NN -- Shelby Independent News: 30 September 1875, Vol. 7, No. 49

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Shelby Independent News: 30 September 1875, Vol. 7, No. 49

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S.S. Bloom, Editor and Proprietor

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A Mrs. Wise, mother of Emanuel Wise, near Springmills, was buries last Sunday. She was upwards of eighty years old.

John Alexander Mann, the subject of this notice, was born near Mansfield, Ohio, July 22d., 1817, and died at Galion, September 9, 1875, being therefore at the time of his death 58 years, 1 month and 18 days old. He united with the Baptist Church at Auburn Center, March 31, 1847, being baptized by his father-in-law, Elder Bodly. In 1859, he, with eleven other Baptists, united in organizing a Baptist Church in Galion. He was elected clerk, which position he held until released by death. For twenty-five years he was a citizen of Galion. He was of an active temperament, a close observer, kind and affable toward all, and consequently highly esteemed by his brethren in the church and the community generally. For nearly ten months he was a great but patient sufferer. The grace that sustained him in his Christian life was strikingly exemplified in its power to sustain in sickness and death. He took most tender and affectionate leave of each member of the family that was present, and crossed the river to join loved ones that preceded him. His funeral took place last Sunday morning at ten o'clock from the Baptist Church, conducted by the Impv'd O.R.M. The funeral sermon was preached by Rev. A.L. Yarnall. The remains of the deceased were followed to the grave by a large concourse of friends, attesting by their presence the high regard in which he was held as a citizen, and their full sympathy with the bereaved family.

MARRIED, On the eve of the 23d. inst., at the residence of the bride's father, by Rev. W.W. Anderson, Mr. Norman A. Faus of West Salem, Ohio, and Miss Chattie J. Bell, of Shelby.

MARRIED, On Wednesday 22d. inst., at the U.B. Parsonage in Shelby, by Rev. O.H. Ramsey, Mr. Charles C. Fullmer to Miss Sarah A. Cramer, both of Shelby, Ohio.

William Chapman Ralston, late President of the Bank of California, was a native of old Richland (now a part of Ashland) County. His father, Robert Ralston, resided on a farm about two and a half miles north, and a half mile west of Ashland, O., in Orange Township, where young Ralston was born January, 1826. He attended school awhile in what is now called North's District, in Plymouth Township, Richland County, a few miles north of Shelby. The School house was then standing near the Six Corners, and a number of his school mates must yet remember him. He was a nephew of Hon. Alex Ralston, formerly a member of the Ohio House of Representatives, from Richland, and of James Ralston, Esq., of Plymouth Twp. His father moved to Wellsville, O., at an early day. From there his son followed the river, first as steamboat Clerk, then off to New Orleans, to Panama, finally going to California, becoming the President of the Great Bank of California, whereby he controlled immense interests -- more perhaps than has ever fallen to the lost of any one private individual.

DIED, On Monday evening, September 27, 1875, Mrs. Lydia Trew, aged 83 years, 2 months and 12 days. Mrs. Trew was the last survivor of a large family of octogenarians -- The father, Christopher Bauer (as the name was then written), moved into Perry County, Pa., near the close of the last century, where the subject of this notice was born, June 15th., 1792. She became a member of the Lutheran Church in early childhood, Nov. 2d., 1806. She died in the family of Mr. Jacob Weiser, where she has been living for over a year past, and her numerous relatives and friends are assured, that she was exceedingly well cared for in her last sickness, and during all the time she was there. Her funeral took place on Wednesday at one o'clock, from the Lutheran Church, where a discourse was delivered by Rev. D.I. Foust, and her remains deposited in Oakland Cemetery.