Lazarus
Project
An expanded obituary project of
MennObits. Includes additional information of obituaries
appearing in
The Mennonite and other newspapers. Source of
individual obituaries given with each record. Project managed by
Thelma Martin.
1907
S
Short, Joseph P.;
Short,
Joseph P.
Joseph P. Short, was born
March 2, 1834, and died March 22,
1907, age 73 years and 20 days. Having
lived nearly all his life in german Township.
He was reckoned on of the oldest pioneers who helped to turn the
wilderness into its present condition.
He could tell of the times when it took a week to go to mill
with an ox
team through the trackless forest. He
remembered distinctly when the Lake Shore Railroad was buile and when
the first
train passed through. He was the last of
the second American generation of the great Short family, which in
point of
numbers is probably the largest in Ohio.
Of the
first Shorts who came to America,
there was the grandfather and four sons.
The two sons Jacob and Joseph came first and then came Peter and
Daniel
bringing their father with them. He was
then quite an old man.
Tuesday, March 26, 1907
100 Years Ago
Obituary: Archbold (Ohio)
Buckeye,
Mar 2007 (Historical Note)]
Submitted
by: Mona Mann
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