Lake County Obituaries
| Name of Deceased: Daniel C. Hill County Name: Lake State: Ohio Newspaper: Telegraph Painesville Ohio Submitters Name: John Ludwick Obit: Taken from the Telegraph Painesville Ohio "The funeral of Daniel Hill Late of Madison was held at Madison M.E. church March 7 at 12 o'clock. Remains were interned in Maple Grove cemetery. Had Mr. Hill lived one month longer he would have been ninety years of age, in our next letter we will give a short history of Mr. Hill's early life taken from a diary of his own, giving a brief account of some of the hardships and trials endured by the first settlers of the Western Reserve. S.H.E. "March 12, 1903 Taken from the telegraph Painesville Ohio March 19, 1903 page 4 " D.C. Hill was born in Swanzy, Cheshire county, New Hampshire, March 6th 1813, Lacking only one month of ninety years of age. There were in the family six boys and three girls, four of the boys and one of the girls still living. At the age of 22 Mr. Hill married Miss Almira Long and as a wedding tour started for the West, not by railroad nor with automobile but rather the ox car then the rapid means of transit. He arrived in Elk Creek Township, Erie County, Pennsylvania, in the dense forest with out a house but bought fifty acres of forest land, commenced clearing and building a log house. For a roof we split what the Dutch call shakes, 3 feet long, out of ash, and laid them similar to the shingles are now laid; floor was made of the same kind of wood split smooth as possible. Now for a stove there was not one in the state that could be had for love or money, so we went to work and removed a piece of the flooring, dug up the ground and pounded it down hard for the hearth. Sticks laid up cob house shape plastered with mud provided a means of exit for smoke; our chairs, table, bedstead etc., were also made with my kit of tools witch consisted of an ax. For music no piano or organ graced our humble home but rather the frequent cry of the wild cat in the still night or the growl of the bear at our door (which at night was always securely barred) told us that we had near neighbors which were seeking a more intimate acquaintance. Our nearest neighbors were three miles away; roads not as they are now, but to find the way we had to follow marked trees. We lived this way for a few years clearing ground and raising wheat on the same then started west again, this time in Madison, Lake County, Ohio. I traveled fifty miles that day on foot most of the way guided by marked trees through the forest. Mr. Hill worked in this mill for a year or two after which he purchased 100 acres of farm land and paid for it. The latter part of the life of our deceased friend most of the people of Thompson and Madison are familiar with. Wonder how some of our young Americans of the present day would enjoy starting out in life in this manner.
THE EDGERTON EARTH
Thursday, June 5, 1969
Former Resident Dies in Painesville
Virgil Lloyd Kisseberth, 62, an employee of
Edgerton's Oak Manufacturing Co. for 10 years and the son of the late
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kisseberth formerly of Edgerton, died last Thursday
, May 29, at Lake County Memorial Hospital in Painesville where he had
been a resident for the past 28 years.
Mr. Kisseberth had worked in a retail food outlet
in Painesville for 24 years prior to his retirement in 1967, and he
was a steward of Local 880 Retail Clerks.
He had successful open heart surgery at the famed
Mount Sinai Hospital in Cleveland in 1961; was a member of the Church
of Christ and a native of Defiance Co.
Survivors include his wife Ruth; three sons,
Daniel, Painesville, Leon, Mansfield, and Roy Lee, a senior at Bowling
Green State University; two daughters, Mrs. William (Mary) Irwin,
Mentor, O., and Mrs. Cecil (Laura) St. John, Sault Saint Marie, Mich.;
five grandchildren; a sister Mrs. Oscar Maier, Painesville; and a
brother, Ira Curry, Tiffin.
Final rites were held Monday afternoon at the Spear
Funeral Home in Painesville with the Rev. Foster G. Sizemore
officiating. Burial followed at Riverside Cemetery in
Painesville.
(Submitted by Kate Watson)
Name of Deceased: Ruth Kohr
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