Stillwater Valley News
January 22, 1935
Joseph Henry Marlin
Is Laid To Rest In Highland
Prominent Citizen Expires During Heart Attack Friday Evening at 7 O'clock.
Funeral services for J.H. Marlin, widely known attorney, and life long resident of Covington, were held Monday afternoon at Covington Tabernacle, of which he was a charter member, with Rev, W. A. Freman officiating. Interment was made in Highland Cemetery under the direction of Mr. W. E. Routzahn. The following brief sketch of his life was read at the services, as were resolutions from the Miami County Bar Association, which attended in a body. The resolutions were read by Mr. Raymond Kerr, and the pall bearers were the members of the Board of Directors of the Covington Building and Loan Association, with whom Mr. Marlin was associated for many years as legal counsel. Joseph Henry Marlin, the third of seven children born to Joseph and Mary (Moore) Marlin, was born in Covington, Ohio, on March 23rd, 1855. He passed away during a heart attack at his home on Friday, January 18th, 1935, at the age of 79 years, 10 months and 20 days. On December 5th, 1885 he was united in marriage to Miss Emily J. Crist, at Spartansburg, Indiana, and to this union were born three children; Hugh C. Marlin, Mrs. Allen Poe and Mrs. Bryan Wetzel all of Covington. The deceased was one of Covington's most active and widely known citizens. following his graduation from Covington High School in 1875, he began his career as a clerk in the local stores. Meanwhile studying law with the firm of S.S. and J.F. McKinney, of Piqua. He was commissioned as a Notary Public in 1877, with probably the longest record in Ohio, having in his possession commissions from that date until 1935. He was admitted to the bar in 1890 and has practiced ____ and loan and other institutions for many years. He was always interested in civic, fraternal and community affairs and it has been said that his personal knowledge of the community was second to none. A partial invalid all of his adult life, his frail body housed an indomitable spirit and keen mind and his somewhat unique figure, erect and active was familiar to all residents of the community. His multiple activities brought him an ever-widening circle of friends and acquaintances who found in him a wise and sympathetic counselor, a loyal friend, an upright citizen, charitable to all and bearing malice to none. Within the family circle he was a loving companion, kind and considerate father, unselfish in his devotion to the family and their home. Besides the widow and three children, there are two sisters, Katherine and Alice Marlin, of Covington, five grandchildren and three nephews surviving him.
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