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GIDEON J. COBLENTZ, farmer, Sec. 28; P. O. Bradford, Ohio. Daniel, the father of Gideon J., is a native of Maryland; born in Frederick County in April, 1814. He married Margaret Worman, who was born in Ohio in 1815; she departed this life in 1855. Mr. Coblentz celebrated his second marriage with Sarah Shepherd; they now reside three miles east of Dayton, Ohio. Gideon, the subject of this sketch, is a native of Ohio, born in Montgomery County, on the 17th of October 1838; he spent his boyhood days in Montgomery County, assisting his father on the farm till he became of age, obtaining his education in the district schools. On the 7th of January, 1863, he celebrated his marriage with Mary E., daughter of John and Sarah Hinsey, who was born in Mad River Township, Montgomery County (now in the Corporation of Dayton), on the 29th of April, 1838. After his marriage, he moved on his father’s farm, where he remained about two years; after which he rented the Barlow farm, remaining for a period of about three years; when he moved near Fort Wood, on a small farm for which he paid money rent, remaining three years; he followed farming for four years on three different farms, and in March, 1876, he purchased 40 acres in Adams Township, Sec. 28, where he moved and resides at present; has since added 8 acres more, making in all 48 acres in a good state of cultivation. Mr. Coblentz has accumulated some property by his hard labor, in which he has been nobly assisted by his good and amiable wife; is strictly temperate in all his habits; two children have been born to them, viz.: John D. W., born July 20, 1865; Sarah E. M. A., born March 27, 1872. Mrs. Mary E. Coblentz is a clairvoyant and has remarkable powers in the faculty of clairvoyancy; to diagnose disease and prescribe for the same, and has a large practice in the counties of Darke, Miami and Montgomery. After an illness of ten years, receiving treatment from the most able physicians of the county, but all to no avail until the 4th day of July, 1874, when the faculty of clairvoyancy was brought into action, and the beautiful “Beyond” was opened up to her vision; in which a tall, venerable old gentleman, with gray hair and beard, spoke to her, saying: “I come to cure you.” She was then ordered by her control to read the thirty-fourth chapter of Ezekiel; after which she was ordered to go where there was a pool of dead water and remove from her person all but three garments and dip herself seven times, after which burn the three garments, which she did and in six weeks she had recovered from her illness so as to be able to do her housework. We now leave the reader to draw his or her own conclusions, however, the writer can truthfully say that she possesses remarkable magnetic powers, and has great power over disease.