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Sister Salome Shively

circa 1791 (computed from age at death) – 22 August 1865

Died 22 August 1865, Sandy congregation, Stark County, Ohio — Brethren obituary from the Gospel Visitor, closing with a memorial verse

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At-a-glance facts

Record type

Obituary

Date of death

22 August 1865

Date of birth

circa 1791 (computed from age at death)

Age at death

almost 74 years of age

Place of death

Stark, Ohio, United States

Inscription transcription

Also in the above named congregation (Sandy congregation, Stark county, Ohio); August 22, 1865 sister SALOME SHIVELY, almost 74 years of age, leaving a husband and 7 children to mourn their loss. Six of those children belong to the church. Funeral 1 John 3:2.

"My Mother, at that holy name, Within my bosom there's a gush

Of feeling which no time can tame, And which for worlds of fame,

I would not, could not crush."

Transcribed from the Gospel Visitor, the German Baptist Brethren monthly periodical edited by Henry Kurtz at Poland, Ohio (published 1851 onward). The entry opens "Also in the above named congregation (Sandy congregation, Stark county, Ohio)" — the parenthetical identification of the congregation appears to be the transcriber's, carried over from an adjacent Gospel Visitor entry (see the companion record for Sarah Shively, who died in the same congregation the same year). Our archive's index entry gives her years as 1791–1865, consistent with "almost 74 years of age" at death, but no birth date is stated in the obituary itself.

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Source & citation

Source type
Transcription only
Provenance
From the Ancestors at Rest archive — founded 2004 by Brian and substantially built out across two decades by Lorine McGinnis Schulze of Olive Tree Genealogy.
Transcribed by
Ancestors at Rest archive — original contributor not recorded.
Last verified
2026-07-06
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Transcription only — obituary text transcribed from the Gospel Visitor; no photograph in this record

Citation: Obituary of Salome Shively (c. 1791–1865) of the Sandy congregation, Stark County, Ohio, from the Gospel Visitor, the German Baptist Brethren monthly periodical edited by Henry Kurtz at Poland, Ohio. Preserved in the Ancestors at Rest archive. (https://ancestorsatrest.com/records/obituaries/shively-salome-1865/ : accessed [your access date]).

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