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.
John Wesley King was born Oct. 23, 1837 in Bloom township, Seneca county, Ohio, and was married Oct. 13, 1859 to Elizabeth Pugh of Lykens township, and died Oct. 1, 1896, aged 58 years, 11 months, 7 days. He has been a resident of Crawford county since his marriage except 15 years in Huron county. He leaves to mourn his departure, his companion, one daughter and three sons, one daughter, Mrs. Mary Lindsey preceded him to the spirit world about thirteen months. He has seven grand children. Two sisters, Mrs. Jane Watson and Mrs. Mary Spitler of Bloomville are thus bereft of a loving brother. His sickness of about a years duration was borne with cheerfulness and patience, and toward the close of life “desired to depart and be with Christ which is far better.” Appropriate funeral services were held in M. E. church at New Washington, Sermon by Rev. T. L. McConnell from 2 Con, 5 chapter, 1 verse after which the remains were laid to rest in the village cemetery. He was an affectionate husband and father, a kind friend and neighbor, but has gone from his place and shall not return. He has gone from our number to await the coming to that beautiful home of the soul of the loved ones left behind.