Pass auf: Beerdigt (??-04-1871) vor Sterbedatum (??-10-1871).
(1) Er ist verheiratet mit Elizabeth Jane Gardner.
Sie haben geheiratet am 15. Januar 1843 in Allen Co. Ohio, er war 21 Jahre alt.
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(2) Er ist verheiratet mit Sarah Marie Howlet.
Sie haben geheiratet am 25. Juni 1864 in Allen Co. Ohio, er war 43 Jahre alt.
Kind(er):
There has been a near-lynching, and there has been a hangman's day in the Allen County Jail. There is a bit of rope hanging in the office of Sheriff Baxter which was used in the execution of A.B., April 1872. B. was a resident of historic Shawnee, although a disgrace to the community. He killed his second wife in October 1871, stabbing her to death. He was a man of 50, while she was a woman of 27. He made her grave a short distance from the house. He plowed and harrowed the ground in order to conceal it. While he had swallowed poison, medical assistance saved his life. He was on trial for 10 days before Judge Mackenzie. The verdict was guilty, and he was sentenced to be hanged in January 1872, but Governor Hayes granted a reprieve of 100 days.. Prisoner B. was confined to a cell in the basement of the second courthouse in Allen County. There. were so many curious visitors that it was very annoying to the sheriff. The commissioners had ordered the high board enclosure in readiness for the outdoor execution. The prisoner was removed to the new jail in advance of the execution. On Wednesday, before Black Friday, hangman's day, the B. children and grandchildren called at the jail, and the condemned father was the least affected of all. His aged father and brothers did not visit him. The prisoner heard the sound of the saws and the hammers when the scaffold was being built for him. He heard the talk of a threatened mob, and 50 men assembled to guard the jail. The light of the lanterns and the glitter of the muskets held the mob spirit under subjection, and members of the local press witnessed the condemned man prepare himself for the night with little concern as if nothing waited for him the next day. A.B. arose the morning of the execution, had a hearty breakfast and was visited by the Lutheran minister, Rev. Bartholomew, who offered a prayer and read to him from the Bible. He was unmoved through it all. D.H. Tolan, who related the incident may have been the last living witness of the B. execution. He was a publisher of the Delphos Herald newspaper. The sheriff had invited all Allen County publishers to witness the execution. After Mr. Tolan reached Lima, his courage almost failed him. The newspapers were to herald the story to the world. The memory of the occasion never left Mr. Tolan.. Editor Walkup of the Delphos Courant assisted Sheriff Colbath in conducting the prisoner to the scaffold. It was built in the corridor of the jail, and the prisoner stepped from the landing of the stairway onto the death trap. All other spectators remained on the main floor.. Sheriff Colbath trembled while reading the death warrant, knowing it was his duty to launch the man into eternity. When asked for a final statement, B. said nothing. Rev. Bartholomew sang the hymn, "Eternity is Waiting," and the scaffold disappeared from under the man. A traveling show was staged in Lima that day, and the living skeleton, the fat woman, and the wonderful dwarfs attracted the crowd. Lima was full of visitors. The condemned man's body was prepared for burial, and his bier stood on the street where all might see him. He was not sensitive in life, and why should he be shielded in death?.
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Sarah Marie Howlet |
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