Family Obituaries Through the Years...
Abraham Monnett
1811-1881
Bucyrus Telegraph
- The Sick -
"A. Monnett Esq., suffers intensely and is prepared for a delicate operation he must undergo. An intense anxiety prevails for his welfare."
- A. Monnette Sr. -
"A most earnest and intense anxiety has depressed the community this morning, for it was known that Prof. Hamilton of Columbus was here and the Mr. Monnette (sic) was undergoing the critical operation of lithotomy.
"Professor Hamilton was assisted by the family physicians, Prof Cuykendall and Dr. Carson and by Drs. Keller and Fulton. The operation lasted about forty minutes, two unusually large calculi were removed; the patient was of course under anesthetics, and the result is yet to be realized.
"One of the calculi was found imbedded in a sack and its removal was followed by a copious discharge of pus. The two calculi removed appear to the unprofessional eye, as two parts of one that had been broken. They are unusually large measuring 3 inches by 17/8, and was probably thirty years in the making. The suffering has rallied favorably, but the future can not be anticipated. If the earnest hopes and anxiety of a whole community could avail, the future would indeed be bright."
Marion Star
DEAD - ABRAHAM MONNETT
“Those who Knew Him Best will Miss Him Most”
"Again, it becomes our unpleasant duty to announce the death of one of our old and respected citizens. Abraham Monnett, who departed this life at his late residence in Bucyrus, last Saturday evening, about seven o’clock, in the 70th year of his age.
"The deceased had been suffering for three or
four years with Calculus of the bladder, for which on Friday last Dr.
Hamilton of Columbus, performed an operation, at the same time expressing
his fears as to Mr. Monnett’s ultimate recovery saying that it was too
late he feared; that had the operation been performed five weeks ago, when
the deceased was first taken down sick, there would have been hopes for
him. Dr. Hamilton’s opinion
proved to be true.
"Mr. Monnett leaves a widow (who is his second wife, he having buried his first wife seven years ago) and twelve children, all married; he also leaves the largest personal estate ever left by one by one person in this part of Ohio. Besides, he leaves a record as being one of the best business men in the county. He was a man of extra good judgment and of few words, but was always to the point and correct. When he made a purchase he used no scheme or unnecessary conversation; he was a liberal man in every respect.
"He was born in Virginia but came here from Circleville, O. and was a resident in this part of Central Ohio for some fifty years.
"He was one of the original stockholders in the
Bank of Marion in 1851, and has continued in that Bank and its successors
until the present time being President of this Bank for about twenty
years. J.J. Hane has been
associated with Mr. Monnett in the banking business for 24 years.
E. Durfee has been with them for over eighteen years.
"Mr. Monnett was also President of the Crawford
County Agricultural Society and a principal owner in the Crawford County
Fair Grounds; and was at one time President of the Marion County Fair
Association. In every
particular he was a model, without the faults that sometime characterizes
men of means.
"His remains were interred today in the Monnett Cemetery, some 12 miles north of this city."
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