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.
Mary, daughter of Wesley and Elizabeth King, was born in Huron County, Ohio, July 5,1870, died Aug. 17, 1895, aged 25 years, 1 month and 12 days. Married May 27, 1893 to Chas. H. Lindsay. Was converted at Cranberry Chapel under the labors of Rev. L. Rothrock in January, 1890, and united with the United Brethren church at Chicago Junction. She has been a sufferer from that dread disease, consumption, for about one year, during which time all was done by physicians and loving friends to alleviate her sufferings and restore her, but she slowly faded until death claimed her. She endured her affliction with resignation and when nearing the Jordan of death calmly bade her friends Good-bye with the injunction to meet her in that better land where death never comes. She leaves a little daughter, aged 14 months, a husband, father, mother, three brothers, 1 sister and many friends to mourn her early departure.
