Ohio/Pennsylvania Mourning Fraktur

Price: $3,400

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Hand drawn and colored fraktur memorializing the birth and death of Maria Herntzelman. Maria was born June 15, 1839 and died March 10, 1849. The fraktur has three inscriptions. The first written in German records her birth in Mercer County Pennsylvania. The second is a loose English language translation of the first. The third records maria's death in Jackson Township, Mahoning County, Ohio