| Name |
Schuster, Jacob "Jake" |
| Nickname |
Jake |
| Birth |
8 Jan 1904 |
Furstenthal, Voivodeasa, , Romania  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Emigration |
- at five months old from Austria
|
 Immigration |
2 Jul 1904 |
Ellis Island, New York |
| on the ship Kaiser William the second from Bremen |
| 1930 Census |
1930 |
Ellis, Ellis, Kansas, USA |
- Frank W Schuster38
Rosa Schuster27
Louis Schuster7
Willie Schuster6 [5]
Freddie Schuster4 [4 3/12]
Thressa Schuster1 [1 8/12]
Jacob Schuster26
|
| 1940 Census |
1940 |
Ellis, Ellis, Kansas, USA |
- Jake Schuster36
Elma Schuster25
Lena Schuster6
Vivian Schuster4
Rosslee Schuster1
|
| Biography |
1988 |
| written by niece Mary Kaiser Conard |
- UNCLE JAKEUncle Jake is what we called him and there were other Jake Schuster's in E llis. When I visited with a second cousin in Billings, she referred to th is quiet man as "one-eyed Jake". I'd never heard the reference before, b ut held lost an eye, injured with a steel fragment. He had an artifici al eye.He was the last of Klara and Ferdinand's children born in Austria, and w as a little sailor on the Kaiser Wilhelm at the age of five months.Ten years her junior, Mom called him her "grease monkey" because he was al ways taking something apart or experimenting with something. He was a go od mechanic. We took the family car to him for overhaul as long as he h ad his shop in the back yard together.He and Dad could really "souse" together, and occasionally both get a litt le "crocked". Mom said she hated to see this because Dad was a happy, boi sterous drunk and drinking made Uncle Jake very sad ... to tears, then she 'd cry too.He married Elma Mikelson, a vivacious, pretty, dark-haired lady ten yea rs younger than he. They had three girls; Leona Mae, Vivian Irene and Ros alie Ann. They called them, "Nonie, Toots and Tiny." Their house was alo ng Big Creek, and one time they lost everything to a flood. They bought ' another house away from the flood plain and after he and Elma were divorce d, she remained in that house, and he moved back to the house by Big Cree k. She was just 49 when she was killed instantly in a car accident. S he worked at Hays and had been in Ellis visiting. She was returning to Ha ys when her car hit a railroad abutment 1-mile West of Yocemento. There t he highway made two sharp corners as it crossed the tracks. Neither of th em had remarried. In later years Uncle Jake worked with the Ellis Coun ty Road Crew.In a recent visit (1988) Frances had with Leona (now Armbruster) she sai d, "He no longer recognizes army of the family, and is being cared f or at a rest home in Russell Kansas."I liked this introverted quiet man. I don't know as I ever carried on a c onversation with him, but it seemed at the family gatherings there was alw ays a time when he and Mom sat aside somewhere visiting, quietly togethe r. He didn't seem quite as outgoing as the rest of the family, so that 's possibly why I know so little about him. He was easy to trust, and t he quality I admire about him is his ability to render a piece of equipme nt into an unrecognizable pile, put the pieces back together correctly, a dd a little gas and "It goes."
By Mary Kaiser Conard 1988
|
| Death Record - Civil |
19 Feb 1989 |
- Name:Jake T. Schuster
SSN:512-07-2433
Last Residence:67637 Ellis, Ellis, Kansas, United States of America
Born:8 Jan 1904
Died:19 Feb 1989
State (Year) SSN issued:Kansas (Before 1951)
|
| Death |
19 Feb 1989 |
Ellis, Ellis, Kansas, USA |
| Person ID |
I50163 |
1FamilyTree | JaysRelated, JayW_Mom_I101 |
| Last Modified |
1 Mar 2018 |
| Father |
SCHUSTER, Ferdinand, b. 1 Nov 1865, Furstenthal, Voivodeasa, , Romania d. 21 Jul 1912, Ellis, Ellis, Kansas, USA (Age 46 years) |
| Mother |
BAUMGARTNER, Klara "Clara", b. 3 Dec 1868, Furstenthal, Voivodeasa, , Romania d. 3 Jul 1955, Ellis, Ellis, Kansas, USA (Age 86 years) |
| Family ID |
F15944 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
1904 - 1989 (85 years)
