Schuster, Jacob "Jake"

1904 - 1989  (85 years)    Has 38 ancestors and 21 descendants in this family tree.

• Name	Schuster, Jacob "Jake"
  Nickname	Jake
  Born	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)
  Died	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

  
  

  Family	Michaelson, Alma,   b. 19 Jun 1914,   d. 29 Feb 1964  (Age 49 years)
  Married	5 Feb 1931	Olathe, Johnson, Kansas, USA
  Children	+ 1. Schuster, Leona   2. Schuster, Vivian Irene,   b. 27 Jul 1935,   d. 8 Dec 2007, Wichita, Sedgwick, Kansas, USA  (Age 72 years) + 3. Schuster, Rosalie,   b. 22 Apr 1938,   d. 19 Sep 2003  (Age 65 years)
  Last Modified	13 Aug 2012
  Family ID	F57302	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map	Load the map	Born - 8 Jan 1904 - Furstenthal, Voivodeasa, , Romania Immigration - on the ship Kaiser William the second from Bremen - 2 Jul 1904 - Ellis Island, New York 1930 Census - 1930 - Ellis, Ellis, Kansas, USA Married - 5 Feb 1931 - Olathe, Johnson, Kansas, USA 1940 Census - 1940 - Ellis, Ellis, Kansas, USA Died - 19 Feb 1989 - Ellis, Ellis, Kansas, USA  = Link to Google Earth
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