Della (Roan) Dull Rohn, Formerly of Mark Township

 

Mrs. Della Rohn

"Mrs. Della Rohn of Walkerville, Ontario, Canada, widow of the late Wm. Henry Rohn, passed away suddenly last Wednesday evening at the Crystal Fountain Park Hotel at Sherwood, shortly after she had alighted from the evening train on the C. N. R. R., which was late passing there, about 8:20.

She sat down to rest at the hotel, being on her way to her son, Walter, at Mark Center, and waiting for him.  She gave a few gasps and expired from heart trouble, from which she was ailing. Squire John Core, acting coroner, made an examination of the matter and the remains were taken to her son's.

Mrs. Rohn, whose maiden name was Roan, was married in the 80's to John M. Doll (sic Dull), of Hicksville, by whom she had two sons, Pearl Doll of Herschel, Saskatchewan, Canada, and Reo (also Rio, Reow, Rea) Doll of Clayton, Michigan.

By her marriage to Mr. Rohn, who died some years ago, she had four sons, Walter of Mark Center, and Clyde, Lisle (sic Leslie) and Wm. Rohn of Windsor, Canada, also two daughters, Susie (Mrs. O. G. Reynolds) of Ney, who was killed in the Moats auto accident, June 10, 1920, and Opal (Mrs. Stanley Fleming) of Windsor, Ontario.

Mrs. Rohn was nearly 63 years old.  The family formerly lived in Mark Township, where she had a brother George Roan.  She also had a sister in Michigan.  There are 16 grandchildren.

All the children except Pearl Doll attended the funeral at Mark Center, Sunday, the home being just east of the Mark Center high school on the Hicksville Pike, till 1911 when they moved on a farm near Windsor, Canada."

Bryan Press, Bryan, Ohio, 3 November 1921, p. 9

Born as Delilah Roan in Mark Township, Defiance County, she first married John Luther "Martin" Dull on March 2, 1878, in Ney.  They had two sons, Pearl Commodore Dull and Rio Dull.

On May 12, 1885, she married William Henry Rohn and had four sons and two daughters with him: George Walter "Butch," Clyde Leslie Cyril "Cy," and William, Susanna and Opal. Her husband and Susanna preceded her in death.

Delilah/Della died in Sherwood on October 26, 1921, and she was buried in Sherwood Cemetery. Her death certificate noted that her heart trouble was brought on by excitement - perhaps at seeing some of her children again.

Just found ...

Obituary for William Henry Rohn, Della's husband, from the Bryan Press, May 21, 1918:

"WILLIAM HENRY ROHN

William Henry Roh, son of Henry and Charlotte Rohn, was born in Mark township, Defiance Co., Ohio, September 15, 1858 and passed away at the home of his daughter in Walkerville, Ontario, Canada, Monday morning, March 11 at 9:30 o'clock, aged 59 years, five months and 24 days.

He was married to Della Roan, May 11, 1884, and to this union were born seven children, one dying in infancy. He has left to mourn their loss a wife, four sons, two daughters, two stepsons, 11 grandchildren, one brother, one sister, and a host of other relatives and friends.

He had spent nearly all his life in Mark township until six years ago, he moved his family to Canada and there he resided until the time of his death, when he was prepared and ready to be called from this world to one where sickness and sorrow never come."