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.
Catharine Elizabeth Schanzenbach, nee Becker, was born February 24th, 1825, in Abstadt, district of Heilbrown Wuertemberg, and died at her home in Cranberry township on the evening of June 27, 1891. Her age was consequently 66 yrs. 4 mo. and 3 da.
Together with her husband, – Karl Heinrich Schanzenbach, who was taken from her side about fifteen years ago, she emigrated from Germany to make her home in this country.
Their union was blessed with nine children, five of whom, three sons and two daughters preceded their mother into eternity, and four children, two sons and two daughters remain to mourn her loss.
On Tuesday forenoon, June 30, 1891 the remains were taken to the Lutheran graveyard for interment.
The deceased was bedfast almost six months and, it is assumed that a tumor inwardly caused her end.
Much sympathy was shown her during the time of her suffering and we here take occasion in the name of the family to thank all friends for any service rendered.
D. PH. EBERT
