The Ohio Stove Company was incorporated in 1872, in Portsmouth, Ohio. The company was organized as a foundry to cast iron stove parts and assemble its line of coal heating and cooking stoves. In 1942 the company expanded into commercial gray iron casting to produce parts for the air conditioning, transportation and transmission industries. By 1953 the conversion from stove production to commercial casting was complete. All stove patterns were sold. The Ohio Stove Company changed its name to OSCO Industries, Inc., in 1972 on the company's 100th anniversary.
The Portsmouth Times Building was sold in 2016. Staff ceased working from the location. Production of the newspaper had moved to Gallipolis, Ohio, several years earlier. The Portsmouth Daily Times had operated out of the 637 Sixth (6th) Street location since 1955.
As part of an ongoing project, the obituaries of the Portsmouth Times have been indexed. They are listed by year, then alphabetized by surname. The name is sometimes listed on more than one date, as the index reflects the number of times the person is listed in the newspaper. The first listing may be only a death notice, whereas the following listing may be the obituary.
The index is to assist in finding the dates that an obituary appeared or if an obituary did not appear in the Portsmouth Times. The obituaries are listed by the name the newspaper published, so keep in mind the possible errors in spelling. If an obituary of a woman identified her only by her husband, an effort was made to find her actual name. Please keep in mind that these are only indexes.
All obituary index PDF documents are text-searchable.
