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.
JOANNA FRIEDERIKE UTZ MICHELFELDER – OBITUARY
Mrs. Joanna Friederike Michelfelder, widow of Jno. Michelfelder, Sr., died on the 23d inst., at 1 o’clock a. m. Deceased was born in Abstadt, district of Heilbronn, Kingdom of Wurtemberg in Germany, On Jan. 23, 1823. Hence, she reached the age of 75 yrs. and 4 mos. Her parents were Gottfried and Christine Utz, of Abstadt.
She crossed the ocean in 1846, on the ship which also brought him over who was to share with her life’s joys and sorrows. She lived at first in Sandusky, Ohio, and came, in 1847, to New Washington, where she was married to Jno. Michelfelder on the 18th of May, of the same year. In September 1891 her husband was taken away. Two of her brothers who lived in Canada, also preceded her to eternity. All her children, 3 sons and 2 daughters, survive. Also 8 grand-children, 1 brother and 1 sister.
For a number of years grandmother Michelfelder’s health has been poor, and, according to human reasoning, her end would have come sooner than this. She was baptised and confirmed at the proper age in the Ev. Lutheran church and has been a faithful member of the same, particularly of St. John’s congregation here, until her end. She has been a good mother not only to her own children but to all those for whom she could be a help.
“Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from henceforth; yea, saith the Spirit that they rest from their labors and their works do follow them.”
Funeral services, conducted by the pastor of the Lutheran church, Rev. D. Ph. Ebert, took place on Wednesday forenoon.
