STARK COUNTY, OHIO FRAKTUR

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Massillon, Stark County, Ohio fraktur document made for Peter Fuchs, dated March 30, 1879. It reads:


Sir. 32, 24

Thue

nichts ohne

Rath

so gereuet dich's nicht

nach der

That

zum 30 Marz 1879 Peter Fuchs


Translates to:



Do nothing without counsel,

so do not worry about the deed

To the 30 Mar 1879 Peter Fuchs


It’s from the apocryphal or deuterocanonical books Ecclesiasticus (sometimes referred to as the Wisdom of Sirach). The citation is slightly wrong as this verse is actually verse 24 in chapter 33 (not 32).


Peter Fuchs was born in Germany in 1849, came to the US in 1873, married Jacobina Schmidt in 1874, and by the spring of 1875 was living in Stark County with his wife and newborn daughter.