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 Mrs. Whitcomb
DIED–At her home on Ten Mile creek, at 2 a.m., this 6th day of September, 1888, Mrs. Edward Whitcomb, formerly known as Mrs. Catherine A. Durgin, in the 60th year of her age.
Mrs. Whitcomb was one of the earliest settlers of Montana, having come to the Territory while it was still a part of Idaho, in 1862 in Capt. Fisk’s train overland. She settled on the place where she died in the autumn of 1864. Her early life in Montana was an eventful one and full of such experiences that few women ever encounter in this age. She was a woman of wonderful energy and courage, which were often put to the severest test. Her life, if written out would make a story as marvelous as any tale of fiction. With all her rough experience of frontier life, the deceased was one of the most open-hearted and generous women that we have ever known. She gave away enough to have made herself rich many times over, and none were so unworthy or undeserving an to appeal to her in vain.
She was married to Edward Whitcomb, we believe, in 1869. Her husband survives her, also one son by her first marriage and an adopted son.
Her funeral will take place from her late residence on Ten Mile at 1:30 p.m. tomorrow. Friends are invited to attend.
