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Shelby Independent News:  25 November 1875, Vol. 8, No. 5

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S.S. Bloom, Editor and Proprietor

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Mrs. S.F. Stambaugh has been quite ill the past week.  Her son is doing well.

Mr. E. Lawson formerly of Shelby, has removed from Forest to Tiffin, where he is engaged in the coal trade.

Mrs. Houpt, the mother of W.H. Houpt, died very suddenly of apoplexy on Thursday last, at the residence of her son on Broadway.  She was a member of the Lutheran Church.  Short services were held at the residence of Mr. Houpt on Friday, by Rev. Foust, after which her remains were taken to near her home in Richville, Crawford Co., for interment.

Miss Nancy Bancroft, who for the past eleven years had her home when in Shelby with her uncle, Jay Smiley, died suddenly at Cambridgeport, Mass., Sept. 27th.  She had been visiting her birth-place and friends in the East, since the early part of August, and was preparing to return to Ohio, when she was called away from earth.  She was a relative of George Bancroft, the aged and eminent author of History of the United States.

MARRIED, At the residence of the bride's father, in the vicinity of Shelby, Ohio, on the eve of the 18th. inst., by Rev. W.W. Anderson, Mr. William Gilchrist of Savannah, Ohio, to Miss Almira M. Dunlap, eldest daughter of Thoams C. Dunlap.

Died at Shelby, Richland County, O., Mrs. Rebecca Mann, at the residence of her son, Charles W. Mann, Esq., in the 81st. year of her age.  Miss Rebecca King was born near Greensburg, Westmoreland County, Pa., May 31st., 1795, emigrated with her parents to Ohio in the year 1813, settling first at Canton, Stark County, Ohio, from thence the spring following, to Richland County, locating on the Blackfork not far from where the village of Windsor now stands.  There she was married in 1816 to Mr. Samuel Mann.  The united

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couple then settled about two miles south of Mansfield.  Shortly afterwards, however, moving into the town, where they lived until 1834, when they settled in what was then an almost unbroken wilderness, about three miles northwest of Shelby, and hewed out the farm now owned by Philo Blackman, Esq.  About the year 1850 they sold the farm and moved to Galion, Ohio, living there until 1864;  returning to Shelby to spend the evening of their days with Mr. C.W. Mann.  He died in 1867, and she lingering on the shores of time until November 7th., 1875.  Mother Mann was brought up in the Presbyterian faith, uniting first with that church under the ministry of the well known Father Rowland about the time of her marriage.  In the year 1835, she withdrew her membership, and together with her husband, was immersed and united with the Christian church of which she continued a constant member until her death;  thus spending an exceptionally long life in the service of the Master.  Thus are passing away, one by one, "The old Pioneers", and they will soon be unknown in the country for which they have done so much, except in the pages of History.  We therefore note a few incidents in the life of the above worthy couple, who were representatives of the class to which they belonged.  Samuel Mann was among the foremost of those who volunteered for the defense of the frontier after the ill starred surrender of Hull at Detroit, and while acting with a skirmishing party on the Peninsula, opposite the City of Sandusky, received a ball in the hip, which he carried to the day of his death.  Their Golden Wedding was celebrated, October 1st., 1866, the entire family, five sons and three daughters, being present.  No death up to that time having ever occurred in their house;  exemplifying in a striking manner the vitality of the Scotch-Irish race, to which they belonged.  The father survived this event one, and the mother nine years.  May their memory be ever revered, and their example ever followed by their numerous offspring.


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