Services for Walter G. Hamilton, 53, of Roseville, Ohio, operator of the Hamilton Pottery, will be held at 2:30 o'clock Friday afternoon at the Cannon and Cannon funeral home in Roseville.
Rev. Raymond Garrett will officiate.
Burial will be in Roseville cemetery.
Mr. Hamilton died yesterday at Good Samaritan hospital (Zanesville, Ohio) where he had been a patient for three weeks. He had been suffering from a heart ailment.

He was a native and lifelong resident of Roseville, Ohio (Muskingum County) and was the son of Elijah and Lucinda Search Hamilton. His father was also a potter and the son, after founding a pottery of his own, later made moulds for others in the industry which brought him wide recognition.
Today the Hamilton Pottery is widely known as a producer of novelty pottery.
Surviving are his widow, Thelma, of the home; two sons, James of Roseville and Charles of Portsmouth, Ohio; a grandson, Donald, of Roseville; two sisters, Mrs. James Finley, also of Roseville, and Mrs. Virgil Hanson of Shawnee, Ohio.
The body remains at the funeral home.

(Zanesville Signal, pub. Zanesville, Ohio) February 2, 1955


MRS. HAMILTON, 86, DIES AT ROSEVILLE.

Mrs. Lucinda Hamilton, 86, died early this morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs. James Finley, of Roseville, following an illness of six days resulting from a heart condition.
The widow of Elijah Hamilton, she had resided in Roseville 46 years.
She was the daughter of Martin and Hannah Search, pioneer residents of the Saltillo community, Perry county (Ohio).

Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Alvin Coulter of Roseville, Mrs. Virgil Hanson of Shawnee, Ohio and Mrs. Finley at whose home she died; a son, Walter Hamilton of Roseville; a step-daughter, Mrs. Carrie Fortune of Colusa, California; three sisters, Mrs. Charles Gerose of Roseville, Route 1, Mrs. Alverta Finley of Crooksville, Ohio and Mrs. Cora Tilton of Columbus, Ohio; two brothers, Frank Search of Crooksville, Ohio and William M. Search of Red Wing, Minnesota; 20 grandchildren, 20 great-grandchildren, and two great-great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held Monday at 2:30 o'clock Monday afternoon at the residence with Rev. O.L. Hall of the Roseville Methodist church officiating.
Burial will be in the Roseville cemetery.
The body will be removed to the residence this evening from the Cannon & Cannon funeral home in Roseville.
(Zanesville Signal, May 11, 1946)