Matthew Ferguson, a well-known resident of roscoe, died of apoplexy on March 4, 1871, in the eightieth year of his age.  He was born in Pennsylvania in 1792, lived for a time in Zanesville, then ten years n Coshocton, passing thence to Roscoe, where was his home for thirty-seven years.  He was a hatter by trade.  He was several times elected a justice of the peace.  He married Miss mary Smeltzer in 1819, by whom he had twelve children.  he was a "charter member of Coshocton Lodge of Masons."

Source:  Historical Collections of Coshocton County Ohio 1764-1876
Author: William E Hunt, pub. 1876