Fred Schumann's life is the history of a traveler and in, in spite of its eclectic specific details, a "typical" story of German immigrants to the US and Canada in the later 19th century. He arrived at Castle Island in New York City on 23 Oct, 1884, journeying with his father (a "tinner") Friedrich Wilhelm (1833-1908) and sister Marie Auguste Wilhelmina (1863-1947). Other family members arrived separately. Two more sisters - Anna Friedrike Luise (1861-1934) and Elise Ernstine Hermine (1865-1931) - came together on 25 May 1885, and their mother Auguste Marie Luise Linde Schumann (1835-1886) arrived in Chicago, to which her family had made their way, by Jan. 1885, suffering from tuberculosis, which took her life there on 21 June 1886. A fourth child of the family, August Johann Carl (b. in 1874) had evidently died before the family's emigration. Fred and his siblings were born in what was at the time Bad Freienwalde, Pomerania, Prussia.
As a young single man, Fred lived a few years with his married sister Maria Gross in Murdock, MN. He appears with them in the censuses of 1895 and 1990 in Murdock village. On 3 July 1903 in St. Croix, Hudson, WI, he married Ida A. Schleicher (1884-1917). He was 30 and his bride 17 and they may have eloped. Their first two children were born in Murdock - Herbert R. (1903-before 1911) and Mabel Augusta (1904-1982). In 1906, the family moved to Sedgewick, Alberta, CA, where the next child Walter Joseph (1907-1957) was born. His sister Edith, born there in 1910, completed the family. In 1909, Fred filed a Homestead petition for 35 acres he had occupied since 1907 in Galahad, near Sedgewick, Alberta. The petition states he had also filed for Canadian naturalization. The Canadian census of 1911 finds the family in Wheatland, Alberta, CA, where they are farming.
The 1916 Canada census is the last one showing Ida with her family. She died on 15 September 1917 and is buried in Our Lady of Grace cemetery in Castor, Alberta. Fred's next marriage record says that his first wife was deceased. On Nov. 12 of 1919, in Toole Co, Montana, Fred married Annie Maria Bell, described as a "spiritualist" (her father, John W. Bell, was a Presbyterian minister). Annie was the divorced wife of someone named Keeley, but her children were from an earlier marriage to a man named Kusel. Fred appears in the 1920 census in Warren, Carroll Co. IA, farming and living with his new wife and three of her Kusel children, ages 9, 13, and 19. He claims (incorrectly) Iowa as his birthplace; he says his parents were born in Schleswig, Germany (which is also incorrect). Annie says she was born in Schleswig also, but her actual birthplace was Lindsay, Ontario, CA.
The next year (1921), Fred was back in Wheatland, Canada, with Annie and one of her adult children, and reunited with his own children Mabel, Walter, Fred and Edith. They had been living in a Catholic orphanage in the meantime. The second marriage did not last. Fred would wed one more time, in Canada, to Althea May Jory, a daughter of Henry Douglas and Almire Laughter Jory, who at that time lived in Oliver.
When the record next catches up to him, Fred is in Oliver, British Columbia. Fred lived on Tuc-el-Nuit Lake Road in rural Oliver. The town is wrapped around the lake and the Okanagan River runs through the town, which had one long main street of facing shops. Today it is still a lovely place and hopefully Fred found pleasure and solace there. Oliver was a young town; it had been incorporated as a village only in 1945 - known for the production of vegetables and fruits, especially cantaloupe. Today, vineyards grow there. His death certificate says that Fred had been in Canada for 43 years, in the province of British Columbia for 29, and in Oliver for 27 years. This makes him one of the town's earliest settlers.
His death certificate calls Fred a retired carpenter and indicates that he practiced the trade until 1940. He also did work as a painter. The informant is his son Walter Joseph, who would himself die only seven years later. "Elthea May Jery" is named as Fred's wife (but her name was actually Althea May Jory - her parents are buried in Oliver Cemetery). At age 77, Fred had succumbed to common diseases of the time, heart disease (myocarditis), complicated by nephritis and edema. He had been treated by the doctor who attended at his death in April since the previous July. As was not uncommon, his son did not know the first name of his grandfather Schumann or either grandmother's name. The death certificate cites Fred's birth year in error (it was 1872, not 1862) but has the month and day correct, as well as Fred's age. He died at St. Martins Hospital, a new faculty built in 1942 and wood-framed.
Four of Fred and Ida's children, 3 sons and two daughters, lived to be adults. The eldest, Herbert R. (b. 1903) died in childhood. All four stayed in British Columbia - Mabel Augusta Schumann Mattice in Oliver then Burnaby, Walter Joseph Schumann in Oliver, Frederick William Schumann in Summerland, and Edith Schumann Riches in Oliver (by way of Penticon). Mable married Wilburn Mattice and had one son. Walter never married. Edith married George Riches and had one son and three daughters. Fred William married Loretta Inez Inglis and the couple had four children, two sons and two daughters. The boys died in infancy but both girls married and had children.
As a young single man, Fred lived a few years with his married sister Maria Gross in Murdock, MN. He appears with them in the censuses of 1895 and 1990 in Murdock village. On 3 July 1903 in St. Croix, Hudson, WI, he married Ida A. Schleicher (1884-1917). He was 30 and his bride 17 and they may have eloped. Their first two children were born in Murdock - Herbert R. (1903-before 1911) and Mabel Augusta (1904-1982). In 1906, the family moved to Sedgewick, Alberta, CA, where the next child Walter Joseph (1907-1957) was born. His sister Edith, born there in 1910, completed the family. In 1909, Fred filed a Homestead petition for 35 acres he had occupied since 1907 in Galahad, near Sedgewick, Alberta. The petition states he had also filed for Canadian naturalization. The Canadian census of 1911 finds the family in Wheatland, Alberta, CA, where they are farming.
The 1916 Canada census is the last one showing Ida with her family. She died on 15 September 1917 and is buried in Our Lady of Grace cemetery in Castor, Alberta. Fred's next marriage record says that his first wife was deceased. On Nov. 12 of 1919, in Toole Co, Montana, Fred married Annie Maria Bell, described as a "spiritualist" (her father, John W. Bell, was a Presbyterian minister). Annie was the divorced wife of someone named Keeley, but her children were from an earlier marriage to a man named Kusel. Fred appears in the 1920 census in Warren, Carroll Co. IA, farming and living with his new wife and three of her Kusel children, ages 9, 13, and 19. He claims (incorrectly) Iowa as his birthplace; he says his parents were born in Schleswig, Germany (which is also incorrect). Annie says she was born in Schleswig also, but her actual birthplace was Lindsay, Ontario, CA.
The next year (1921), Fred was back in Wheatland, Canada, with Annie and one of her adult children, and reunited with his own children Mabel, Walter, Fred and Edith. They had been living in a Catholic orphanage in the meantime. The second marriage did not last. Fred would wed one more time, in Canada, to Althea May Jory, a daughter of Henry Douglas and Almire Laughter Jory, who at that time lived in Oliver.
When the record next catches up to him, Fred is in Oliver, British Columbia. Fred lived on Tuc-el-Nuit Lake Road in rural Oliver. The town is wrapped around the lake and the Okanagan River runs through the town, which had one long main street of facing shops. Today it is still a lovely place and hopefully Fred found pleasure and solace there. Oliver was a young town; it had been incorporated as a village only in 1945 - known for the production of vegetables and fruits, especially cantaloupe. Today, vineyards grow there. His death certificate says that Fred had been in Canada for 43 years, in the province of British Columbia for 29, and in Oliver for 27 years. This makes him one of the town's earliest settlers.
His death certificate calls Fred a retired carpenter and indicates that he practiced the trade until 1940. He also did work as a painter. The informant is his son Walter Joseph, who would himself die only seven years later. "Elthea May Jery" is named as Fred's wife (but her name was actually Althea May Jory - her parents are buried in Oliver Cemetery). At age 77, Fred had succumbed to common diseases of the time, heart disease (myocarditis), complicated by nephritis and edema. He had been treated by the doctor who attended at his death in April since the previous July. As was not uncommon, his son did not know the first name of his grandfather Schumann or either grandmother's name. The death certificate cites Fred's birth year in error (it was 1872, not 1862) but has the month and day correct, as well as Fred's age. He died at St. Martins Hospital, a new faculty built in 1942 and wood-framed.
Four of Fred and Ida's children, 3 sons and two daughters, lived to be adults. The eldest, Herbert R. (b. 1903) died in childhood. All four stayed in British Columbia - Mabel Augusta Schumann Mattice in Oliver then Burnaby, Walter Joseph Schumann in Oliver, Frederick William Schumann in Summerland, and Edith Schumann Riches in Oliver (by way of Penticon). Mable married Wilburn Mattice and had one son. Walter never married. Edith married George Riches and had one son and three daughters. Fred William married Loretta Inez Inglis and the couple had four children, two sons and two daughters. The boys died in infancy but both girls married and had children.
Fred Schumann's life is the history of a traveler and in, in spite of its eclectic specific details, a "typical" story of German immigrants to the US and Canada in the later 19th century. He arrived at Castle Island in New York City on 23 Oct, 1884, journeying with his father (a "tinner") Friedrich Wilhelm (1833-1908) and sister Marie Auguste Wilhelmina (1863-1947). Other family members arrived separately. Two more sisters - Anna Friedrike Luise (1861-1934) and Elise Ernstine Hermine (1865-1931) - came together on 25 May 1885, and their mother Auguste Marie Luise Linde Schumann (1835-1886) arrived in Chicago, to which her family had made their way, by Jan. 1885, suffering from tuberculosis, which took her life there on 21 June 1886. A fourth child of the family, August Johann Carl (b. in 1874) had evidently died before the family's emigration. Fred and his siblings were born in what was at the time Bad Freienwalde, Pomerania, Prussia.
As a young single man, Fred lived a few years with his married sister Maria Gross in Murdock, MN. He appears with them in the censuses of 1895 and 1990 in Murdock village. On 3 July 1903 in St. Croix, Hudson, WI, he married Ida A. Schleicher (1884-1917). He was 30 and his bride 17 and they may have eloped. Their first two children were born in Murdock - Herbert R. (1903-before 1911) and Mabel Augusta (1904-1982). In 1906, the family moved to Sedgewick, Alberta, CA, where the next child Walter Joseph (1907-1957) was born. His sister Edith, born there in 1910, completed the family. In 1909, Fred filed a Homestead petition for 35 acres he had occupied since 1907 in Galahad, near Sedgewick, Alberta. The petition states he had also filed for Canadian naturalization. The Canadian census of 1911 finds the family in Wheatland, Alberta, CA, where they are farming.
The 1916 Canada census is the last one showing Ida with her family. She died on 15 September 1917 and is buried in Our Lady of Grace cemetery in Castor, Alberta. Fred's next marriage record says that his first wife was deceased. On Nov. 12 of 1919, in Toole Co, Montana, Fred married Annie Maria Bell, described as a "spiritualist" (her father, John W. Bell, was a Presbyterian minister). Annie was the divorced wife of someone named Keeley, but her children were from an earlier marriage to a man named Kusel. Fred appears in the 1920 census in Warren, Carroll Co. IA, farming and living with his new wife and three of her Kusel children, ages 9, 13, and 19. He claims (incorrectly) Iowa as his birthplace; he says his parents were born in Schleswig, Germany (which is also incorrect). Annie says she was born in Schleswig also, but her actual birthplace was Lindsay, Ontario, CA.
The next year (1921), Fred was back in Wheatland, Canada, with Annie and one of her adult children, and reunited with his own children Mabel, Walter, Fred and Edith. They had been living in a Catholic orphanage in the meantime. The second marriage did not last. Fred would wed one more time, in Canada, to Althea May Jory, a daughter of Henry Douglas and Almire Laughter Jory, who at that time lived in Oliver.
When the record next catches up to him, Fred is in Oliver, British Columbia. Fred lived on Tuc-el-Nuit Lake Road in rural Oliver. The town is wrapped around the lake and the Okanagan River runs through the town, which had one long main street of facing shops. Today it is still a lovely place and hopefully Fred found pleasure and solace there. Oliver was a young town; it had been incorporated as a village only in 1945 - known for the production of vegetables and fruits, especially cantaloupe. Today, vineyards grow there. His death certificate says that Fred had been in Canada for 43 years, in the province of British Columbia for 29, and in Oliver for 27 years. This makes him one of the town's earliest settlers.
His death certificate calls Fred a retired carpenter and indicates that he practiced the trade until 1940. He also did work as a painter. The informant is his son Walter Joseph, who would himself die only seven years later. "Elthea May Jery" is named as Fred's wife (but her name was actually Althea May Jory - her parents are buried in Oliver Cemetery). At age 77, Fred had succumbed to common diseases of the time, heart disease (myocarditis), complicated by nephritis and edema. He had been treated by the doctor who attended at his death in April since the previous July. As was not uncommon, his son did not know the first name of his grandfather Schumann or either grandmother's name. The death certificate cites Fred's birth year in error (it was 1872, not 1862) but has the month and day correct, as well as Fred's age. He died at St. Martins Hospital, a new faculty built in 1942 and wood-framed.
Four of Fred and Ida's children, 3 sons and two daughters, lived to be adults. The eldest, Herbert R. (b. 1903) died in childhood. All four stayed in British Columbia - Mabel Augusta Schumann Mattice in Oliver then Burnaby, Walter Joseph Schumann in Oliver, Frederick William Schumann in Summerland, and Edith Schumann Riches in Oliver (by way of Penticon). Mable married Wilburn Mattice and had one son. Walter never married. Edith married George Riches and had one son and three daughters. Fred William married Loretta Inez Inglis and the couple had four children, two sons and two daughters. The boys died in infancy but both girls married and had children.
As a young single man, Fred lived a few years with his married sister Maria Gross in Murdock, MN. He appears with them in the censuses of 1895 and 1990 in Murdock village. On 3 July 1903 in St. Croix, Hudson, WI, he married Ida A. Schleicher (1884-1917). He was 30 and his bride 17 and they may have eloped. Their first two children were born in Murdock - Herbert R. (1903-before 1911) and Mabel Augusta (1904-1982). In 1906, the family moved to Sedgewick, Alberta, CA, where the next child Walter Joseph (1907-1957) was born. His sister Edith, born there in 1910, completed the family. In 1909, Fred filed a Homestead petition for 35 acres he had occupied since 1907 in Galahad, near Sedgewick, Alberta. The petition states he had also filed for Canadian naturalization. The Canadian census of 1911 finds the family in Wheatland, Alberta, CA, where they are farming.
The 1916 Canada census is the last one showing Ida with her family. She died on 15 September 1917 and is buried in Our Lady of Grace cemetery in Castor, Alberta. Fred's next marriage record says that his first wife was deceased. On Nov. 12 of 1919, in Toole Co, Montana, Fred married Annie Maria Bell, described as a "spiritualist" (her father, John W. Bell, was a Presbyterian minister). Annie was the divorced wife of someone named Keeley, but her children were from an earlier marriage to a man named Kusel. Fred appears in the 1920 census in Warren, Carroll Co. IA, farming and living with his new wife and three of her Kusel children, ages 9, 13, and 19. He claims (incorrectly) Iowa as his birthplace; he says his parents were born in Schleswig, Germany (which is also incorrect). Annie says she was born in Schleswig also, but her actual birthplace was Lindsay, Ontario, CA.
The next year (1921), Fred was back in Wheatland, Canada, with Annie and one of her adult children, and reunited with his own children Mabel, Walter, Fred and Edith. They had been living in a Catholic orphanage in the meantime. The second marriage did not last. Fred would wed one more time, in Canada, to Althea May Jory, a daughter of Henry Douglas and Almire Laughter Jory, who at that time lived in Oliver.
When the record next catches up to him, Fred is in Oliver, British Columbia. Fred lived on Tuc-el-Nuit Lake Road in rural Oliver. The town is wrapped around the lake and the Okanagan River runs through the town, which had one long main street of facing shops. Today it is still a lovely place and hopefully Fred found pleasure and solace there. Oliver was a young town; it had been incorporated as a village only in 1945 - known for the production of vegetables and fruits, especially cantaloupe. Today, vineyards grow there. His death certificate says that Fred had been in Canada for 43 years, in the province of British Columbia for 29, and in Oliver for 27 years. This makes him one of the town's earliest settlers.
His death certificate calls Fred a retired carpenter and indicates that he practiced the trade until 1940. He also did work as a painter. The informant is his son Walter Joseph, who would himself die only seven years later. "Elthea May Jery" is named as Fred's wife (but her name was actually Althea May Jory - her parents are buried in Oliver Cemetery). At age 77, Fred had succumbed to common diseases of the time, heart disease (myocarditis), complicated by nephritis and edema. He had been treated by the doctor who attended at his death in April since the previous July. As was not uncommon, his son did not know the first name of his grandfather Schumann or either grandmother's name. The death certificate cites Fred's birth year in error (it was 1872, not 1862) but has the month and day correct, as well as Fred's age. He died at St. Martins Hospital, a new faculty built in 1942 and wood-framed.
Four of Fred and Ida's children, 3 sons and two daughters, lived to be adults. The eldest, Herbert R. (b. 1903) died in childhood. All four stayed in British Columbia - Mabel Augusta Schumann Mattice in Oliver then Burnaby, Walter Joseph Schumann in Oliver, Frederick William Schumann in Summerland, and Edith Schumann Riches in Oliver (by way of Penticon). Mable married Wilburn Mattice and had one son. Walter never married. Edith married George Riches and had one son and three daughters. Fred William married Loretta Inez Inglis and the couple had four children, two sons and two daughters. The boys died in infancy but both girls married and had children.
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