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.
Death of Geo. W. Teel
Geo. W. Teel, Esq., died at 4 p m., Friday, July 19, at his home near Sulphur Springs, of progressive paralysis aged 78 years, 2 months and three days.
The funeral took place on Sunday, July 21, at 2 p. m., from his late residence, interment in Union Cemetery. The pall hearers selected by the family are J. B. Gormly, Geo. C. Gormly, J. H. Hofman and Dr. J. S. McCarrel of Bucyrus, and Dan Babst, Jr., of Crestline.
George W. Teel was born at Ashland, on May 18 1821. At the age of 10 and 11 he worked in John Moffit’s brick yard for two summers, and the next two seasons drove a team on the Ohio Canal; he then worked for farmers in Starke county for two years.
In the meantime his father John C. Teel, removed to Guernsey county, and purchased a small farm. This the son managed while his father worked at his trade as blacksmith. In his seventeenth year he taught school for a year or two in Wayne county, and used the proceeds to attend the Ashland Academy. In 1843 he removed to Nahvarre, where he purchased horse which he sold in Canada.
On Aug. 7, 1843 he came to Crawford county, purchasing of George W. Galloway the farm on which he has since lived. He taught school in and near Sulphur Springs for 15 years, teaching the first English school ever taught in the Brokensword district.
For about six months in 1844 he kept a store in Sulphur Springs. In 1862 he was appointed Revenue Assessor for Crawford county, a position he held for nine years. In 1872 he was employed as collecting agent for the A. & L. E. road.
In 1877 he removed to Bucyrus, where for a year he was engaged as assignee in settling the estate of Osman & Woodside. Finishing this he removed to Crestline, where he remained for a year, and then returned to his farm east of Sulphur Springs, where he has since resided. During his connection with the A. & L. E. he secured nearly the entire amount of right of way for that road from the coal fields to Toledo, and in connection with D. W. Swigart, C. Fulton, S. R Harris and J. B. Gormly, secured the passage of the Machine Shop Bill through the Legislature.
On Sept. 17, 1814, he was married to Miss Elizabeth Markley, and the following children were born to them: Leander L., Jennie, (Mrs. Byron Benson, deceased), Jared, Laura L., Ella, George W., Horatio, Markly, and Fannie.
For some years past Mr. Teel’s health has been such that he has been unable to attend to any business, and he has been an invalid at his home.
