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.
CAROLINE T. GRAFFMILLER WHITCUM – OBITUARY
Caroline T. Whitcum, nee Graffmiller, was born February 20, 1850, in Auburn township, this county, and died March 24, 1888, at New Washington, Ohio aged 38 years, 1 mo., 4 days. In November 15, 1868, she was married to George Whitcum, who survives her. This union was blessed with four children, viz., Edmon, Mary S. Rozena; and Nettie, all of whom mourn their mother’s departure. Mrs. Whictum been a severe sufferer of that dreadful disease, consumption, for a number of years and finally fell a victim to its terror. She was held in high estimation by those who knew her. Funeral services were conducted from the Goodwill M. E. church on Tuesday, March 27, 1888, Rev. Rothrock officiating. A large concourse of people followed the remains to their last resting place.