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OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest                    Volume 98 : Issue 47

Today's Topics:
  #1 Obit: WELTZIEN, Geauga Co.           [espowell@juno.com (Elissa S Powell]
  #2 Will: William R. ALEXANDER, 1877     [Catherine Lauer <clauer@oregonvos.]
  #3 Will: Rachel ALEXANDER (nee Dustha   [Catherine Lauer <clauer@oregonvos.]
  #4 Noble Co. obit/Mrs. Belle nee Kell   ["S. K. Ratcliffe" <skrat@midohio.n]
  #5 Guernsey Co. obit/CONNER             ["S. K. Ratcliffe" <skrat@midohio.n]
  #6 Noble Co. Obit: KELLER, Dr. John     ["S. K. Ratcliffe" <skrat@midohio.n]
  #7 Noble Co obit: Kellar                ["S. K. Ratcliffe" <skrat@midohio.n]
  #8 Noble Co. Obit: Baugh nee Keller     ["S. K. Ratcliffe" <skrat@midohio.n]

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X-Message: #1
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 14:37:14 -0500
From: espowell@juno.com (Elissa S Powell)
Subject: Obit: WELTZIEN, Geauga Co.


From the Front page of the G........, Vol. XXXV. $2.00 Per Year.
DEATH SUDDEN TO V. W. WELTZIEN
Was Employee of Standard Oil Company for Thirty-eight Years
The death of V. W. Weltzien, a highly respected citizen of Chardon,
occurred Friday morning, March 4, at 9:15 o'clock at his home on North
Street,  after a brief illness.
Mr. Weltzien had been in plainly failing health for several months, but
appeared to be improving slowly. He was about town as usual Thursday,
stating to friends that he was gaining, and his looks seemed to show it.
Thursday evening, however, he was taken seriously ill at his home, and
physicians could  not relieve him. The announcement of Mr. Weltzien's
death
was a distinct shock to his numerous friends in Chardon and wherever he
was known.
The funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock from his
late  home, which was crowded with sympathizing friends. The services
were in charge of Chardon I. O. O. F. Lodge, of which the deceased was a
honored member.
Rev. Robert Paton read from the Scriptures and offered prayer, and then
read the following sketch:
Victor W. Weltzien, son of Henry and Amelia Stockelburg Weltzien, was
born in Wilwaukee, Wis., (sic) April 28, 1853, and had nearly reached his
68th birthday.
He was left an orphan at the early age of 10, in care of a guardian who
was not overkind to him. So that his memories of boyhood days ever
carried a sorrow to his heart. He saw a side of life that many boys have
no knowledge of. In place of glad memories there were sad memories. That
mother's love, which cheers many a boy as he struggles into manhood, was
denied him. He faced a world's cold opposition almost unbefriended, and
with but small encouragement from any one. Yet he resolved to win, and
win he did. First he found the love of a good true woman, Caroline Louise
Haney, to whom he was married May 24, 1875. Through all the rest of his
life he had what he lost in the death of his mother, the friendship, love
and counsel of a woman's heart and mind. They were blessed with three
children: Carl F., who is now married and living in Wadsworth, O.;
William, who died at the age of 10; and Pearl, who died in infancy. The
surviving son is married and has three children. These were to Mr.
Weltzien a great comfort, and helped fill the place left vacant by the
death of his two children.
Mr. Weltzien was for 38 years in the employ of the Standard Oil Co.,
evidencing his efficiency and faithfulness to the interests of his
employers.
Some 24 years ago he yielded to the call of country life, which had
always been with him, and purchased a farm north of Chardon Center, known
as the Frank Knapp farm. Since then he had called Chardon his home,
although part of the time working in Cleveland. Here by his gentle
manliness and honesty he had won  the respect of all people in Chardon.
Mr. Weltzien was a man of strong convictions, and not afraid to express
them. But he always acceded to others what he demanded for himself - the
right to do his own thinking.
Physically he was a man who would be noticed in a crowd; of commanding
presence, erect and dignified in bearing, well-poised and
self-controlled.
An accident deprived him of the use of one hand, but he never alluded to
it in any way. He never asked for sympathy because of his handicap, but
bore his burden in silence, meeting all men as in every respect their
equal.
His last sickness was of a distressing nature; a cancerous growth of the
stomach, so it was with difficulty that he could obtain sufficient
nourishment to sustain life.
For a year of more he had been slowly failing in flesh and strength,
until it became evident to his friends and himself as well, that the end
could not long be postponed. It came at last, with unexpected suddenness.
Thursday evening about 8 o'clock he was taken with a severe coughing
spell, which apparently occasioned a lesion of the heart muscles, and
also a hemorrhage, which brought intense distress. His physician was
called twice in  the night, but his call had come to go, and nothing that
could be done could
longer delay his passing. Mr. Weltzien passed quietly out of this life
into the Great Beyond.
Chardon was home to Mr. Weltzien and also his wife. Several years ago
they sold their home here and moved to Medina County, only to sell out
there after a short absence and return to Chardon. Mr. Weltzien admired
the town and its
people, and this feeling was mutual. He had been actively engaged in real
estate, and was a member of the Cleveland Real Estate Board. He was a
man of his word, and always ready to help those in affliction or
distress. The
principles of the I. O. O. F. Lodge were dear to him, and so were all
members of that order. He was also a member of Harmonious Encampment in
Cleveland, and the Rebekah Lodge of Chardon.
Over 100 Odd Fellows and Rebekahs attended the funeral in a body. The
beautiful and impressive Odd Fellows' ceremonial for a dead brother
was carried out in the home. There were numerous beautiful floral
remembrances.
When a lad of 16, following the Civil War, Mr. Weltzien enlisted in the
U. S. Cavalry, and took part in the Indian campaigns in Nebraska and
Kansas, seeing active service for a year, when he returned to Cleveland.
It was about
this time that John D. Rockefeller secured control of the oil business,
and
soon afterward Mr. Weltzien entered his employ.
The pall-bearers were Henry Bickle, W. L. Chamberlain, C. W. Canfield, E.
R. Matthews, C. W. Paine and John Foulk, all Odd Fellows. The body was
placed in the vault in Chardon cemetery, to await burial later in
Riverside Cemetery in Cleveland.
Chardon people sympathize with the bereaved wife and son in the loss they
have sustained.

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X-Message: #2
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 14:34:39 -0600
From: Catherine Lauer <clauer@oregonvos.net>
Subject: Will: William R. ALEXANDER, 1877


Will of William Alexander, source=Will index 1844-1912

I William R. Alexander of Lewisville, Senecca County and State of Ohio
knowing the uncertainty of life and wishing while of sound mind and
memory as I now think of myself poisised to make disposition of my
worldly estate do hearby make this my last will and testament in words
and figures following:
Item 1st, I give and bequeth to my beloved wife, Rachel Alexander all of
my estate both real and personal to have to dispose of and to do with as
she may think best including everything of what soever I may be the
owner of at my death excepting as follows:
Item 2:  of this my estate my children are to have as follows, to my
daughter Mrs. Mary Ann Clemens five dollars, to my son Ambrose Alexander
five dollars, to my son Erastus Alexander five dollars, to my daughter
Justina O. Gardner five dollars, to my son Urias Alexander five dollars,
to my daughter Rosana B. McCord five dollars, and to my son Russell B.
Alexander five dollars.
Item 3:  I also appoint Theophules E. Gardner of York Township Sandusky
County and State of Ohio as administrator of this my estate giving him
full power to act as the law may direct in witness whereof I signed
sealed and published and delivered this instrument as my last will and
testament at Lewisville Seneca County Ohio on this 5 day of July A.D.
1877
                                 William R. Alexander

submitted by: Cathy Lauer, clauer@oregonvos.net

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X-Message: #3
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 14:34:48 -0600
From: Catherine Lauer <clauer@oregonvos.net>
Subject: Will:  Rachel ALEXANDER (nee Dusthammer) 1887


Will of Rachel Alexander, source: Will Index 1844-1912

I Rachel Alexander of Flat Rock, Seneca County, Ohio do make and publish
this my last will and testament,
Item one, I give, devise and bequeath all my estate, real, personal and
mixed estate to  my six children, Mary A Clemens, Ambrose Alexander,
Erastus Alexander, Urias Alexander, Roseanna McCord and Russell
Alexander.  To each of them one full one-sixth parttherof to them and
their heirs and assigns forever.  I hold a note for $200.00 against my
said son Erastus Alexander, and my will is in relation thereto that the
amount of said note at the time of my decease be deducted by my executor
herein after named from my said son Erastus Alexander's distributive
share of my estate thereby paying said note.  My son-in-law T. E.
Gardner also is indebted to me in the sum of somewhere about $1000.00,
the exact amount I cannot now state.  I hereby bequeath said sum owing
to me by T. E. Gardner to my daughter, his wife Justine Gardner and make
no other or further provision for her out of my estate by reason of said
debt of her husband to me.  She will find a records of said indebtedness
in the court records of Sandusky County Ohio.
Item 3:  I hereby nominate and appoint my said son Urias Alexander
executor of this my last will and testament and hereby direct that he
convert my entire estate, real, personal, and mixed into money and
divide the same equally amongth my said six children to whom I have
given, devised and bequeathed it except that he shall treat said $200.00
note of Erastus as I have directed in item one hereof, and as to the
amount owing to me by T.E. Gardner with that he will have nothing to do,
as my will is that the same go directly to my daughter, his wife.  I
hereby revoke all former wills by me made.
In testimony hereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 27th day
of August A.D. 1887.
                                 Rachel Alexander

Submitted by Cathy Lauer,  clauer@oregonvos.net

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X-Message: #4
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 18:39:43 -0500
From: "S. K. Ratcliffe" <skrat@midohio.net>
Subject: Noble Co. obit/Mrs. Belle nee Kellar Conner


Susan Kellar Ratcliffe
Delaware, Ohio 
skrat@midohio.net


Newspaper obituary; source unknown but probably from the local paper in
Caldwell, Ohio, February, 1958.

"MRS. BELLE CONNER, AGED 97, NOBLE COUNTY'S OLDEST RESIDENT, DIES FEB. 25
   Mrs. Belle Conner, 97, of Mt. Ephraim, Noble County's eldest resident,
passed away Tuesday, Feb. 25 at 4:50 a.m. in the Guernsey Memorial Hospital
in Cambridge.  Mrs. Conner had been a patient in the hospital for the past
three and a half weeks, having suffered a fractured hip in a fall on Feb. 5
at the home of her sister, Mrs. Hester Shafer.
   The deceased was born July 23, 1860, a daughter of the late John and
Sarah Miley Keller at Mt. Ephraim.  She was united in marriage to Reland
(Roland?) Conner, who passed away in 1939.  Mrs. Conner spent most of her
married life in the Cumberland community but moved to the home of her
sister in Mt. Ephraim three and a half years ago.
   Survivors include: one sister, Mrs. Hester Shafer, at whose home she
resided; two step-daughters, Mrs. John Bell, of Cumberland, and Mrs. Thomas
P. Humes, of Los Angeles, Calif.; two nieces and two nephews.
   Mrs. Conner was a member of the Methodidst Church and the Woman's
Society of Christian Service of the Mt. Ephraim Church.
   The body was prepared for burial at the Tom Funeral Home in Cumberland
and was returned to the Shafer home in Mt. Ephraim, Wednesday.  Funeral
services will be conducted today (Thursday) at 2:00 p.m. at the Mt. Ephraim
Methodist Church with Rev. Robert Griesinger, church pastor, officiating. 
Burial will follow in the Mt. Ephraim Cemetery."

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X-Message: #5
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 19:12:52 -0500
From: "S. K. Ratcliffe" <skrat@midohio.net>
Subject: Guernsey Co. obit/CONNER


Susan Kellar Ratcliffe
Delaware, Ohio 
skrat@midohio.net

 Obituary; source unknown but probably from the Caldwell, Ohio, paper.     
  
"R.S. CONNER---Roland S. Conner, aged eighty-three years, highly respected
citizen of Cumberland (Guernsey Co., OH), passed away last Friday morning
at 12:30 o'clock at his home.
   For several years Mr. Conner had been in declining health from diseases
incident to advanced age.  His condition had been critical for four days. 
He was a retired farmer and was held in high esteem by all who knew him.
   Mr. Conner was a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.  He
leaves his widow, Mrs. Belle Conner, and four children.
   Funeral services were held at the home in Cumberland, Sunday afternoon,
and interment was made in the Cumberland cemetery."

   From the Noble County marriage records:  R.S. Conner was a widower and a
resident of Cumberland, Guernsey Co., OH, at the time of his marriage to
Belle Keller, June 20, 1907, in Noble County.

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X-Message: #6
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 20:30:09 -0500
From: "S. K. Ratcliffe" <skrat@midohio.net>
Subject: Noble Co. Obit: KELLER, Dr. John


Susan Kellar Ratcliffe
Delaware, Ohio 
skrat@midohio.net

Obituary---CALDWELL PRESS, January 24, 1912:
   "Dr. John Keller, aged 80 years of Mt. Ephraim died at his home at 5
o'clock Saturday morning.  For sixty-nine years he had been a practicing
physician and was a life-long resident of Noble County.  Dr. Keller was
widely known and highly respected by a great number of people and stood
especially high in the esteem of his fellow townmen.  The following
children survive;  Mrs. J.W. (Hester) Shafer of Zanesville; Mrs. R.S.
(Belle) Conner of Cumberland; Mrs. Homer (Margaret) Gibson of Mt. Ephraim,
Mrs. Herman (Deliah) Sayre of Mt. Ephraim; Frank of Mt. Zion and John W.
Keller of Sarahsville."

The HISTORY OF NOBLE COUNTY, OHIO, 1887, p. 199, lists children as: 
Elizabeth J., Margaret E., Franklin V., Jefferson J., Arithela B. (Belle?),
John W., Hester A., and Mary D.  Also, " Dr. Keller has served in all the
township offices, including that of justice of the peace.  He is a Democrat
and has been a candidate for the offices of county auditor and
representative to the legislature, but was defeated, his party being as
usual in the minority in the county".  The family lived in Seneca Twp.

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X-Message: #7
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 20:47:37 -0500
From: "S. K. Ratcliffe" <skrat@midohio.net>
Subject: Noble Co obit:  Kellar


Susan Kellar Ratcliffe
Delaware, Ohio 
skrat@midohio.net

Obituary---THE JOURNAL, November 18, 1937:
   "MRS. FRANK KELLAR...Mrs. Lottie Kellar, 67, wife of Frank Kellar,
passed away at the family home in Mt. Zion, Tuesday afternoon at 3:30 p.m. 
Death was due to a general decline in health over a period of years.
   She was the last in a family  of 12 children of James and Ellen Hoops
(Hook) LaFollett. She married Frank Kellar but no children were born to
this union.  She is survived by her husband and several nieces and nephews.
   Funeral services will be held this Thursday afternoon at 2 p.m. from the
Mt. Zion Lutheran Church, conducted by the Rev. LaFont Cain.  Interment was
made in the Mt. Zion cemetery by Earl Tom of Cumberland."
   
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X-Message: #8
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 21:24:44 -0500
From: "S. K. Ratcliffe" <skrat@midohio.net>
Subject: Noble Co. Obit: Baugh nee Keller


Susan Kellar Ratcliffe
Delaware, Ohio 
skrat@midohio.net

CALDWELL PRESS, Caldwell, OH...January 4, 1905: 
   "Saturday morning, December 24th, Mrs. Betty Baugh, nee Keller, of Mt.
Ephraim, fell and broke her arm.  Dr. Cleary was called to reduce the
fracture.  Late Saturday eveing the people of the town were shocked by the
intelligence that Mrs. Baugh wss dead.  Her death was due to pararalysis
and it is now thought that her fall in the morning was due to the same
cause.  Rev. Meisel conducted the funeral services which were held in the
M.E. church Monday.  Mrs. Baugh was a faithful and devoted member of the
M.E. church.  Her amiable disposition and lovable qualities gained her a
host of friends and made it inspiring to be in her presence.  In recent
years she had the misfortune to be afflicted with total blindness for a
period of five months, but an operation for cataracts partially restored
her eyesight.  She bore this affliction with patience born of a Christian
spirit.  At the time of her death, Mrs. Baugh was 69 years of age.  She was
a sister of Dr. John and Jacob Keller, also of Mt. Ephraim."

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