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.
Christian F. Stahl has at last given way to his dreadful disease, cancer. His death occurred on Tuesday afternoon, the 5th of this month, aged 77 yrs., 11 days. Mr. Stahl was born at Weiler Zum Stein, District of Marbach, Kingdom of Wuertemberg in Germany. He was a wagon maker by trade. He immigrated in 1854, first making Philadelphia his home. In 1855 he moved to Ohio, worked in Richland county till 1862, when he came to New Washington. Here Mr. Stahl was employed by the late Adam High. In 1866 he purchased a saloon and conducted his business as is well testified in an exemplary manner. Since 1883 Mr. Stahl retired from public life, yet remained an ever industrious and busy man until lately he had become unable to do anything. 22 years he lived in matrimony with Catharine Eisenhammer, nee Klein, his surviving widow. Also a sister, Mrs. Kopp, of Defiance, is left to mourn his death, besides a number of other relatives and friends. Mr. Stahl has been a consistent member of the Ev. Lutheran St. John’s church of this place. Interment with divine services following, took place yesterday forenoon.
