The following information was abstracted from the Widow’s Pension Claim No. 678,538 filed by Christiana Scheuermann, widow of Henry Scheuermann, Invalid Pension 925,056, Civil War and Later Pension Application Files, Records of the Veterans Administration, Record Group 15, National Archives Building, Washington, DC. Abstracts originally published in St. Clair County Genealogical Society Quarterly 29: 3, 2006. File donated to the Gustave Koerner House Civil War Descendant Project by Jan Heiskell and Robert Wiesenborn.
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Abstracted information:
Declaration for Invalid Pension Act of 27 June 1890, dated 10 July 1890 at Columbia, Monroe County, Illinois: Henry Schueremann, age 70, was enrolled in Company F, 42nd Regiment Illinois Volunteers as a Private, discharged at Springfield, Illinois 16 Dec 1865, asks for support for piles, rheumatism, old age, and general infirmity. Declaration for Widow’s Pension dated 16 June 1898: Christiana Scheuermann was “married under the name of George Etling to said Henry Scheuermann on the 27th day of September 1856 by Pastor Wahl at St. Louis, Mo. there being no legal barrier to such marriage I was married to George Etling in 1850 by Pastor Pickert [or Fickert?] St. Louis, Mo. he died July 26th 1854 . . . .” Susanna Freckman, age 72, stated in an Affidavit dated 19 September 1898, “George Etling the former husband of Christiana Scheuermann was a Brother of mine.” Henry Rubeling, age 64, in an Affidavit dated 27 Sep 1898, stated he knew “Christiana Scheuermann since childhood, having been born in the same town in Germany….” Philipine Bange, age 69, in an Affidavit dated 13 January 1899, stated she knew the claimant Christiana Scheuermann since childhood, that they were raised together, that Christiana, “got married to Geo. Etling as a girl in the year 1850 . . . married Henry Scheuermann in the year 1856 . . . .” Lizette Diehl, age 56, in an Affidavit dated 12 September 1898, stated George Etling “died at the House of my mother Mrs. Freckman about four miles North East of Columbia, Ills in St. Clair County, Ills on the 26th day of July 1854 and was buried about six miles East of Columbia Ills on the Balz [Baltz] cemetery. I was always near his bed side from the time he got sick to his death because we had only One Room and had to stay together[.] I have seen him in his coffin and I also was present at the burriel . . . .” State Board of Health Certificate dated 14 July 1898: Henry Scheuermann, born Darmstadt, Germany, died 25 May 1898 at Columbia, Illinois and was buried at the Evangelical Cemetery, Columbia, Ills. Widow’s certificate no. 475,382 dated 30 September 1916 at Columbia, Illinois : Christiana Scheuermann, age 85, was “born June 7th, 1831, Sonneberg, Herzogthum Nassau, Germany” Affidavit of Returned Check #2160740 for $75.00: Returned by the postmaster because Christiana Scheuermann [widow of Henry Scheuermann] died 15 May 1918. |