| CAPT. T. D. MARCUM |
| CALLED LAST NIGHT |
Tri-State Family, Succumbs At Catlettsburg Home Captain Thomas Damron Marcum, 81, one of the best known men of the Tri-state region, died at his home on Broadway in Catlettsburg at 9:30 o'clock last night, after an illness of one week. Captain Marcum was born in Lawrence county, Kentucky, five miles from Louisa, December 17, 1840. He was the oldest surving son of the late Stephen N. and Jane Damron Marcum. He served in the Union Army throughout the Civil War as Captain of Company K., Fourteenth Kentucky Infantry. He was the first Democrat to be elected to a state office in Kentucky after the war. He was chosen in 1875 to fill the position of registrar of lands. During the first Cleveland administra- tion he served as inspector of Indian lands. His interest in politics never lagged and he continued to be active through- out the campaign which closed early this month. During this campaign he served as chairman of the Democratic committee in Boyd county. For thirty-one years prior to his death he had been general agent for the New York Life Insurance Company. He was active in business until the day before his last illness compelled him to keep his bed. He was married on January 19, 1865, to Mary Bromley, of Wayne county, W. Va. She died eleven years ago. They are survived by three children, who are, J. F. Marcum, of South Point, O., Mrs. Alonzo Mims and Mrs. E. C. Walton, of Catlettsburg. Captain Marcum also leaves four brothers, these being, J. H. Marcum, John S. Marcum and Lace Marcum, prominent residents of Huntington, and four sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth Cahill, of New York, Mrs. Morgan Baker, of Huntington, Mrs. John Dotson, of Fort Gay, W. Va., and Mrs. R. L. Simpkins of War, W. Va. Captain Marcum was a thirty-second degree Mason, an Elk, and a member of the Baptist church. -The Herald-Dispatch, Thursday Morning, November 24, 1921 |
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