with pneumonia on the norm of the 24th ult., and was buried in the Newport cemetery on the 26th. The funeral services were conducted by Rev John Vrooman, the cortège stopping at the M. E. church, while going to the place of interment, to listen to a sermon in memory of the deceased.
"Uncle Mike" Hartzell, as he was familiarly called, was born in Menallen township, near Whitestown, Adams county, Pa., and at the time of his death was about 74 years old. He had resided in Newport almost all his life, having come here in 1829 and learned the trade of carpentering with Daniel Rider. Before his removal to the country a few years since, he was the oldest resident of Newport. Readers of the News will recall his interesting reminiscences of this place as published in these columns several years since. In 1834 he married Lydia Rider, daughter of John Rider the original owner of the site of Newport. Two children-both now dead- were born to them. He subsequently married Kesiah Martin, of Clark's Ferry. She survives him. The fruits of the second marriage were six children, four of whom are living - John Z. Hartzell, Jesse L. Hartzell, Mrs. Willis Sunday and Mrs. Frank Gray, of Chester county. Two brothers - Col. John Hartzell and Adam Hartzell, of Des Moines county, Ia, and two sisters, Mrs. Eliza Zinn and Mrs. Arnold Lobaugh, also survive him. "Uncle Mike" was in his earlier days identified with the public affairs of the thriving borough, having filled the important offices of school director and member of town council repeatedly. He was a life-long member of the M.E. church, good natured and kind-hearted and universally respected. Peace to his ashes"
Sponsors at his baptism were Michel Rau and Christine.
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Dolly Hartzell, daughter of Isaiah Hartzell, of Wheatfield township, on the same day, had her left wrist broken. She attempted to pull a stick out of a pile of wood and the wood rolled down upon her arm with the above result. Source: Unk, September 1897
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Mrs. Keziah Hartzell, widow of Michael Hartzell of Newport, last Friday was stricken with paralysis at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Willis Sunday and died on Saturday. She was aged about 65 years.
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He was struck by a Pennsylvania railroad train, at the Market street crossing, many years ago, and was killed.
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"At 3 o'clock last Saturday morning, Mrs. Margaret J. Brown died at the residence of her son-in-law, J.C. Bistline, in Oliver township. She had been afflicted during the past three years with cancer, which was the cause of her death, and suffered intensely for four weeks prior to final dissolution. Her maiden name was Hartzell and she was born in Adams county, Pa, July 9, 1818. She came here with her parents when a child, and has since resided in this neighborhood continuously. Her husband, Solomon Brown, died in March 1893. She was the last of a family of four sons and five daughters, who were John, Michael, Adam and Samuel Hartzell, Eliza Zinn, Susan Rider, Mary Lobaugh, Tillie (who died young) and herself. She was the mother of fourteen children, only one of whom, Mrs. Bistline, is now living. Twelve died in infancy and one at the age of twenty-two. When a girl of sixteen, Mrs. Brown walked to Bloomfield and joined the Reformed church, of which she continued a member all these intervening years. The funeral was held at one o"clock Sunday afternoon, at her late residence, Rev. W.R.H. Deatrich officiating. Interment was made in Flurle's graveyard, in Oliver township."--Find-a-grave
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Solomon Brown Dead. After an illness of some five weeks duration, of neuralgia of the heart, Solomon Brown died at his home, in Oliver township, almost two miles from town, in the 78th year of his age. Mr. Brown was born August 12, 1815, on the farm now owned by G.W. Taylor, on the back road leading to Milford, about a mile and a half from Newport. January 31, 1839, he was united in marriage to Miss Margaret Jane Hartzell, sister of the late Capt. John and M.L. Hartzell. Fourteen children were born to this couple, thirteen of whom have died, the surviving one being Mrs. James C Bistline. Mr. Brown was the last of a family of three sisters and two brothers. The funeral will take place tomorrow morning at 10 o"clock, services at the house, and interment in Flurie's graveyard. The deceased was a prominent citizen of Newport, in the youthful days of the town, having been in the mercantile business with the late John Keim, Esq., and afterwords owned and conducted the Newport boat yard; he was also a carpenter to trade. In the year 1859 he took his little family to the farm in Oliver township, now occupied by his son-in-law, James C. Bistline, where he lived and tilled the soil until the year 1885, when he built the house along the main road to Bloomfield, where he and his wife resided up to his death. In this building he managed a little refreshment stand, and paid particular attention to watering horses of persons who drove past his home. Mr. Brown has been a consistent member of the Reformed church for more than 40 years. Source: Newport Ledger March 23, 1893
Family is believed to have come from east Berlin, Adam's County, Pa