Obituary: Adams County, Wisconsin: Christian SCHULTZ

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From the Adams County Press, March 21, 1903, Page 4 Column 2

Christian SCHULTZ, an old and highly respected citizen of the town of
Quincy, died at this home in that town, on March 15, 1903.

Mr. SCHULTZ was born in Hessenheim, Germany, January 22, 1827, and was the
son of Lawrence and Maggie SCHULTZ. 

He attended school until fifteen years of age, when he learned the trade of
blacksmith. He served in the German army for four years and after leaving
the army in 1854, came to America. He resided at Buffalo, New York, five
years, where he worked at his trade. In 1860 he came west and located at
Germantown in this state. Here he remained for fifteen years.

In 1875 he purchased the farm in Quincy where he had since resided and
where he died; and for the past twenty eight years his name has been
closely associated in the history of that town with every enterprise which
tended to the advancement of public interests.

Mr. SCHULTZ enlisted in the army in the Civil War, Nov. 10, 1861, in the
10th Battalion, Wisconsin Light Artillery, and was later transferred to the
9th Battalion, and saw service through Colorado, Mexico and the West, and
was discharged at Leavenworth, Kansas, in 1863. For many years after his
discharge he was unable to walk without the aid of crutches. On May 7,
1887, he joined Badgero Post, G. A. R., of Friendship, and was ever an
honored and loyal member of the order.

In June, 1865, Mr. SCHULTZ was married to Doris CHAIRMAN of Germantown, and
eight children were born to them, of whom seven survive him--five sons and
two daughters. These children, now grown to manhood and womanhood, are
leading useful, honored lives, which refelct the influence and example of
the father who by the life he lived has erected in the hearts of these
children a monument more lasting than any hewn from granite, for it will
remain with them to the end.

Funeral services for the deceased were held at the home in Quincy last
Wednesday afternoon at one o'clock, conducted by Rev. T. Corwin of Adams
Center, and his remains were tenderly assigned to their last resting place
by his comrades of the G. A. R.