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.
William Koehler was born on the 20th of January, 1812 at Gilserberg, District of Treissa in Kurhessen, Germany. He emigrated in 1833 and lived 2 years in Stark County, Ohio. While there he was an industrious carpenter. He, however, preferred farming and in order to follow this pursuit moved to Cranberry township, Crawford County, Ohio. A number of years ago Mr. Koehler retired from active work and took his final abode in New Washington. The deceased was married twice, the second time with Miss Louisa Huber. This union was blessed with four children, 3 of whom, a girl and two boys, preceded their father to eternity. The deceased enjoyed generally good health until of late years. Old age was propably the main cause of his death which occurred April 24, 1892. The burial took place on Tuesday the 26th inst. under the auspices of St. John’s German Lutheran church of which Mr. Koehler has been a faithful member. His widow and son, Wm., survive him, also 1 step-brother and three step-sisters, besides numerous distant relatives.
D.E.
