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.
John Albert Whitmire was born in Seneca county, Ohio, Oct. 20, 1839. Died March 10, 1839, aged 59 yrs., 5 mos. and 20 das. On Sept. 3, 1861, at the age of 21 yrs. He enlisted in Co. G, Third Ohio Cavalry. He served his country with valor and distinction rising to the rank of orderly on the staff of General Wood. He took part in 163 battles and skirmishes. In some of which there was fierce hand-to hand fighting done. He received a saber cut in the head, a ball wound in the scalp and a gun shot wound in the left thigh, from which he suffered until his death. At the close of the war he was mustered out of service at Camp Dennison, Ohio, July 19, 1865, having served in all, 3 yrs., 10 mos. and 16 das. During a furlong, he married Margaret J. Armitage, March 15, 1864. This union was blessed with two children, a son and a daughter, Ralph W., of Bucyrus, and Mrs. J. F. Hipp, of Carrothers. His wife died May 29, 1890. On March 2, 1892 he married Louisa Haines. To this union one daughter was born. In the winter of 1878 he was converted and united with the Base Line Methodist Protestant church, of which society he remained a consistent member to the time of his death. He leaves to mourn his departure a widow, 1 son, 2 daughters, 3 brothers, 2 sisters and 5 grand-children.
The funeral services took place at the Base Line church, Sunday forenoon, after which the remains were interred in Base Line cemetery. Rev. Dowds officiated.
