Uriah Sheffler Abt 1830
Don't know Uriah's exact birthdate.
Uriah married Hannah Margaret Heffelfinger around 1850 and their first child Amanda was born in 1853.
By the 1880 census Uriah and Margaret are split up, never to live together again. Margaret lived with her daughter Amanda and son-in-law Isaac Beck until her death in 1922.
In 1880 Uriah is living with a Mrs. Salsgiver, who is listed as his "concubine". Both Uriah and Mrs. Salsgiver list themselves as widows, although Uriah's wife Margaret is living across town with their daughter.
Ten years previous, in the 1870 census, the intact Sheffler family was living next door to the intact Saltzgiver family.
In the 1900 census Margaret is listed as "Married" and states that she had given birth to 5 children, 4 of whom were still living.
Uriah died in 1907 according to his Civil War Pension application (by Margaret).
This family is interesting not just because Uriah and Margaret obviously had a terribly strained relationship, but also because this nastiness propogated itself in their youngest son Jennings, and then in his kids in turn.
Jennings was named Henry Jennings Sheffler but went by the nickname Bood most of his life (and sometimes "Wood", which either came from Bood or vice versa).
He married Nancy Askins aroung 1883 when he was about 26 years old. His young bride was a mere 13 years old at the time. AND their first child had been born in 1882 or 1883.
Their life together, if nothing else, was wild. He was arrested on numerous occasions into the 1890's for public drunkennes and for abusing his boys, and she in turn for various crimes including abandoning her children, for which she even served time. They both blamed each other, of course, but in any case the two oldest boys ended up in the Morganza Boys Reformatory, and the youngest boy, Dale, stayed with Bood. Unfortunately, at around the age of 10 or 12, Dale drowned in a local creek.
The Shefflers divorced in 1903 although they had not lived together for six to ten years. Bood, like his mother Margaret, lived most of the rest of his life with his sister Amanda and their family.
The two surviving boys, particularly Henry Jennings Jr. ("Harry"), continued on in a life of crime, with Harry ending up in prisons from Canada to Western Pennsylvania for burglaries and prison breaks in the 1910's.
I have found brother Frank and his mother living in Chicago Illinois in 1920 but I cannot find Harry after about 1918.
Uriah married Hannah Margaret Heffelfinger around 1850 and their first child Amanda was born in 1853.
By the 1880 census Uriah and Margaret are split up, never to live together again. Margaret lived with her daughter Amanda and son-in-law Isaac Beck until her death in 1922.
In 1880 Uriah is living with a Mrs. Salsgiver, who is listed as his "concubine". Both Uriah and Mrs. Salsgiver list themselves as widows, although Uriah's wife Margaret is living across town with their daughter.
Ten years previous, in the 1870 census, the intact Sheffler family was living next door to the intact Saltzgiver family.
In the 1900 census Margaret is listed as "Married" and states that she had given birth to 5 children, 4 of whom were still living.
Uriah died in 1907 according to his Civil War Pension application (by Margaret).
This family is interesting not just because Uriah and Margaret obviously had a terribly strained relationship, but also because this nastiness propogated itself in their youngest son Jennings, and then in his kids in turn.
Jennings was named Henry Jennings Sheffler but went by the nickname Bood most of his life (and sometimes "Wood", which either came from Bood or vice versa).
He married Nancy Askins aroung 1883 when he was about 26 years old. His young bride was a mere 13 years old at the time. AND their first child had been born in 1882 or 1883.
Their life together, if nothing else, was wild. He was arrested on numerous occasions into the 1890's for public drunkennes and for abusing his boys, and she in turn for various crimes including abandoning her children, for which she even served time. They both blamed each other, of course, but in any case the two oldest boys ended up in the Morganza Boys Reformatory, and the youngest boy, Dale, stayed with Bood. Unfortunately, at around the age of 10 or 12, Dale drowned in a local creek.
The Shefflers divorced in 1903 although they had not lived together for six to ten years. Bood, like his mother Margaret, lived most of the rest of his life with his sister Amanda and their family.
The two surviving boys, particularly Henry Jennings Jr. ("Harry"), continued on in a life of crime, with Harry ending up in prisons from Canada to Western Pennsylvania for burglaries and prison breaks in the 1910's.
I have found brother Frank and his mother living in Chicago Illinois in 1920 but I cannot find Harry after about 1918.
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