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.
Margareth Klein, deceased, was the daughter of Adam and Elizabeth High and was born Oct. 16, 1824, in Langwidden, Rhenish Bavaria. In the same year, Oct. 25th, she was introduced by infant baptism into the kingdom of God. At the age of 9 years, in 1833 she emigrated to America in company with her family. In l840, at the age of 16, she was confirmed in the old log church, in which the Lutherans of tbis place formerly worshiped, by Rev. Krauss,and she kept her confirmation vow inviolate to her last breath. June 26, 1845 she was married to Conrad Klein, who died Dec. 14, 1886. This union was blessed with 6 children, five of whom are still living to mourn the death of a kind and affectionate mother. Deceased also lived to see 25 grandchildren added to her progeny, 18 of whom are yet living. Deceased has been a long-timed sufferer, and when the cause of her suffering was finally declared to be cancer of the stomach, her only hope of release was death. For this, too, she longed and prayed, and yet patiently awaiting the summons from on high. About last Christmas she took to her bed and virtually left it no more until loving hands bore her to her final resting place. God’s word was her dying pillow and on it she sleeps the sleep of death to await the resurrection morn. She died Sunday, Oct. 7, five minutes before midnight. The funeral took place from the Ev. Luth. church, a large concourse of mourning relatives and friends following the corpse to its final resting place. The undersigned preached the funeral sermon from Math. 7, 24-28.
H. P. DANNECKER
In conclusion I am authorized to bespeak the gratitude of the bereaved relatives to all friends and neighbors for their kind consolation and help tendered the deceased and family in the time of their deep sorrow.
