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.
Drowning of Joseph Nejedly.
Joseph, son of John Nejedly, of this place, together with two other companions, met death by drowning in Brady Lake near Ravenna, last Sunday. The trio left Cleveland on an excursion last Sunday, morning for a day’s outing in the country. They were bathing in 14 feet of water when they were seized with cramps which rendered them helpless. Their bodies immediately disappeared under the water. The body of Mr. Nejedly was not found until 1 1/2 hours afterward. Mr. Nejedly was a stranger in that vicinity and he was identified by letters found on his person. The remains were brought to this place last Tuesday. Funeral services were held from St. Bernard’s church Wednesday morning, conducted by Rev. J. G. Vogt.
Deceased has been an employee in a restaurant at Cleveland, and was in the 25th year of his age.
