♂Henry Schneck

Henry Schneck (6 July 1855 – 20 June 1934) was a farmer of Posey County, Indiana, the youngest of six children, who grew up on a farm that his widowed mother ran in her own right. In 1870 the census listed her as the farmer, not as keeping house. He was the great-grand-uncle of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), the brother of her great-grandfather Jacob Schneck (1843–1906).

Early life

Henry was born on 6 July 1855 in Indiana, the last child of John F. Schneck (1812–1857), a German-born carpenter and farmer, and Elizabeth Burkhart (1821–1876), a native of Alsace. His father died on 3 June 1857, when Henry was under two, and was buried in Bethsaida Cemetery in Posey County. His mother stayed on in the county. In June 1870, at Robb Township, she was listed as a widow and farmer with $4,500 in real estate, and Henry, aged fourteen, was one of three sons working the land with her, alongside his brothers Charles and John. His sister Louisa kept the house.

By then his eldest brother Jacob had left for Mount Carmel, Illinois, and was practising medicine. Their mother died in 1876, when Henry was twenty-one.

Later life

Henry stayed on the land. His death certificate gives his occupation as farmer, and he last worked in December 1933, six months before he died. His brother Jacob’s obituary of December 1906 names him as living at New Harmony, Indiana, one of Jacob’s two surviving brothers.

The same certificate lists him as married and gives his wife’s name as Elizabeth Ann Murphy. Her dates and parents are not known.

Death

Henry died at two in the morning on 20 June 1934, aged 78 years, 11 months and 14 days, of a cerebral hemorrhage. He was buried on 22 June at Bethsaida Cemetery, the same ground as his father, who had died seventy-seven years earlier.

Notes

Place of death

The tree gives his place of death as Sugar Camp, Posey County. The certificate itself gives Posey County, Robb Township, and does not mention Sugar Camp, which may come from an index. His physician, R. C. Fitzgerald, practised at New Harmony. The certificate’s age of 78 years, 11 months and 14 days fits the birth date of 6 July 1855 and the death date to the day. Its attendance line carries a clerical slip, giving December 1934 for a start in December 1933.

His wife

The wife’s name appears only on the certificate. Two marriage-record index entries from Indiana marriage collections, of a marriage of a Henry Schneck naming parents J. F. Schneck and Elizabeth Burkhart, are the same FamilySearch index listed twice; neither names his wife.

His brother John

A FamilySearch entry gives the death of his brother John (born 1853) on 23 October 1878.