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.
Died, last Tuesday afternoon, Michael Riedel, a prominent farmer, of East Chatfield, of peritonitis. On Friday morning he was the picture of health. Although he had been a sufferer of some stomach affection for many years, of late he seemed to enjoy good health. On Friday evening he took sick and suffered terribly until the following Tuesday when death relieved him of all pain. The funeral took place on Thursday and was largely attended by his many friends and relatives. Ninety teams were at the house and formed the procession to the church where fifty-three teams had already arrived. Hundreds of friends walked to the grave to pay tribute to the deceased. Rev. Mohrhoff conducted the services and commented at great length on the text, “I will not forsake thee.” The deceased was a staunch democrat honest and upright in all his dealings, a good neighbor, a loving husband and a kind brother. He arrived at the age of forty-three years, two months and nine days. He was a faithful member of the Lutheran church. He leaves a widow and three children.
