JOSEPH WAGSTAFF

From The Bryan Press, Sept. 1875
WAGSTAFF - In Tiffin Township, Defiance Co., Ohio, September 17th., 1875, Joseph WAGSTAFF, at the ripe old age of 78 years. The deceased was the father of Captain Joseph WAGSTAFF, of Stryker, a gallant soldier of the late War for the Union.
Mr. WAGSTAFF was born in Pennsylvania, from which State he moved to Harrison County, Ohio, some forty years ago, and from thence to Richland, where he remained a few years, and then came to Defiance and settled on the farm where he died.
He was a good citizen, a good neighbor, and is a loss to the community in which he had so long resided. Thus the land marks of our early settlement are dropping away, and the last Pioneer will soon be gathered to his fathers. His father, Joseph WAGSTAFF, was born in England - kidnapped at the age of seven years and brought to this country when he was abandoned and left to provide for himself. At the outbreak of our Revolutionary struggle he enlisted into the Continental Army and did faithful service to its close,and died in Ohio at the advanced age of more than 99 years.