Ohio death certificate #26966
Curtis B. Abbott
b. 21 Apr 1842 Montville Twp., Medina Co., Ohio d. 11 Apr 1916 Montville Twp., Medina Co., Ohio s/o Leverett Abbott &
Adaline Lyman
married Mary E. Thompson 69821551
Thank you Find A Grave contributor Margaret Gunn for the above information.
Medina Co. Gazette - April 14, 1916 p 12: ABBOTT - At his home in Montville township, on April 11, Curtis B. Abbott aged 73 yrs, 11 mos., 20 das. Funeral at the home April 13, at 1 p.m., conducted by Rev. H. S. Fritsch.
Medina Co. Gazette - April 14, 1916 p 12: Curtis B. Abbot died at his late home in Montville on Tuesday evening at 6 o'clock, following an attack of apoplexy on Thursday of last week. Though in somewhat feeble health for the past year or two, Mr. Abbott has been ale to look after his business, and for the most of the time to attend church services, a custom he practiced with marked regularity.
Mr. Abbott was born in Montville township and on the old home farm, now owned and occupied by Mahlon Hoard, April 21. 1842. He has always lived in Montville and has always followed his chosen occupation, that of farming. For nearly 50 years, Mr. Abbott has owned and operated the farm on the Pike, a place well known for its productiveness and general good appearance, the results of a life time of careful and painstaking work.
Mr. Abbott served for some time in the Civil war. On March 3, 1870, he was married to Mary Thomas, whose home was also in Montville and who is now left companion less. The four sons of Mr. and Mrs. Abbott, Gail T., Arthur G., Carl B. and George F., all living, are deprived of the counsel of a wise and considerate father. The deceased is also survived by 12 grandchildren.
The funeral was conducted from the home on Thursday afternoon at 1 o'clock, Rev. H. Samuel Fritsch, pastor of the Congregational church, of which Mr. Abbott was for many years a member, officiating. Burial was made in Spring Grove cemetery.
Medina Co. Gazette - April 21, 1916: Curtis B. Abbott. When one passes on who has been a familiar figure in a community for the full time commonly allotted to man, it is profitable to pause and ask what he has stood for and what his life has meant to his associates and community.
Curtis B. Abbott, whose death was noted in these columns last week, had lived almost 74 years within a radius of a half mile in Montville, Ohio. He was born in 1842, while the country was still comparatively new and when none of the labor-saving machinery so familiar to this generation, had been invented. He followed the mowers in the hay fields, during his boyhood, shaking out the grass and raking it into windrows when it had dried. As he grew older he learned to swing the scythe and cradle, before the mowing machine and reaper had been introduced. At a very early age, he became proficient with the axe and spent many a day chopping alone in the woods. Spending so much time in the woods, he acquired a remarkable knowledge of outdoor life, especially of birds and trees. He came to recognize all the common birds and knew every kind of tree growing in this vicinity, whether standing in the woods or sawed into lumber. Later in life this knowledge of timber was put to practical use when he purchased large black walnut and poplar trees and converted them in to lumber for market. Most f this he did alone, cutting the trees with an ax, sawing them into logs, then hauling them to the mill with a three-horse team, in this way, during the earlier years of his married life, he was able to pay the interest on a heavy debt, while his farm was still unproductive.
As early in life as he could recall, he had decided what his life work was to be, even then planning to become the best farmer possible for him to be.
A college education was far more rare then, than at present and the district school, with a term in a select school, seemed sufficient. While his opportunities for attending school were limited, he obtained a thorough knowledge of the "three R's, reading writing and arithmetic." While not a wide reader, he kept himself well informed all through his life regarding the latest developments in scientific agriculture, and was among the first to adopt any new practice which might be approved by his practical knowledge. Thus he was a pioneer in the use of tile drainage, chemical fertilizers, legumes and lime.
Mr. Abbott came to realize the value of education too late to secure more for himself, but he gave his sons the opportunity for high school and college education. At the same time, he so inspired them with the love of agriculture, that they all ultimately followed the same calling.
No man ever took keener ;\pleasure than he is doing the work he had to do, and the days were never long enough to accomplish all that he wished to do.
Industry and thrift brought their usual reward, and his well-equipped, thoroughly up-to-date farm, stand today as a monument to him and as an inspiration to those who come after.
While he loved hard work, and took genuine pleasure in making plant life flourish and animal life thrive, yet his religion held a very definite place in his thought and time. He held himself and his growing family strictly to his idea of his duty to his God and his church. Throughout his life, nothing but sickness could keep him from his accustomed place in the Congregational church, and when the roads between his house and the church were impassable, he would gladly walk the long distance rather than miss the service. He belonged to the New England Puritan type of men, yet the same progressive spirit, so evident in the conduct of his business, caused him during the later years of his life, to modify many of the stricter religious tenets held by him in early life. As illustrating how he came to occupy new grounds of faith, it is recalled, that 20 years ago he and his sons, home from college for the summer vacation, spent many an hour while hoeing corn discussing evolution and other theories which were causing thinking men to question some of the religious views which seemed so difficult to harmonize with reason. He held a firm belief in what he considered fundamental, yet was ever charitable towards those who held different views. His nature was kindly, his disposition sociable, always having a cheery word of greeting and a hearty handshake for everybody.
His life closed full of years and good works. He was ever a high class citizen, a kind and good neighbor, a wise and loving father, whose example of intelligent industry and honest thrift remains to heighten the standards of a whole community. Peace to Him.
Curtis B. Abbott
b. 21 Apr 1842 Montville Twp., Medina Co., Ohio d. 11 Apr 1916 Montville Twp., Medina Co., Ohio s/o Leverett Abbott &
Adaline Lyman
married Mary E. Thompson 69821551
Thank you Find A Grave contributor Margaret Gunn for the above information.
Medina Co. Gazette - April 14, 1916 p 12: ABBOTT - At his home in Montville township, on April 11, Curtis B. Abbott aged 73 yrs, 11 mos., 20 das. Funeral at the home April 13, at 1 p.m., conducted by Rev. H. S. Fritsch.
Medina Co. Gazette - April 14, 1916 p 12: Curtis B. Abbot died at his late home in Montville on Tuesday evening at 6 o'clock, following an attack of apoplexy on Thursday of last week. Though in somewhat feeble health for the past year or two, Mr. Abbott has been ale to look after his business, and for the most of the time to attend church services, a custom he practiced with marked regularity.
Mr. Abbott was born in Montville township and on the old home farm, now owned and occupied by Mahlon Hoard, April 21. 1842. He has always lived in Montville and has always followed his chosen occupation, that of farming. For nearly 50 years, Mr. Abbott has owned and operated the farm on the Pike, a place well known for its productiveness and general good appearance, the results of a life time of careful and painstaking work.
Mr. Abbott served for some time in the Civil war. On March 3, 1870, he was married to Mary Thomas, whose home was also in Montville and who is now left companion less. The four sons of Mr. and Mrs. Abbott, Gail T., Arthur G., Carl B. and George F., all living, are deprived of the counsel of a wise and considerate father. The deceased is also survived by 12 grandchildren.
The funeral was conducted from the home on Thursday afternoon at 1 o'clock, Rev. H. Samuel Fritsch, pastor of the Congregational church, of which Mr. Abbott was for many years a member, officiating. Burial was made in Spring Grove cemetery.
Medina Co. Gazette - April 21, 1916: Curtis B. Abbott. When one passes on who has been a familiar figure in a community for the full time commonly allotted to man, it is profitable to pause and ask what he has stood for and what his life has meant to his associates and community.
Curtis B. Abbott, whose death was noted in these columns last week, had lived almost 74 years within a radius of a half mile in Montville, Ohio. He was born in 1842, while the country was still comparatively new and when none of the labor-saving machinery so familiar to this generation, had been invented. He followed the mowers in the hay fields, during his boyhood, shaking out the grass and raking it into windrows when it had dried. As he grew older he learned to swing the scythe and cradle, before the mowing machine and reaper had been introduced. At a very early age, he became proficient with the axe and spent many a day chopping alone in the woods. Spending so much time in the woods, he acquired a remarkable knowledge of outdoor life, especially of birds and trees. He came to recognize all the common birds and knew every kind of tree growing in this vicinity, whether standing in the woods or sawed into lumber. Later in life this knowledge of timber was put to practical use when he purchased large black walnut and poplar trees and converted them in to lumber for market. Most f this he did alone, cutting the trees with an ax, sawing them into logs, then hauling them to the mill with a three-horse team, in this way, during the earlier years of his married life, he was able to pay the interest on a heavy debt, while his farm was still unproductive.
As early in life as he could recall, he had decided what his life work was to be, even then planning to become the best farmer possible for him to be.
A college education was far more rare then, than at present and the district school, with a term in a select school, seemed sufficient. While his opportunities for attending school were limited, he obtained a thorough knowledge of the "three R's, reading writing and arithmetic." While not a wide reader, he kept himself well informed all through his life regarding the latest developments in scientific agriculture, and was among the first to adopt any new practice which might be approved by his practical knowledge. Thus he was a pioneer in the use of tile drainage, chemical fertilizers, legumes and lime.
Mr. Abbott came to realize the value of education too late to secure more for himself, but he gave his sons the opportunity for high school and college education. At the same time, he so inspired them with the love of agriculture, that they all ultimately followed the same calling.
No man ever took keener ;\pleasure than he is doing the work he had to do, and the days were never long enough to accomplish all that he wished to do.
Industry and thrift brought their usual reward, and his well-equipped, thoroughly up-to-date farm, stand today as a monument to him and as an inspiration to those who come after.
While he loved hard work, and took genuine pleasure in making plant life flourish and animal life thrive, yet his religion held a very definite place in his thought and time. He held himself and his growing family strictly to his idea of his duty to his God and his church. Throughout his life, nothing but sickness could keep him from his accustomed place in the Congregational church, and when the roads between his house and the church were impassable, he would gladly walk the long distance rather than miss the service. He belonged to the New England Puritan type of men, yet the same progressive spirit, so evident in the conduct of his business, caused him during the later years of his life, to modify many of the stricter religious tenets held by him in early life. As illustrating how he came to occupy new grounds of faith, it is recalled, that 20 years ago he and his sons, home from college for the summer vacation, spent many an hour while hoeing corn discussing evolution and other theories which were causing thinking men to question some of the religious views which seemed so difficult to harmonize with reason. He held a firm belief in what he considered fundamental, yet was ever charitable towards those who held different views. His nature was kindly, his disposition sociable, always having a cheery word of greeting and a hearty handshake for everybody.
His life closed full of years and good works. He was ever a high class citizen, a kind and good neighbor, a wise and loving father, whose example of intelligent industry and honest thrift remains to heighten the standards of a whole community. Peace to Him.
Ohio death certificate #26966
Curtis B. Abbott
b. 21 Apr 1842 Montville Twp., Medina Co., Ohio d. 11 Apr 1916 Montville Twp., Medina Co., Ohio s/o Leverett Abbott &
Adaline Lyman
married Mary E. Thompson 69821551
Thank you Find A Grave contributor Margaret Gunn for the above information.
Medina Co. Gazette - April 14, 1916 p 12: ABBOTT - At his home in Montville township, on April 11, Curtis B. Abbott aged 73 yrs, 11 mos., 20 das. Funeral at the home April 13, at 1 p.m., conducted by Rev. H. S. Fritsch.
Medina Co. Gazette - April 14, 1916 p 12: Curtis B. Abbot died at his late home in Montville on Tuesday evening at 6 o'clock, following an attack of apoplexy on Thursday of last week. Though in somewhat feeble health for the past year or two, Mr. Abbott has been ale to look after his business, and for the most of the time to attend church services, a custom he practiced with marked regularity.
Mr. Abbott was born in Montville township and on the old home farm, now owned and occupied by Mahlon Hoard, April 21. 1842. He has always lived in Montville and has always followed his chosen occupation, that of farming. For nearly 50 years, Mr. Abbott has owned and operated the farm on the Pike, a place well known for its productiveness and general good appearance, the results of a life time of careful and painstaking work.
Mr. Abbott served for some time in the Civil war. On March 3, 1870, he was married to Mary Thomas, whose home was also in Montville and who is now left companion less. The four sons of Mr. and Mrs. Abbott, Gail T., Arthur G., Carl B. and George F., all living, are deprived of the counsel of a wise and considerate father. The deceased is also survived by 12 grandchildren.
The funeral was conducted from the home on Thursday afternoon at 1 o'clock, Rev. H. Samuel Fritsch, pastor of the Congregational church, of which Mr. Abbott was for many years a member, officiating. Burial was made in Spring Grove cemetery.
Medina Co. Gazette - April 21, 1916: Curtis B. Abbott. When one passes on who has been a familiar figure in a community for the full time commonly allotted to man, it is profitable to pause and ask what he has stood for and what his life has meant to his associates and community.
Curtis B. Abbott, whose death was noted in these columns last week, had lived almost 74 years within a radius of a half mile in Montville, Ohio. He was born in 1842, while the country was still comparatively new and when none of the labor-saving machinery so familiar to this generation, had been invented. He followed the mowers in the hay fields, during his boyhood, shaking out the grass and raking it into windrows when it had dried. As he grew older he learned to swing the scythe and cradle, before the mowing machine and reaper had been introduced. At a very early age, he became proficient with the axe and spent many a day chopping alone in the woods. Spending so much time in the woods, he acquired a remarkable knowledge of outdoor life, especially of birds and trees. He came to recognize all the common birds and knew every kind of tree growing in this vicinity, whether standing in the woods or sawed into lumber. Later in life this knowledge of timber was put to practical use when he purchased large black walnut and poplar trees and converted them in to lumber for market. Most f this he did alone, cutting the trees with an ax, sawing them into logs, then hauling them to the mill with a three-horse team, in this way, during the earlier years of his married life, he was able to pay the interest on a heavy debt, while his farm was still unproductive.
As early in life as he could recall, he had decided what his life work was to be, even then planning to become the best farmer possible for him to be.
A college education was far more rare then, than at present and the district school, with a term in a select school, seemed sufficient. While his opportunities for attending school were limited, he obtained a thorough knowledge of the "three R's, reading writing and arithmetic." While not a wide reader, he kept himself well informed all through his life regarding the latest developments in scientific agriculture, and was among the first to adopt any new practice which might be approved by his practical knowledge. Thus he was a pioneer in the use of tile drainage, chemical fertilizers, legumes and lime.
Mr. Abbott came to realize the value of education too late to secure more for himself, but he gave his sons the opportunity for high school and college education. At the same time, he so inspired them with the love of agriculture, that they all ultimately followed the same calling.
No man ever took keener ;\pleasure than he is doing the work he had to do, and the days were never long enough to accomplish all that he wished to do.
Industry and thrift brought their usual reward, and his well-equipped, thoroughly up-to-date farm, stand today as a monument to him and as an inspiration to those who come after.
While he loved hard work, and took genuine pleasure in making plant life flourish and animal life thrive, yet his religion held a very definite place in his thought and time. He held himself and his growing family strictly to his idea of his duty to his God and his church. Throughout his life, nothing but sickness could keep him from his accustomed place in the Congregational church, and when the roads between his house and the church were impassable, he would gladly walk the long distance rather than miss the service. He belonged to the New England Puritan type of men, yet the same progressive spirit, so evident in the conduct of his business, caused him during the later years of his life, to modify many of the stricter religious tenets held by him in early life. As illustrating how he came to occupy new grounds of faith, it is recalled, that 20 years ago he and his sons, home from college for the summer vacation, spent many an hour while hoeing corn discussing evolution and other theories which were causing thinking men to question some of the religious views which seemed so difficult to harmonize with reason. He held a firm belief in what he considered fundamental, yet was ever charitable towards those who held different views. His nature was kindly, his disposition sociable, always having a cheery word of greeting and a hearty handshake for everybody.
His life closed full of years and good works. He was ever a high class citizen, a kind and good neighbor, a wise and loving father, whose example of intelligent industry and honest thrift remains to heighten the standards of a whole community. Peace to Him.
Curtis B. Abbott
b. 21 Apr 1842 Montville Twp., Medina Co., Ohio d. 11 Apr 1916 Montville Twp., Medina Co., Ohio s/o Leverett Abbott &
Adaline Lyman
married Mary E. Thompson 69821551
Thank you Find A Grave contributor Margaret Gunn for the above information.
Medina Co. Gazette - April 14, 1916 p 12: ABBOTT - At his home in Montville township, on April 11, Curtis B. Abbott aged 73 yrs, 11 mos., 20 das. Funeral at the home April 13, at 1 p.m., conducted by Rev. H. S. Fritsch.
Medina Co. Gazette - April 14, 1916 p 12: Curtis B. Abbot died at his late home in Montville on Tuesday evening at 6 o'clock, following an attack of apoplexy on Thursday of last week. Though in somewhat feeble health for the past year or two, Mr. Abbott has been ale to look after his business, and for the most of the time to attend church services, a custom he practiced with marked regularity.
Mr. Abbott was born in Montville township and on the old home farm, now owned and occupied by Mahlon Hoard, April 21. 1842. He has always lived in Montville and has always followed his chosen occupation, that of farming. For nearly 50 years, Mr. Abbott has owned and operated the farm on the Pike, a place well known for its productiveness and general good appearance, the results of a life time of careful and painstaking work.
Mr. Abbott served for some time in the Civil war. On March 3, 1870, he was married to Mary Thomas, whose home was also in Montville and who is now left companion less. The four sons of Mr. and Mrs. Abbott, Gail T., Arthur G., Carl B. and George F., all living, are deprived of the counsel of a wise and considerate father. The deceased is also survived by 12 grandchildren.
The funeral was conducted from the home on Thursday afternoon at 1 o'clock, Rev. H. Samuel Fritsch, pastor of the Congregational church, of which Mr. Abbott was for many years a member, officiating. Burial was made in Spring Grove cemetery.
Medina Co. Gazette - April 21, 1916: Curtis B. Abbott. When one passes on who has been a familiar figure in a community for the full time commonly allotted to man, it is profitable to pause and ask what he has stood for and what his life has meant to his associates and community.
Curtis B. Abbott, whose death was noted in these columns last week, had lived almost 74 years within a radius of a half mile in Montville, Ohio. He was born in 1842, while the country was still comparatively new and when none of the labor-saving machinery so familiar to this generation, had been invented. He followed the mowers in the hay fields, during his boyhood, shaking out the grass and raking it into windrows when it had dried. As he grew older he learned to swing the scythe and cradle, before the mowing machine and reaper had been introduced. At a very early age, he became proficient with the axe and spent many a day chopping alone in the woods. Spending so much time in the woods, he acquired a remarkable knowledge of outdoor life, especially of birds and trees. He came to recognize all the common birds and knew every kind of tree growing in this vicinity, whether standing in the woods or sawed into lumber. Later in life this knowledge of timber was put to practical use when he purchased large black walnut and poplar trees and converted them in to lumber for market. Most f this he did alone, cutting the trees with an ax, sawing them into logs, then hauling them to the mill with a three-horse team, in this way, during the earlier years of his married life, he was able to pay the interest on a heavy debt, while his farm was still unproductive.
As early in life as he could recall, he had decided what his life work was to be, even then planning to become the best farmer possible for him to be.
A college education was far more rare then, than at present and the district school, with a term in a select school, seemed sufficient. While his opportunities for attending school were limited, he obtained a thorough knowledge of the "three R's, reading writing and arithmetic." While not a wide reader, he kept himself well informed all through his life regarding the latest developments in scientific agriculture, and was among the first to adopt any new practice which might be approved by his practical knowledge. Thus he was a pioneer in the use of tile drainage, chemical fertilizers, legumes and lime.
Mr. Abbott came to realize the value of education too late to secure more for himself, but he gave his sons the opportunity for high school and college education. At the same time, he so inspired them with the love of agriculture, that they all ultimately followed the same calling.
No man ever took keener ;\pleasure than he is doing the work he had to do, and the days were never long enough to accomplish all that he wished to do.
Industry and thrift brought their usual reward, and his well-equipped, thoroughly up-to-date farm, stand today as a monument to him and as an inspiration to those who come after.
While he loved hard work, and took genuine pleasure in making plant life flourish and animal life thrive, yet his religion held a very definite place in his thought and time. He held himself and his growing family strictly to his idea of his duty to his God and his church. Throughout his life, nothing but sickness could keep him from his accustomed place in the Congregational church, and when the roads between his house and the church were impassable, he would gladly walk the long distance rather than miss the service. He belonged to the New England Puritan type of men, yet the same progressive spirit, so evident in the conduct of his business, caused him during the later years of his life, to modify many of the stricter religious tenets held by him in early life. As illustrating how he came to occupy new grounds of faith, it is recalled, that 20 years ago he and his sons, home from college for the summer vacation, spent many an hour while hoeing corn discussing evolution and other theories which were causing thinking men to question some of the religious views which seemed so difficult to harmonize with reason. He held a firm belief in what he considered fundamental, yet was ever charitable towards those who held different views. His nature was kindly, his disposition sociable, always having a cheery word of greeting and a hearty handshake for everybody.
His life closed full of years and good works. He was ever a high class citizen, a kind and good neighbor, a wise and loving father, whose example of intelligent industry and honest thrift remains to heighten the standards of a whole community. Peace to Him.
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