Winchester Journal Herald, 1953
Discovered frozen to death at 9 a.m. was James R. Scott, 82 year old Negro, who lived alone in a four room frame house two and one-half miles north of Modoc on St. Rd. 1. His body was found by a brother-in-law, Albert Barrax, who lives a mile west. Mr. Barrax, who checked on the elderly man, Barrax himself is 82 also, about "every other day" saw the body in the rear of the house at the opening of a dilapidated woodshed where apparently Mr. Scott had gone sometime Sunday for coal from the small pile stored near the shed door. He told Coroner Harvey White that he had seen his brother-in-law about noon Saturday when he took him some groceries. He said that Scott had been taking medicine but seemed in normal health, for his age, at that time.
He was a bachelor, born and raised in the community where he lived and had recently returned from the home of a niece in Detroit. The back door of the house, formerly a grocery store at what is known as "Scott's Corner" was standing open and water in a bucket in the kitchen was frozen solid.
He will be buried in the Baptist cemetery, south of Farmland
James Fred Dewey, 74, a former glassworker at Anchor Hocking was found dead Saturday morning at his home, 535 Maple Street in Winchester.
Doctor Harvey White of Farmland, Randolph County Coroner, has ruled that Mr. Dewey had apparently frozen to death.
Found with him when Winchester Police broke into the unheated house was Patrick (Shorty) Coon, 65, in such poor physical condition that he had been unable to move and make outside contact since his companion's death "three or four days ago."
Mr. Coon was taken to the Randolph County Hospital for medical treatment and Sunday Morning was transferred to the Randolph County Infirmary.
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