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.
CHATFIELD OHIO.
Died, Thursday morning, Dec. 23, 1897, Jacob Shafer, Sr. Funeral Sunday morning with burial in the Lutheran cemetery at Windfall, of which church he was a faithful member for nearly 60 years. Rev. Kittel officiated.
Mr. Shafer was born in Hoheniad Bezirk Walfishbach Reinbyrian, Germany, Dec. 25, 1818, and was baptized in infancy. In 1836, with his parents, he immigrated to this country and settled at Pittsburg, and about a year later moved to Seneca county. In 1837 he moved to Chatfield township, where he resided until death. In 1844 he was married to Catherine Fox, to which union were born 3 sons and 8 daughters, l daughter preceding her father to eternity. The deceased had been ailing during the summer and on Oct. 24, received a paralytic stroke, from which he never recovered.
He leaves an aged widow, 3 sons, 7 daugtors(sic), 51 grand children, 11 great grand children and a host of friends. Mr. Shafer, like other pioneers, underwent many hardships. He was a kind father, husband and neighbor,and a friend to one and all. Peace to his ashes.
