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.
Wm Shipley died at the residece of his son-in-law, Mr. F. A. Vantilburg, Ashland, Ohio, Aug. 5, 1889, aged 81 years, 5 months and 5 days.
The deceased was born in Washington county, Pa., Feb. 29,1808; came to Ohio in 1828; united with the M. E. church, of which he was a consistent member until his death. As the church was then in its youth, he has lived to see it in its glory. Was married in 1829 to Miss Martha Manning. The Lord blessed this union with seven sons and three daughters six of whom are living. Father Shipley has gone to meet his beloved companion and four children in the Spirit Land where parting shall be no more.
Good bye, dear children, let there be no tears,
I’ll wake with the angel band,
And the songs of home we shall sing again,
When you reach the heavenly land.
Funeral services conducted by Rev. Baron, assisted by Rev. Pepper.
