Submitted by great,grand-daughter, Eleanor Law Johnson.
Richard Andrew Law was born in Mercer County, Pennsylvania and moved to Logan County, Ohio as a child. His father died at a young age and his mother remarried about 1834/5. He was raised by his mother, Elizabeth (Betsy) Baker and step-father, Richard Clarkson. When he was twenty years old he married Sarah Jane Holden, just 17 years old in Kalida, Putnam County, Ohio. She was the daughter of Peason B. Holden (a circuit riding minister with the United Brethren Church) and Nancy Kniseley.
Richard and Sarah had two children, Jason and Genova.
Jason md. Edna Celestia Hulbert and they had the following children: Orpha, Opal, Richard, Jason, Dewey and Theodore
Law (my father).
!OBITUARY: The Earth Newspaper, Edgerton, Ohio
The obituary appeared in Friday, Dec. 21, 1906 Issue: Obituary R.A.Law
!Richard A. Law was born in Mercer County,Pennsylvania Apr.2,1832. He moved with his parents to Logan County (Ohio) in 1836, thence to Putnam County (Ohio) near Kalida in 1849. In 1852 he was married to Sarah Jane Holden, who has been the companion of his joys and sorrows for the past fifty-four years. Two children and ten grandchildren, along with his aged companion live to mourn his loss. He united with the United Brethren church when he was 21 years old and afterwards with the Church of Christ in Bryan in 1888 where he moved in 1876. Since 1902 he resided in Edgerton until the date of his death which occured last Friday evening at 6:30 o'clock.
He was a faithful Christian and a noble man and we deeply mourn his removal from among our midst, fully realizing that in his death we have indeed sustained a great loss.
!J.H.O Smith, of Valaparaiso, Indiana, officiated. Mr.Smith spoke words of comfort in loving kindness and sympathy to the wife, children and grandchildren, whom mourn the absence of a loving husband and father.
Richard Andrew Law was born in Mercer County, Pennsylvania and moved to Logan County, Ohio as a child. His father died at a young age and his mother remarried about 1834/5. He was raised by his mother, Elizabeth (Betsy) Baker and step-father, Richard Clarkson. When he was twenty years old he married Sarah Jane Holden, just 17 years old in Kalida, Putnam County, Ohio. She was the daughter of Peason B. Holden (a circuit riding minister with the United Brethren Church) and Nancy Kniseley.
Richard and Sarah had two children, Jason and Genova.
Jason md. Edna Celestia Hulbert and they had the following children: Orpha, Opal, Richard, Jason, Dewey and Theodore
Law (my father).
!OBITUARY: The Earth Newspaper, Edgerton, Ohio
The obituary appeared in Friday, Dec. 21, 1906 Issue: Obituary R.A.Law
!Richard A. Law was born in Mercer County,Pennsylvania Apr.2,1832. He moved with his parents to Logan County (Ohio) in 1836, thence to Putnam County (Ohio) near Kalida in 1849. In 1852 he was married to Sarah Jane Holden, who has been the companion of his joys and sorrows for the past fifty-four years. Two children and ten grandchildren, along with his aged companion live to mourn his loss. He united with the United Brethren church when he was 21 years old and afterwards with the Church of Christ in Bryan in 1888 where he moved in 1876. Since 1902 he resided in Edgerton until the date of his death which occured last Friday evening at 6:30 o'clock.
He was a faithful Christian and a noble man and we deeply mourn his removal from among our midst, fully realizing that in his death we have indeed sustained a great loss.
!J.H.O Smith, of Valaparaiso, Indiana, officiated. Mr.Smith spoke words of comfort in loving kindness and sympathy to the wife, children and grandchildren, whom mourn the absence of a loving husband and father.
Submitted by great,grand-daughter, Eleanor Law Johnson.
Richard Andrew Law was born in Mercer County, Pennsylvania and moved to Logan County, Ohio as a child. His father died at a young age and his mother remarried about 1834/5. He was raised by his mother, Elizabeth (Betsy) Baker and step-father, Richard Clarkson. When he was twenty years old he married Sarah Jane Holden, just 17 years old in Kalida, Putnam County, Ohio. She was the daughter of Peason B. Holden (a circuit riding minister with the United Brethren Church) and Nancy Kniseley.
Richard and Sarah had two children, Jason and Genova.
Jason md. Edna Celestia Hulbert and they had the following children: Orpha, Opal, Richard, Jason, Dewey and Theodore
Law (my father).
!OBITUARY: The Earth Newspaper, Edgerton, Ohio
The obituary appeared in Friday, Dec. 21, 1906 Issue: Obituary R.A.Law
!Richard A. Law was born in Mercer County,Pennsylvania Apr.2,1832. He moved with his parents to Logan County (Ohio) in 1836, thence to Putnam County (Ohio) near Kalida in 1849. In 1852 he was married to Sarah Jane Holden, who has been the companion of his joys and sorrows for the past fifty-four years. Two children and ten grandchildren, along with his aged companion live to mourn his loss. He united with the United Brethren church when he was 21 years old and afterwards with the Church of Christ in Bryan in 1888 where he moved in 1876. Since 1902 he resided in Edgerton until the date of his death which occured last Friday evening at 6:30 o'clock.
He was a faithful Christian and a noble man and we deeply mourn his removal from among our midst, fully realizing that in his death we have indeed sustained a great loss.
!J.H.O Smith, of Valaparaiso, Indiana, officiated. Mr.Smith spoke words of comfort in loving kindness and sympathy to the wife, children and grandchildren, whom mourn the absence of a loving husband and father.
Richard Andrew Law was born in Mercer County, Pennsylvania and moved to Logan County, Ohio as a child. His father died at a young age and his mother remarried about 1834/5. He was raised by his mother, Elizabeth (Betsy) Baker and step-father, Richard Clarkson. When he was twenty years old he married Sarah Jane Holden, just 17 years old in Kalida, Putnam County, Ohio. She was the daughter of Peason B. Holden (a circuit riding minister with the United Brethren Church) and Nancy Kniseley.
Richard and Sarah had two children, Jason and Genova.
Jason md. Edna Celestia Hulbert and they had the following children: Orpha, Opal, Richard, Jason, Dewey and Theodore
Law (my father).
!OBITUARY: The Earth Newspaper, Edgerton, Ohio
The obituary appeared in Friday, Dec. 21, 1906 Issue: Obituary R.A.Law
!Richard A. Law was born in Mercer County,Pennsylvania Apr.2,1832. He moved with his parents to Logan County (Ohio) in 1836, thence to Putnam County (Ohio) near Kalida in 1849. In 1852 he was married to Sarah Jane Holden, who has been the companion of his joys and sorrows for the past fifty-four years. Two children and ten grandchildren, along with his aged companion live to mourn his loss. He united with the United Brethren church when he was 21 years old and afterwards with the Church of Christ in Bryan in 1888 where he moved in 1876. Since 1902 he resided in Edgerton until the date of his death which occured last Friday evening at 6:30 o'clock.
He was a faithful Christian and a noble man and we deeply mourn his removal from among our midst, fully realizing that in his death we have indeed sustained a great loss.
!J.H.O Smith, of Valaparaiso, Indiana, officiated. Mr.Smith spoke words of comfort in loving kindness and sympathy to the wife, children and grandchildren, whom mourn the absence of a loving husband and father.
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