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Highland County, Ohio

Newspaper Data

A man named Carroll was shot by a constable in Highland county, Ohio, on Monday last. The constable had levied on and was taking away personal property of Carroll, when the latter followed, assaulted him, and was killed by a pistol ball. The constable was discharged.

New Hampshire Patriot & State Gazette
Aug 27, 1851

Betsey Overstroke, wife of Abram Overstroke, of Highland county, Ohio, aged seventy-one years, gave birth to a child a few weeks since. She had not had one for thirty-one years. The authority for the above is the Ohio State Journal. The nearest case to it ever known in New England was that of a lady in Salem who at the age of sixty years bore her husband an heir.

Cincinnati Daily Gazette
Aug 31, 1869

It never rains but it pours. One murder in the city, then another and another. Next from the country we hear the name of the last in that long list, at the head which stands the name of Cain, a tiller of the ground, the murderer of his shepherd brother. On Sunday evening, near the village of Samantha, Highland county, Ohio, two colored men got into a quarrel about a debt of two dollars, due from one to the other. John Nooks and Peter Lamb were the disputing parties. Lamb owed Nooks. The dispute passed out of the province of persuasion into the realm of force, Nooks lay hold of an ax, and swinging it in the air sunk it nearly to the eye in Peter Lamb's skull. Yesterday morning, when our informant left the village, the wounded man was but just breathing, with his death a question of but a few moments. The criminal was not arrested at that hour, but officers were in pursuit of him.

The Anaconda Standard
Jan 31, 1904

Six Shaffer brothers, sons of john Shaffer of Highland county, Ohio were photographed in a group at Hillsboro, Ohio, a few days ago. The eldest is 86 years of age and the youngest 74. Their united ages amount to 430 years. Their father's children numbered 13, and the children of these 6 brothers number respectively, 11, 5, 9, 13, 12, and 5, giving the list in the order of the father's ages.

Cincinnati Daily Gazette
Feb 6, 1874

Harlan--- Judkins

Married at the residence of the bride's mother at New Lexington, Highland county, Ohio, by the Rev. J. M'K. Shultz, Mr. William T. Harlan, of Belmont County, O., and Miss Emma Judkins.

Philadelphia Inquirer
Apr 27, 1843

William Pedrick, a respectable citizen of Highland county, Ohio, was found dead on Tuesday morning week, having hung himself in his own stable.