Ellen (Schramm) Schaus (1865 - 1912)

Died 1912 at about age 47 in Bainbridge Center, Berrien County, Michigan, USA

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Biography

"Jacob L. Schaus was born August 6 1859 in an old log house which stood on the farm which is now his home (SW twp. sec 4 - 1906). At the age of twenty-one years he was married to Miss Ellen Schramm, a daughter of John Schramm, a fruit buyer, who was lost when the famous Hippocampus (steamship) went down, his daughter Ellen being only two years old. Her Mother afterward married again, leaving the children of her first marriage with their Grandparents, Adam and Margaret Schramm of Bainbridge Township. John Schramm (father of Ellen) was but twenty-seven at the time of his demise (Hippocampus sinking) and his Daughter was but seventeen years of age when she gave her hand in marriage to Jacob L. Schaus, who at the time took charge of the Adam Schramm farm which he had purchased."

Adam Schramm farm (SE Bainbridge twp sec 15) was inherited by Ellen (Schramm) Shaus and Emma (Schaus) Scherer. Jacob L. purchased Emmas interest, cultivated, then sold it when his Mother Mary Dukescherer Shaus died in 1901. Jacob L. and Ellen moved to his parents homestead ( of Jacob & Mary), by purchasing property interests from his siblings. Jacob L. was considered one of the prominent fruit farmers in Bainbridge, producing the highest quality.

Jacob and Ellen had 10 children Oscar Ella Anna Alice Jacob Chauncey Oren Philo Eveline and Wallace

a twentieth century history of berrien county michigan By Judge Orville W. Coolidge

Sources

• Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 30 November 2018), memorial page for Ellen Schaus (1865–1912), Find A Grave Memorial no. 100318958, citing Byers Cemetery, Bainbridge Center, Berrien County, Michigan, USA ; Maintained by Pauline (contributor 47917434) .