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Bios (Shultz) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Darke County OHIO Biographies.....William Sherman Shultz October 21 1864 - July 31 1948 ******************************************************* File contributed for Ohio Biographies Project by: Francis Motschman, Sr. dalesr99@earthlink.net July 24, 2003, 3:02 pm Author: Francis D. Motschman, Sr. The Shultz Family of Darke County, Ohio The Biography of William Sherman Shultz Son of George Washington Shultz and Sarah Marie Hunter by Francis D. Motschman, Sr. William Sherman Shultz was not going to be a large man, this was obvious throughout his youth. He looked pitifully small when he was near his father, George Washington Shultz, who stood about 6'6". When he was born on Fri., October 21, 1864, his father couldn't believe he wasn't a girl, he seemed too small to be a boy, especially HIS boy. But, there he was. His mother loved him dearly and any lack of love he received from his father, she more that made up the difference. He was not an unhappy boy. He loved music. He loved attention. He loved to entertain people. He never thought that this was a way to make a living, he just wanted to make people laugh and be happy because when he did, he was happy. It was this drive that compeled him to leave home and hire on with a traveling circus. He was gone for a number of years, we are not sure how many. When he finally left the circus and came back home he brought many new talents with him. He had learned to play the spoons, the rattle bones, the harmonica and the jewsharp as well as walking the tight rope and juggling just about anything he could pick up. He must have been with the circus for most of the years that today, would have been spent in school because he was twenty one years old when he married Whilemena "Lillie" Petersime, daughter of George Petersime and Mary Baughman. This marriage took place on Tue., January 22, 1889 in Greenville Twp., Darke County, Ohio. It was always a pleasure for the families of his brother and sister's when a visit would take place. Some where along the line he also had learned to play the fiddle and the visit was sure to have music and dancing and juggling and a lot of laughter. Much, much laughter. I have to add here that he, somewhere, also learned to talk like Donald Duck. I was on a trolley, going down town with the two Sherman's around 1946. I was not prepared for his antic's. Every time the bus would stop and a girl, young or old, got on I would hear: "Quaaack!! Quaaaaack!! Hi there you pretty girl in red", or some other similar statement in this duck like talk. Everyone on the bus was laughing their heads off and I, the 24 year old prude, am sitting there trying to get smaller and smaller so no one can see my embarrassment. So much for that. Sherman farmed for a living and was a general handiman around Ansonia, felling trees, doing carpenter work, and also would find herbs of people to combat any problems that they would be having physically. I don't have any idea where he learned about herbs but he got this information somewhere. If you had any kind of an ailment he would take off to the woods and would soon come back and hand you an herb or two and tell you how to prepare it so that it could help you. Do you know a pharmacist of today that could do that for you? He was also a well known horse shoe pitcher... one of the best in the entire area. Somehow they found time to have children... ten of them, in fact. One child died at birth and the baby was buried without giving it a name. The children that lived always felt bad because of the one having no name. Their children, in order of age, were: 1. Earl Shultz, b. Thu., March 28, 1889 2. Chester George Shultz, b. Thu., May 26, 1892 3. Minnie Lucille Shultz, b. Mon., August 13, 1894 4. Alva Shultz, b. Tue., January 12, 1897 5. James Wesley Shultz, b. Mon., October 30, 1899 6. Mary M. Shultz, b. Mon., October 7, 1901 7. Sherman Harold Shultz, b. Mon., March 27, 1905 8. Esther P. Shultz, b. Mon., September 18, 1911 9. Emma Viola Shultz, b. Sat., April 12, 1914 During the depression year of 1930 when things were so bad financially for so many people, my wife, Juanita went to stay with Sherman and Lillie for a year, to help her father out. She learned to love these two old people so much more during this time. Sherman let her do things she had never done before, for instance, he let her come out when he was tending to his bee's. He would smoke them to make them more docile and then go in and retrieve the honey. He had Juanita stand at a safe distance while he was doing this. He would, of course, be wearing his protective gear. She thought he was the smartest man in the world. He seemed to know everything. Lillie, would be so nice, she would make up little presents and give them to her at opportune times. On the other hand, Lillie was a disciplinarian and she made little Juanita behave. Juanita, to her credit, saw how much pain her grandma was in from her arthritis and she just wanted to do something to help, but of course, nothing would. Lillie suffered for years with painful arthritus. She passed away on Wed., December 7, 1938 much to Sherman's grief. They lived in town at that time and it was incredible how the neighborhood took care of Sherman after Lillies death. He had his meal brought in by a neighbor or he was invited to their home for his evening meal. Someone must have been keeping track of who did what and when for that to have worked so smoothly. In the mean time he would, as always, go around doing handiman work around the neighborhood and of course, at no charge. In the spring of 1948, when he was 84 years old, his health started to fail him badly. He had to go to the hospital where he was released when he showed some signs of improvement. He went to stay with his daughter, Esther, in Dayton, Ohio. He stayed with her until his condition grew worse and he had to go back to the hospital. While he was staying at Esther's my wife went over when she could to help out. One time she went into the bedroom where her grandpa was, he was in a hospital bed next to the regular bed. She went over to the regular bed to sit down and talk with him and he had a fit.. "Don't sit there, honey.......please don't sit there.... you're going to sit on Mommy and you'll hurt her". He was referring to his wife Lillie. Juanita said, "OK, grandpa, I won't sit there", and she sat in a rocking chair which was a little further away, and they talked for awhile, but, she said, "I had goose bumps for more than an hour over that. I wondered if he could really see her". It wasn't very long after that when he took a turn for the worse and had to go back to the hospital. He died at Miami Valley Hospital on Tue., July 31, 1948. The world has never been the same since. This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/bios/ohbios/ File size: 6.9 Kb -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V03 Issue #113 *******************************************