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.
Sudden Death of SUSAN ROBINSON LYONS
Susan (Robinson) Lyons died very suddenly at her home on East Mansfield street last Saturday evening, after an illness of only a half an hour of heart disease, aged 63 yrs., 7 mos., 11 das. The deceased was born Nov. 5 1830 in Perry county, Pa. When she was four years old she came with her parents to Crawford county, Ohio, locating about 1/2 mile north of Waynesburg, where her youth was passed. On December 4, 1848, she was married to Jacob Lyons. They began life together on the farm now occupied by her son, Elijah, which was all woodland at that time. By earnest toil, however, the forest was soon turned into tillable fields. Four children–three sons and one daughter–were the fruit of this union, two of whom preceded her to the spirit world. For 10 years, Mr. and Mrs. Lyons were members of the Presbyterian church, but in 1865, under the pastorate of Rev. Albright they joined the M. E. church, of which both were consistent members until death summoned them to their eternal home. On October 22, 1891 the deceased suffered the loss of her husband. She afterwards bought the beautiful little home on East Mansfield street and made it her home. She was a devout christian, attending the services of the sanctuary with great regularity. The funeral services were held from Goodwill church last Monday afternoon, conducted by Rev. W. B. Taggart, a large concourse of people being in attendance. The remains were interred in the Goodwill cemetery. Rest in Peace.
Grandma, thou hast gone and left us,
And our loss we deeply feel.
We know ’tis God that hath bereft us,
And he can all our sorrows heal.
‘Tis hard for as to give thee up,
And yet we know we must.
For God saw fit to call thee home,
To live among the just.
The church will also feel her loss,
Another sister’s spirit’s fled;
Yes, one who loved to bear the cross
Now lies numbered with the dead.
Of all the trials of our youth
This truly was the hardest, one,
To look upon her pallid face
And say, “Dear Lord, thy will be done.”
