Children:
Mary Deemer
Horace Deemer
William Ray Deemer
Sibling(s):
Mary E. Kiefer
Edward J Kiefer
William Richard Kiefer
Catherine Kiefer
Shively John Kiefer
Elmira K. Kiefer
Tilghman Kiefer |
Notes:
Fremont Daily Messenger, April 21, 1925, Page 7
Death Lulls Beloved Grandma Deemer to Her Eternal Sleep
Highly Esteemed Fremont Pioneer Dies at age of 93 Years
Mrs. Anna S. Deemer, 93 widow of William A. Deemer, one of Fremont's beloved pioneer women, with very few beyond her age in the city or county, and well known to a wide circle through her residence in this city for a period of 709 years, died at her home, 1022 Hayes avenue, Tuesday night about 10:30 o'clock of the complications of her advanced years. She as the mother of Dr. W. R. Deemer, of Fremont.
It will be remembered that Mrs. Deemer sustained a fall at her home a year ago last September, when she suffered a broken hip, which while the injury mended, still left her practically helpless confined to her bed and her wheel chair. However she was able to be up much in her chair, and was thus able to enjoy her life, despite the handicap of her infirmity. But the weakness of her great age gradually came over the venerable woman and she was confined to her bed since last Friday, Her life slowly and peacefully ebbing away.
The funeral will be held at the late home on Hayes avenue at 2;30 o'clock Thursday afternoon, her pastor, the Rev. W. M. Harford, of the Methodist Episcopal church, to conduct the services and burial will follow in the family plot in Oakwood cemetery at the side of her husband and only daughter.
Mrs. Deemer's maiden name was Miss Anna S. Kiefer, born in Raubsville, Pennsylvania, on Feb,. 98, 1833, one of the large family of children born to John Kiefer, and wife, pioneers of the very early days in that state. As a young woman, she was married to William A. Deemer, in her native town, where they resided for a numbers of years, deciding then to come to Ohio. The husband and wife, together with their oldest child, Mary traveled to this state in 1856, arriving in Fremont in that year by the primitive mode of travel of those days. They located here when this place was just short of wilderness and swamp. this section being known as the Black Swamp in the early days, and surrounded with the forest growth of three quarters of a century ago.
Fremont a Village
When the family first came to Fremont, then just a village, which had been know as Lower Sandusky, the husband was a circuit rider in the Methodist Church, and he became known far and wide in this territory. Fremont was always their home and the headquarters of the religious work of the veteran minister and the present home on Hays avenue, was the family residence for 47 years, almost half a century. The husband died there 37 years ago, and the faithful wife would never leave the old home despite the importunities of her children to make her home with them. Mr. Deemer was also a soldier of the civil war, serving in the 169th O.V.I.
Mr. and Mrs. Deemer were the parents of three children, two of whom are living. Dr. H. E. Deemer of Jefferson, O., and Dr. W. R. Deemer of Fremont. The only Daughter, Miss Mary Deemer, well known young Fremont woman passed away fifteen years ago. There are five grandchildren and six great grandchildren and there are also surviving, one sister and one brother, Mrs. John Smith, of Easton, PA., and Shively Kiefer, of Raubsville, Pa.
All her life this venerable woman was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church here ever sine she came to this place. Always rather frail in her constitution, Mrs. Deemer was not able to participate very actively in church and civic affairs, but she made up for this amply, in good Counsel and generosity. She was of a kind and highly amiable disposition endearing herself always to all who know her.
Mrs. Deemer was the beloved Grandma not only to her own grandchildren but to countless other children and even the grown-up folks of her neighborhood. Her striking appearance was beautifully typical of her extraordinary lovely characteristics and she was the ideal picture of a grandmother of this and the colonial days. She was a faithful, devoted wife during the many years she was united with her pioneer husband, living only for him and their children, and during the long years of her widowhood, she remained true to his memory and devoted herself to her children and their families.
The aged woman preserved her interest in every day doings up to the last, and her love for humanity demonstrated itself throughout the almost 100 years of her worthy and well spent life. She passed away full of years and good deeds and her memory will be ever loved and revered by not her own family and their descendants but also of the hosts of friends who have esteemed her as a true woman and one of the real pioneers who helped to write the history of the city and county in that high class of civilization, which has become famous in the annals of the this locality. The relatives will have the sympathy of their friends in their bereavement. |
