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.
Lewis Swineford died early last Sunday morning at his home two miles east of Ashland. He had been a great sufferer for many months and there was some uncertainty as to the cause of his death until Monday forenoon, when a post mortem examination was held by Dr. Kinnaman, his attending physician, and Drs. Sherick, of Ashland, and Craig, of Mansfield. The examination revealed the fact that cancer of the stomach was the cause of death. Mr. Swineford has been living for many years with his sisters and has never been married. He was quite well known throughout this part of the county, and in his young days was a man of great strength. The funeral was delayed until Wednesday to await the arrival of his brother from the west. The services were preached at the house by Rev. A. H. Smith and the body laid away in the Ashland cemetery.
