NOBLE COUNTY OHIO - OBIT: KELLER, Dr. John (d. 1912)
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Susan Kellar Ratcliffe
Delaware, Ohio 
skrat@midohio.net

Obituary---CALDWELL PRESS, January 24, 1912:
   "Dr. John Keller, aged 80 years of Mt. Ephraim died at his home at 5
o'clock Saturday morning.  For sixty-nine years he had been a practicing
physician and was a life-long resident of Noble County.  Dr. Keller was
widely known and highly respected by a great number of people and stood
especially high in the esteem of his fellow townmen.  The following
children survive;  Mrs. J.W. (Hester) Shafer of Zanesville; Mrs. R.S.
(Belle) Conner of Cumberland; Mrs. Homer (Margaret) Gibson of Mt. Ephraim,
Mrs. Herman (Deliah) Sayre of Mt. Ephraim; Frank of Mt. Zion and John W.
Keller of Sarahsville."

The HISTORY OF NOBLE COUNTY, OHIO, 1887, p. 199, lists children as: 
Elizabeth J., Margaret E., Franklin V., Jefferson J., Arithela B. (Belle?),
John W., Hester A., and Mary D.  Also, " Dr. Keller has served in all the
township offices, including that of justice of the peace.  He is a Democrat
and has been a candidate for the offices of county auditor and
representative to the legislature, but was defeated, his party being as
usual in the minority in the county".  The family lived in Seneca Twp.


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