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Fairfield Weekly Ledger
Jefferson County, Iowa
Transcribed by:  Joey Stark

Note:  Typographical errors (followed by [sic]) and spelling variations in names in this document are intentional and reflect the actual newspaper articles.   Transcriber’s notes are occasionally included and are indicated with [Ed. note:….].  Surnames shown here are in UPPER CASE for easy location; not rendered as such in the newspapers.

January 23, 1868
 

Marriages
---October 16, 1867, by J. G. CONDIT, at the residence of the bride’s father, Mr. George LUELLEN and Miss Susan J. EDWARDS.

---December 24, 1867, by Rev. J. G. CONDIT, Mr. James M. BLOOM and Miss Harriet E. DUNLAP.

---October 23, 1867, by Rev. J. G. CONDIT, at the residence of the bride’s father, Walters EDWARDS and Miss Rebecca M. LYNN.

---January 9, 1868, by Rev. J. G. CONDIT, Mr. Theodore F. HIGLEY and Miss Ellen S. McELHINNEY, both of this county.

---January 1, 1868, by Rev. Thomas MERRILL, at the residence of Capt. J. T. McCULLOUGH, Mr. William J. EFNER and Miss Anna E. TEMPLETON.

---December 26, 1867, by Rev. J. W. CONDIT, at the residence of the bride’s father, Mr. Robert D. LYNN and Miss Jennie GORDON.

---January 8, 1868, by Rev. Jonathan LEE, at the residence of the bride’s father, Mr. Jacob PFOUTZ and Miss Prudence R. HICKENBOTTOM.

---January 16, 1868, by Robert BLACK, Justice of the Peace, Mr. William HESTON and Miss Mary E. BONNETT.

---January 1, 1868, by W. C. TEMPLETON, Justice of the Peace, Mr. James W. SMITH and Miss Caraline B. DAVIS.

---January 15, 1868, by Thomas MORGAN, County Judge, at his office, Mr. John BEALS and Miss Sidney S. FUQUA.

Obituary
W. B. McCOID died in the 21st year of his age, at his father’s residence in Batavia.  cut off in the bloom of youth, when his prospects were brightest and his soul swelled proudest with high hopes of a life of usefulness.  In 1861, though too young, his heart panted for the battle-fields of his country, and this desire of his soul became so irresistible that at the time the 8th Iowa Cavalry was raised, he enlisted in its ranks, as a member of Co. “B.”  He served until in action at Campbellsville, Tenn., in September, 1864, when HOOD was advancing on Nashville, he was wounded through the right elbow, shattering the arm and causing its loss by amputation.  On his way home at Lewisville, Ky., gangrene having set in in the wounded arm, he was subjected to the cruelty of hospital treatment by being kept several days without any attention because he refused to have his arm re-amputated at the shoulder, in compliance with a determination of some brutal surgeon, who, afraid to go to the front to practice his art, caught his victims there.  Here he lingered long on the confines of the grave, subject to the severest torture in the burnings and outings to heal his gangrened wound.

On his return home he received an appointment as chief messenger in the Agricultural Department at Washington.  While there the abscess commenced running that continued to drain away his life, till last Sabbath morning he yielded to its power.  His is one of the few lives in which, looking back, we discover no cause of human blame.  He was gentle, quiet, studious, patient, forgiving, loving and most sensitively honorable.  In his excrutiating sufferings he always made his attendants leave him and attend to the slightest wants of others.  And, most blessed and sweetest consolation, he loved God .  He died in faith and confidence, saying, in his last words, “I’m going to Heaven, I want you all to meet me there.”  Then closing his own eyes, and lying his own hands over his breast, as if to fold them, he whispered: “Good-bye”.