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.
Jacob Sutter died at his home on West Mansfield street, aged 69 yrs., 10 mos. and 13 das., Tuesday morning the 24 inst. Mr. Sutter was a native of Switzerland and was born on the 11th of July, 1811. He immigrated to this country in 1844, farming in succession near Shelby about 8 years; near Sulphur Springs, 3 years; 20 miles from Grand Rapids, Mich., 4 years; and ever since in Crawford county on his place west of town until in 1880, when he bought a residence in town.
The deceased was married twice. From his first union with Elizabeth Fuerchter, who died a few years afterward, there were two children, one died an infant and the other, a son, died at the age of 18, in Michigan. His second marriage with Elizabeth Socin took place on the 16th of July, 1842. This union was blessed with four children, 2 sons and 2 daughters, who survive. Besides these and his widow, he leaves 1 brother, 19 grand-children and 8 great grand-children.
The deceased was baptised on the 25th of July, 1811, and confirmed when 14 years old in Wintersingan in canton Basel, Switzerland. He became a member of St. John’s Lutheran church on May 6, 1892. Funeral services, conducted by Rev. D. Ph. Ebert, took place Thursday forenoon, May 26.
