Gallipolis In Sorrow Over Death Of Her Noble, Notable Son.
Death came like a flash to Harry Maddy, cashier of the Ohio Valley Bank, while at his post of duty early this afternoon. Standing at the middle window and waiting on Miss Anna Simmerman, he suddenly took a backward step, fell to the floor, and passed away instantly, it was said by his fellow-workers. One of these workers, his own daughter, Ruth, had left the bank a short time before for the lunch period. Time of death was around 12:15.
It is one of the most shocking tragedies this reporter has ever been called on to report. For in the long history of Gallipolis it seems doubtful that any other citizen ever had so many friends- so many warm friends- for he was friendly and hospitable and kind indeed to everyone who came his way. Despite a long and close friendship, this writer never heard any intimation from Harry Maddy or anyone else that all was not well with him physically; and that association included a dinner and ride together into the country yesterday. Since his passing it is learned he had been advised not to work so hard and so assidously [sic]. Presumably death resulted from a heart attack.
A crowd gathered in front of the bank as the news of the tragedy began to go forth in all directions and saw Frank Wetherholt, Col. Morris Haskins and others lift the body into a waiting ambulance. It was taken thence to the Wetherholt mortuary. Previously Dr. Leo Bean had been called from the Clinic to the bank but there was nothing for medical skill to do.
Harry Maddy would have been 68 years old next month. He was born in what used to be the Jim Hall home on Pine near First Ave. and most of his six years had been spent here. He was the only son of the late Captain Edwin and Maria Ball Maddy. Some of his boyhood was spent in Cincinnati and during that period he was the bat boy and mascot of the Cincinnati Reds.
The father was a noted steamboat captain and once commanded a bulkheaded Ohio River packet down the Mississippi and across the Gulf of Mexico and around Florida and up the east coast to Jacksonville for delivery to purchasers who planned to use the boat on the St. Johns River. It was a marvelous feat.
In the '90's, the family moved to Gallipolis and Harry soon became a clerk in the post-office and during the larger part of his tenure the office was located in the rear end of the building in which he died today.
During the first decade of this century he was a book-keeper for the Silverman, Levi and Co. here and then under the James M. Cox administration held an important post in the State Welfare Department in Columbus. He returned to Gallipolis more than 20 years ago to accept the bank cashiership at a salary in excess of what had been previously paid here for that sort of position.
In his young manhood Harry Maddy, a riverman at heart, but highly proficient as a book-keeper and banker joined his father and later Captain S. A. Dunbar in operating packets on the upper Ohio.
Last year Edwin, the only son of Mr. and Mrs. Maddy, passed away after a long and distressing illness. That was a terrible blow but it was borne with Christian resignation and stoical fortitude.
The Maddys continued to "live by the side of the road" and their home continued to radiate that warm hospitality that endeared them to multiple thousands here abouts and all along the river. May God somehow soften the blow and assuage the anguish that have come to the devoted wife and daughter, will be the fervent wish of all who have known them.
Newspaper (prob. April 1946, Gallipolis) clipping found in the Simmerman files, Maddy file, Bossard Library.
Transcribed by Lynn Anders
Death came like a flash to Harry Maddy, cashier of the Ohio Valley Bank, while at his post of duty early this afternoon. Standing at the middle window and waiting on Miss Anna Simmerman, he suddenly took a backward step, fell to the floor, and passed away instantly, it was said by his fellow-workers. One of these workers, his own daughter, Ruth, had left the bank a short time before for the lunch period. Time of death was around 12:15.
It is one of the most shocking tragedies this reporter has ever been called on to report. For in the long history of Gallipolis it seems doubtful that any other citizen ever had so many friends- so many warm friends- for he was friendly and hospitable and kind indeed to everyone who came his way. Despite a long and close friendship, this writer never heard any intimation from Harry Maddy or anyone else that all was not well with him physically; and that association included a dinner and ride together into the country yesterday. Since his passing it is learned he had been advised not to work so hard and so assidously [sic]. Presumably death resulted from a heart attack.
A crowd gathered in front of the bank as the news of the tragedy began to go forth in all directions and saw Frank Wetherholt, Col. Morris Haskins and others lift the body into a waiting ambulance. It was taken thence to the Wetherholt mortuary. Previously Dr. Leo Bean had been called from the Clinic to the bank but there was nothing for medical skill to do.
Harry Maddy would have been 68 years old next month. He was born in what used to be the Jim Hall home on Pine near First Ave. and most of his six years had been spent here. He was the only son of the late Captain Edwin and Maria Ball Maddy. Some of his boyhood was spent in Cincinnati and during that period he was the bat boy and mascot of the Cincinnati Reds.
The father was a noted steamboat captain and once commanded a bulkheaded Ohio River packet down the Mississippi and across the Gulf of Mexico and around Florida and up the east coast to Jacksonville for delivery to purchasers who planned to use the boat on the St. Johns River. It was a marvelous feat.
In the '90's, the family moved to Gallipolis and Harry soon became a clerk in the post-office and during the larger part of his tenure the office was located in the rear end of the building in which he died today.
During the first decade of this century he was a book-keeper for the Silverman, Levi and Co. here and then under the James M. Cox administration held an important post in the State Welfare Department in Columbus. He returned to Gallipolis more than 20 years ago to accept the bank cashiership at a salary in excess of what had been previously paid here for that sort of position.
In his young manhood Harry Maddy, a riverman at heart, but highly proficient as a book-keeper and banker joined his father and later Captain S. A. Dunbar in operating packets on the upper Ohio.
Last year Edwin, the only son of Mr. and Mrs. Maddy, passed away after a long and distressing illness. That was a terrible blow but it was borne with Christian resignation and stoical fortitude.
The Maddys continued to "live by the side of the road" and their home continued to radiate that warm hospitality that endeared them to multiple thousands here abouts and all along the river. May God somehow soften the blow and assuage the anguish that have come to the devoted wife and daughter, will be the fervent wish of all who have known them.
Newspaper (prob. April 1946, Gallipolis) clipping found in the Simmerman files, Maddy file, Bossard Library.
Transcribed by Lynn Anders
Gallipolis In Sorrow Over Death Of Her Noble, Notable Son.
Death came like a flash to Harry Maddy, cashier of the Ohio Valley Bank, while at his post of duty early this afternoon. Standing at the middle window and waiting on Miss Anna Simmerman, he suddenly took a backward step, fell to the floor, and passed away instantly, it was said by his fellow-workers. One of these workers, his own daughter, Ruth, had left the bank a short time before for the lunch period. Time of death was around 12:15.
It is one of the most shocking tragedies this reporter has ever been called on to report. For in the long history of Gallipolis it seems doubtful that any other citizen ever had so many friends- so many warm friends- for he was friendly and hospitable and kind indeed to everyone who came his way. Despite a long and close friendship, this writer never heard any intimation from Harry Maddy or anyone else that all was not well with him physically; and that association included a dinner and ride together into the country yesterday. Since his passing it is learned he had been advised not to work so hard and so assidously [sic]. Presumably death resulted from a heart attack.
A crowd gathered in front of the bank as the news of the tragedy began to go forth in all directions and saw Frank Wetherholt, Col. Morris Haskins and others lift the body into a waiting ambulance. It was taken thence to the Wetherholt mortuary. Previously Dr. Leo Bean had been called from the Clinic to the bank but there was nothing for medical skill to do.
Harry Maddy would have been 68 years old next month. He was born in what used to be the Jim Hall home on Pine near First Ave. and most of his six years had been spent here. He was the only son of the late Captain Edwin and Maria Ball Maddy. Some of his boyhood was spent in Cincinnati and during that period he was the bat boy and mascot of the Cincinnati Reds.
The father was a noted steamboat captain and once commanded a bulkheaded Ohio River packet down the Mississippi and across the Gulf of Mexico and around Florida and up the east coast to Jacksonville for delivery to purchasers who planned to use the boat on the St. Johns River. It was a marvelous feat.
In the '90's, the family moved to Gallipolis and Harry soon became a clerk in the post-office and during the larger part of his tenure the office was located in the rear end of the building in which he died today.
During the first decade of this century he was a book-keeper for the Silverman, Levi and Co. here and then under the James M. Cox administration held an important post in the State Welfare Department in Columbus. He returned to Gallipolis more than 20 years ago to accept the bank cashiership at a salary in excess of what had been previously paid here for that sort of position.
In his young manhood Harry Maddy, a riverman at heart, but highly proficient as a book-keeper and banker joined his father and later Captain S. A. Dunbar in operating packets on the upper Ohio.
Last year Edwin, the only son of Mr. and Mrs. Maddy, passed away after a long and distressing illness. That was a terrible blow but it was borne with Christian resignation and stoical fortitude.
The Maddys continued to "live by the side of the road" and their home continued to radiate that warm hospitality that endeared them to multiple thousands here abouts and all along the river. May God somehow soften the blow and assuage the anguish that have come to the devoted wife and daughter, will be the fervent wish of all who have known them.
Newspaper (prob. April 1946, Gallipolis) clipping found in the Simmerman files, Maddy file, Bossard Library.
Transcribed by Lynn Anders
Death came like a flash to Harry Maddy, cashier of the Ohio Valley Bank, while at his post of duty early this afternoon. Standing at the middle window and waiting on Miss Anna Simmerman, he suddenly took a backward step, fell to the floor, and passed away instantly, it was said by his fellow-workers. One of these workers, his own daughter, Ruth, had left the bank a short time before for the lunch period. Time of death was around 12:15.
It is one of the most shocking tragedies this reporter has ever been called on to report. For in the long history of Gallipolis it seems doubtful that any other citizen ever had so many friends- so many warm friends- for he was friendly and hospitable and kind indeed to everyone who came his way. Despite a long and close friendship, this writer never heard any intimation from Harry Maddy or anyone else that all was not well with him physically; and that association included a dinner and ride together into the country yesterday. Since his passing it is learned he had been advised not to work so hard and so assidously [sic]. Presumably death resulted from a heart attack.
A crowd gathered in front of the bank as the news of the tragedy began to go forth in all directions and saw Frank Wetherholt, Col. Morris Haskins and others lift the body into a waiting ambulance. It was taken thence to the Wetherholt mortuary. Previously Dr. Leo Bean had been called from the Clinic to the bank but there was nothing for medical skill to do.
Harry Maddy would have been 68 years old next month. He was born in what used to be the Jim Hall home on Pine near First Ave. and most of his six years had been spent here. He was the only son of the late Captain Edwin and Maria Ball Maddy. Some of his boyhood was spent in Cincinnati and during that period he was the bat boy and mascot of the Cincinnati Reds.
The father was a noted steamboat captain and once commanded a bulkheaded Ohio River packet down the Mississippi and across the Gulf of Mexico and around Florida and up the east coast to Jacksonville for delivery to purchasers who planned to use the boat on the St. Johns River. It was a marvelous feat.
In the '90's, the family moved to Gallipolis and Harry soon became a clerk in the post-office and during the larger part of his tenure the office was located in the rear end of the building in which he died today.
During the first decade of this century he was a book-keeper for the Silverman, Levi and Co. here and then under the James M. Cox administration held an important post in the State Welfare Department in Columbus. He returned to Gallipolis more than 20 years ago to accept the bank cashiership at a salary in excess of what had been previously paid here for that sort of position.
In his young manhood Harry Maddy, a riverman at heart, but highly proficient as a book-keeper and banker joined his father and later Captain S. A. Dunbar in operating packets on the upper Ohio.
Last year Edwin, the only son of Mr. and Mrs. Maddy, passed away after a long and distressing illness. That was a terrible blow but it was borne with Christian resignation and stoical fortitude.
The Maddys continued to "live by the side of the road" and their home continued to radiate that warm hospitality that endeared them to multiple thousands here abouts and all along the river. May God somehow soften the blow and assuage the anguish that have come to the devoted wife and daughter, will be the fervent wish of all who have known them.
Newspaper (prob. April 1946, Gallipolis) clipping found in the Simmerman files, Maddy file, Bossard Library.
Transcribed by Lynn Anders
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