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
–Nathaniel Stevens, of Tiro was almost instantly killed at Vernon Junction last Friday evening by jumping off a moving train. Mr. Stevens was on a North bound O. C. C. & I. train and upon nearing Vernon Junction, against the protest’s of the conductor, went out of the car and made the fatal jump some rods south of the station. After the train had reached the station the conductor and others went to the scene of the mishap and found Mr. Stevens body near the track. They put him on the train and took him to Shelby but death but death had claimed its victum before the arrival at that place. Mr. Stevens was a son of J. H. Stevens, a highly respected man.