Clara Johanna Pfau is today’s birthday girl. She was born on July 3, 1894, thus making today her 131st birthday. Johanna, sometimes called Jane, was the daughter of Emil and Amalie (Popp) Pfau. A previous post about Johanna’s parents was titled, Popp’s Pfau Frau. Johanna was baptized at Concordia Lutheran Church in Frohna, but since I am not in Altenburg today, I am unable to display church records. Johanna is found in the 1900 census at the age of 5. Her father was a farmer in the Union Township. Johanna was the youngest child in her Pfau family.

During the next decade, the Pfau’s made a move. So, Johanna did not live in Perry County for very long. In the 1910 census, we find the Pfau’s living in Wentzville, Missouri, which is located in St. Charles County. Her father was still farming, and Johanna was a teenager.

Johanna did not get married until she was in her 40’s, so we find her still living with her parents when the 1920 census was taken. This time, her father was called a day laborer, and Johanna, at the age of 25, had no occupation.

The 1930 census was the last one in which we find Johanna as an unmarried woman. She was once again not given an occupation, but since her parents were getting older, she was likely more responsible with caring for them. This time, her father was called a sexton at a cemetery.

Johanna would get married during the next decade, so we will now look at the man who would become her husband. His name was Charles Schulte, who was born on September 24, 1884. Charles was the son of Carl and Elizabeth (Vollmer) Schulte. He was born in the Wentzville area. In the 1900 census, Charles was 15 years old, and his father was a farmer in the Cuiver Township of St. Charles County.

Next, we find Charles in the 1910 census. He was the head of the household which included 2 of his younger brothers. All 3 of them are listed as working at a meat market in Wentzville. Charles and another brother were called butchers, and the youngest one was called a wagon driver.

Charles had his World War I draft registration completed in 1918. He is given a Gilmore, Missouri address and was said to be farming for himself. Gilmore was located in the Wentzille vicinity.

In the 1930 census, Charles was not living in Missouri. He was an inmate at the Northern State Hospital in Sedro-Woolley, Washington.

Charles did not remain in that hospital. In the 1940 census, there is a notation that he was back living in the Wentzville area in 1935. Then on June 17, 1938, Charles Schulte married Johanna Pfau. According to this article published in a local newspaper, the wedding was performed by Father Flanigan of the St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Wentzville.

In the 1940 census, we find this couple living near Wentzville in the Cuiver Township, where Charles was a farmer.

One more census entry can be viewed for this pair. In the 1950 census, we find a similar entry to the one taken 10 years earlier.

Charles Schulte died in 1967 at the age of 82. We can view his death certificate below.

An obituary for Charles can be read here.

Charles is buried in the Immaculate Conception Church Cemetery in Dardenne Prairie, Missouri, but Findagrave.com has no gravestone photo for him.

Johanna Schulte died in 1979 at the age of 84. She is buried in the Koenig Lutheran Cemetery in Wentzville.

I would say that most people spend more of their lifetimes being married than their time being single. In the case of Charles and Johanna, these two spent about an equal time being single as being married. Since my 36th wedding anniversary was yesterday, and I got married when I was 39, I am getting close to that time when my single years will equal my married years.