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FRANCIS OTTO, a soldier of the American Revolution, died in Huron, Erie county, Ohio, on
the 4th inst., at the age of ninety-nine years.  Mr. Otto was a German by birth, came to this
country before the war of the revolution, embarked in the cause, and fought through the terrible contest under the command of Gen. Washington.
Source: The Sun - Maryland
Date: Mar. 28, 1855

COUPLE SPENDING THEIR HONEYMOON IN PRISON
SANDUSKY, Ohio, Sept. 1 -
Married here yesterday, arrested last night and bound over to the grand jury today to await a hearing on charges of perjury in swearing falsely as to her age in obtaining a marriage license.  That is the 24 hour story of Mary Storck, formerly Mary Mischky, and her new husband George Storck.  Unable to obtain bail, they are now spending their honeymoon in the county jail, where they may have to remain until the grand jury convenes on Sept. 13.  Otto Mischky, the girls father filed the affidavits.
Source: Duluth News - Tribune
Date: Sept. 2, 1911

Sandusky, Jan 31 - Mrs. Fanny Gallup, 56, prominent in social and club life here, died suddenly at her home on Wayne street this afternoon.4

Sandusky, Jan 18, 1917- Charles Bremer, 87, died at his home here this afternoon.
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Feb 1, 1917

Sandusky, Aug 30- Wellington Lefevre, 76, superintendent of the United States governments bonded warehouse here fourteen years, died today.

Cleveland Plain Dealer
Aug 31, 1917

Sandusky, Feb. 1 - John W. Hurd, 83, Company H. One Hundred and Seventy-third O.V.I., died at the state soldiers home today. He was admitted to the home from Cincinnati twenty-eight years ago.

Mrs. Iola M. Eddy, widow of Charles A. Eddy, died at her home here today.
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Feb. 2, 1917

Sandusky, Mar 29 - Christian Engels, 60, and Anthony Bach, 80, died at their homes today. Mr. Engels at Put-in-Bay and Mr. Bach in this city.
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Mar. 30, 1917
Sandusky, Feb 6 - Louis Kern, Civil War veteran, admitted from Cleveland, died at the State Soldiers' home today.
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Feb 7, 1919

Milan, Jun 2- F. A. Walker, 61, a retired merchant, was found dead in bed at his home today.

Sandusky Jun 2 - Solomon Helsel, 73, Company B, 1--th O.V.I. died at the Ohio Soldiers and Sailors' home today. He was admitted to the home in 1910 from Alliance. A son Frank J. Helsel, lives at Salem.
Plain Dealer
June 3, 1917

Sandusky, Oct 18-

Elias Laughlin, 82, died at the Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' home today.
Plain Dealer
Oct 19, 1918

Sandusky, May 8-John W. McQuiston, 83, Company K, thirty-second regiment, O.V.I., admitted July 12, 1---, from Marion, and Albert Hartzel, 83, Company G, 150th regiment, O.V.I., admitted June 10, 1913 from Wyoming, Hamilton county, died at Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' home yesterday.
Plain Dealer
May 9, 1918
Sandusky, Mar 9-

Urban Livengood, 72, died at his home near Enterprise yesterday. 

Philip Offenlach, 67, is dead at his home here.
Plain Dealer
Mar 10, 1918

Sandusky, 

William H. Saxton, 70, Company E. Twenty-third regiment, Michigan Volunteer infantry, admitted Oct. 5, 1917, from Erie county, died at the state soldiers' home last night. 

Mrs. Cordelia A. Farwell, 77, widow of Capt. John Farwell, died at her home here last night.
Plain Dealer
Apr 12, 1918

Sandusky, May 20- 

Mrs. Emma Schiele, 38, wife of F. R. Schiele of Put-in-Bay, died in a hospital here last night.
Plain Dealer
May 21, 1917

Sandusky, Aug 18-
Cornellus Roesch, 72, formerly of Lima, and Lewis Walton, 78, formerly of Medina, are dead at the Ohio Soldiers' home.

Mrs. Caroline Von Hausen, and Mrs. Antoinette Krause, 80, are dead.

The funeral of former Deputy Probate Judge Charles Traub, who died Friday, will be held tomorrow afternoon from the Elks' club rooms, in accordance with a request made by Traub just before he died.
Plain Dealer
Aug 18, 1918

Sandusky, Ohio, Oct 15-

The bodies of five members of a bridge repair gang were found today under and near a trestle at Bay Bridge, west of here. They are suppose to have been struck and killed by a westbound Lake Shore train. Nobody saw the accident. The members of the Mart-ehead life-saving crew picked two bodied out of the water under the trestle. All the dead were sent to Port Clinton. They are:
A. P. Kellogg, Toledo, Oh, married
Harmon Redman, Rocky Ridge, Oh, married
Charles Cutshaw, Ligonier, Ind., married
Frank Navarre, Willietson, Oh, married
Ben Hudson, Toledo, Oh, married
The Sun
Maryland
Oct 16, 1910

Sandusky, Aug 25-

Quincy A. Vanhorn, 79, Company A, Nineteenth regiment, O.V. I., died at the Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' home today. He was admitted to the home in 1914 from Upper Sandusky.
Plain Dealer
Aug 26, 1917

Sandusky, Feb 16 -

Columbus Manley, 73, died at the Ohio Soldiers and Sailors home last evening. He was admitted to the home Nov. 10, 1914, from Marion.
Plain Dealer
Feb 17, 1918

Sandusky, Apr 16 -

John H. Minor, 69, farmer, died at his home at Rays Corners last night.

Benjamin Bott, 79, Company C, 162d regiment, O.V.I., admitted in 1906 from Canton, died at the Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' home last night.

Mrs. Barbara Braunling, widow of John Braunling, died at her home here today.
Plain Dealer
Apr 17, 1918

Sandusky, Mar 7-

Charles Hoffner, a Lake Shore brakeman residing at Airline Junction, was run over by his train at Danbury and died in the hospital there.
Lima Daily News
Mar 7, 1906

Sandusky, O., April 10-

The third suicide by hanging in Erie county in three successive days was discovered early today when the body of Chas. Schuster, 30, a farmer, was found suspended by a rope from the rafters in his barn at Ceyton. A farm hand made the discovery.

Two nights ago John P. Brown, 22, of this city, hanged himself, Chas. Seigling, a fisherman, hanged himself. Schuster it is believed, had become despondent over his ill-health.
Lima Daily News
Apr 11, 1912

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