Family/Spouse: Sherman Deckrow. Sherman was born on 17 May 1922 in Cook County, Illinois, USA; died on 10 Jun 2003 in Palmetto, Manatee, Florida, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Living Deckrow
2. Living Deckrow

Other Events:

• Personal Nature: Elma Lehmann: "No matter what problems he had he was always happy-go-lucky."
• Residence: 5 Jun 1917, Chicago, Cook, Illinois; WWI Draft Reg; living at 3524 Rockwell St; Teamster for C. D. ?Gorman? Teaming Co at 119 Ada St; married; was Cpl in 2nd Infantry ?NG? for 3 years in Illinois; claims draft exemption -left eye defective; medium height & build; gray eyes; dark brown hair
• Residence: 1920, Chicago Ward 5, Cook, Illinois, USA; 3527 South Mozart (Fred & Katherine are renting to their daughter Minnie & George Vandre and living down the street from Katherine's sister Mary & Otto Kluth at 3513 and their daughter Marie & William Buehler at 3533); age 25; Driver for Gannon and Company
• Occupation: Abt 1925, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA; info from Elma Lehmann's records (1987): truck driver
• Surgery to Amputate Arm at Shoulder: Abt Jun 1926, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA; Elma Lehmann: "My Aunt told my mother Marie all he asked the Doctor that the nurse give him one cigarette after another which they did while the Doctor operated on him at home. He smoked 16 packages of cigarettes. He lived one year after the operation.\"

Notes:

Birth:
Elma Lehmann (1987) wrote that he was born Beaver but adopted by Vandre; he explicitly gave his birth date and place on his WWI draft registration, but I cannot find a Chicago birth record for him

Buried:
info from Elma Lehmann's records (1987): Oakwoods Cemetery

Died:
Cook County Death Certificate 6017155 -- see http://www.ilsos.gov/GenealogyMWeb/idphdeathsrch.html; Elma Lehmann: died of cancer

George married Wilhelmine Ottolie - Wilhelmina - Minnie - Staack on 5 Feb 1916 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA. Wilhelmine (daughter of Friedrich Gustav Carl Fred Fritz Staack and Katherine Schaumburg) was born on 4 Feb 1896 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA; died on 24 May 1931 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA; was buried on 27 May 1931 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Personal Nature: Elma Lehmann: "My Aunt used to roller skate to work and back so she could save money. Many times her & my cousins roller skated to our home at the time at 60th & Campbell from 79th & Cottage Grove where they lived."
• Personal Nature: Elma Lehmann: "My Aunt was a great cook. Her sister my mother Marie [Staack Buehler] would have her come and cook fried brains for my father because she cooked them the best."
• Occupation: Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA; Elma Lehmann: "Worked for Wrigley Gum Factory and a Cookie Factory located at 35th & Ashland. ... My Aunt would always bring my brother and I Wrigley chewing gum."
• Baptism: 4 Apr 1896, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA
• Residence: 1900, Chicago Ward 10, Cook, Illinois, USA; 977 West 21st Place
• Residence: 1910, Chicago Ward 5, Cook, Illinois, USA; 3527 South Mozart
• Residence: 1920, Chicago Ward 5, Cook, Illinois, USA; 3527 South Mozart (Fred & Katherine are renting to their daughter Minnie & George Vandre and living down the street from Katherine's sister Mary & Otto Kluth at 3513 and their daughter Marie & William Buehler at 3533); age 24
• Residence: 1930, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA; 7645 South Chicago Avenue (husband's apartment building); age 34; age at first marriage 20; occupation: none

Notes:

Birth:
No civil birth record found for her - birth date is from baptismal record

Baptism:
Immanuel Lutheran Church - sponsors Wilhelmine (Gelis) Schaumburg & Otto Kluth

Buried:
Oakwoods Cemetery by Lain & Son at 316 W. 63rd St.

Died:
Elma Lehmann: died at County Hospital of yellow jaundice caused by her gallbladder -- Death Cert: at 7643 S Chicago Ave; married to Salvatore; housewife; cause acute hepatitis (2 weeks); burial 27 May 1931 at Oakwoods Cemetery by Lain & Son at 316 W. 63rd

Notes:

Married:
by Rev. Hermann L. Pflug of 3650 South Honore Street -- see image in Media Gallery

father married mother of George Beaver. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Baptism: 6 Aug 1865, Spantekow, Kreis Anklam, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
• Confirmation: 28 Sep 1879, Spantekow, Kreis Anklam, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany; see Wesley Johnston's hand-written copy made about 1981 from the original then owned by Viola (Staack) Abraham
• Baptismal Sponsor: 22 Mar 1881, Beseritz, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany; sponsor at baptism of sister Caroline Staack's son Bernhard Friedrich August Konsoer
• Arrival: 1882; in United States - per 1900 census
• Arrival: 1882; in United States - per 1910 census
• Arrival: 1882; in United States - per 1920 census
• Departure: Bef 17 Apr 1882, Hamburg, Germany
• _ORIG: Bef 17 Apr 1882, Prussia
• Arrival: 17 Apr 1882, New York, New York, USA; Mother Sophie & children Bertha & Fritz (Fred) Staack arrive in New York on the Silesia, which sailed from Hamburg -- see images in Media Gallery
• _DEST: 17 Apr 1882, United States of America
• Residence: 1900, Chicago Ward 10, Cook, Illinois, USA; 977 West 21st Place
• Residence: 1910, Chicago Ward 5, Cook, Illinois, USA; 3527 South Mozart
• Residence: 1920, Chicago Ward 5, Cook, Illinois, USA; 3527 South Mozart (Fred & Katherine are renting to their daughter Minnie & George Vandre and living down the street from Katherine's sister Mary & Otto Kluth at 3513 and their daughter Marie & William Buehler at 3533); age 53; Nat'd 1887; Carpenter
• Residence: 1930, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA; 8817 Euclid Avenue (son John at 8819, dau Henrietta Johnston at 8823); owns home of unknown value; does not have a radio set; age 65; first married at age 22; arrived in US 1884; Naturalized; occupation: none

Notes:

Baptism:
sponsors: 1. Carl Pagels, Statthalter (foreman) in Spantekow 2. Friedrich Wascher, coachman in Drewelow 3. Henriette Schultz, girl in Spantekow -- see image in Media Gallery

Buried:
Waldheim Cemetery -- Section G Lot 9

Died:
8817 Euclid Avenue

Friedrich married Katherine Schaumburg on 4 Jun 1887 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA. Katherine (daughter of Adam Schaumburg and Wilhelmina Minnie Gelis) was born on 22 Jul 1868 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA; died on 5 Feb 1934 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA; was buried on 8 Feb 1934 in Forest Park, Cook, Illinois, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Residence: 1870, Chicago Ward 8, Cook, Illinois, USA
• Residence: 1 May 1875, New Ulm, Brown, Minnesota, USA
• Residence: 1880, Springfield, Brown, Minnesota, USA
• Residence: 1900, Chicago Ward 10, Cook, Illinois, USA; 977 West 21st Place
• Residence: 1910, Chicago Ward 5, Cook, Illinois, USA; 3527 South Mozart
• Residence: 1920, Chicago Ward 5, Cook, Illinois, USA; 3527 South Mozart (Fred & Katherine are renting to their daughter Minnie & George Vandre and living down the street from Katherine's sister Mary & Otto Kluth at 3513 and their daughter Marie & William Buehler at 3533); age 51
• Residence: 1930, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA; 8817 Euclid Avenue (son John at 8819, dau Henrietta Johnston at 8823); age 63; first married at age 20;

Notes:

Buried:
Waldheim Cemetery-- Section G Lot 9

Notes:

Married:
Witnesses: August Schaumburg [her brother], Fina Blohm, Hermann Konsoer [Fred's sister Wilhelmine Caroline Staack had married Carl Konsoer about 1874], August Gohr -- see image in Media Gallery

Notes:

Birth:
baptized at Spantekow 27 Jan 1819 -- see image in Media Gallery

Friedrich married Caroline Sophie Dorothee - Sophia - Fitzdam on 13 Apr 1846 in Spantekow, Kreis Anklam, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. Caroline (daughter of Carl Christian - Carl - Fitzdam) was born on 21 Oct 1822 in Teterin, Ostvorpommern, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany; died on 27 Jun 1896 in Barrington, Cook, Illinois, USA; was buried on 30 Jun 1896 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Departure: Bef 17 Apr 1882, Hamburg, Germany
• _ORIG: Bef 17 Apr 1882, Prussia
• Arrival: 17 Apr 1882, New York, New York, USA; Mother Sophie & children Bertha & Fritz (Fred) Staack arrive in New York on the Silesia, which sailed from Hamburg -- see images in Media Gallery
• _DEST: 17 Apr 1882, United States of America
• Residence: 27 Jun 1896, Barrington, Cook, Illinois, USA; Wunders Cemetery burial card shows her address at death as Barrington, probably living with or visiting her son Rudolph Staack

Notes:

Birth:
age 24 at marriage in 1846; birth date from Wunders Cemetery grave stone -- I am using Teterin as her birthplace, since sponsor of her 1848 dau was Friederike Fitzdam from Teterin - I do not know where she really was born, but she is not in Teterin baps

Buried:
Wunders Cemetery - Section 2 - Lot 312 - buried with Rohn family of her daughter Bertha's first husband (Bertha is also buried there)

Died:
death date from Wunders Cemetery grave stone -- death location from Wunders Cemetery lot card: apparently living with or visiting her son Rudolph (who is buried in Barrington)

Notes:

Married:
== [archion.de] Norddeutschland: Landeskirchliches Archiv der Evang.-Luth. Kirche > Kirchenkreis Pommern > Spantekow > Trauungen 1836-1857, image 17 == http://www.archion.de/p/54af8a94ce/

Other Events:

• Baptism: 18 Jun 1846, Großenenglis, Schwalm-Eder-Kreis, Hessen, Germany
• Departure: Bef 5 Jun 1866, Bremen, Germany
• _ORIG: Bef 5 Jun 1866, Hesse
• Arrival: 5 Jun 1866, New York, New York, USA; Adam (19 y 1 m, shoemaker) & Catherine (17 y 3 m) Schaumburg arrive in New York on the Europa, which sailed from Bremen -- see images in Media Gallery
• _DEST: 5 Jun 1866, Illinois
• Residence: 1870, Chicago Ward 8, Cook, Illinois, USA; age 24; shoemaker
• Residence: 1871, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA; 1871 Merchants Chicago Census Report: Shoemaker, residing at 177 Sampson, in Ward 8; 2 males, 2 females, total of 4; born Germany (see images in Media Gallery)
• Residence: 1 May 1875, New Ulm, Brown, Minnesota, USA
• Residence: 1880, Springfield, Brown, Minnesota, USA; next family is his half-brother John Schaumburg
• Residence: 1882, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA; 1892 voter registration shows him residing in county and state 10 years [after returning from living in Minnesota]
• Residence: 1885, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA; 1885 City Directory: Plasterer, house 711 West 14th Street (see images in Media Gallery)
• Residence: 1892, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA; Chicago City Directory: plasterer, house at 708 West 14th Street (lathers August & John at same address) [see images in Media Gallery]

Notes:

Birth:
"den sechsten Junnies Mittag zwelf Uhr" == [archion,de] Kurhessen-Waldeck: Landeskirchliches Archiv Kassel > Fritzlar > Großenenglis > Taufen 1830-1878, Bild 676

Baptism:
born Grossenenglis 6 Jun 1846 Noon, bap 18 Jun - son of Johannes Schaumburg, Forstlaufer und Ehefrau Anna Gertrude geb. Theis aus Niederurf -- Gevatter: Adam Scheidemann, Ackermann

Buried:
Waldheim Cemetery; 863 Des Plaines-- Section G Lot 9 -- Interment 24213 -- relative Mr HUNSCHE of Chicago [husband of half-sis Catharina Becker] -- J. Wolf undertaker

Died:
624 Paulina Street - cause Phthisis - age 51 y 8 m 15 d

Adam married Wilhelmina Minnie Gelis on 20 Oct 1867 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA. Wilhelmina (daughter of Friedrich Carl August Gelis and Sophie Marie Dorothee Hasemann) was born on 14 Nov 1846 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA; died on 6 Jul 1912 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA; was buried about 6 Jul 1912 in Forest Park, Cook, Illinois, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Residence: 1850, South Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA
• Residence: 1860, Chicago Ward 10, Cook, Illinois, USA; age 13; attended school within the year
• Confirmation: 1861, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA; First Immanuel Lutheran Church -- see image in image gallery and also see http://www.karensgen.com/buch/illinois/chicago/firstimmanuel/conf1855-1865.php
• Residence: 1870, Chicago Ward 8, Cook, Illinois, USA
• Residence: 1 May 1875, New Ulm, Brown, Minnesota, USA
• Residence: 1880, Springfield, Brown, Minnesota, USA
• Baptismal Sponsor: 4 Apr 1896, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA; Immanuel Lutheran Church - double baptism sponsor of daughter Maria Schaumburg Kluth s child Louise Wilhelmine Kluth and daughter Katherine Schaumburg Sttack's child Wilhelmine Ottolie Staack
• Residence: 1900, Chicago Ward 10, Cook, Illinois, USA
• Residence: 1910, Chicago Ward 5, Cook, Illinois, USA; listed as Minnie Doerr; 3527 South Mozart; living with daughter Katherine Schaumburg's Staack family; son Henry Schaumuburg also living there

Notes:

Buried:
age 65 years, 0 months, 0 days -- Waldheim Cemetery; 863 Des Plaines -- she was buried in lime in a sealed coffin, due to the smallpox that had killed her -- Section G Lot 9 -- Interment 40089 -- Rohn & Grahl undertaker

Died:
at the "Pest House" (the Chicago Isolation Hospital), due to contagious smallpox

Notes:

Married:
First Immanuel Lutheran Church