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.
Eliza Jane Keller was born in Crawford County, Ohio, August 23rd, 1852, died May 5, 1892, aged 39 yr., 8 mo., 12 da.
At the early age of 14 years she united with the Methodist Episcopal church at Good Will of which she has been a faithful member up to the time of her death; and her life has been characterized by a noble christian spirit, beloved by all who knew her. In the year 1872 she was united in marriage with Robert Bruce and to this union was born 5 children, one of which preceded its mother to eternity, when but at few months old. She has left a mother, 2 sisters, 2 brothers, 2 sons, 2 daughters and a loving husband to mourn the loss of a kind sister, mother and wife. In the death of Mrs. Bruce, the church, Sabbath school and community loses an active worker and a bright and shining light,
We miss thee from our home, dear,
We miss thee from thy place,
A shadow o’er our life is cast;
We miss the sunshine of thy face
We miss thy kind and willing hand,
Thy fond and earnest care;
Our home is dark without thee
We miss thee every where.
