This is Hezekiahs obit:
"The Sabbath Recorder", Vol 61, No 4, p 61,Jan. 23, 1905.
Near Edgerton, Wis., Dec. 20, 1904, Hezekiah Milton Stout, in the seventy-eighth year of his age.
He was born in 1827, near Clarksburg, W. Va. When ten years of age he removed with his mother, to Clark County, Ohio, his father having been killed when he was two years, by a falling tree. He was a man of great activity. It is said that during the years following his removal to Ohio, he rode on horseback to Virginia nine times. In 1879 he removed to Albion, Wis., where he became widely and favorably known. The last six months of his life were spent in severe pain, from malignant disease of the stomach, which was borne with great patience. Although not a member of any church at the time of his death, he was a loyal supporter of the Seventh-day Baptist denomination, and met his death with the quiet confidence of a Christian. He was twice married, two sons and a daughter being left him by his first wife. These, with the widow and two sons survive. His last companion tenderly and faithfully cared for him during his painful illness. A large concourse of relatives and friends in attendance upon the funeral at the Albion church, testified to the respect in which he was held. T. J. V.
More info on Hezekiah
Birth and marriage information of Hezekiah and second wife from Harrison county Marriage index (WPA progject, AGLL film no. V150-75). At the time of his marriage in 1875, Hezekiah was a resident of Shelby county, Ohio. (Harrison county, WV Marriage Index.) Studied medicine under grandfather Hezekiah Stout. Founded the town of Jackson Center, Shelby co., OH. Organized 50 Masonic lodges. "All his teeth were double; he had blue eyes, blond hair, powerfully built." In 1878 moved to Dane, WI. (Stout and Allied Families by Herald F. Stout, San Diego (3rd ed. 1986).
"My father, Hezekiah Milton Stout and Uncle Ezekiel platted the town of Jackson Center, Ohio, where father was postmaster and operated the only large general store within a radius of 18 miles. He organized many Masonic Lodges in Ohio. Prior to the Civil War, father operated a station on the Underground Railroad, to assist escaping slaves, at the risk of federal jail and a fine of $1,000.00, plus an equal amount of damages to the owner of the escaping slave. As a prominent Mason, he crossed battle lines to bring back dead and wounded Union soldiers. On one such occasion, he saw the battle of Lookout Mountain. Father held two commissions as an internal revenue collector signed by President Lincoln that two curators from Madison, Wisconsin ‘borrowed' but did not return. In those times, when a tax was delinquent, the collector seized and sold farm stock at market to pay the tax." (Penelope and Richard Stout by Claude D. Stout (1974), page 28.)
This is Hezekiahs obit:
"The Sabbath Recorder", Vol 61, No 4, p 61,Jan. 23, 1905.
Near Edgerton, Wis., Dec. 20, 1904, Hezekiah Milton Stout, in the seventy-eighth year of his age.
He was born in 1827, near Clarksburg, W. Va. When ten years of age he removed with his mother, to Clark County, Ohio, his father having been killed when he was two years, by a falling tree. He was a man of great activity. It is said that during the years following his removal to Ohio, he rode on horseback to Virginia nine times. In 1879 he removed to Albion, Wis., where he became widely and favorably known. The last six months of his life were spent in severe pain, from malignant disease of the stomach, which was borne with great patience. Although not a member of any church at the time of his death, he was a loyal supporter of the Seventh-day Baptist denomination, and met his death with the quiet confidence of a Christian. He was twice married, two sons and a daughter being left him by his first wife. These, with the widow and two sons survive. His last companion tenderly and faithfully cared for him during his painful illness. A large concourse of relatives and friends in attendance upon the funeral at the Albion church, testified to the respect in which he was held. T. J. V.
More info on Hezekiah
Birth and marriage information of Hezekiah and second wife from Harrison county Marriage index (WPA progject, AGLL film no. V150-75). At the time of his marriage in 1875, Hezekiah was a resident of Shelby county, Ohio. (Harrison county, WV Marriage Index.) Studied medicine under grandfather Hezekiah Stout. Founded the town of Jackson Center, Shelby co., OH. Organized 50 Masonic lodges. "All his teeth were double; he had blue eyes, blond hair, powerfully built." In 1878 moved to Dane, WI. (Stout and Allied Families by Herald F. Stout, San Diego (3rd ed. 1986).
"My father, Hezekiah Milton Stout and Uncle Ezekiel platted the town of Jackson Center, Ohio, where father was postmaster and operated the only large general store within a radius of 18 miles. He organized many Masonic Lodges in Ohio. Prior to the Civil War, father operated a station on the Underground Railroad, to assist escaping slaves, at the risk of federal jail and a fine of $1,000.00, plus an equal amount of damages to the owner of the escaping slave. As a prominent Mason, he crossed battle lines to bring back dead and wounded Union soldiers. On one such occasion, he saw the battle of Lookout Mountain. Father held two commissions as an internal revenue collector signed by President Lincoln that two curators from Madison, Wisconsin ‘borrowed' but did not return. In those times, when a tax was delinquent, the collector seized and sold farm stock at market to pay the tax." (Penelope and Richard Stout by Claude D. Stout (1974), page 28.)
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