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.
On Saturday last, Mrs. Mary E. Kappus, residing about 1 1/2 miles north of this place, departed this life at the extreme age of 92 years and 27 days. The deceased was borne at Southein on the Neckar, Wurtemburg, Germany, on December 4th 1794. She emigrated to this country, with her son Charles, with whom she has since resided, in the year 1851 and located in Huron county this state, where she resided until about the year 1886, when they moved to Crawford county where she lived up to the time of her death. A remarkable feature of her life was that she was blessed with good health and never was known to have any sickness of any note, until the last few weeks which also resulted in her death. Mrs. Kappus was always industrious and honest in all her dealings with others. Above all, she lived an exemplary and devoted christian life, until the summons of death came and called her hence. She was buried in the Catholic Cemetery of this place last Monday, where a large concourse of mourning relatives and friends, paid their respects to venerable and pious woman.
