MARIA TESTICAN DICKSON – OBITUARY in Florence Siefert Scrapbook

This post was contributed to the Crawford County Chapter of OGS by Kristina Stearley as part of the Florence Siefert Scrapbook in 2010.

The scrapbook is compiled from undated, unidentified newspaper clippings involving events in the lives of Crawford County citizens living in or having connections to New Washington, Tiro, Shelby, Sulphur Springs, Chatfield, Bucyrus, Ashland, Mansfield, and other areas. Only minimal spelling or punctuation corrections were made. Unreadable areas are shown by underlines, dots &/or question marks. This collection has been scanned, “optical character recognized” (OCR’d), proofed, then coded for HTML by volunteers of the Crawford County Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society. Since the copies are not of the best quality errors may have been made. Please contact us if you find corrections needing to be made or can verify any missing dates which could be added.

Mrs. Maria Dickson, who has been an invalid for several years, died at her home on North Main street, Tuesday evening, February 21, 1899, of dropsy,aged 80 years, 6 months and 3 days. The funeral was held at the late residence, Friday afternoon, conducted by Rev. Caldwell, with burial in the Dickson cemetery.
Maria Testican was born in this state, August 19, 1818, and was united in marriage to Wm. Dickson, February 13, 1838, who preceded her several years, to the glory world. During all her years of illness she has borne her trials with christian patience and by her cheerful advice and example has been a great comfort to her many friends and relatives, who will now mourn her loss.(Following account apparently from different newspaper)Mrs. Maria Dickson, who has been an invalid for several years, died at her home on north Main street Tuesday evening, February 21st of dropsy, aged 80 years, 6 months and 3 days. The funeral was held at the late residence, Friday afternoon, conducted by Rev. Caldwell, with burial in the Dixson cemetery. Maria Testican was born in this state, August 19th, 1818, and was united in marriage to William Dickson, Feb. 13th, 1838, who preceded her several years to the other world. During all her years of illness she has borne her trials with christian patience and by her cheerful advice and example has been a great comfort to her many friends and relatives who now mourn their untimely loss.