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. J. E. Siefert
Early last Tuesday morning the sad announcement of the death of Sarah Jane, wife of J. E. Siefert, was made bringing sorrow to every one who knew the deceased. Not very many knew of the serious illness of Mrs. Siefert and the announcement of her death came as a severe blow to the people.
Mrs. Siefert was prostrated with an attack of remittent fever. Prior to this, however, her children were sick, and she was greatly concerned about their condition causing her much worriment. When she became ill she gave up all hopes for recovery and told those about her that she would not get well. Death verified her prophecy last Tuesday morning, October 31, 1893, when she expired in the early dawn of day.
The deceased was born January 27, 1869, in Whetstone township and is a daughter of John and Rebecca Bair, of North Robinson. She was united in marriage with J. E. Siefert, of this place, November 25, 1886. This union was blessed with three children–two girls and one boy-who now suffer the unspeakable loss of a mother’s tender care.
Funeral services were held from the M. E. church yesterday morning at 10 o’clock, conducted by Rev. W. B. Taggart, after which the remains were interred in the Union cemetery southeast of town.
The deceased was a very estimable young woman possessing many noble qualities as all who knew her will testify. Public sympathy is with the bereft young husband in this his great and incalculable loss.
