Jonathan P. Buffington, one of the few remaining pioneers of Northwest Ohio, died last Wednesday evening in his residence on Jefferson Street at the age of over 82 years. In the morning he had made his accustomed walk through the City and felt completely fine. But at four in the afternoon as he was going through the rear part of his property, Mr. Buffington suddenly fell, stricken by a stroke, on the path and lay there senseless. He was carried into the house and medica] assistance was rapidly at hand. But for [the] medical art it was already too late; about eight in the evening, the elderly man breathed his last.
Jonathan P. Buffington was born in an area made historically famous by a battle in the Revolutionary War, Brandywine Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, on the 12th of November in the year 1828. Already as a four year old boy he came with his parents to Champaign County, Ohio, and later to West Liberty in Logan County. After he had graduated from the schools there and in Springfield, he attended for three years the college in Granville, Ohio. As a 23 year old youth he left this institution to get involved in the cattle trade, but this didn’t seem to suit him, because in 1853 he settled in Defiance and opened an apothecary, which he sold just a few months ago to Mr. B. Brickman. For eight years he conducted his business on First Street, then transferred the same to a building constructed in the meantime on Clinton Street, where it still remains today. From 1854 to 1856 Mr. Buffington also ran a second business in the neighboring small town of Brian and owned at that time the only apothecaries in the counties of Defiance, Williams and Paulding. Mr. Buffington had retained to a great age his physical strength, for which he had been known in his youth, and had retained his mental abilities up to the day of his death. He was in all aspects a good citizen, thoroughly honest in business, affable and friendly in converse with great and small. He is survived by his widow Harriet, a born Piper, with whom in 1907 he celebrated the golden wedding anniversary, the three daughters Mrs. Florence M. Lamb, Miss Alice Buffington and Miss Carrie Edna Buffington of here and brother John Buffington in North Baltimore, Ohio.
The burial took place Saturday afternoon with large participation and under the auspices of the Defiance Commandery of the Knights Templar in the Riverside Cemetery. Pastor Wm. W. Lance from the English Methodist Church officiated.
Hannah C. Deisler, a born Wandt and wife of Frank B. Deisler, died on Monday morning about 10 o’clock in her residence in Defiance Township after a two month long illness. She was born on the 9yth of May 1856 in New Washington, Crawford County, O., and came in the beginning of the ‘60s to Defiance County, where she has resided ever since.
Surviving her are her husband, whom she married in 1880, three sons and two daughters, her aged mother widow Hannah Gruner, the brother August Wandt in Highland Township, the half-brother Auditor S. J. Gruner and the half-sister Mrs. Amanda Marckel. The burial will take place Thursday morning at 10 o’clock from the former residence to the Riverside Cemetery. Pastor F. A. Kiess will officiate.
[birth: 09 May 1856 Ohio] [death: 19 Jun 1911 Defiance, Defiance Co., Ohio] [burial: 22 Jun 1911 Riverside Cemetery] [parents: Dr. Wendt, Hannah Miller]
Louis Lantow
Louis Lantow of Tiffin Township was not able to withstand the treacherous nervous fever. About 11 o’clock in the night of Sunday, Death brought him release from the misery, which had beset him for the past few weeks. He was born on the 15th of November 1849 in Mecklenburg and already came to this country as a 6 year old boy with his parents, where he had made his home in Defiance County to the end of his life. In the year 1872 he entered into marriage with Miss Sophia Albers, who preceded him in death on the 14th of July 1901. From this marriage sprang eight children, of whom now one son and five daughters remain alive, namely Wilhelm on the old homestead, Mrs. Ida Foss and Mrs. Caroline Terry in Defiance, Mrs. Sophia Henkel in Toledo, Mrs. Luella Vogt in Erlin, O., and Miss Frieda Lantow in her father’s house. Also left behind are 10 grandchildren and the brothers August and Alex. Lantow in Rice County, Kansas, Charles Lantow in Tiffin Township, Henry and John Lantow in Defiance. The deceased was a good citizen and a faithful, fervent member of the St. John’s Evangelica] Lutheran congregation, where he served for many years as ?director. Also with him has passed one of those men, who this publisher could count as one of his most faithful friends.
The burial took place on Tuesday in the Webb Cemetery near Brunersburg, after Pastor F. A. Kiess had held the funeral service at 9 o’clock in the morning in the former residence and at 10 o’clock in the St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church. Pallbearers were Wilhelm Dürk, Johann Palm, Wilhelm Röhrs, Nikolaus Böhm, Rudolph Kenning, and Fr. Sudholz.