Hawk, Meril A.

Name: Hawk, Meril A.	Married: Willa Jean
DOB:	DOM:
POB:	POM:
DOD: 1971
POD: DOB: POB: Garden Cemetery, Shade, Athens, Ohio
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Hawk, Meril A and Willa Jean
Garden Cemetery

Hawk, Charles E.

Name: Hawk, Charles E.	Married:
DOB: 1890	DOM:
POB:	POM:
DOD: 1914
POD: DOB: POB: Garden Cemetery, Shade, Athens, Ohio
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Hawk, Wiliam

Name: Hawk, William	Married: , Esther E.
DOB: 1843 - 1910	DOM:
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Name:  , Esther E.	Married:  Hawk, William
DOB: 1850-1914	DOM:
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Pierce, Lois

Name: Sinclair, Lois	Married: McNeil, Dennis
DOB: 13 Sep 1818	DOM:
POB:	POM:
DOD: 31 Feb 1883
POD: DOB: POB: Garden Cemetery, Shade, Athens,Ohio
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Husband and Wife




Dennis McNeil

Lois Pierce McNeil

Sinclair, Isaac Elwood

Name: Sinclair, Isaac Elwood	Married: Sloan, Mary Jeanettia “Nettie”
DOB:	DOM:
POB:	POM:
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Father: Mother: Other Spouses:	CHILDREN BORN TO THIS UNION: Gilbert, Homer, Lulu, Lola, Clarice

The Athens Messenger
Fires Shotgun with Stick to end his life
Isaac Sinclair, Bedford Township, is found dead.
  Pomeroy, July 2 - (staff special) - With face badly mutilated from gun shot wounds, the body of Isaac Elwood Sinclair, 52, farmer, was discovered at his home near Flora, Bedford Township, late Wednesday.  Before ending his life with a shotgun, Sinclair fastened a note outside of the main entrance door of his home which read, " You will find my dead body inside," Coroner B.H. Ewing learned in investigation.
  Sinclair was last seen alive Tuesday morning, when he conversed with his brother, Charles Sinclair.  He is believed to have been dead a day before his body was found.  One hand clutched a stick which he used in pressing the gun trigger.
  Two years ago Sinclair suffered a severe stroke of paralysis and since had been in ill health.  His farm consisted of 25 acres.  After being separated from his wife, he lived alone.  The body was removed to Coolville by Undertaker White, where funeral arrangements are being completed.
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Sloan, Mary Jeanettia “Nettie”

Father: Sloan, James

Mother: Hawk, Charlotta

Other Spouses: Meeks, William

Census

1910 Census - Lived with uncle William Hawk, Athens Co. Ohio, troy township. date was 15 April 1910. Nettie is listed as the 31 yr old neice of William Hawk. It also has her as divorced and the mother of 5 living children although only 3 live with her at this time. She was born in Ohio as was her mother, her father was born in Kentucky.
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1920 Census - lists her as the 40 yr old housekeeper in the home of [Miles Dingman]. Here it lists her father as being born in Ohio and her mother in New Jersey. It also lists her as widowed. dated 9 and 10 Jan 1920.

Real Estate
23 March 1930
Real Estate Deals -Lodi Township
Athens Messenger
Charlotte Hawk to Nettie Sloan,53,82 acres, waranty deed.

Newspaper
Woman Missing From the Home of Daughter in Meigs
Mrs. Nettie Sloan, 48, Disappears After a long Illness
Pomeroy, Sept 15..(staff special) Search for Mrs. Nettie Sloan, 48, of Pratts Fork, who diappeared from the home of her daughter, Mrs. John Buchannon, Willys Hill, is being conducted today by officers and relatives. It is feared that Mrs. Sloan's mind has been clouded by a long illness and that she may have taken her life.
Mrs. Sloan came Wednesday to visit her daughter, Mrs. Buchannon. She had been ill for several months. Yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock the daughter went to another room to attend her child. When she returned, Mrs. Sloan had disappeared, taking a suitcase and clothing with her.
A search lasting all night and today failed to reveal her whereabouts. A telephone call to Pratts Fork was made, but no trace of Mrs. Sloan had been found there.
Mrs. Sloan was carring a suitcase and a black coat with a fur collar. She is of slender build, and has bobbed hair sprinkled with gray. She has friends in Athens, and may have gone there.
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Athens Messenger 16 Sept 1927 (pg. 1)
Missing Woman Found in Woods after Long Search
Mrs. Nettie Sloan Restored to Her Family After Many Hours
Pomeroy, Sept. 16. (staff special)...Search lasting for twent-four hours resulted in the finding of Mrs. Nettie Sloan, Pratts Fork, in the woods two miles from the place from which she disappeared.
Mrs. Sloan was found, exhausted and in a nervous condition, by her son, Gilbert Sinclair, and her son-in-law John Buchannon, at Laurel Cliff, on the G.C. Peoples farm last evening. She had been missing since Wednesday afternoon, at which time she left the house of her daughter, Mrs. John Buchannon.
Mrs. Sloan had wandered about in the woods and had slept on a bed of leaves. She has been ill for several months and recently came to visit her daughter.
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Athens Messenger 20 Sept. 1927 (pg.2)
TAKEN AWAY
Mrs. Nettie Sloan, Pratts Fork, Is Removed To Daughter's Home In Parkersburg.
Pomeroy, Sept. 20 - Mrs. Nettie Sloan, Pratts Fork, who last wee, disappeared and was found exhausted in the woods two miles from her daughter's home on Naylor's Run, was yesterday taken to the home of her daughter, Mrs. Roy Stewart at Parkersburg, where she will receive medical attention and ministrations of the daughter's family.
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Athens Messenger 18 Dec. 1927 (pg. 7)
WOMAN PAINFULLY BURNED WHEN HER CLOTHING IS IGNITED
Mrs. Nettie Sloan, Pratts Fork, Burned at home in Parkersburg.
When her clothing ignited from fire in an open grate in front of which she was standing, Mrs. Nettie Sloan, Pratts Fork, was painfully burned. She was at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Roy Stewart, Parkersburg, when the accident occured last Wednesday morning.
Mrs. Sloan had just arisen and was still in her night clothes. The flames enveloped her quickly. A physician was called and it was thought that the burns may prove fatal especially since Mrs. Sloan has not been in the best of health for some time.
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Athens Messenger 29 Jan 1928 (pg. 2)
WILL RETURN
Mrs. Nettie Sloan of Meigs County Will Be Brought Home.
Pomeroy, Jan 28 - Report came from Parkersburg that Mrs. Nettie Sloan, of Meigs county, who was badly burned several weeks ago while visiting relaties in Parkersburg, will be able to be brought home in a few more weeks. Her recovery was not expected for a long time, but she now seems on the road to recovery.
Her sons, Gilbert Sinclair and Homer Sinclair, and families visited the woman Saturday and wer much encouraged with her condition.
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Obit

MARY MEEKS

Pomeroy - Mrs. Mary Jeanettia (Nettie) Meeks, 100, formerly of Syracuse, died early this morning in the MarkRest Centerin McConnelsville.

Born in Meigs County, she was the daughter of the late James and Charlotta Hawk Sloan. She was a member of the Bear Wallow Church of Christ.

She is survived by a son, Homer Sinclair of Columbus; several grandchildren, and great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.

Besides her parents, she was preceded in death by her first husband, Elwood Sinclair; her second husband, William Meeks; three daughters, Lulu Johnson, Lola Kinnen, and Clarice Buchanan; a son, Gilbert Sinclair; three sisters and a brother.

Services will be Saturday at 10a.m. in the Ewing Funeral Home. Burial will be in the GardenCemetery.

Friends may call at the funeral home after 1 p.m. Friday.

Sinclair, Kermit

Name: Sinclair, Kermit	Married: Died as child age 14
DOB: 5 Dec 1916 POB:	DOM:
DOD: 24 Oct 1931 POD: DOB: POB:	DODiv.
FATHER: Sinclair, Charles Mother: Other Spouses:	CHILDREN BORN TO THIS UNION:

The Athens Messenger dated 26 Oct 1931 pg 2

Typhoid Fever Causes Death of Young Boy

The Garden, OCT. 26 - Kermit Sinclair, 14 years old, died at the family home on Bearwallow Ridge Saturday afternoon after and illness of three days of typhoid fever. Funeral services will be held this afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Bearwallow Ridge Church and burial will be made in The Garden Cemetery.
The boy was the son of Mrs. Charles Sinclair. His father died in July of this year. He leaves his mother, three brothers and one sister, and four half-sisters.

Sinclair, Lewis S.

Name: Sinclair, Lewis S.	Married: Pierce, Florinda
DOB: 1848	DOM: 30 Aug 1872
POB:	POM: Athens, Athens, Ohio
DOD: 1902
POD: DOB: POB:
Father: Mother: Other Spouses:	CHILDREN BORN TO THIS UNION: Infant, Charles E., Isaac Elwood, ______
Notes: Pierce, Florinda DOB: 1853 Ohio DOD: 7 Jan 1928 Pomeroy, Meigs, Ohio Parents: Merrill and Mercy Pierce

 

Name of Soldier:  Sinclair, Lewis S.

Name of Dependent: Widow, Sinclair, Florinda
Service: F. 60. Ohio Inf.
Date of Files 1886,--- 7
Class - Invalid
Application No. - 569.161
Certifcate No. - 379.877
State fro -----  - left blank
     Date of Files 1902 June 6
     Class - Widow
     Application No. - 764.463
     Certifcate No. - 547.528
     State fro -----  - Ohio
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Name:                       Lewis S. Sinclair
Enlistment Date:      27 February 1864
Distinguished           DISTINGUISHED SERVICE
Service:
Side Served:              Union
State Served:             Ohio
Unit Numbers:          1897   1897
Service Record:         Enlisted as a Private on 27 February 1864 at the age of 18
                                  Enlisted in Company F, 60th Infantry Regiment Ohio on 28
                                  July 1865 in Delaney House, Washington, DC
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Infant son of L.S. and F Sinclair died Oct 23, 1894
buried close to his parents
Lewis and Florinda Sinclair

The Garden Cemetery
Shade, Athens, Ohio

1870 Census

Name: Florinda Pierce Age in 1870: 16

Estimated Birth Year: 1853
Birthplace: Ohio
Home in 1870: Coolville, Athens, Ohio
Race: White
Gender: Female
Value of real estate:
Post Office: Carthage
Roll: M593_1171 Page: 117 Image: 235 Year: 1870

1910 Census - Lived with uncle William Hawk, Athens Co. Ohio, troy township. date was 15 April 1910.  Nettie is listed as the 31 yr old neice of William Hawk.  It also has her as divorced and the mother of 5 living children although only 3 live with her at this time.  She was born in Ohio as was her mother, her father was born in Kentucky.
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1920 Census - lists her as the 40 yr old housekeeper in the home of [Miles Dingman]. Here it lists her father as being born in Ohio and her mother in New Jersey.  It also lists her as widowed.  dated 9 and 10 Jan 1920.
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Great-Great Grandson Larry Edward Sinclair.
Great-Great Grandson Charles Lee Sinclair
can be seen in the background.

DIES SATURDAY

Daughter of Late Merrill Pierce Dies at Home in Pomery
Florinda Pierce Sinclair, 75, died at her home in Pomeroy Saturday at "10 o'clock in the morning, Funeral services were held at the church at Jerseyville, Athenscounty, this afternoon at 1 o'clock and burial was made in the Garden cemetery. She was the widow of Lewis Sinclair, a soldier in the Union army in the Civil war, who died twenty-six years ago at Pratts Fork, the family home until last March when Mrs. Sinclair established her home in Pomery. Her health has been poor for several months, a decline having continued for nearly a year. She leaves two sons and a daughter and a number of grandchildren. She was the daughter of the late Merrill Pierce and leaves two sisters and one brother, Mrs Ira Conkey of New Marshfield, Mrs Charles Grim of Athens and Isaac Pierce of Carthage township. One sister, Mrs. Warren Burk, preceded her in death.

The Athens Messenger
9 Jan 1928

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Mrs Lewis Sinclair died at her home in Pomeroy saturday 7 Nov 1928. At a time she made her residence at Bearwallow Ridge. Mrs. Sinclair's son Charles was with her at her time of death. Her funeral was held Monday 9 Nov 1928 and she was laid to rest in Garden Cemetery, Shade.