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.
Widow Elizabeth Sutter, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth Sotzen, was born in Nusshof, canton of Basle, Switzerland, on the 25th of April, 1821. She was baptized on the 29th of April, 1821 in Wintersingen and there also confirmed in her 14th year in the Reformed faith.
On the 6th of July, 1842, she married widower Jacob Sutter, who was from her native village, and with whom in the year 1844 she crossed the sea to America. They lived awhile near Shelby, also in Michigan, but mostly in Crawford county. Their last years were spent in New Washington. Together with her husband the deceased joined St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran church on the 6th of May, 1892 and has been a consistent member of the same until death. Her husband preceded her into eternity one month, less five days. She breathed her last on Sunday, June 19, 1898, at noon. Her age was 77 yrs. 1 mo. 24 das. She leaves to mourn her death, 2 sons, 2 daughters, 2 brothers, 19 grand-children, and 8 great grandchildren. Peace to her ashes.
Funeral services and interinent conducted by Rev. D. Ph. Ebert, took place last Tuesday forenoon.
