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.
Mrs. Anna Mary Krafft, daughter of Jno. Geo. and Anna Mary Weber, died August 6, 1896, in consequence of a tumor. She was born in Buggingen, Baden on the 16 of April, 1833, hence reached the age of 63 yrs. 3 mos. and 21 days. She carne over to this country together with parents, brothers and sisters in 1851 and they settled on the same place which for 16 years past has been the Krafft farm in Cranberry township. The marriage of Miss Weber to Mr. Isaac Krafft took place in 1858. This union was blessed with 3 children, two of whom, George and Mary are surviving. Mrs. Krafft was a consistent member of the Lutheran church and the St. John’s cong. at New Washington. How much she was thought of was evident from the large attendance at her funeral. Services were conducted by her pastor, Rev. D. Ph. Ebert at the Tabor church. Interment took place at Bucyrus, Oakland cemetery. The choir of the St. John’s congregation of New Washington, furnished appropriate music at house, church and cemetery.
