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The monument above honors the memory of Mary Ross, the mother of Dr. Franklin R. Ross, a dentist in Sandusky for many years. Dr. Ross commissioned Conrad Keim to design the tombstone for Mrs. Ross. An article that appeared in the Sandusky Register of October 19, 1908, details the features of this beautiful tombstone. Rest in peace, Mrs. Ross. The final burial place of Mary Ross is the Everal Chapel Cemetery, in Jefferson Township in Coshocton County, Ohio.
Moors Farwell was Sandusky's first Mayor. He also was an Associate Judge for several years. Sadly, he died in 1850, and was an early burial at Sandusky's Oakland Cemetery.
Beginning from left to right in the Farwell lot, in Block 17 at Oakland, are:
Maryette Farwell, died 1852, daughter of Moors Farwell and his wife the former Samantha Dean
Three young Farwell children whose names are on the long rectangular monument:
M.E. Farwell
Died June 25, 1837
Age 4 hours
T.M. Farwell
Died July 8, 1842
Age 2 years, 2 months
T. J. Farwell
Died September 29, 1842
Aged 39 days
The next monument honors the memory of Augustta, another daughter of Moors and Samantha Farwell.
Augusta Farwell, died 1852
The monument at the far right is the final resting place of Moors Farwell. It is quite weathered at this time.
The first wife of Moors Farwell, whose maiden name was Sarah Cooke, died in 1827, and was buried in the North Monroeville Cemetery. She was the sister of Eleutheros Cooke, the first lawyer of Sandusky, Ohio.
Sarah Farwell Cochran, the only child of Moors and Sarah Cooke Farwell, died in 1843, and was buried at Oakland Cemetery. She was the wife of Dr. Jeremiah Cochran.
The second wife of Moors Farwell was Samantha Dean. Following the death Moors Farwell, she married Rev. Samuel Enoch Hitchock. They lived in Alpena, Michigan, where Mrs. Hitchcock died in 1883.
Another daughter of Moors and Samantha Farwell, Julia Farwell, died in 1896 in Alpena, Michigan. She had the longest life of all the seven children of Moors Farwell.
This week I was able to read an obituary of Moors Farwell, which chronicles his kindness during the 1849 Cholera Epidemic in Sandusky. A transcription is below:
By a notice…our readers abroad will learn the demise of Hon. M. Farwell who died
on Saturday last. Mr. Farwell was among the earliest settlers of this city, and has
ever since been one of its first citizens and closely identified with its history. He
has been Associate Judge of Erie County uninterruptedly since the county was
organized. He was a man possessed of much general knowledge and high
religious and moral attainments which always commanded respect and
an influential position.
Our personal association with the deceased was chiefly confined to the season
of the terrible epidemic that visited our city in the summer of 1849, when it was
our fortune to be with him often; and his judicious advice to those who were yet well;
his kind encouraging words to the sick and dying, his apparent willing heart, and
his ever ready hand to supply their wants and alleviate their suffering, and his
promptness in paying the last sad rites to the departed (though himself suffering
at the time from the disease that has now produced death) made an impression
upon our mind not easily effaced and rendered as fully conscious that his heart
was alive to the true duties of life. His death is a public loss.
From Sandusky Democratic Mirror, Dec. 17, 1850
My dad rarely told me stories of his growing up years, but once he told me that Minerva Gray, who ran the general store and Post Office in Bay Bridge, used to pay him a quarter to feed the bears she had in Bay Bridge. Well, I thought he must have been teasing me, as I just couldn't imagine a young man feeding bears in Bay Bridge!
Today I ran into this excerpt of a news article from the Sandusky Star Journal of January of January 27, 1940. It turns out that there were two black bears of the former service station in Bay Bridge! Dad was telling me the truth! Oh, how I wish he had told me more stories!
The monument honoring the memory of Frank Schmitt is found in Block 27 at Sandusky's Oakland Cemetery. Frank Schmitt was born in Germany in 1831, and he died in Sandusky in 1883.
Military records at Fold3 indicate that Frank Schmitt served in Company F in the 28th Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War. He achieved the rank of First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. Thank you for your service!
The same monument on which the name of Frank Schmitt appears has the names of members of the Strohmeier and Brown families. To date, the exact relationships have not been determined, but it is likely that Frank Schmitt is related to the Stohmeriers and Browns in Sandusky, Ohio.
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