HOSTETLER, John 1810-1905

HOSTETLER, HOSTETTLER, ERNST, BOSSARD

Posted By: Debbie Nash (email)
Date: 10/26/2003 at 20:59:39

"The Fairfield Ledger"
July 5, 1905
Page 3, Column 2

SALINA. John HOSTETLER, the oldest man in Lockbridge township, passed away Saturday night. He went to bed as well as usual, and when he did not come to breakfast, members of the family went to his room and found him dead in bed. Death had come very gently during the night and touched the old man and he had gone into another world without struggle. He was a pioneer and would have been 95 years old had he lived until October. He was respected by all who knew him for his sterling honesty and will be missed by all the old settlers. He leaves a son and daughter who have the sympathy of the community.

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FOUND DEAD IN BED.

John HOSTETTLER (sic - HOSTETLER).... was found dead in his bed in the home of his son, Joseph HOSTETTLER (sic - HOSTETLER), three miles east of Salina Saturday morning. One of the early settlers of Jefferson County, coming here about 1840.. member of the Amish church. The body was interred near his old home yesterday.

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Admin. note: Buried in Hope Lutheran Cemetery. He was married twice, first to Fannie ERNST who died in the 1850s, and second to Catherine BOSSARD who died about 1870. Both wives are buried in Hope Lutheran Cemetery as well.