Stafford, John (Rev)
Source: Crawfordsville Daily Journal 11 Aug 1889
At ten minutes past one this afternoon Rev. Dr. John Safford died at his home on South Washington Street of uremic poisoning. Dr. Safford had been ill for some time and his death while a surprise was not unlooked for. The funeral will occur from the residence next Monday afternoon at two o’clock.
Rev. John Safford was born in Perry, Lake County, Ohio, sixty years ago last August, and graduated from Oberlin College, Ohio, in ’59 and from the Theological Department in ’62. He entered the congregational ministry where he remained all his life save the term he occupied as pastor of Center Presbyterian Church in this city. Dr. Safford removed here from Bellevue, Ohio, in 1867 and was pastor of Center Church for nine years when he accepted the pastorate of the Congregational church at Ashtabula, Ohio. He later went to Grinnell, Iowa and removed from that place to Crawfordsville a little over two years ago. Dr. Safford was a man of great ability and force of character. He leaves a wife and their only son, Philo Safford, of Brooklyn, N. Y. The community extends its sympathy to the family in their bereavement. Upon the day of the funeral the casket will not be opened and friends desiring to view the remains may do so upon calling at the house between two and five o’clock on any intervening afternoon.
Buried Oak Hill Cemetery 1845-1899 - the dates and all this info is very odd so not guaranteeing it is all the same fellow or all correct - very very strange
Source: Crawfordsville Daily Journal Saturday, 4 April 1891 Edition
The will of the late Rev. John Stafford has been admitted to probate. It names his wife, Cornelia M. Safford as sole executrix, and asks that she be not compelled to file an inventory. It bequeaths to Mrs. Safford the brick house and lot on Washington Street in this city, and all the effects including all the books and manuscripts she desires, also all money on deposit, all notes, bonds and accounts, twenty shares in the Crawfordsville Coffin Company and life insurance amounting to $2,000. To the son, Philo Perry Safford, it bequeaths life insurance amounting to $3,000, a gold watch and chain, a gold headed cane and two guns, also such books as Mrs. Safford does not care for. One item in the will reads as follows:
I most earnestly desire and direct that no conspicuous or costly grave stone or monument be placed at my grave—nothing but the simplest stone to mark the place.
The will is dated January 18, 1888, and was made at Grinnell, Iowa.
Source: Crawfordsville Daily Journal Monday, 30 March 1891
The funeral of the late Rev. John Stafford occurred this afternoon at 2 o’clock. It was conducted by President Tuttle and Dr. R. J. Cunningham.
Source: Crawfordsville Weekly Journal Friday, 11 August 1899
On Tuesday at 3 o’clock, Rev. John M. Stafford, pastor of the Shawnee Mound M. E. Church, died after a protracted illness. He was a sufferer from indigestion and this ailment finally resulted in complete nervous prostration. The funeral occurred at the Shawnee Mound Church on Thursday at 10 a.m., the services being conducted by Dr. Cissell. The interment was at Oak Hill.
The deceased was a son of the Rev. G. W. Stafford, of this city, and was born Oct. 4, 1845. He entered the itinerant ministry of the M. E. Church in 1868, and had consequently been a minister for thirty one years. He had held such stations as Thorntown, Romney, Clinton, LaPorte circuit, Crawfordsville circuit and Shawnee Mound. He was everywhere a painstaking and hard working minister and his work was always effective. He leaves a wife and nine children to mourn his loss. = thanks so much to "S" for all her super work in the obit sectin of this site
Source: Crawfordsville Daily Journal Saturday, 26 December 1891
Listing of Deaths in 1891
January—A. G. McDaniel, , John Cogle, Walter McClure
February—Elizabeth Handy, John B. Tutt, Mrs. Homer Hills, Mrs. Christian Patridge, Wm M. Craig, Buck Marley, Mrs. C. L. Myers
March—, Susan Best, Jackson Borum, , Rev. Reuben Claypool, Rev. John Safford, Mary Campbell, Wm McIntyre
April—Mrs. Paul Hughes, Joab Eliott, Captain Tribby’s mother, John A. Cooley, Mattie Morgan, Mrs. Curtis Edwards, Hannah Gilkey, Allen Owens, Catherine Hall,, Mary Southwell, Mrs. James Francis, John Francis, Samuel Moore, Eugene Heaton
May—Ann Noland, Rhoda Gott, Benajah Johnson, Martha Piggott, Charley Miller, Elizabeth Fulwider, John Wasson, W. F. Rhoads, Lewis Otterman
June—
Wm Hartman, Grant Johnson, John Lee, John Oppy, John McJimpsey,