John Stivers Dies
In North Carolina
Civil War Veteran Succumbs in
a Hospital
POMEROY, May 26, - John M. Stivers, a Civil War veteran, who was born in Meigs County on May 25, 1852, is dead in a hospital at Greensboro, N.C., where he lived for nearly half a century. He returned often to Pomeroy to visit the scenes of his youth. The last time he was here he employed a local photographer to go to the old home place on Lincoln Hill, now owned by Charles Ebersbach, and make photographs of a beech tree on which he had carved the names of the members of his family in the bark under the title: "The Stivers Family." The names carved still were distinct on the tree after some 50 years.
After leaving Pomeroy he went to Greensboro and was identified in the lumber business there. For 16 years he was office manager of the Pitt Lumber Company in that city. He leaves his widow, a son, Mark, of Murray, Ky., a daughter, Miss Edith at Greensboro; a brother, W.R. Stivers, Chattanooga, Tenn., and a sister, Miss Ella Stivers, Elyria, O.
Athens Messenger
May 26, 1931.
John Stivers Dies
In North Carolina
Civil War Veteran Succumbs in
a Hospital
POMEROY, May 26, - John M. Stivers, a Civil War veteran, who was born in Meigs County on May 25, 1852, is dead in a hospital at Greensboro, N.C., where he lived for nearly half a century. He returned often to Pomeroy to visit the scenes of his youth. The last time he was here he employed a local photographer to go to the old home place on Lincoln Hill, now owned by Charles Ebersbach, and make photographs of a beech tree on which he had carved the names of the members of his family in the bark under the title: "The Stivers Family." The names carved still were distinct on the tree after some 50 years.
After leaving Pomeroy he went to Greensboro and was identified in the lumber business there. For 16 years he was office manager of the Pitt Lumber Company in that city. He leaves his widow, a son, Mark, of Murray, Ky., a daughter, Miss Edith at Greensboro; a brother, W.R. Stivers, Chattanooga, Tenn., and a sister, Miss Ella Stivers, Elyria, O.
Athens Messenger
May 26, 1931.
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JOHN MILTON STIVERS
MAY 25, 1852
MAY 17, 1931
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