| Name |
Addison ELLIOTT |
| Nickname |
Ad |
| Birth |
Sep 1855 |
Paris Township, Union, Ohio, United States  [1, 2] |
| Gender |
Female |
| Residence |
23 Jul 1860 |
Paris Township, Union, Ohio, United States [3] |
| Residence |
11 Jun 1870 |
Marysville, Union, Ohio, United States [1] |
| Misc |
15 Mar 1879 |
Marysville, Union, Ohio, United States [4] |
- Outright Murder!
It is seldom we have to record open acts of violence in our midst by those who know no law, but it has been manifest for some time that we have a few persons who are perfecting themselves every day for rapine and murder. At lenght we have reached the first fruits of their lawlessness.
Saturday evening last, a young man named John Phipps, a resident of this town, came to his death at the hands of Ad. Elliott, by a blow on the head with a jug, crushing his skull. The jug was broken into fragments and PHipps was knocked down and so badly stunned that he never recovered consciousness. He lived until seven o'clock Sunday evening. A post-mortem examination of the diseased was made Monday, by Drs. Henderson, Hamilton, and Robertson, when it was found that the skull had been badly fractured and the brain lacerated, wounds sufficient to cause death.
The deed was committed at or near Snodgrass' livery stable. We do not know what the difficulty was between the men that led to the fatal result, but it is supposed to have originated a few days before, a the house of the desceased's father. Elliott was arrested Monday at the house of his brother, south of Marysville, and is now in jail.
Dennis McGraw was also arrested and placed in jail as a supposed accomplice in the fiendish act.
The parties are vicious persons, and are dreaded by the community, and it is hoped that they law will mete out full justice to the guilty. It is due to the people of this community that they will be protected from such desperate characters.
Marysville Tribune, March 19, 1879, Vol. XX No. 32 p.3 c.2
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| Misc |
Oct 1879 |
Marysville, Union, Ohio, United States [5] |
- Above will be found a correct likeness of Addison Elliott, who has been confined in our country jail since March, for the murder of John Phipps. He is quite a young man, and, when sober, of manly and gentle disposition. Being possessed of a superabundance of animal life, which the human race more or less possess when under the influence of drink, he became hilarious and dangerous. It was in this state that he struck the fatal blow with a mineral jug, for which he has received his sentence. This subject is the son of respectable and law-abiding parents, who are deeply depressed over their boy. He was brought into the court room Friday, and upon the advice of his attorneys, pled guilty to manslaughter. The Grand Jury found him guilty in the first degree, but it was plainly to be see, that that charge could not be sustained, and nothing more than manslaughter, with a possibility of murder in the second degree could be identified. Judge Porter asked the prisoner if he had any reason why sentence should not be passed upon him; replying in the negative, he stood erect and received the sentence from the court in the following words, and good advice:
“Addison Elliott, the Grand Jury at the last term of this Court indicted you for the crime of murder in the first degree; the highest crime known to the criminal laws of the State of Ohio. And while your own attorneys, who have so ably spoken for you, claim that you are not guilty of murder, they admit that you are clearly guilty of manslaughter in taking the life of the deceased.
While there were some facts tending to show you guilty of murder in the second degree, the court thinks that your offense is under the strict rules of law only a case of manslaughter, and that the Prosecuting Attorney did right in accepting that plea.
It is true that the act had some appearance at its commencement of a drunken brawl, in which the deceased was not without blame, yet the court looked to the testimony in vain, in the hope that it might discover some palliating circumstance at the particular time that the deadly blow was given; but none could be found. The quarrel between you, had apparently come to a close, the deceased and his sisters, appeared to be on their way home, and the fatal blow was dealt under circumstances that tended strongly to establish murder in the second degree.
It appears from the evidence, that you, when sober were peaceful and orderly, but that when under the influence of liquor you were always disposed to be troublesome and quarrelsome, and yet you knowing this failing, would voluntarily put yourself under the influence of liquor, and were, at this time under its influence; so that it would appear that whisky rather than yourself was the main cause of the commission of this crime; the person who sold you the liquor is morally the principal and you are but the instrument, yet the law holds you alone responsible for this deed. Drunkenness is no excuse for crime. The law cannot, does not, dare note, excuse you for an act that you committed, while perhaps crazed from drink, which you voluntarily engaged in, and might of your own free will have abstained from, but would not. It will be a sorry reflection as you recline in your lonely cell, that had it not been for whisky, you would not now be expiating this offense in the State’s prison.
It certainly is a lesson to you—a lesson dearly purchased – to abstain forever from the use of intoxicating liquors. It should teach you to avoid the maddening drink; as you would avoid the deadly asps, or the venomous cobra.
But will you profit from this lesson? It is for yourself to decide. It rests entirely with yourself. You may do the expiration of your sentence, by good behavior merit the respect of all good people; or you may, on the contrary, become a hardened criminal, and perhaps spend a large portion of your life in the penitentiary. I hope that you will adopt the former course, and yet become a useful citizen and respected member of society.
If you conduct yourself with propriety in the prison, and obey its rules, you will shorten your time about one sixth of the whole time, or about two months to the year; otherwise you will have to remain the full period of your sentence.
The sentence of the Court, therefore, is that you will be imprisoned in the penitentiary of the State of Ohio, and be kept art hard labor (or part of the time in solitary confinement) for the period of seven years, and that you pay the costs of prosecution."
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| Residence |
Jun 1880 |
Columbus, Franklin, Ohio, United States [6] |
| Laborer |
Address:
State Penitentary |
| Residence |
14 Apr 1900 |
Paris Township, Union, Ohio, United States [7] |
- Living in the household of his brother, Jacob Elliott
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| Death |
1901 |
Union County, Ohio, United States [8] |
- There is some confusion in the records about Addison's birth and death. The cemetery records show 8/11/1810 - 10/9/1901 and the marker shows 1873-1900.
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| Burial |
Aft 9 Oct 1901 |
Oakdale Cemetery, Paris Twn, Union County, Ohio [8] |
- Section D Lot 77
His marker shows 1873 - 1900 which does not make sense
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| Person ID |
I5081 |
Watkins |
| Last Modified |
27 Aug 2011 |
| Father |
Samuel E. ELLIOTT, b. 11 Aug 1810, Ohio d. 24 Jun 1894, Union County, Ohio, United States (Age 83 years) |
| Mother |
Elizabeth LEE, b. 27 Mar 1818, Virginia d. 2 Aug 1897, Paris Township, Union, Ohio, United States (Age 79 years) |
| Marriage |
15 Aug 1839 |
Ohio [9] |
| Residence |
26 Jul 1850 |
Paris Township, Union, Ohio, United States [10] |
| Farmer |
| Residence |
23 Jul 1860 |
Paris Township, Union, Ohio, United States [11] |
| Farm Laborer |
| Residence |
11 Jun 1870 |
Marysville, Union, Ohio, United States [1] |
| Day Laborer |
| Residence |
22 Jun 1880 |
Marysville, Union, Ohio, United States [12] |
| Retired Farmer |
| Family ID |
F880 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
1855 - 1901 (~ 45 years)
