“Grandma” Rochelle Dies At Home In Reynoldsburg
Helped Her Husband Clear the Land and Build Their Cabin—Funeral Services.
The funeral services over the remains of Mrs. Lucinda Search Rochelle were held Wednesday from the late residence near Reynoldsburg, Rev. G.N. Tussing, pastor of the Reynoldsburg Baptist church officiating. Interment will be made in the cemetery near the deceased’s home.
Mrs. Rochelle passed away at her home near Reynoldsburg Monday of troubles incident to her advanced years.
She was born in Sparta, Sussex county, New Jersey, July 9, 1809, and was married to John Rochelle at Morristown, N.J., on April 9, 1825.
On December 7, 1836, the young couple decided to come to Ohio and made the long hard trip, beset with all the difficulties and dangers of those early days, in the original type of a prairie schooner.
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