Franklin Henry Schirck (abt. 1857 - 1916)

Born about 13 Mar 1857 in Yankee Bush Hill, Conewango Twp., Warren County, Pennsylvania

Ancestors

Husband of Mary Magdalena (Keller) Schirck — married 16 Nov 1881 in Warren County, Pennsylvania

Descendants

Biography of Franklin Henry SCHIRCK of 1857

Franklin Henry Schirck was born on March 13, 1857 on Yankee Bush Hill in Conewango Township, Warren County, Pennsylvania. Franklin is the child of Michael Schirck and Mary Conrad.

Franklin Henry Schirck appears in the family portrait taken in 1864 as a child age 7.

Franklin Henry Schirck lost his mother Mary Conrad Schirck in September 1865 when he was 8 years old.

Franklin Henry Schirck was one of 14 siblings, half-siblings and step siblings:

• Full siblings of Franklin Henry Schirck::

1. Mary Eleanor Schirck, born 1840, who married John William Honhart and whose family inherited her father's farm on Yankee Bush Hill after her death in 1890.
2. MIchael Schirck, jr. born 1848, who accidently shot himself in a hunting accident at age 15 in 1863
3. Madeline Schirck-, who married Mr. Henck and settled in Erie County, Pennsylvania.
4. Salome Anne Schirck, born 1855, who married John Gruber, was widowed remarried to Phillip Huck, had several children, and who wrote the Schirck Family History in 1930.
5. Franklin Henry Schirck born March 13, 1857, married Mary M. Keller and had four children.
6. Isabel Sarah Schirck, born 1859 who married Mr. Keller.
7. Jacob Daniel Schirck, born 1862, who died in 1867 at the age of 5 years and is buried in Gross Mead Cemetery on Yankee Bush Hill.
8. Caroline Schirck, born 1863, who is the baby in the family portrait taken in 1864
9. George Schirck, born September 1865 just after the United States Civil war ended. HIs mother Mary Conrad died in childbirth. George married Caroline Siefert and had two children, Hazel and a son.

• Half-siblings of Franklin Henry Schirck, who were the children of Michael Schirck and his second wife Maria Theresa Kopp of East Eden, New York.

1. Matiilda F. Schirck, born July 1876, who married Martin Versch and settled in Buffalo, New York where she passed away in 1939
2. Bertha Schirck, born 1883, who married Joseph Herrmann, and settled on a farm in Conneaut, Ashtabula County, Ohio, had children and passed away in 1964.

• Step-siblings of Franklin Henry Schirck, who were the children of Mary Theresa Kopp and her first husband Conrad "Charles" Lallmang:

1. [[Lallmang-|Rose Lallmang Schirck, who married a Ruhlmann, had children, and settled in Warren, Pennsylvania.
2. Josephine Lallmang Schirck who married a Ruhlmann, and settled in Warren, Pennsylvania.
3. [[Lallmang-|Charles Lallmang who married Lulu Dunham, and had two children.

Franklin Henry Schirck married Mary Magdelena Keller, the daughter of John and Mary (Busch) Sieffert immigrants from Alsace, France, in November 1881, and had children:

1. Mae M. Schirck, born 1883, married Henry Lauffenberger, but no children were listed for this marriage.
2. William Franklin Schirck, born September 27, 1884, who married Charlotte Evans in 1908. had five children, and passed away in 1948.
3. George Abner Schirck, born July 17, 1886, who married Pauline Braker, and passed away July 3, 1919.
4. Alta Charlotte Schirck born in Warren County, Pennsylvania, married Walter F. Johnston on February 3, 1920 in Warren County, and had at least one child.

Franklin Henry Schirck passed away on October 26, 1916.

Information as researched by Sharon Troy, Sunday, August 10, 2014, and updated Thursday, August 27, 2020.

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Sources

• The Schirck Family History by Salome Anne Schirck Gruber Huck, Warren, Pennsylvania, 1930. Second edition updated by Hazel Culbertson and Dorothy Keller, and republished by Glenn Culbertson in 1967.

• Find A Grave Memorial #43927323, created by Jonathan Hart. Record added November 4, 2009.

• History of Warren County, Pennsylvania, With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers by J. S. Schneck, D. Mason & Company, Publishers, Syracuse, New York. 1887, p. 831