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. SARAH A. SMITH SPAYTH.
OBITUARY
Tiffin Advertiser, Nov. 24:–Another well known pioneer resident of Tiffin has passed into the great beyond, in the person of Sarah A., wife of W. O. Spayth, who died in this city Monday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Thomas F. Keller, 237 East Perry street.
Sarah A. Spayth was the daughter of David Smith, the first Auditor of Seneca county, and was born in this city August 6, 1829, and was aged sixty-seven years, three months and seventeen days at the time of her death. March 23, 1852, she was married to William O. Spayth at Republic, and to them were born one son and four daughters. The daughters, who with their aged father, survive, are as follows: Ella, wife of Dr. Thomas F. Keller; Mary, wife of A. H. Unger; Miss Mabel; and Edith, wife of Will G. Bloom, all of Tiffin. Mrs. Spayth was beloved by all who knew her and her death is mourned by a large circle of friends.
The funeral takes place from the Keller home at 2 o’clock Wednesday afternoon, conducted by Rev. G. Fred Williams and Rev. O. V. W. Chandler.