Schlecht, Joseph

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• Residence: 1856, Jackson, Iowa

Notes:

"History of Jackson County Iowa" authored by Hon. James W. Ellis, Volume II, 1910, S. J. Clarke Publishing Co, Chicago, page 438

...was born in Germany and came to America as a lad of nine years with his parents. They located in Bellevue, Iowa, and as soon as he was old enough Joseph Schlecht began work as a farm hand, being thus employed at the outbreak of the Civil war, when he enlisted in the Union army, serving until the close of hostilities-a period of four years. When the nation no longer needed his aid he returned to Jackson county, Iowa, and again engaged in agricultural pursuits. He was almost forty years of age, however, before he was in a position to buy land, his first purchase being one hundred and sixty acres in Washington township which he cultivated successfully until 1898. In that year he sold all but forty acres to one of his sons and removed to an adjoining farm of one hundred and two acres, which he had bought in the meantime. After operating it for a year he sold it to his son, George, and for five years thereafter lived in retirement in Bellevue, going thence to Crawford. Oklahoma, where he took up a homestead of one hundred and sixty acres, it remaining his place of residence to the present. He has now reached the ripe old age of seventy years and yet is active in supervising his various interests. His wife, who was Frances Menger in her maidenhood, was likewise a native of Germany and came to Iowa as a child. She died some years ago at the comparatively early age of forty-nine years.

Eight children were born to Joseph Schlecht and wife, seven of whom are living, as follows: Frank, a farmer of Washington township; Sophia, the wife of Henry Eggers, who is engaged in agricultural pursuits in that township; Anna, who is living in Bellevue; Clara, the widow of a Mr. Knowles, formerly of Sabula; Lena, who is the wife of Benjamin Daggets, of Bellevue; Mary, the wife of William Schmidt, of the same city; George, the subject of this sketch; and Katherine, who died at the age of twelve years.

Buried:
Catholic Cemetery

Joseph married Menger, Francisca on 1 Jun 1868 in Jackson Co., Iowa, USA. Francisca was born on 17 Jun 1849; died on 3 Oct 1897. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
by J. Harding, Catholic Priest

1. Schlecht, Francis was born on 1 Mar 1869; died on 4 Jul 1936; was buried in Bellevue, Jackson Co., Iowa, USA.
2. Schlecht, George was born on 22 Jun 1870 in Bellevue, Jackson Co., Iowa, USA; died on 18 Feb 1940; was buried in Bellevue, Jackson Co., Iowa, USA.
3. Schlecht, Anna was born on 10 Apr 1874; died on 2 Mar 1958; was buried in Bellevue, Jackson Co., Iowa, USA.
4. Schlecht, Mary was born in 1880; died in 1945.
5. Schlecht, Katherine was born on 13 May 1884; died on 13 Apr 1897.
6. Schlecht, Sophia died in 1954.
7. Schlecht, Clara died in 1960.
8. Schlecht, Lena died in 1973.

Michael married Ruff, Barbara. Barbara (daughter of Ruff, Georg Leonhard and Froschauer, Katharina) was born on 16 Feb 1807 in Grosshabersdorf, Bayern, Deutschland; died in Mar 1868. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Residence: 1856, Jackson, Iowa
• Residence: 1860, Bellevue, Jackson, Iowa, USA

Notes:

Barbara Ruff was from Affing Bavaria, West Germany.