When I saw that today’s married couple had the names, Schattauer and Wallmann, I figured that it was going to be a post that discussed members of St. John’s Lutheran Church in Pocahontas, Missouri. I was correct. We will start the story with the Schattauer birthday boy.
Heinrich Johann Carl Schattauer was born on April 29, 1885, so today would be his 140th birthday. Henry was the son of Matthias and Maria (Haberfellner) Schattauer. He was baptized at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Pocahontas. We have a binder in our museum with listings of that congregation’s records, but they are not the actual images of those records. Below is the information found in that binder for Henry.
Because we cannot view the 1890 census, the first census in which we find Henry was the one taken in 1900. He was 15 years old and working with his father on his farm in the Shawnee Township.
When the 1910 census was taken, Henry was in his 20’s and still living with his parents. He and his brother, August, were farm laborers, while his father was called the farmer.
Henry would get married in 1920, but not until after the census for that year was taken. He was still living with his parents just prior to his marriage.
Now, we will take a look at the woman who would become Henry’s bride. Her name was Lucy Paulette Wallmann, who was born on October 19, 1895, so she was about 10 years younger than Henry. Lucy was the daughter of Henry and Eva (Edlinger) Wallmann. She was baptized at Immanuel Lutheran Church in New Wells. Her baptism record from that congregation’s books is displayed below.
Lucy is found in the 1900 census at the age of 4. Her mother had died in 1897. Her father, Henry, was living with his parents in the Shawnee Township. Lucy’s father and her grandfather were farming.
Lucy’s father then remarried. His second wife was Emma Hoehl. In the 1910 census, Lucy was a teenager. She was the oldest child in this household and the only child born to Henry’s first wife.
I think after Lucy’s father remarried, this Wallmann family became members of St. John’s Lutheran Church in Pocahontas. That is where Lucy was confirmed in 1909. Her info found in the St. John’s binder is shown below.
Henry had his World War I draft registration completed in 1918. He is given a Pocahontas address and is called a farmer.
Lucy was still living with her father and stepmother when the 1920 census was taken. She was called a servant.
Henry Schattauer married Lucy Wallmann on July 12, 1920. I can display 2 different civil records for that event. First, here is the Missouri marriage license. They were married by the pastor of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Jackson.
Here is a document for that wedding that looks more like a marriage certificate.
Henry and Lucy had just one child, a son named Gilbert. When the 1930 census was taken, we find the trio of Henry, Lucy, and Gilbert in the Schattauer household. Both of Henry’s parents had died in the 1920’s, so Henry was likely farming on the land where he was born and raised.
In the plat maps produced in 1930 for Cape Girardeau County, we find the Hy. Schattauer farm located just north of the town of Pocahontas.
Next, we find the Schattauer’s in the 1940 census with the same 3 people listed.
Henry had his World War II draft card completed in 1942.
The last census the public is allowed to view is the one taken in 1950. Henry and Lucy had an empty nest, and it says that Henry had sold his farm.
Henry Schattauer died in 1953 at the age of 68. We can take a look at his death certificate below which states that he died at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau.
An obituary for Henry was published in the Cash Book Journal.
Lucy Schattauer died in 1979 at the age of 83. She died too recently to view her death certificate. Henry and Lucy Schattauer are buried together in the St. John’s Lutheran Cemetery in Pocahontas.
Now you know that most of the lives of Henry and Lucy Schattauer were spent as members of St. John’s Lutheran Church in Pocahontas. So, I have no trouble calling them the Pocahontas Partners.