Married First: Cynthia Anne Moody on 3 May, 1899 in La Plata, Macon, Missouri.
They met while attending school at the Missouri School for the Deaf in Fulton, Missouri. Both became deaf in childhood due to illness.
Louis left his wife and two children about 1905. He was later observed about 1908 by Mrs. Hodge on the streets of Chicago, Illinois. In her conversation with him, he related that "I traveled with shows until 2 years ago". He stated that his act was as a strongman who carried a cookstove on his back while going up stairs.
There was no further information from family records regarding him until years later when his son, Louis Schaffner, is reported to have located him living on a riverboat with a wife and three red headed daughters. The story further goes that the family did not want him to talk with his father and he was turned away. The name he was living under at that time, I am told, was either "August or Adolph Lindquist of Linquist."
Date and place of death and burial are unknown to our family.
Bio. posted by "coxie"
They met while attending school at the Missouri School for the Deaf in Fulton, Missouri. Both became deaf in childhood due to illness.
Louis left his wife and two children about 1905. He was later observed about 1908 by Mrs. Hodge on the streets of Chicago, Illinois. In her conversation with him, he related that "I traveled with shows until 2 years ago". He stated that his act was as a strongman who carried a cookstove on his back while going up stairs.
There was no further information from family records regarding him until years later when his son, Louis Schaffner, is reported to have located him living on a riverboat with a wife and three red headed daughters. The story further goes that the family did not want him to talk with his father and he was turned away. The name he was living under at that time, I am told, was either "August or Adolph Lindquist of Linquist."
Date and place of death and burial are unknown to our family.
Bio. posted by "coxie"
Married First: Cynthia Anne Moody on 3 May, 1899 in La Plata, Macon, Missouri.
They met while attending school at the Missouri School for the Deaf in Fulton, Missouri. Both became deaf in childhood due to illness.
Louis left his wife and two children about 1905. He was later observed about 1908 by Mrs. Hodge on the streets of Chicago, Illinois. In her conversation with him, he related that "I traveled with shows until 2 years ago". He stated that his act was as a strongman who carried a cookstove on his back while going up stairs.
There was no further information from family records regarding him until years later when his son, Louis Schaffner, is reported to have located him living on a riverboat with a wife and three red headed daughters. The story further goes that the family did not want him to talk with his father and he was turned away. The name he was living under at that time, I am told, was either "August or Adolph Lindquist of Linquist."
Date and place of death and burial are unknown to our family.
Bio. posted by "coxie"
They met while attending school at the Missouri School for the Deaf in Fulton, Missouri. Both became deaf in childhood due to illness.
Louis left his wife and two children about 1905. He was later observed about 1908 by Mrs. Hodge on the streets of Chicago, Illinois. In her conversation with him, he related that "I traveled with shows until 2 years ago". He stated that his act was as a strongman who carried a cookstove on his back while going up stairs.
There was no further information from family records regarding him until years later when his son, Louis Schaffner, is reported to have located him living on a riverboat with a wife and three red headed daughters. The story further goes that the family did not want him to talk with his father and he was turned away. The name he was living under at that time, I am told, was either "August or Adolph Lindquist of Linquist."
Date and place of death and burial are unknown to our family.
Bio. posted by "coxie"
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