Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Scheidt, James "Jim" S. (Mr.) December 15, 1943
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Lake Odessa Wave - Times - December 16, 1943  
          "JIM" SCHEIDT DIED WED. NOON

   James S Scheidt, pioneer Lake Odessa business man, died at his home above the
Scheidt hardware store 
here, about noon Wednesday following several weeks of failing health.  He was 85
years old and had been 
known as "Jim" to his many friends throughout the community for many years.

   He was born in Kutztown, Pa., on September 22, 1858, this town having been named
after his grandfather 
Kutz. When about 17 years of age he went to work in his father's blacksmith shop
there to learn the trade, and 
about 1887 he came to Nashville, Mich.

   It was at Nashville that he became acuainted with the future Mrs. Scheidt, Miss
Dora A. McGraw. They were 
married on February 3, 1889, and had Mr. Scheidt lived until February 3, 1889, next
they would have been 
married 54 years. To this union were born five children, Gretchen (Mrs Jerry
O'Meara) who died in 1927, 
Glendon and Bernard in Lake Odessa, Mrs. Howard Northrup (Doris) and Mrs. Gayle
Galloway (Bernice) at 
Ionia.

   Comng to Lake Odessa in the fall of 1888, Mr. Scheidt secured employment in the
William Shaffer 
blacksmith shop, and a year later built his own shop building. He purchased his
present business location in 
1895, where he and "Sam" R. McIntyre conducted a meat market for a few years, and in
1903 he put in a 
stock of hardware and this has been known as the Scheidt Hardware store ever since.

   Mr. Scheidt had been a member of the Odd Fellows, Masons, K of P., and Elks
lodges at various times in the 
past years.

   Surviving are the widow, Dora, the four children, 20 grandchildren of whom two
grandsons are in the U.S. A. 
and six great-grandchildren.

   Funeral services wil be held from the Wortley & Baine chapel at 2 Friday, with
burial in Lakeside cemetery.



  


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