SEBAUGH, Oliver Hamilton 1885-1945

SEBAUGH, ROHLWING, SWANT, STONER, KARSTEN

Posted By: Diane M Scott (email)
Date: 10/5/2012 at 14:43:27

Oliver Hamilton Sebaugh – July 22, 1885 – January 4, 1945

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SEBAUGH RITES HELD AT GREENE
FLOYD COUNTY NATIVE DIES AT FARM HOME

Funeral services for Oliver Hamilton Sebaugh, 59, who died at his farm home 4 miles east of Mason City Thursday, were held Sunday at the Hann Funeral Home at Greene with burial at Riverside Cemetery, Rockford. The Rev. I J. Deines, pastor of St. Peter’s Lutheran Church at Greene, officiated.

Pallbearers were Ira Marsh, Harry Marsh,, Charles Shafer, William Boone, Will Stabenow and Carl Stabenow.

Mr. Sebaugh was born July 22, 1885, in Floyd County. He was married to Anna M Rohlwing on March 7, 1907, near Greene and they established their first residence on a farm near Marble rock.

Four years later they moved to his father’s homestead west of Greene, and 5 years later purchased a farm at Wimbledon, North Dakota, where they lived 5 years.

Mr. Sebaugh was employed by the Ford Motor company at Iron Mountain, Michigan, for 5 years. In 1929 they returned to the Sebaugh homestead, where they lived until 1943, when they moved to a farm near Rockford, later that year settling on the farm where he died.

In addition to his widow, Mr. Sebaugh is survived by a step-daughter, Miss Alice Rohlwing; a brother, Guy Sebaugh, and a sister, Mrs. Lew Swant, both of Marble Rock; and 3 nephews.

Mason City Globe Gazette, Tuesday January 9, 1945

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Oliver Hamilton Sebaugh was born July 22, 1885 in Scott, Floyd, Iowa, the son of Peter Sebaugh and Ada (aka Ida) Melvina (Stoner) Sebaugh.

He married Anna Marie Rohlwing, the daughter of John Rohlwing and Minnie (Karsten) Rohlwing.