♀Barbara Catherine Schneck

Barbara Catherine Schneck (8 February 1846 – about 1927) was an Indiana-born woman who by 1906 was living at Grayville, Illinois, under the married name Sanders. She was the great-grand-aunt of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), the sister of Jacob Schneck (1843–1906), Nancy’s great-grandfather.

Life

Barbara was born on 8 February 1846 in Indiana, the second of the six children of John F. Schneck (1812–1857), a German-born carpenter and farmer, and Elizabeth Burkhart (1821–1876), a native of Alsace. In August 1850 the family was in Harmony Township, Posey County, where the census taker wrote her name as Barbary, aged four. Her father died on 3 June 1857, when she was eleven, and her mother carried on the farm in Posey County. When the census was taken there in June 1870, Barbara was no longer in her mother’s household, and neither was her brother Jacob, who by then was practising medicine at Mount Carmel, Illinois.

Her married life is known only from two later records. When Jacob died in December 1906, his obituary named his surviving sister as Mrs. Barbara Sanders of Grayville, Illinois; a second sister, Mary Louise, was not among the survivors. Her husband’s first name is not given.

A FamilySearch index of her death gives 29 November 1927, and an index of her burial gives 1 December 1927. The burial entry names her as Barbara Catherine Schneck, not Sanders, and gives her father as Frederick Schneck. The 1850 census enumerated John F. Schneck as Frederick, which suggests that the father named in the burial entry is him.

Notes

The death and burial dates rest on these two indexes alone. “Frederick” in the burial entry is not the name of either parent given above (John F. Schneck and Elizabeth Burkhart); the 1850 census listing of her father as Frederick suggests that the F. in his name stood for Frederick and that he went by it.