Mrs. D. C. Herrington.

Mrs. Dewitt C. Herrington died on Sunday, the 24th inst. at the home of her daughter, Mrs. W.H. Andrews, East Main street, at 9:50 p.m. The immediate cause of death was asthma but she had been in failing health and much suffering from that and other causes for five years  past. Deceased was born at Meadville, Pa. Oct 27 1839, to Edward and Sarah Atkinson Stebbins, and her whole life was spent in this vicinity. Her maternal grandfather, Hon. Thomas Atkinson, came to Meadville from Germantown, Pa., in 1804. He published the Crawford Messenger, the first newspaper in this region, and also represented the county in the state legislature. Her father, Edward Stebbins, came to Meadville from West Springfield, Mass., in 1819 and took up land in that vicinity. Jan. 6, 1856, she was married to Charles William Frey, born in Wiesbaden, Germany, who came to this country early in life, by whom, she had two children, Maggie Louise, and Mary Adelaide, of whom the latter now Mrs. Andrews, survives her. Mr. Frey died in 1864 and in 1868 she was married to Dewitt C. Herrington of Crawford county, by whom she had one son, Edward Augustus, who also survives her. Mrs. Herrington has been a faithful member of Christ church, Meadville, from which the funeral services were held.

Three brothers and one sister survive her, Edward
Stebbins of Mt. Dora, Fla.; Col. Thomas Stebbins of 
Meadville; Frederick Stebbins of Cleveland O. and Mrs.
Henry C. Laycock of Rochester, Pa. - Titusville Herald.

Published in the Crawford Journal, 5 Jul 1906, page 8 column 5