Sources conflict on date of birth:
02 Dec 1869 -- Snider, citing church records
Nov 1867 -- 1900 census date
1869 -- 1900 census, calculated from age.
05 nov 1866 -- ChueyHenry and his brother moved to Youngstown, Ohio where they owned a lumber mill. Henry later became a building contractor. The carpenter tradition has continued through several generations of the Scheetz family in the Youngstown area.
In 1900, Henry Scheetz (33) owned a home at 607 High St. in Youngstown, Mahoning County, Ohio. He lived there with his wife of 7 years, Anna (29), and children Marie (5), Catherine (4), and Peter (3). Henry was employed as a lumber merchant.
According to the census, both of Ann's parents were born in Germany. By 1900, Ann had given birth to three children, all of whom were living at the time of the census. Note that the birthdates of the two youngest children (taken from he 1900 census) are only eight months apart.
Records conflict on year of birth:
1858 Mark Haren
1852 1920 census
1853 death certificateIn 1920, 67 year old farmer Fred J. Haren lived on a farm that he owned in the 5th precinct of Center Twp., Monroe Co., Ohio with his wife Barbara (63) and children Bertha (23) and Raymond (21). Everyone in the household was born in Ohio. Fred and Barbara's parents were German.
Adjacent farms in the 1920 census belonged to Leo and Barbara Burkhart, and Millard Hubbard. John Haren (57) and his wife Catherine (52) lived nearby.
From death certificate:
Name: Frederick J. Haren
Age: 70 years 19 days
Birth: 04 Apr 1853, Miltonsburg, Monroe, Ohio
Occupation: Farmer
Marital status: Married
Spouse: [blank]
Father: Joseph Haren, Germany
Mother: Gertrude Hile, Germany
Informant: Miss Bertha Haren, Bealsville R. R. # 4 [daughter]
Death certificate lists father as Michael Burkhart and mother's maiden name as Zwick, both natives of Germany. Death certificate informant was son Albert Haren.
Raymond Haren never married. Researcher Mark Haren gives Raymond's birthdate as 17 Jul 1889. However, this is not possible if Ray's brother Anthony's birthdate is 13 Aug 1889. The 1920 census and Raymond's death certificate indicate that he was born in 1898.
In 1920, 21 year old Raymond S. Haren lived and worked on the family farm with his parents and older sister Bertha in the fifth precinct of Center Twp., Monroe County, Ohio.
Anton Kress and Barbara Warner Kress moved with their children to Fox settlement in Washington Co., OH in 1872.
In 1880, 34 year old farmer "Anthony Krass" lived in Fox Settlement, Ludlow Twp., Washington Co., Ohio with his wife Elizabeth (35) and their children John (12), Casper (11), Margaret (8), Barbara (6), William (5), and Charles (1). The oldest four children attended school. Adjacent farms in the census belonged to Daniel Hearn and Anthony's brother, Casper Kress.
According to the 1880 census, Elizabeth Warner Kress could not read or write.
Although 11 year old Casper Krass attended school in 1880, the census states that he could not read or write.
Eight year old John George Kress is not listed with the family in the 1880 census. It is presumed that he died before that time.
According to "The History of Noble County, Ohio, 1887" Mathias Schockling -- a French Alsatian -- came to America prior to 1835. Descendant Dennis Witsberger believes that the immigration year was c. 1825. Church records give Matthias Schockling's year of birth as 1794. Other sources (Dennis Witsberger and Roger Schocking ) give his birthdate as 1786.
Much of the following information comes from Roger Schockling.
Matthias Schockling was born and raised east of the Voages Mountains and west of the Rhine River along the German and French border of Belfort, Alsace Lorain in what is now France. Matthias’ natural father (whose name is not known) was a French military man. Family legend has it that Matthias’ father served under Napoleon and attained the rank of general, but this has not been verified. The story is told that Matthias’ father was in a military battle and had gotten off his horse just seconds before a cannon shell went sailing over his horse’s saddle. Matthias’ natural father died of causes unknown when Matthias was six years old.
Matthias’ mother later remarried a shoe cobbler. Matthias did not get along with his new step-father and ran away from home at the age of 16. He left home in a good suit of clothes and initially had to beg for food. Passers-by were reluctant to give him anything because Matthias was wearing clothes better than the people he was begging from. After he traded his good suit of clothes for a pauper’s rags, he had better success. Unfortunately, he inadvertently left his identification papers in the suit he gave to the pauper. Later, he could not prove his identity and lost out on his rightful share of his well-to-do parents’ estate.
As a young man, Matthias worked odd jobs; mostly herding hogs and geese. He eventually earned enough money to get married and obtain a farm. A cherry tree stood on the property line of Matthias’ farm. He and his neighbor repeatedly argued about who should get the cherries. In the spring of 1825, Matthias chopped down the cherry tree in anger and came into the house and told his wife to get ready to go to America.
The Schocklings made preparations that summer. In autumn they sailed to New York, subsisting on dried bread that Anna Marie had baked. (Passengers had to furnish their own food.) Their daughter, Mary Ann, learned to walk while on the boat.
The family of Matthias Schockling has not been found in the Census index for the 1830 US census. Multiple states and spelling variations were searched.
According to descendant Roger Schockling, Matthias Schockling purchased two 80 adjacent acre tracts from the U.S. government for $1.25 per acre in Enoch Township in what is now Noble County Ohio in 1837. (Prior to the formation of Noble County in 1853, Enoch Twp. was part of Monroe County.) The orignal land document was signed by then-president Martin Van Buren. Matthias later sold one of the parcels to his son Sebast, but the deed for this transaction has not been found. The other 80 acre plot is still in Schockling hands today. It passed from Matthias to his son John, who deeded it to his son Jacob. Jacob sold the land to his brother, August. After August's death, his heirs sold out their portions of the land to August's son, Ignatz. Today it belongs to Ignatz's son, Clair. This is believed to be the only tract of land owned by an original settler of Fulda that has passed through descendants with the same surname.
Matthias built a small house on the property. The location of the house was where a hog stable stood in the 1960s on the Dick Schockling farm. Matthias returned to Wheeling, and brought his family to the home. Originally, the house had only blankets hung for doors and windows.
After moving his family to Enoch Township, Matthias, along with other German Catholic settlers in the area, retuned to Wheeling on foot once a year to make their Easter duty until a church was built in Fulda. The journey to Wheeling and back took a week.
At the time of the 1840 census, Mathias Shaklen (?) lived in Enoch Twp., Monroe County, Ohio. The 1840 census does not list the individual names of people in the household, only a breakdown by age. The breakdown (and presumed names of the family members) is as follows:
1 - male under 5 (Joseph)
1 - male 10 - 15 years old (John)
1 - male 40 - 50 years old (Mathias)
1 - female under 5 (unknown)
1 - female 10 - 15 years old (Mary Anna)
1 - female 40 - 50 years old (Margaret)
Sebastian Schockling appears to be missing. Mathias was employed in agriculture. Neither Mathias nor Margaret could read or write. Nearby households in the census belonged to Adam Schafer, Philip Snider, George Miller, John Shipner, and John Hill. Another name in this group is hard to read -- John J?saker.Matthias planted a pear tree beside the house. The tree still stands today and continues to bear a few pears. Matthias was very sentimental about the tree and the pears. His children were not allowed to pick pears from the tree, but they were permitted to eat those that had fallen to the ground. Often, when Matthias was not looking, the children would shake the tree and then eat the pears that had fallen loose. The generations following Matthias were warned never to cut the tree as long as there was life in it. Perhaps Matthias regretted chopping down the fruit tree in Alsace. The Schockling pear tree was struck by lightning and split in two in 1910, but it continues to bear fruit.
Matthias and his wife had two children who died in childhood before a church existed in the area. The two children were buried on his farm along the eastern boundary at the coal crop level on the north side of the hillside by the Leo Hill farm line fence. An unconfirmed family rumor states that a daughter was struck by lightning while in her mother’s arms and was killed.
In 1850, 50 year old farmer Mathias Shocklin lived in Enoch Twp., Monroe Co., Ohio with his 62 year old wife Mariah and sons John (20) and Joseph (15). According to the census, Mathias and his wife were born in Germany, John was born in Pennsylvania, and Joseph in Virginia.
Matthias could speak German, French, and English. Neither he nor his wife could write, as they both signed the deed with an X when their son John bought the farm in 1855.
Matthias helped his son John build a log house for John’s family. The log house still stands on the farm today. Matthias and Anne Marie continued to live in the original house.
In 1860, 69 year old farmer Matthew Shockling lived in Enoch Twp., Noble County, Ohio with his 70 year old wife Maria. The census states that both were born in Hesse (Germany). Matthias Schockling's farm was located between the farms of his son (John) and his son-in-law (Augustus Witsberger) in the census.
In 1870, 80 year old Matthias Shockling was listed as "infirm" in the census. He lived with his wife Margaret (79) in a home next to that of his son John. According to the census, Matthias and his wife were both born in France. He owned no real estate and the his personal possessions were valued at just $100. Although he was a citizen, he could neither read nor write. Adjacent households in the census were those of Joseph Hupp and Matthias' son John.
At the time of the 1880 census, Matthias Schockling (92) and his wife Ann Mary (90) lived with the family of their son John E. Schockling in Enoch Twp..
Two of Matthias’ sons (Sebast and Joseph) moved to Iowa as adults. In the spring of 1880, the two sons came to Ohio to visit their elderly parents. At the end of their stay, Matthias wept as he walked with his sons over the hill to Fulda to see them off. Matthias knew in his heart that he would never see his sons again.
According to descendant Bernard Witsberger, there was a fire one night in early 1881in the cabin where Matthias Schockling lived. He and his wife escaped the fire into the cold, rainy night. They survived the fire, but both caught pneumonia and died on the same day a few weeks later.
A report of the fire was printed in the Caldwell Citizen Press on 10 Mar 1881:
The residence of Matthias Shockling was destroyed by fire Saturday night last week
[5 Mar 1881]. No persons were in the house except the old man and his wife, aged
respectively ninety-two and ninety-four years. They narrowly escaped a horrible
death. Part of the household goods [were] saved.Matthias Schockling's obituary in the Citizens' Press (Caldwell, OH 21 Apr 1881) was very brief; his wife is not mentioned in the death notice.
Matthias Schockling a very aged man of Enoch township died Sunday night.A more elaborate obituary appeared in the Fulda Locals column of the same paper a week later:
Matthias Schokling and wife, who had lived over 60 years in harmony together,
could not be separated even by death; this cruel messenger who seems to have
no compassion with any one, not even with the babe in the cradle, had laid
aside his ferocity with this in love united couple. He visited them both on the
same day, within a few hours he had united them again; and so they lie in the
same grave almost in the same coffin awaiting the day of resurrection.He was about 90 years old and she 88. About 60 years ago they left the old
country, Alsace, and came to this land of freedom, after living a few years at
Wheeling, they moved to this part, where they have been for the last 50 years.
Delores Snider gives name as Margaret Anna. Dennis Witsberger and Roger Schockling indicate that her name is Anna Marie, and that she was born in France in 1789. Census records give her name as Mariah (1850), Maria (1860), Margaret (1870) and Ann Mary (1880).
Census records vary on place of birth: some (1850) say Hesse; some (1870) say France. According to the 1870 census, she could read but not write.
The 1840 census lists a female under the age of 5 in the household of Mathias Schockling. She does not appear in the 1850 census and is presumed to have died.
In 1900, 31 year old farmer John T. Warner lived on a farm that he owned in Enoch Twp., Noble County, Ohio with his 28 year old wife Emma and their daughter Estella B. (6).
At the time of the 1910 census, 41 year old John T. Warner lived in Stock Twp., Noble County, Ohio with his 38 year old wife Mary and their children: Stella B. (16), Rupert H. (9), Edgar L. (7), and Herbert F. (2). Census records agree with church records in that four of the five children in the family were still living in 1910.
In 1930, T. J. Warner (61) and his wife M.E. (57) lived alone on their farm in Stock Twp. Neighboring farms belonged to John Crum and E. W. Barnes.
Obituary:
Funeral services for John Warner, 81, of near Berne, O., brother of Isadore
Warner of this city [Zanesville], will be held at 9:30 o’clock Thursday morning
at St. Michael’s Catholic church at Berne with Rev. Father Martin officiating.
Burial will be in the church cemetery.
Mr. Warner, a retired farmer and lifelong resident of Noble county, died Mon-
day at his home following an illness of two weeks. He was the son of John and
Barbara Warner.
Surviving are his widow, Mary Warner; a daughter, Mrs. Estella Biscon of
Lorain; two sons, Edgar of Cleveland and Hubert of Waldron, Ark., one sister,
Mrs. Eva Schehl of Berne, and four brothers, Charles, Clement and William, all
of Berne, and Isadore Warner of this city.
The body is at Brubach Funeral Home at Summerfield.
The census states that only one of Emma Warner's two children was alive in 1900. The census also indicates that Emma was born in Indiana; her parents were born in Ohio. Mary's mother, Anna Archer, lived in the next house enumerated in the 1900 census. Her brother Andrew's household was listed after that of their mother.
The 1910 census states that Mary E. (Archer) Warner was born in Ohio.
Records conflict on date of birth:
12 Sep 1880 (Snider)
Jun 1880 (1900 census).
18 Jun 1880 (death certificate)It is possible that Snider's date represents the date of baptism.
Records also conflict on death: Delores Snider shows that Charles McBride died in 1881. However, Charles is shown with this family in the 1900 ccensus. Nineteen year old Charles was a teacher.
From death certificate:
Name: Charles Madison McBride
Residence: Skillman St., Dresden, Muskingum Co., OH
Age: 72 years 10 months 12 days
Occupation: retired weighmaster, Dresden Paper Mill
Birth: 18 Jun 1880, Ohio
Marital status: Widowed
Father: Lewis Madison McBride
Mother: Mary Smith
Informant: Mrs. Wilma Bucch
At the time of the 1900 census, 18 year old Mary Warner lived and worked on the family farm in Stock Twp., Noble County, Ohio with his parents and several siblings.
The following notice appeared in The Caldwell Citizens Press on 13 Jan 1881. It has not been determined that the Mr. McBride mentioned in the article is Lewis McBride:
A little child of Mr. McBride, blacksmith at Colorado, a few days ago was so terribly
burned by its clothing catching fire that it died the next day.In 1900, 44 year old farmer Lewis McBride lived on his mortgaged farm in Stock Twp., Noble County, Ohio with his 37 year old wife Mary and all six of their six children: Charles (19), Amanda (17), Daisy (13), Rhoda (12), Bernice (8) and William (5). The census says that Lewis and Mary were born in Ohio, as were their parents.
By the time of the 1910 census, the family was renting a home at 1214 Walnut St. in Canal Dover, Tuscarawas County, Ohio. The household consisted of Lewis M. McBride (51), his wife, Mary (47), and children William (18) and Bernice (15). Lewis and William both worked in the rolling mill; Lewis as a laborer and William as an opener. According to the census, one of Mary McBride's six children died prior to 1910.
In 1920, the family rented a farm in Jefferson Twp., Muskingum County, Ohio. Members of the household were 60 year old widower Lewis McBride, his widowed son, Charles (39), son William (28), granddaughter Wilma K. (8) and widowed housekeeper Martha Rice (63). Everyone was born in Ohio except Wilma (West Virginia) and Martha (Virginia). Lewis was a laborer who worked "anywhere" according to the census.
Lewis McBride's obituary appeared in The Times Recorder (Zanesville, OH) newspaper on November 30, 1948.
LEWIS M. MCBRIDE CALLED BY DEATH
Lewis Madison McBride, 89, retired Dresden farmer, died early
Monday morning in Good Samaritan hospital. He had been ailing
for seven months and a hospital patient for two weeks.
Surviving are two sons, Charles and William of Dresden; two
daughters, Mrs. Bernice Reilly of Luck avenue, and Mrs. Amanda
McGovern of Dresden; a sisters, Mrs. Mary Jane Archer of Mineral
Wells, W. Va.; 17 grandchildren, five great-grandchildren, and two
great-great-grandchildren.
His wife, Mary, two daughters, five brothers, and four sisters
died previously.
A native of Fulda, Noble county, Mr. McBride has lived in Dresden
for 46 years. He was a member of St. Ann's church, Dresden, and
of its Holy Name society.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday morning at 9 o'clock at
St. Ann's church. Burial will be in Dresden cemetery.
The body will be moved this noon from the Baughman funeral home,
Dresden, to the residence of his son, Charles.-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
From death certificate:
Name: Lewis Madison McBride
Residence: Chestnut St., Dresden, Muskingum Co., OH
Age: 29 Nov 1948
Occupation: retired farmer
Birth: 04 Mar 1859, Noble, Ohio
Marital status: Widower
Spouse: Mary E. McBride
Father: William McBride, Ohio
Mother: Aletha Cecil, Ohio
Informant: Charles McBride [son]According to his death certificate, Lewis McBride fractured his left elbow two weeks before his death.
Sources conflict on year of birth:
Nov 1862 -- 1900 census
8 Nov 1863 -- tombstone
Fifteen year old Maria McBride is not shown with the family in the 1900 census.
Sources conflict on place of birth
Pennsylvania -- US Census
Noble Co., OH -- death certificate of son Lewis McBrideAt the time of the 1860 census, the McBride family lived on a farm worth $5000 in Enoch Twp., Noble County, Ohio. The household consisted of Wm McBride (54), Letha (30), Samuel (20), Jacob (14), Lydia (12), Margaret (10), Te??? (8), Nancy J. (9), Marilla (4), Luther (1). Everyone in the household was a native of Ohio.
In 1870, 64 year old infirm William McBride lived on a farm in Enoch Twp., Noble County, Ohio with five children: Christina (17), Nancy J. (14), Marilla (12), Lewis (11), and Amanda (8). The youngest three children attended school. Nancy, who did not attend school, could not read or write. William McBride's parents were foreign-born.
In 1900, Nicholas (47) and Ida (41) Schrimp owned a home at 1321 Alley H in the Clay District of Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia. Living in the household were their daughters Katie (14), Mary (12), Amelia (9), and Annie (7). Only Mary attended school. Nicholas and Mary had been married for 16 years. Everyone in the household was born in West Virginia except Ida, who was a native of Germany. Nicholas and Ida's parents were from Germany. Nicholas worked as a coal miner.
At the time of the 1910 census, widowed coal miner Nicholas Schrimp (55) owned a home at 1329 McColloch St. in Wheeling, where he lived with his daughters Catherine (24), Mary (22), Amelia (19), Anna (17) and Emma (14). None of the girls attended school. Everyone in the home was a native of West Virginia.
Sources conflict on name:
Agatha -- granddaughter Thelma Warner Sorg
Ida -- 1900 censusAll four of the children that Ida Schrimp had given birth to were alive in 1900, according to the census. The census states that Ida came to America in 1880.
Emma did not appear with the family in the 1900 census.
Dates of birth and death (from Social Security Death Index) have not been proven.