Charles Sheffler
The Shelby Democrat
Thursday April 5, 1883
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GONE TO THE FATHERLAND: On last Monday
Charles Sheffler, for nearly thirty years a
resident of this township, and one of our most popular and solid German citizens, left for New York,
from which city he will sail on April 7th for the Fatherland, to visit the scenes of his childhood and
those of his relatives who are yet alive. He proposes to stay from four to six weeks, and requests us
to extend to his many friends and acquaintances here his adieux and best wishes, it having been
impossible for him to bid them all farewell in person. Mr. Sheffler left Grossenweden, in what is now
called Prussia, in 1850, landing in New York City and proceeding from there to Cincinnati, where he
arrived with only $1.50 in his pocket. For four years he made that city his home, and then came here,
and in 1853 was married to a Mrs. (Catharine) Stephens, a widow, with whom he lived happily
until her death, which took place in April,1877. In June, of the same year, Mr. Sheffler was united in
marriage to Maria Weinantz, daughter of Conrad Weinantz, one of the most popular Germans in the county, with whom he lived until August,1882, when she to was taken away, leaving her husband desolate, he having no children living. Mr. Sheffler has had the sympathy of all his acquaintances
in his afflictions, and their good wishes go with him over the sea. Mr. Sheffler has shown what can be
done by industry and economy; he having landed in Cincinnati, as said above, with only $1.50 in his
possession, and he now owns one hundred and ten acres of good land, and is worth $20,000.
Contributed by Barb Huff
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