STEUBEN REPUBLICAN, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1901, page 4, column 3

DAVID C. HANSELMAN, 24 Dec 1827 - 30 Sep 1901

   David C. Hanselman was born in Columbiana county, Ohio, Dec. 24, 
1827, died at his home in Angola, Ind., Sept. 30, 1901, aged 73 
years, 9 months and 26 days.
   Deceased came to this county in 1843, when a boy of sixteen, 
walking the entire distance from his Ohio home.  He first stopped at 
the home of Clark Powers, east of town, and remained in the Powers' 
settlement about two years.  In 1845 he visited in Ohio, but after 
about four years absence he returned to Steuben county and since 
that time, in spite of many years absence, he has always counted 
Angola his home.
   February 17, 1848, Mr. Hanselman married Lucy A. Thomas, of our 
county, and for more than fifty-three years she has been the 
faithful helpmeet of his active and useful life.  To this union 
three children were born - Edwin C., Frances A. and Sheldon F., the 
last named now a resident of Ravenna, O., alone surviving him as the 
stay and comfort of his widowed mother.
   While Elder Hanselman was a man of affairs and touched the life 
of all those about him at many points, still the heart center of the 
record of his days is his christian service.  He loved the gospel 
and preached it and lived it and vast numbers will carry to their 
graves the impress of his Godly character.
   He became a christian when a young many of twenty-four, at a 
DeKalb yearly meeting held at Newville where James Hadsell and 
Randall Faurot were the chief speakers, the latter baptising the 
earnest young man upon his confession of faith.  Within three or 
four years after obeying the gospel he began to preach and the 
blessing of God attended his labors from the first.  For fifteen 
years he did the work of a pioneer herald of the cross in our 
county, and in reckoning with the factors that have shaped this 
community's thought life, this faithful servant of the Most High 
must not be forgotten.
   In 1869, being then a man of forty-two years, Mr. Hanselman 
entered Hiram college and for a year devoted himself to studies that 
he felt would increase his efficiency as a minister of the gospel.  
Such a move took courage of a high order.  From Hiram, he and his 
wife moved to Cortland, Ohio, and there began a ministry in north 
eastern Ohio that extended, with only the exception of eighteen 
months work in Michigan, over twenty-five years.
   In November, 1894, Mr. and Mrs. Hanselman came back to the old 
associations of Steuben county, where he continued to preach the 
gospel he loved so well and was called continually to minister in 
the homes of death.  His last public service was in May, 1900, and 
the very next month he was stricken with paralysis.  This was as he 
would have wished, he fell in the harness.  During fifteen weary 
months he has lingered in pitiful weakness, but now the tired 
servant of God is at rest in his Father's house.
   Under his long ministry of faith and love, some 3,300 (number is 
not clear in the obit) men and women united with the church and by 
him over 700 marriages were solemnized.  So to live and work is to 
live indeed; so to die is to triumph over death.
   Funeral services will be held today at two o'clock in the 
Christian church, Elder C. S. Medbury officiating.
(Picture included with obituary)

STEUBEN REPUBLICAN, OCTOBER 2, 1901, page 5, column4

   An incident in the early life of the late Elder D. C. Hanselman,
occurred some 40 years ago in Angola.  The gentleman was walking
around his tannery yards then located on the hillside near where
Prof. W. O. Bailey now lives, and chanced to see a little boy who
was yet wearing a dress, fall into one of the tanning vats.  The
Elder took a pole which had a cow's horn fastened on the end, and
fished the little lad out of his perilous predicament, thus saving
his life.  That little boy was Henry B. Weicht, the undertaker, who
today will lay his benefactor to rest in Circle Hill cemetery.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

   David C. Hanselman, 24 Dec 1827 - 30 Sep 1901, on 17 Feb 1848, 
married Lucy Ann (Thomas) Hanselman, 1831 - 1917.  They are buried 
at Circle Hill Cemetery, Angola, Steuben County, Indiana.

   Edwin C. Hanselman, 29 Dec 1848 - 23 Apr 1879, on 30 Jun 1870 
married Frances (Gore) Hansleman, 05 Nov 1845 - 09 Apr 1905.  They 
are buried at Circle Hill Cemetery.
   Frances Ann Hanselman, 28 Oct 1851 - 09 Jul 1857, aged 5 years, 8 
months and 11 days.  She is buried at Old Angola Cemetery, Angola, 
Steuben County, Indiana.
   Sheldon F. Hanselman, in Ravenna, Ohio, in 1901.

"Cemeteries of Steuben County, Indiana, 1990" by Audree Siebel 
Lewis, Vol. I, pages 820, 821.

Submitted by:  Mona Hilden-Bedkwith
e-mail:  hilbeck@voyaer.net