STARK COUNTY OHIO - OBIT: FRANTZ, Mrs. (d. 1905) *********************************************************************** OHGENWEB NOTICE: All distribution rights to this electronic data are reserved by the submitter. Reproduction or re-presentation of copyrighted material will require the permission of the copyright owner. *********************************************************************** File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Anita A. Rippel Anitarippe@aol.com February 15, 1999 *********************************************************************** From the Louisville Herald. Louisville, Stark County, Ohio 7 July 1905 Louisville Thirty-Six Years Ago (Condensed Correspondence of Squire Violand) December, 1869 An old lady, Mrs. Frantz, died in this place on the 30th ult., aged ninety-five years. Hers is nearly the history of a century, and verifies the saying that "the living may get knowledge from the dead". She was born in France near the frontier of Switzerland, where she resided until she emigrated with her husband and family to America, about forty years ago. During her residence in France, the greatest events recorded in modern history occurred. She was eighteen years old when Louis XVI and his intelligent German queen, Marie Antoinette, were beheaded. She saw the bloody revolution succeeded by the empire, so prolific in victories and glory to her nation, and was about forty years old and the mother of a large family when the wild cassacks in common with combined Europe, invaded France in 1814 to dictate terms to the great Napoleon who was rather too much for them all. She was two years old when the bell of Independence Hall, on this side of the ocean, proclaimed the glad tidings that the good old colonists had determined to be a free and independent nation, and fifteen years when Washington, the father of our country, was inaugurated as first president of the United States. ==== OH-FOOTSTEPS Mailing List ====