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DEFIANCE CRESCENT NEWS, Wednesday, 10 May 1922. p.. 5, c. 3

Mrs. Henrietta Marihugh Grieser

Mrs. Henrietta Marihugh Grieser, wife of Edward Grieser died last night at Toledo, after an operation undergone Monday for gall stones. The family resided here until about one year ago. She is survived by her husband, one daughter, Mrs. Arvid Anderson, three sons, Floyd, Henry and Virgil all of Toledo. Her father Henry Marihugh, five sisters, and four brothers reside in this city. Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the home, 820 Barclay street, and interment will be made in Toledo.

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DEFIANCE CRESCENT NEWS, Tuesday, 13 November 1923, p. 1, c. 4

GED CIVIL WAR VETERAN DIES

Henry Marihugh, Sr. Wounded At Louden Creek, Carried Bullet Through Life

Henry Marihugh, Sr., Civil War veteran and member of Bishop post of the G. A. R., died at 8:16 o'clock this morning at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Nathan Nicely, 516 Webster street, after two years illness resulting from a stroke of paralysis. He was 83 years, 3 months and 26 days old. the funeral will be Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the home of the daughter, Mrs. Nicely, 516 Webster street, and at 2 o'clock at the Dunkard Church on the North Ridge with the Rev. John Flory of the Dunkard Church, officiating. Interment will be in the Dunkard cemetery. The decedent is the last of the ten Marihugh children and was preceded in death by his wife 23 years ago. Nine children survive the father, and two sons, Amos and Eben, and a daughter, Mrs. Edward Grieser, have died. The children left are: Mrs. Nathan Nicely, Mrs. Frank Murphy, East River Drive, Mrs. Henry Grieser, Greer Street, Mrs. Louis Corcellious, First Street, Mrs. Louis Brown, Paulding, Samuel Marihugh, Timothy Street, Henry Marihugh, Jr., Union Street, Adam Marihugh, West High Street, John Marihugh, Toledo.

Mr. Marihugh served with the Union Army of the Civil War as a private in Company E, 111th Ohio Voluntary Infantry, enlisting on August 14, 1862, when 22 years old. He served more than three years until the struggle ended. Mr. Marihugh was wounded at the battle of Louden Creek, Tenn. on Nov. 15, 1863, and carried the rifle bullet in his left arm the remainder of his life.

 

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DEFIANCE CRESCENT NEWS, Monday, 19 January 1959, p.2,c.5

Mrs. Anna M. Corcellious

Mrs. Anna M. Corcellious, 79, died Saturday at 8:15 pm. in Defiance City Hospital where she had been a patient since Jan. 5 when she fell in her home, 226 Jackson Ave., and fractured a wrist. Death was attributed to a stroke. She was born near Defiance on Nov. 21, 1879, a daughter of Henry and Julia Marihugh. She was reared here, lived in Toledo a number of years and then returned to Defiance where she had resided for a time. She was preceded in death by her first husband, Andrew B. Jeffers; her second husband, Louis Corcellious, and 11 brothers and sisters.

Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Fred (Nora) Knopp, and a grandson, William, both of Toledo. She was a member of the First Baptist Church, the Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxilliary, and a past president of the Spanish War Veterans Auxilliary. The funeral will be conducted Tuesday at 2 pm. at the Morris - _ick Mortuary by the Rev. Samuel Sedziol, First Baptist minister, burial will be in Riverside cemetery.

Submitted by  Elizabeth Montgomery, MEMSPC@prodigy.net, Feb. 13, 2002

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