Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-12-06
WELL SPENT
LIFE ENDED
Albert R. Stranahan Passes Into
The Great Beyond Sixty Years a
Resident of Fulton County-Trib-
utes From Friends and Associates
To His Integrity and Industry.

Mr.. A. R. Stranahan who passed
into rest from his home in Wauseon
Sunday December ist, was horn N
Litchfield, Med ma County, Ohio,
June 18th 1841. He had attained
the age of seventy-seven years, five
months and fifteen days.
Mr.. Stranahan came in 1858, as a
lad Of seventeen to Fulton county to
live with his uncle, Harvey Hayes,
then sheriff of Fulton county and
located at Ottokee, the county seat.
He thus had a share in the bu lding
of the county and in the struggle in
cident to changing the county seat o
Wauseon. He was mason by
trade and during forty years of ac-
tive work along tn S line he had es-
tablished record as a first class
workman.
Mr.. Stranahan was twice married; !;
first to Miss Lucy Scott who died
after an extended illness. Their
adotped daughter, Mrs. Lottie Marsh
a widow lives in Gallon, Ohio, hav-
ing four children; daughter and
three sons who are in the United
States service.
On July 23rd 1882 he was united
in marriage to Mary Frazier and to
this union were born three children,
Samuel A now of Flint, Michigan;
Mrs. Hollie A. Case of Wauseon and
Loren H. of Cleveland. These chill
dren, one grandson, his wife upon
whom he has Law shed his care and
attention during the years of her in
validism and one half brother who
] lives in Toledo are left to cherish
his memory.
He enlisted in Co. H. 18th Ohio
Volunteer Infantry and served to the
end OF the civil war.
Funeral services were held at the
home on Madison street Tuesday af-
ternoon, Deceber 3rd, attended by
county officials from the court house
where he has for many years given
faithful and effic ent service; mem
bers of Losure Post No. 35 G. A. R
Wauseon Lodge $40, F. and A. NJ 81
which he has been a member since
1874 and many neighbors and
friends. The services in charge Of
his pastor Rev G. B. Wilts,e were al
once impressive and beautiful.
Hon. H. H. Ham Sr. as dean OF
the Fulton County Bar Association
presented the following resolutions
adopted by joint meeting of the
Bar and County officials.
Resolved: That in the demise o1
our esteemed citizen Albert Stran
ahan, our community has met with {
great and inrepairable loss but
while we abide by the inevitable
fiat of nature in it's grand DEGREES
and know;
Leaves have their time to fall,
And flowers to wither,
At the North winds breath
And stars to set; But we know
Thou hast all seasons
For thine own
o Death!"
And yet we linger upon the them
of life and its eventualities.
The ripened sheaf has been har
vested and gathered by The Grea
Eternal. His body now lies coli
and still, and his tired hand has re
laxed its grasp upon the working
tools of a well spent, industriou
and active life.
He was a mason by trade, an
| with the CrOWel OF DroCnefly IoN
and the cement of human kndnes
in his soul, he, while here has con
structed temple, the majesty an
| grandeur of which will create with
US undreamed of energies and resolu
tions.
| When the Civil War was upon u
as a Nation; young tho he was, h
was found, gun in hand, in Compan
H. 14th Regiment, Ohio Vdluntee
Infantry; marching with 1the Boy
in Blue in the defense of his countr
and its flag; and paused not by tn
wayside until Lee surrendered
Grant at Appomatox.
He was appointed janitor at tn
court house, April 18th 1905, som
thirteen years since. HIS work W
on the flowers alone, will, whe
Spring time comes again keep hi
memory green not only in the MIND
of the Bar, the Judiciary, the officia
of the county, but of the people {
: the county who are blessed with til
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