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.
Wednesday, the 27 inst. at 2 a.m., death ended the sufferings of Mrs. Gottlieb Kibler. The deceased, a daughter of the late Michael and Catherine Loyer, was born December 19, 1832, in the village of Steinbach, district of Backenang, Wurtemberg, Germany. In the summer of 1837, the five year old girl, together with her parents, immigrated and settled in Liberty township, Crawford county, O.
On the 11th, of October, 1855, she was united in holy wedlock by the late Rev. Michaelis, of Sulphur Springs, with Gottlieb Kibler, who also was born in Steinbach, Germany. Mrs. Kibler had no children of her own but became the foster mother of three orphans, a niece and nephew on her husband’s side, and a sister’s son.
This latter is Dr. A. E. Loyer, of this place; the former are Mrs. Adam Fisher, west of town, and her brother, Jno. Schieber, who died at the age of sixteen. Mrs. Kibler’s more than eight year’s ailment was caused by cancer. Since February, nearly nine months, she has been bedfast.
Deceased was a consistent and devoted member of St. John’s Lutheran church and active in the Lutheran ladies’ society. She reached the age of 64 yrs., 10 mos. and 8 das.
Funeral takes place this forenoon, interment following at the Lutheran cemetery.
Resolutions of Condolence.
Whereas, it has pleased the Lord to take from this mortal state our beloved sister and member of our society, Mrs. Caroline Kibler,
BE IT RESOLVED That we hereby express our sorrow regarding her departure as also our sympathy with the mourners;
Signed in the Lutheran Ladies’ Aid Society. COM.
That we also give expression to our joyful belief that our sister was ready to depart and has gone borne in peace;
That we praise the mercy of God, who has delivered her from long, and great suffering;
That we finally thank God for every good which He has done for and through our departed sister.