Other Events and Attributes:

• Also Known As: Eddie
• Occupation: Fireman
• Census: 1910, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA
• Census: 1920, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA
• Census: 1930, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA
• Residence: 1935, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA
• Census: 1940, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA
• Residence: Feb 1942, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA

Notes:

Elaine Schoelzel gives Edward’s death date as April 1951, but a sympathy card from his sister Myrtle on the death of Charles Schoelzel in 1958 mentions that she had recently spoken to him on the phone.

Residence:
6628 Onarga Avenue

Census:
6628 Onarga Avenue

Residence:
6628 Onarga Avenue

Edward married Harriet Helena Nicoski on 16 Sep 1933 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA. Harriet was born on 17 Apr 1907 in Chotyłów, Poland; died on 14 Nov 1996; was buried in 1996 in Fairmount Cemetery, Denver, Colorado, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Also Known As: Harriet Nicoski
• Research Notes: Birthplace given as Wisconsin in 1940 census.
• Residence: 1935, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA
• Census: 1940, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA
• Residence: Feb 1942, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA
• Residence: 1996, Salida, Chaffee County, Colorado, USA

Notes:

At the time of the 1940 census, a niece (listed as “Niece-in-law” of Edward) is living with the family. Helen Nicoski was 22 and born in Wisconsin. Given her surname, she would probably be a daughter of one of Harriet’s brothers.

Residence:
6628 Onarga Avenue

Census:
6628 Onarga Avenue

Residence:
6628 Onarga Avenue

Other Events and Attributes:

• Cause of Death: Cirrhosis of Liver
• Occupation: Bookkeeper
• Occupation: Saloon keeper
• Research Notes: Elaine Schoelzel gives birth year as 1868 and death date as 6 May 1906. Death certificate gives birth date of 20 February 1879. Age given as 24 in birth record of son Edward, which would put his birth in about 1868. Birthplace given as Hamburg, Germany in birth record of son Edward.
• Emigration: 1881
• Census: 1900, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA

Notes:

Died:
1617 W North Ave, 27th Ward

Buried:
In lot with parents

Ernst married Emma Emilie Schoelzel on 10 Nov 1894 in Cook County, Illinois, USA. Emma (daughter of Ernst Wilhelm Schoelzel and Emilie Marie Peitscher) was born on 29 Oct 1874 in Grünberg, Posen, Prussia; died on 1 Nov 1954 in Monterey Park, Los Angeles County, California, USA; was buried on 4 Nov 1954 in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Los Angeles County, California, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Cause of Death: Acute coronary thrombosis
• Occupation: Janitoress
• Research Notes: Wendell Mohr lists birth year as 1873. Birth place given as Bromberg in birth record of son Edward. Grünberg is now Zielonczyn, Bydgoszcz, Kuyavian-Pomerianian Voivoidship, Poland. Living with the family of daughter Myrtle at the time of the 1950 census.
• Emigration: 1887
• Census: 1900, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA
• Census: 1910, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA
• Census: 1920, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA
• Residence: 1921, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA
• Census: 1930, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA
• Residence: 1947, California, USA
• Census: 1950, El Monte, Los Angeles County, California, USA
• Residence: Nov 1954, El Monte, Los Angeles County, California, USA

Notes:

Emigrated to US with parents in 1887.

Residence:
2217 N Sawyer Ave

Census:
11744

Residence:
11744 Roseglen Street

Died:
Garfield Hospital, 503 North Garfield Avenue

Notes:

Emma & son Edward lived at 1918 Spaulding Ave., Chicago, in 1930.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Emigration: 1881
• Census: 1900, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA

Notes:

Buried:
Section G

Henry married Johanna Hanrath about 1879. Johanna (daughter of _____ Hanrath) was born on 24 Jun 1837 in Hamburg-Mitte, Hamburg-Mitte, Hamburg, Germany; died on 30 Oct 1921 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA; was buried on 1 Nov 1921 in Waldheim Cemetery, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1900, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA
• Census: 1920, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA

Notes:

Emigrated in 1879 or 1881.

Died:
Lutheran Deaconess Hospital, 1138 N. Leavitt.

Buried:
Section G

Notes:

Family lived at 864 N. Francisco Ave, Chicago in 1900.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Also Known As: William
• Occupation: Soldier (Berliner Garde), laborer, newspaper carrier
• Medical Notes: Suffered ill health for 22 years before his death. Death certificate indicates he died with interstitial nephritis and asthma.
• Research Notes: Wendell Mohr list birth year as 1841 and date of death as February 20, 1909. These appear to be based on information in a letter to him from Emma Schoelzel. Peilau, Schlesien is now Piława, Walbrzyskie, Poland. Name appears on Certificate of Death as “William Ernst Schoelzel.” Name appears on his son Robert’s death certificate as “Wilhelm”. 1920 census record for his son August gives birthplace as Schleswig. Informant on Certificate of Death was Robert Rheinhold Schoelzel; undertaker was Frank Kummerow. Colby Memorial Cemetery Index entry for his son August gives his name as “Tom”
• Immigration: 1887
• Census: 1900, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA

Notes:

Served in the Berliner Garde in Prussia for 11 years. Served in the signal corps as a bugler during the Oestreich-German War in 1868, and in France in the Franco-Prussian war during 1870-71. Worked as a switchman on the railroad after leaving the military. Emigrated to America in 1887 with Emilie and three youngest children (August and Rudolph had emigrated earlier with their grandmother Susanna).

Worked as a paper carrier for a short time. Unemployed after about 1888. Lived at 1632 N. Leavitt St. for 2 months prior to death. Usual residence was 5007 Bertran Ave.

Buried:
Lot 53, block G

Ernst married Emilie Marie Peitscher on 8 Jan 1865. Emilie (daughter of _____ Peitscher) was born on 5 Nov 1845 in Campani, Westpreußen, Prussia; died on 29 Aug 1896 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA; was buried in 1896 in Waldheim Cemetery, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Medical Notes: Death certificate lists cause of death as “general dropsy” (likely heart failure).
• Research Notes: Wendell Mohr lists surname as “Peitcher” and birthdate as February 1843. I have been unable to find a “Campani.” There was a Kampenau (Campenau), Marienburg, Westpreußen (now Kępniewo, Elbląg, Warmian-Masurian, Poland) 19°21’E, 54°01’N. This is about 110km from Laskowitz, where she gave birth to her first two children. Elaine Schoelzel has a birthdate of 11 May 1845 in her more recent information.

Notes:

Orphaned by age of two and raised by older brothers and sisters. Father was a school teacher in Germany. Emigrated to America in 1887.

Buried:
Lot 53, block G

Died:
12:50 AM; 176 Potomac Ave

Notes:

Also had twins who died in infancy.