Job Workman Gatchell was one of seven children born to Elias and Martha Matilda Brown Gatchell. His life was sadly tragic.
In 1910 he married Zetta Samantha Cox, daughter of John William and Margaret Lavena McCoy Cox. He worked for the railroad as an air brake inspector. He and Zetta had four children in the short time they had together: Bernice Marie, Vernon Aphaeus, Mildred Irene, and Frances Isabel. In 1921, when Zetta was 31 years old, she died of tuberculosis.
After Zetta's death, Job married their housekeeper, Beulah Dase Patterson in 1923. Together they had one child, Beulah D. Gatchell in 1925.
On 29 September, 1926, his wife, Beulah at home, seriously ill, according to newspaper accounts, Job was driving his car across the Little Stillwater Creek Bridge on Sixth St. in Dennison, Ohio near his home. The creek was swollen after recent rains, and the water was only a foot below the bottom of the bridge. An acquaintance claimed that he and another man and Job stopped their cars on the bridge to talk. The man's story changed a couple of times, but he claimed that with the raging creek and the sound of the cars' engines, somehow he neither saw nor heard Job jump into the creek. He thought the body he saw rushing downstream with the current was a dummy.
Two men were held in connection with the suspicious disappearance of Mr. Gatchell. It took three days for the authorities to finally find Job's body, lodged downstream, underwater. While the Coroner could find no evidence of foul play (using the techniques available in 1926), neighbors reported that the two men held in the case had been heard arguing with Job on the bridge.
Job's death was ruled a suicide, but the clues in the case don't seem to bear that out. Job's children by Zetta were parceled out to relatives.
In 1910 he married Zetta Samantha Cox, daughter of John William and Margaret Lavena McCoy Cox. He worked for the railroad as an air brake inspector. He and Zetta had four children in the short time they had together: Bernice Marie, Vernon Aphaeus, Mildred Irene, and Frances Isabel. In 1921, when Zetta was 31 years old, she died of tuberculosis.
After Zetta's death, Job married their housekeeper, Beulah Dase Patterson in 1923. Together they had one child, Beulah D. Gatchell in 1925.
On 29 September, 1926, his wife, Beulah at home, seriously ill, according to newspaper accounts, Job was driving his car across the Little Stillwater Creek Bridge on Sixth St. in Dennison, Ohio near his home. The creek was swollen after recent rains, and the water was only a foot below the bottom of the bridge. An acquaintance claimed that he and another man and Job stopped their cars on the bridge to talk. The man's story changed a couple of times, but he claimed that with the raging creek and the sound of the cars' engines, somehow he neither saw nor heard Job jump into the creek. He thought the body he saw rushing downstream with the current was a dummy.
Two men were held in connection with the suspicious disappearance of Mr. Gatchell. It took three days for the authorities to finally find Job's body, lodged downstream, underwater. While the Coroner could find no evidence of foul play (using the techniques available in 1926), neighbors reported that the two men held in the case had been heard arguing with Job on the bridge.
Job's death was ruled a suicide, but the clues in the case don't seem to bear that out. Job's children by Zetta were parceled out to relatives.
Job Workman Gatchell was one of seven children born to Elias and Martha Matilda Brown Gatchell. His life was sadly tragic.
In 1910 he married Zetta Samantha Cox, daughter of John William and Margaret Lavena McCoy Cox. He worked for the railroad as an air brake inspector. He and Zetta had four children in the short time they had together: Bernice Marie, Vernon Aphaeus, Mildred Irene, and Frances Isabel. In 1921, when Zetta was 31 years old, she died of tuberculosis.
After Zetta's death, Job married their housekeeper, Beulah Dase Patterson in 1923. Together they had one child, Beulah D. Gatchell in 1925.
On 29 September, 1926, his wife, Beulah at home, seriously ill, according to newspaper accounts, Job was driving his car across the Little Stillwater Creek Bridge on Sixth St. in Dennison, Ohio near his home. The creek was swollen after recent rains, and the water was only a foot below the bottom of the bridge. An acquaintance claimed that he and another man and Job stopped their cars on the bridge to talk. The man's story changed a couple of times, but he claimed that with the raging creek and the sound of the cars' engines, somehow he neither saw nor heard Job jump into the creek. He thought the body he saw rushing downstream with the current was a dummy.
Two men were held in connection with the suspicious disappearance of Mr. Gatchell. It took three days for the authorities to finally find Job's body, lodged downstream, underwater. While the Coroner could find no evidence of foul play (using the techniques available in 1926), neighbors reported that the two men held in the case had been heard arguing with Job on the bridge.
Job's death was ruled a suicide, but the clues in the case don't seem to bear that out. Job's children by Zetta were parceled out to relatives.
In 1910 he married Zetta Samantha Cox, daughter of John William and Margaret Lavena McCoy Cox. He worked for the railroad as an air brake inspector. He and Zetta had four children in the short time they had together: Bernice Marie, Vernon Aphaeus, Mildred Irene, and Frances Isabel. In 1921, when Zetta was 31 years old, she died of tuberculosis.
After Zetta's death, Job married their housekeeper, Beulah Dase Patterson in 1923. Together they had one child, Beulah D. Gatchell in 1925.
On 29 September, 1926, his wife, Beulah at home, seriously ill, according to newspaper accounts, Job was driving his car across the Little Stillwater Creek Bridge on Sixth St. in Dennison, Ohio near his home. The creek was swollen after recent rains, and the water was only a foot below the bottom of the bridge. An acquaintance claimed that he and another man and Job stopped their cars on the bridge to talk. The man's story changed a couple of times, but he claimed that with the raging creek and the sound of the cars' engines, somehow he neither saw nor heard Job jump into the creek. He thought the body he saw rushing downstream with the current was a dummy.
Two men were held in connection with the suspicious disappearance of Mr. Gatchell. It took three days for the authorities to finally find Job's body, lodged downstream, underwater. While the Coroner could find no evidence of foul play (using the techniques available in 1926), neighbors reported that the two men held in the case had been heard arguing with Job on the bridge.
Job's death was ruled a suicide, but the clues in the case don't seem to bear that out. Job's children by Zetta were parceled out to relatives.
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