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.
George Schaeffer died on the 27th of July, at the age of 79 yrs. 7 mos.and 11 das. Deceased was the second child of Johann Schaeffer and his wife Catherine, nee Zeiter. He was born at Urweiler, district Neiderbrunn, Elsass, on Dec. 15, 1815, was baptized on the 17th of December, of that year and was confirmed in the year 1830 by Rev. Eschenbrenner, the same pastor who christened him. In the spring 1833 he emigrated to America and settled first in Canton, Stark county, Ohio, where on the 15th of July 1833 he was married to Miss Anna Zaebst. In August 1835 he moved to Crawford county, after having purchased land in Chatfield township. Seven children were born to him, 4 sons and 3 daughters, all of them surviving. His wife died in the Lord on the 22nd of March, 1877, after five years of suffering. Up to date his descendants, who survive, number seven children, three daughters-in-law, two sons-in-law, 38 grandchildren, and 13 great-grandchildren. He also leaves his aged brother, John Schaeffer to mourn his death. Burial in the Lutheran graveyard and funeral service conducted by his pastor, Rev. Ebert, took place Monday morning, a large concourse of people attending.
