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.
Death of Mrs. F. W. Schmidt.
Margaret (Neuman) Schmidt was born June 24, 1836; died November 28, 1894; aged 58 yrs.. 5 mos. 4 das. Deceased was a native of Beuern, Prussia, and came to America in 1857 locating at Homesdale, Pa. At this place she was married to F. W. Schmidt; May 22, 1859. This union was blessed with six children, all living except one–a daughter who died in her fourth year. Since her arrival at this place on September 14, 1888, the deceased has won many warm friends by her kindness and very agreeable disposition, who are sorrow stricken by her death. Deceased has been in ill health for a number of years and at various intervals during that period her life was despaired of. Her fatal illness was of short duration when death came and summoned her hence. The end was calm and peaceful. The remains were taken to Celina, deceased’s former home, for burial last evening, accompanied by the family. The funeral services will be held tomorrow (Saturday) morning. The grief stricken husband and children have the sympathy of the entire community in their sore affliction of the loss of a loving companion and affectionate mother.
“Oh ! Lord, let her soul rest in peace.”