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Membership
Individual membership - $12.00
Family membership - $20.00
Businesses - $100.00
Life membership - $200.00
Membership Benefits:
Access to the Meigs County Museum; Quarterly newsletter - "Meigs Historian": Voting privileges in selecting trustees; Membership year January 1-December 31.
Meigs County Historical Society
P.O. Box 145
Pomeroy, OH 45769
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Individual: $12.00 _____________ Family (Same Household): $20.00__________
All Research Requests must be written for by mail. General questions pertaining to what is available can be answered by phone or email, but not actual research requests. Following are fees and type of records available.
The fee for general research is $5.00 for a half-hour search per individual name, plus cost of copies (.50 cents a page, minimum of $1.00).
This research can include:
Census
Original Estates & Wills - 1819-1935 Probate Records - file can be large or nothing and is generally not copied until requestor is notified what is available. These may contain estates, wills, inventories, guardianships, etc.
Marriage - 1819-1913 - (Wes Cochrans transcribed book is used for general research)
Transcribed death records from 1909-1926.
Various County and Family Histories
Cemetery Tombstone Records
And numerous other resources. We have a very extensive library of Meigs County genealogical and historical resources, as well as compiled information for surrounding counties.
Research of the Official Records for Marriage 1819-1930, Birth and Death - 1867-1908 (from original probate records) are charged at a $3.00 non-refundable search fee per record. If a record is found a copy is either typed or photo-copied (marriages are not photo-copied) and mailed. Add $1.00 for notarized copy.
Checks are made to the Meigs County Historical Society, P.O. Box 145, Pomeroy, OH 45769 or we can bill for completed research.
Following are a couple of articles from a recent quarterly newsletter.
Edward R. Foreman, Civil War Veteran Answers Summons, Tribune-Telegraph, September 9, 1936
Edward R. Foreman, age 93 years, 2 months and 3 days, oldest Civil War veteran in Meigs county died at his home in Bald Knobs this county, 2:30 o’clock Saturday afternoon following a long illness from cancer. He had been steadily failing in health from the ravages of that dread disease for several months.
On July 4, 1936, Mr. Foreman attained his 93d year. Born in West Virginia, he came to Meigs county when quite a small lad and had been a resident of the county since. Until stricken he had been able to read and followed current events with keen interest. He came to Racine every week and attended to all personal and business matters until recently and met and talked with his old friends and acquaintances.
He was a veteran of the Civil war, from ‘61 to ‘65, serving in Co. C. 9th Virginia Infantry and was under fire in many noted battles.
He is survived by his wife and 8 children, the latter from a former marriage.
He was the father of 11 children, 3 of whom preceded him in death. Those living are Charles E. Foreman, Letart Falls; N. G. Foreman, Millersport, O.; F. A. Foreman, Barlow, O.; John Foreman, Great Bend, O.; Mrs. John Combs, Ripley, W.Va.; Mrs. Henry Davis, Ravenswood, W.Va. Mrs. Joseph Hall, Bridgeport, O.; and Mr.s Minerva Sutton, Bridgeport, O. He is also survived by 35 grandchildren and several great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were held Monday morning at the Curtis undertaker parlors in Race conducted by the Rev. M. V. B. Stump, assisted by the Feeney-Bennett American Legion of Middleport and all that was mortal of this once vigorous man was conveyed by Undertaker Curtis to the Great Bend cemetery and laid along side of his wife who preceded him in death a few years
Civil War Veteran Answers Summons - Tribune-Telegraph, July 18, 1934
Middleport’s last surviving Civil War veteran and Meigs county’s only colored veteran of that war, Rufus Mitchell, 84, passed away at his home here about 1 o’clock Monday morning.
The recent death of James Salisbury, white Civil War veteran, left Mitchell as the last surviving veteran in Middleport. Veterans of later wars believe that Mitchell was the only colored veteran residing in this county.
He enlisted in the 9th Regiment, Company B. U.S. colored artillery as a private in Memphis, Tenn. He served one year in this company and was transferred to Company G. After his discharge he came to Meigs county where he resided until his death.
He is survived by one son, Lindsay Mitchell of Middleport, and three daughters, Lida Bowden of Bidwell, Ida Thornton of Nelsonville and Bertha Jackson of Zanesville. A brother, Lindsay Mitchell also survives. Two wives, a brother and one daughter preceded him in death.
Funeral services were conducted from the Mt. Moriah Baptist Church at 2:30 o’clock Wednesday afternoon with Reverend Harris conducting. Interment was made in the Middleport Hill cemetery in charge of Rawlings.
