Fulton County IN Archives Photo Tombstone.....Sebring, James O ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/in/infiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Laurie Lewis lewishouse@rtcol.com November 9, 2011, 9:00 am Cemetery: Akron IOOF/Akron Cemetery Name: James O Sebring Date Of Photograph: October 2011 Photo can be seen at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/in/fulton/photos/tombstones/akronioofakron/sebring818gph.jpg Image file size: 110.8 Kb Aug. 29, 1883June 24, 1948 NW Sect. Row 3 Additional Comments: Thursday, June 24, 1948 James Sebring James SEBRING, 68, Akron native, hanged himself at his home there at noon. Mr. Sebring had been in ill health for one year and a half and had been very despondent according to neighbors. Complete details will be published later. Friday, June 25, 1948 James O. Sebring Funeral services for James O. SEBRING, 64, who hanged himself Thursday in his Akron home, will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Moyer-Haupert funeral home with the Rev. Arthur TINKLE officiating. Burial will be in the Akron cemetery. Ill one and one-half years, Mr. Sebring was found dead at noon by his wife, Minnie [SEBRING]. Friends reported the deceased had been despondent. A resident of the Silver Lake and Akron communities most of his life, Mr. Sebring was born Aug. 29, 1883, the son of John and Sarah FUNK SEBRING. He married Minnie POTTENGER Feb. 18, 1906. He had been employed as a boiler fireman in saw mills and at the Armour Creameries plant in Rochester. Survivors, besides the wife, include a daughter, Mrs. Helen SMITH of Akron and a son, Buddy [SEBRING], also of Akron; three grandaughters; and five sisters, Mrs. Emma STRONG of Akron, Mrs. Willodean WOLPERT, Mrs. Fossie FOLTZ and Mrs. Rosetta GREEN all of North Manchester, and Mrs. Luella LEWELLYN of Aberdeen, Washington. Three sisters, two sons, and a brother preceded in death. The body will remain at the funeral home where friends may call. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/in/fulton/photos/tombstones/akronioofakron/sebring818gph.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/infiles/ File size: 2.3 Kb