Carroll County IA Archives Obituaries.....Schumacher, John F. September 1, 1918
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The Herald, Carroll, Iowa, Sept. 4, 1918
John F. Schumacher Dies After Protracted Illness 
In Feeble Health for Many Weeks and Finally 
Succumbs at Home on Carroll Street, Sunday Morning.  
	
John F. Schumacher was born in Germany, September 29, 1844, and died in 
Carroll, Iowa, after a prolonged illness, on Sunday morning, September 1, 
1918, aged 73 years, 11 months, 2 days. He was the youngest of a family of 
four children. When he was but a few years of age, his parents left Germany 
for America, and settled near Chicago, Illinois. Here they lived until he grew 
to manhood. On November 26, 1856, he was united in marriage to Elizabeth 
Brust. They lived in Illinois until the early eighties, when they moved to 
Iowa, settling upon a farm about four miles east of Carroll. Here they lived 
for seven years, then moved in town. For a few years he engaged in business in 
Carroll, then retired and lived in the city until his death. Eight children 
came to bless the home, three of whom, with their mother, have passed into the 
other life. Those living are: Will, of Pine City, Minnesota; Mrs. F. M. Hanby, 
of Carroll; John, of Lanesboro; Bertha, of Carroll, and Arthur, of Watertown, 
South Dakota. He was a member of the Odd Fellows lodge, and the even tenor of 
his life testified to his faithfulness in the church of which he was a long 
time member. Not only his loved ones, but the community at large held him in 
the deepest reverence and feel a real loss in his taking away.
-------Interesting contradictions - obituary says they were married on Nov. 
26, 1856, J.F. would have been 12 at the time.  Elizabeth's obituary said they 
were married Nov. 6, 1868. Her obituary would probably be more accurate as 
information was probably given by him instead of a family member.

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