Doctor David Wadsworth

Notes:

The Mount Vernon(OH) Literary Society organized in the winter of 1821-2, by a number of young bachelors of the town, to wit: Dr. Norman Murray, David Wadsworth, Henry B. Curtis, John W. Warden and James Beebe. The society fell through by reason of the young men becoming absorbed in the more active duties of life.

He was Justice of the Peace of Fredericktown, Ohio in 1826.

History of Knox Co., Ohio (A.B. Norton, 1862) "Dr. David Wadsworth, another physician, died many years ago. His son, T.B., died in the Mexican War; his daughter Eliza Ellen, Mrs. Struble, is the sole survivor of the family."

Estate records signed by his brother, Samuel, and others (including Timothy Burr) state David Wadsworth, deceased, was dated 17Sep1831. (Knox County Probate Bonds, Box 37, File 256). Tax records continue through 1837 (heirs of David Wadsworth)

David married Hannah Thrift on 31 Oct 1822 in Knox County, Ohio. Hannah (daughter of William Absalom Thirft and Hannah Catherne Moffitt) was born on 7 May 1805 in Loudoun County, Virginia; died before 1831 in Fredericktown, Knox County, Ohio; was buried in Old Fredericktown Cemetery, Fredericktown, Knox County, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eliza married Hiram Headley Struble on 17 Dec 1848 in Knox County, Ohio. Hiram was born on 4 Jun 1826 in New Jersey; died on 7 Oct 1850 in Knox County, Ohio; was buried in Forest Cemetery, Fredericktown, Knox County, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eliza married Ira Trimm in 1872. Ira was born on 21 Dec 1820 in Oswego County, New York; died on 24 Nov 1903 in Quincy, Branch County, Michigan; was buried in Lake View Cemetery, Quincy, Branch County, Michigan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Military Service: 27 May 1846, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio; Mexican-American War Co. B, 2nd Regt OH Vol Inf, under Col. Morgan. Died from a tarantula bit while encamped at Camargo, Mexico

Notes:

Timothy Burr and Absolm Thrift (his uncles) were appoint guardians of Timothy B. Wadsworth at Mt.Vernon,Ohio 22Jun1842 (his grandfather, David Wadsworth may have died abt then, as he had been his guardian since then).

Buried:
Assumed buried here with the hundreds of other US Soldiers that died here during the war. No markers were erected during the war, the dead where buried where they died for several reasons (i.e. body count for the enemy, cost to transport back east, contain disease, etc.).

Died:
History of Knox Co., Ohio (N.N. Hill, 1881), page 268
"There was an enemy in Mexico more dreaded by our soldiers than the Mexicans. It was the tarantula. The tarantula belongs to the family of the spider. In Italy it is comparatively small and not esteemed dangerous; but in Mexico it attains a size that an ordinary pint cup would scarcely cover. The back and legs are covered with a long hair of a reddish color, and the eyes project from its head. One morning T. Burr Wadsworth, a solidier in Kenton's company, called at the hospital and complained at what appeared to be a carbuncle on his cheek. Surgeon Trevitt told him that it was not sufficiently ripe to lance, but applied some lotion.
A few hours later Wadsworth returned, with his face and head badly swollen. Trevitt applied the lance, pouring ammonia on the wound. In the meantime a large tarantula was found in Wadsworth's blankets. Stupor set in; the poor fellow died, and company B had to mourn the loss of one of its best soldiers."