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 G. LEONHART – OBITUARY
John G. Leonhart was born March 3 1810 in Urweiter Alsace and was baptized the same day. He was confirmed in the Lutheran faith in 1824 and has since, we believe, been a consistent member of that church. On April 3, 1833 he was married to Margarette Zaebst who survives him. The same year he moved to America and settled in Stark county, this State, at which place he lived 4 yrs. He then moved to Chatfield Township, Crawford county, where he has lived ever since till God has seen fit to call him hence. He leaves 6 children, 8 having preceeded him to the spirit world, 47 grand children, and 9 great grand children. Deceased departed this life Dec. 8, 1886, aged 76 yrs. 6 mo 9 days. He was buried from St. John’s church of this place this morning where a concourse of people followed the remains to the grave.
