JANUARY 1880
Obituary
Barbara Hartsel, the deceased was born in With County, Virginia on December 17th, 1815 and at the tender age of fifteen she emigrated to Fayette County, Indiana, where she resided up to 1860, whence she removed to Shelby County, Illinois and here she resided, for the most part, ever since. She married at the age of 20 to David Hartsel, deceased, was married but a single time and was the mother of a large family of children. In Childhood's early age she embraced christianity, in the Communion of the Lutheran Church. She breathed her last Thursday afternoon quarter past four o'clock January 22, 1880, aged 62 years 1 month and 5 days. Buried in Ash Grove.