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.
J. F. Kimerline, L. J. Kimerline and wife, and J. W. Derr were at Wooster last Friday in attendance at the funeral of John A. Kimerline, a brother of J. F. and L. J. Deceased died at Cleveland on Wednesday, December 28, 1888, aged 40 years; and was taken to Wooster, the home of his boyhood, for burial. For many months he had been a patient sufferer of pain seemingly beyond endurance, but finally fell a victim to the fatal disease, consumption of the bowels. Deceased was well known by many at this place, having been a resident of this town for a number of years, who are sorry to learn the sad news of his departure hence. Such as knew him speak of him as a good natured, whole-souled and an industrious man.
The following concerning his death we clip from the Wayne County Democrat:
John A. Kimerline, aged 40 years, died in Cleveland last Wednesday morning, after months of severe suffering from that disease, consumption of the bowels. He formerly lived in Wooster, but for the past 16 years has been a resident of Cleveland. He was a generous and popular man, well liked by all who knew him. On Friday the remains were brought to Wooster for burial in Oak Grove Cemetery. The funeral took place that afternoon from the home of County Recorder Schuch; the services were conducted by Rev. Dieterly, Pastor of the German Lutheran Church.
