Turpin D. Hartman, whose death occurred October 31, A. D. 1908, at his residence in Jackson township, near Marathon, Clermont county, Ohio, when he had attained the age of 85 years, 5 months and 18 days, was the last one of a family of twelve to depart this life and enter into that mysterious realm beyond where he has joined those of his kinship who preceeded him to that better land. March 18, 1855, he was united in marriage with Sarah E. Abernathy, who, together with two sons and four daughters born of that union, survive and mourn the great and irreparable loss occasioned by his taking away. One son, Isaac W., and one daughter, Elizabeth C., awaited his coming to join them on the other shore whence they had gone in advance. He was born in the township wherein he died, and with the exception of about one year, during which he with his family resided in the adjoining township of Stonelick, he spent all the years of his well extended life in Jackson township, wherein at the Sharon cemetery his remains were interred on the 2nd day of November, 1908. In 1846 he was admitted to the Clermont county bar, in which county and that of Brown, adjoining, he had a large practice, owing to which he had an extended acquaintance in both those counties. At the time of his death he was the oldest living member of the bar in the county of his birth, having practiced his profession in the counties named for about sixty-two years. In the discharge of the duties incident to his chosen profession he was most careful, cautious, painstaking and conscientious. He was held in the highest esteem by all the courts and attorneys with whom he came in contact and made acquaintance. The courteous manner in which he treated his adversaries, in and out of court, was largely instrumental in bringing about the high regard had for him by those with whom he mingled in a business way. He was truly a loyal, kind and devoted husband, a loving and indulgent father and a good and kind neighbor, whose taking away has saddened the hearts not only of those nearest and dearest to him but his many friends in the community in which he lived for more than four score years. He has gone from our earthy view. His immediate family, left in the very midst of deepest sorrow as they look upon his face for the last time in life, can the better bear the burden wherewith they are weighted down in consequence of the good name and unblemished character he has left behind as their heritage of greater value than silver or gold, and by reason of that blessed promise which assures their meeting him in that eternal abode of which he has gone and toward which we all are fast being borne. W. H. H.