Izard Co., AR - Biographies - John J. Shultz

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John J. Shultz was born in the State of Illinois on the 16th of August. 1851,
and like the majority of German-Americans is one of the substantial residents
of the county, and is industrious and frugal. By energy and close attention to
the details of farm work he has become the owner of 160 acres of good land, and
of this there are about fifty acres under cultivation, well improved and well
stocked. He is now filling the office of justice of the peace, which position
he has occupied for the past fourteen years, and he and wife, whose maiden name
was Mary E. Bean, and whom he married on the 11th of October, 1865, are members
of the Christian Church. Of six sons and five daughters born to them nine are
still living, and all reside at home: William A., Walter E., John M., Caswell
B., Mordecai M., Mary E., Amanda V., Albert F. and Maggie E. Mr. Shultz is a
son of John Shultz, a native German, born in 1784, he being educated in his
native land. He was also married there to Holy Homsan, by whom he became the
father of seven children, six sons and one daughter. Six of this family are
still living, three being residents of the State of Kansas, two of Illinois and
one of Arkansas. The father was a farmer, and at his death, in 1838, he owned a
good and fertile farm of 160 acres in Illinois, he having moved from Germany to
the United States in 1832. His wife died in 1871, both belonging to the German
Lutheran Church.