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Ceely Rose was a disturbed young woman who poisoned her entire family in 1896 in Pleasant Valley, in southern Richland County. But what were her roots? Ceely’s family came from Pike County, Ohio. Ceely was 6 years old when the family moved north. This sketch of her appeared in local media at the time of Ceely’s trial.
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Ceely’s father was Civil War veteran David S. Rose. The war wrecked David’s health as well as his plans for a successful family farm in Pike County. He moved north in 1879 and bought the Schrack Mill, which he operated intermittantly until his death. This sketch, apparently based on a now-lost photograph, appeared in a Utica, New York, tabloid newspaper.
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The miller’s house made famous by Ceely Rose is on Bromfield Road between the Big House and the Malabar Farm Hostel. Â It stands across Switzer’s Creek from where the Schrack Mill once operated, as indicated by the shadow in this photo.
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Headlines from the Chicago Daily Tribune, August 17, 1896.
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The Rose home, where Ceely Rose and her family lived, is part of Malabar State Park. (photo via Ohio State Parks)
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Celia Rose, the confessed murderer, as photographed at the Richland County Jail in September of 1896 by a tabloid newspaper from Utica, New York.
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The Schrack Mill, which was run by Ceely Rose’s father David. It was later torn down and the foundation stones and beams used in the construction of the Big Barn at what is now Malabar Farm State Park.
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A government pension document for Ceely’s father, David Rose, obtained from the National Archives, stamped “DEAD.”
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