Miami Union

November 29, 1873 

WEBB, ELISHA - (Communicated) - Elisha Webb died October 18th, 1873 in the 97th year of his age.  He was born in Pennsylvania, and emigrated with his father's family to Kentucky.  He came to the Territory of Ohio in 1798 with a party of hunters, crossing the Ohio river at Gallipolis, where game and Indians were plenty.  He was a noted woodsman and hunter, and when the Salt Works on the Scioto were started, he worked and hunted as occasion required, until about the year 1801, when he married Mary Tomtinson, and moved to Montgomery county, and from thence to Miami county in 1811, and settled on a farm one-half mile north of Casstown, on which he lived for sixty years.  His wife died on the 7th of last March in the 91st year of her age, they having lived together over seventy years.  He was a man of singular turn; never desired wealth, was strictly honest; never was sued, nor sued any one for debt.  If any one owed him money he would say, "Pay when you can."  He was a man of industrious habits, always working at something; he was a constant reader, more especially the last twenty years.  He often spoke of his departure, and seemed to wait patiently till his time would come.  He was entirely deprived of his eyesight for the last three or four years, and when there was no one to talk to him he would sing for hours some of his favorite songs of Zion, and in such a frame as this he sat and sang himself away to everlasting bliss.      W.