Sandusky County OhArchives Obituaries.....Lehmann, Barbara (Staub) Lehmann December 28, 1918 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ohfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Helen Lehman hawlehman@cox.net November 1, 2012, 1:23 am Fremont Daily Messanger 3 January 1919 page 1 column 7 The following is the Obituary of Barbara (Staub) Lehmann: "Real Pioneer was late Mrs. Barbara Lehmann: Dies Saturday night with funeral Millersville Thursday: Fremont News Messenger. "The funeral of Mrs. Barbara Lehmann, Pioneer of Scott township, Sandusky County, will be held at St. Mary's church in Millersville, Thursday at 10 o'clock night mass. Burial will be made in the Millersville Cemetery (*St. Mary's Cemetery). Father Schaefer will be assisted at the Funeral by Rev. G. H. Rieken of St. Joseph's this city as deacon and Rev. Ambrose Webber of St. Wendelin's Church, Fostoria, as subdeacon, both family friends of early day standing. Rev. Rieken will preach the funeral sermon. When Father Rieken was stationed at Fostoria, in his early priesthood, he was a frequent visitor at the old Lehmann homestead in Scott Township, and when, just a short time ago, he paid a sick visit to the venerable woman, administering the comforts of the church, she recognized him as the old-time family friend." "Barbara Lehmann, one of the oldest residents of Scott Township, died Saturday night at 10:30 at the family homestead in Scott Township at the advanced age of 87 years, 5 months and 29 days. She was the widow of the late Leodegar Lehmann, and the mother of Attorney, J. J. Lehmann of this city. "Barbara Staub-Lehmann was the daughter of Adam and Gertrude Staub and was born 29 June 1831, on the water while her parents were coming to America. She was named Barbara by the Captain of the ship, as he said it was the first baby born on this boat. They were near the American shore, when she was born. Her parents first settled in New York, where her mother died when Barbara was only 11 months old. She was cared for by another family until her father re-married. "About the year 1833 the family moved to where Rising Sun now is. They later moved to Seneca County, about 4 miles South of where she died. It was while living there that she met her future husband. From this place she and sister often rode by the Lehmann home on horseback with a sack of corn, taking it to the mill to get it ground, which was the start of the Pioneer day romance. She married Leodegar Lehmann November 9 1854 As a result of this marriage 11 children were born, namely: Mary Bullinger, Adam Lehmann, Margaret Miller, Andrew Lehmann, Katherine Goodman, John J Lehmann, Sarah Bach, Frank Lehmann, William E Lehmann, Inez Morrison and Henry Lehmann all of whom are living. Besides she leaves two sisters, Elizabeth Kable of Toledo, and Mary Dillery of Fostoria, 46 grandchildren and 40 great-grandchildren to mourn her loss, her husband, Leodegar Lehmann, died March 23, 1913. "Mrs. Lehmann is one of the last of the first Pioneers of that section, having lived in the vicinity for nearly 86 years. When she came some of the Indians were still there. The wolves howled in the forest. Bears were still to be seen and the woods abounded with deer and wild turkey. "Mrs. Lehmann was a faithful wife, a good mother and was loved by all who knew her. Like all of the early Pioneer woman of this country she helped to do all kinds of farm work. She first help reap the wheat with the sickle and plant the corn with the axe and the hoe. She loaded and pitched hay and wheat and oats like the strongest of men. "The expense of keeping up the table and clothing of her girls was taken care of from the income from the cows of which they always had from 6 to 14. Mrs. Lehmann's first serious illness was in September of 1912, when she was overcome by the heat while working in her garden, and for about a year after that was confined to her bed and an invalid chair. While in this condition the husband died. She finally recovered from her illness so that she could be about the hosue and go and visit her children at various time and during these later years she made about 50-60 quilts, endeavoring to make one for each child, grandchild and great grandchild. Since some time previous to the death of Mr. Lehmann, Mrs. Lehmann was tenderly cared for by Mrs. Melissa Hummel. {***Whomever typed this obituary states: "I still have the quilt she made for me. I still use it after all these years! Mine was the last one she made. I was 2 months old when she died, she held be but once.") "In the day when Mrs. Lehmann was courted, the dangers of the forest compelled the young suitor to return home before night came on. The swain went a courting in his bare feet, wearing tailor made clothes and a high silk hat set atop a head crowned with long cures. This was the fashion, incongruous as it may seem. "To make a path from his home to the home of his sweetheart, Mrs. Lehmann hitched a log to a yoke of oxen and dragged it through the tall grasses on the mile stretch of prairie between. This path was known as "Leodegar Lehmann's Path". One evening, returning from seeing his sweetheart, just at the edge of the forest, Mr. Lehmann heard a wolf howling on his path. He resigned himself to spending the night in a tree and doffed his coat, which he threw on the ground with great force. This frightened the wolf, and he picked up his coat, running for home across the prairie. When about half way across he heard a dozen wolves howling at the edge of the forest. "Mrs. Lehmann was a devout member of St. Mary's church at Millersville, but she and her husband were to some extent affiliated with St. Wendelin's church in Fostoria. It was when Andrew was a baby and roads almost impossible to travel with a vehicle, that one Saturday afternoon she walked to Fostoria, nine miles, carrying her baby so that she could attend church services the next day. These are only a few of the wonderful stories of endurance of the early Pioneer days, which the venerable Mrs. Lehmann lived through with her husband, and during which strenuous times she reared her large family. "Mrs. Lehmann might be said to be Pioneer of all the real Pioneers of Sandusky County, as her home was here for the past 86 years. She leaves generations of relationship who are spread far and near, and who with the many family friends will be grieved to learn of her death even if she was ripe in years. One by one the Pioneers are dropping like in the sere and yellow of the leaf, but their memories are ever tenderly cherished and their names will always be spoken with reverence File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/sandusky/obits/l/lehmann2421ob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ohfiles/ File size: 6.9 Kb