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OBITUARY OF JOSEPH SCHILLO, LAKE COUNTY INDIANA-1909
OLDEST RESIDENT DIES
THE PASSING AWAY OF JOSEPH SCHILLO REMOVES FROM THE VICINITY ITS OLDEST RESIDENT BUT NOT 
OLDEST CITIZEN. HE REMEMBERED THIS SECTION BEFORE HOBART WAS ON THE MAP AND HELPED TO BUILD 
THE DAM AND SAWMILL, WHICH WAS IN 1845. IN THOSE DAYS WILD ANIMALS OF MANY KINDS ROAMED AT 
WILL AND INDIANA WAS NO CURISOITY. HE LIVED TO SEE NOT ONLY THIS LOCALITY BUT LAKE COUNTY 
DEVELOP FROM A WILD AND BARRON TRACT TO ONE OF THE WEALTHIEST, PRODUCTIVE AND MOST POPULATED 
COUNTIES IN THE STATE. IT WAS A GREAT TRANSFORMATION TO OCCUR WITHIN ONES LIFETIME AND THE 
OLD GENTLEMAN ENJOYED TO RELATE HIS EXPERIENCES.
MR. SCHILLO WAS BORN MAY 3, 1828, IN GERMANY, BEING ONE OF A FAMILY OF EIGHT CHILDREN WHOSE 
PARENTS DIED BEFORE THEY EMIGRATED TO THE AMERICA. ONE OF THE EIGHT CHILDREN ALSO DIED IN 
GERMANY AND IN 1843 THE SURVIVING SEVEN PETER, JOHN, JOSEPH, MARY, HELEN, SUSANNA AND ANNIE 
SCHILLO CAME TO AMERICA WITH AN UNCLE JACOB SCHILLO WHO DIED IN 1860. THEY ALL HAD A LITTLE 
MONEY AND JOINTLY INVESTED IN LAND WEST OF HOBART WHICH IS NOW PART OF CHRIST EWIGLEBEN 
ESTATE. IT WAS THERE WHERE THEY LIVED UNTIL SOME OF THEM MARRIED AND GRADUALLY SCATTERED. 
JOSEPH WAS THE LAST SURVIVOR OF THE SEVEN CHILDREN. HE HAD BEEN MARRIED THREE TIMES AND EACH 
UNION BORE CHILDREN. HIS FIRST WIFE HANNAH PETTY, WHO DIED IN THE LATE 50'S. TO THEM WERE 
BORN FOUR CHILDREN ALL LIVING THEY ARE: MRS. ANNIE SMITH WHO LIVES IN TURKEY CREEK,MRS MARY 
KEILMAN AT TOLESTON, JOHN AT MERRILLVILLE AND WILLIAM IN OKLAHOMA.
HIS SECOND MARRIAGE TOOK PLACE SHORTLY BEFORE THE CIVIL WAR AND TO THIS UNION WERE TWO 
CHILDREN, ONE LIVING MISS SUSAN SCHILLO OF HAMMOND. HIS SECOND WIFE DIED IN 1875. HE MARRIED 
FOR THE THIRD TIME MRS SUSAN STRESSER OF HOBART MARCH 3 1881 AND WHO SURVIVES HIM. TO THEM 
WERE BORN TWO CHILDREN PAUL AND EMANUEL SCHILLO. BOTH LIVING. BESIDES HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN 
HE IS SURVIVED BY 20 GRANDCHILDREN AND THREE GREATGRANDCHILDREN.
HE SERVED HIS COUNTRY FOR A FEW MONTHS IN THE LATTER PART OF THE CIVIL WAR BEING MUSTERED 
INTO SERVICE FEB.26, 1865 AND MUSTERED OUT SEPT 19 OF THE SAME YEAR AND BEING A MEMBER OF 
COMPANY K 151ST REGIMENT OF IND. VOL. INFANTRY. HE WAS A MEMBER OF HOBART POST G.A.R. WHICH 
ORGANIZATION ATTENDED THE FUNERAL.
MR. SCHILLO LED A QUIET LIFE AND ONLY ONCE SERVED IN OFFICE, AND THAT WAS TOWNSHIP ASSESSOR 
BEING APPOINTED BY THE LATE SAMUEL BARR WHILE HE WAS COUNTY AUDITOR. HE WAS A DEVOUT CATHOLIC 
THROUGH LIFE AND ALWAYS AFFILATED WITH DEMOCRATIC PARTY. HE PASSED AWAY AT HIS HOME ON CENTER 
STREET IN HOBART AT 9:20 MONDAY EVENING AUGUST 30, 1909, AGE 81 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AND 27 DAYS. 
THE IMMEDIATE CAUSE OF DEATH WAS HEART TROUBLE AND FOR THE LAST TWO WEEKS HE SUFFERED MUCH. 
EXPRESSING A DESIRE TO MEET HIS MAKER.
THE FUNERAL WAS HELD YESTERDAY FORENOON AT 10 O'CLOCK AT ST BRIDGET'S CATHOLIC CHURCH IN 
HOBART AND THE REMAINS CONVEYED TO THE TURKEY CREEK CEMETERY FOR BURIAL.

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