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.
A Pioneer’s Death.
Austin Moherman, of whose death this paper contained an account yesterday, was born on a farm near Youngstown, 0,, and at the time of his death was aged seventy-six years and seven months. He first came to Ashland county with his father in 1830, to examine some land which the elder Moherman had entered in 1814.
They went back to their home shortly afterward, and remained there ten years. Austin Moherman came back to this county in 1840 and settled upon the land above referred to. It is well known now as the Moherman homestead. He was married in 1846 to Hettie E. Waggoner. Of this union them were born twelve children, of whom all but one are living. George Moherman was killed by the cars west of Ashland a few years ago. When Austin Moherinan came to the farm where he spent the rest of his life, he drove through with a team and wagon, built himself a log house and stable and went vigorously to work. By industry and good business qualifications he had amassed considerable property, and was an energetic and honest man.
Funeral services will be held at the Dickey church tomorrow, 12:30 being the hour set for meeting at the house. Rev. E. Loomis, of New Philadelphia, will preach the sermon. Mr. Moherman had many friends who deeply regret his death.
