Earl Shultz (1889 - 1952)

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Died 24 Jul 1952 at age 63 in Darke County, Oh

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Biography

Author: Francis D. Motschman, Sr.

The Shultz Family of Darke County, Ohio

The Biography of Earl Shultz Son of William Sherman Shultz and Whilemena "Lillie" Mae Petersime by Francis D. Motschman, Sr.

Sherman Shultz and his wife Lillie would end up having nine children. The first born was Earl Shultz. He was first and foremost, a farmer although he had a stint of teaching school in North Star. He also worked for the New York Central Rail Road in his later years. Earl was born on Thu., March 28, 1889 according to records kept by his sister, Emma. He married Fredricka L. Olt in 1912. Rickie, as she was called was a straight standing, beautiful girl who was born to Adam and Minnie Olt in 1888.

Earl and Rickie never had children and that is a shame because they would have been excellent parents. I personally remember Earl as a very quiet man. He was a thrifty man not known to spend money frivolously. When he was Rickies boyfriend and maybe he wouldn't even be considered that, he was either working or going to school in Greenville and they were separated. He would send her postcards to keep himself alive in her memory. The message on one sent April 5, 1911 was: "Hellow, how are you, I am all right. Well I have something new to tell you. You and I are invited to a social party at Dr. Polings a Friday eve. Will you go with me and have a good time? Please let me know if you will go along by return mail, or by telephone. This is a kind of a surprise, isn't it? From your love, Earl.

He needn't have worried, she loved him and waited on him to get back to Ansonia. The next year he and Rickie were married. Everyone who knew them said she loved to make him pies, that there was never a time when there wasn't a pie on their kitchen table.

They lived a peacful, quiet life together doing good things for others as much as they could. My wife, their niece, remembers them visiting two or three times a month during the depression when things were so tough. Each time they came they would always bring a basket of food. Sometimes that would be augmented with a bag of coal for the coal stove. Earl and Rickie were staunch Lutheran's and he was envolved with the Lutheran committee that controled Wernle Children's Home in Richmond, Indiana. It was only natural then, when my wife's mother died in 1934, that Earl convinced her father to send his six children to Wernle's. He did make another offer which was to have Juanita (my wife) come live with him and Rickie. Her dad was all for it until Earl said that the only way that they would do it, tho, was to adopt Juanita. Sherman would have no part of that, tho, so all six children went to the home. Earl and Rickie visited them at the home more than anyone else. Earl passed on Thu., July 24, 1952 and was buried in Ansonia Cemetery, Ansonia, Darke Co., Ohio.

Rickie joined him in eternal rest on Sat., December 10, 1983.

Sources

• [1] The Biography of Earl Shultz- Francis D. Motschman, Sr.

• [2] DARKE COUNTY RESEARCHERS PHOTO ALBUM