Anna was the youngest of at least three children of Jacob Deckert (1808-1876) and Caroline (Carol) Metzenroth ( b. abt. 1810). Records variously indentify their place of origin in Germany, but it was likely Heidelberg, in Baden, as Anna's married record indicates. The family immigrated to Philadelphia about 1842, when Anna was 7. She had a brother Jacob (1826-1871) and sister Josepha (Josephine, 1830-1880), both of whom married and remained in Philadelphia. Their parents owned a hotel/boarding house and kept a saloon in Philadelphia. Please see Anna's husband's biography for more details of her life after marriage. She wed Georges Schaaf, an emigrant from Alsace, on 26 May 1857 at St. Peter the Apostle Church in Philadelphia. The couple had five children, two of them daughters.
Anna's obituary appears below; errors of fact and spelling are left as printed.
ANNA SCHAAF OBITUARY
(Butler County Press, David City, Nebraska, May 25, 1911, p. 1, col. 7)
In Memory of Mrs. Anna Schaaf.
Many friends paid respect to memory of Mrs. Anna Schaaf by attending the funeral services of Mrs. Schaaf at St. Mary's Catholic church in David City on Monday morning, May 22, at 8:30 a. m., and the procession to the cemetery was a large one. The funeral services were by Rev. Father Caraher. Interment was in the cemetery at Center, by side of the graves of Mrs. Schaaf's husband and eldest son. Mrs. Schaaf died on May 17 at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Anna Bauermeister, at McLean, Saskatchewan, Canada, after a brief illness. The remains were accompanied here by her son-in-law, August Bauermeister. F. E. Schaaf of Lincoln and A. J. Schaaf of Columbus, sons of Mrs. Schaaf, and Mrs. P. W. Cain, a daughter, were in attendance at the funeral of their mother. Mrs. Bauermeister's state of health would not admit of her coming. Mrs. Schaaf was in her 76th year. She was born in Bavaria, Germany. She was the widow of George Schaaf, and had resided at Garrison for some 30 years up to four years ago when she went to Canada to make her home with her daughter, Mrs. Bauermeister. She is survived by two sons and two daughters.
Anna's obituary appears below; errors of fact and spelling are left as printed.
ANNA SCHAAF OBITUARY
(Butler County Press, David City, Nebraska, May 25, 1911, p. 1, col. 7)
In Memory of Mrs. Anna Schaaf.
Many friends paid respect to memory of Mrs. Anna Schaaf by attending the funeral services of Mrs. Schaaf at St. Mary's Catholic church in David City on Monday morning, May 22, at 8:30 a. m., and the procession to the cemetery was a large one. The funeral services were by Rev. Father Caraher. Interment was in the cemetery at Center, by side of the graves of Mrs. Schaaf's husband and eldest son. Mrs. Schaaf died on May 17 at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Anna Bauermeister, at McLean, Saskatchewan, Canada, after a brief illness. The remains were accompanied here by her son-in-law, August Bauermeister. F. E. Schaaf of Lincoln and A. J. Schaaf of Columbus, sons of Mrs. Schaaf, and Mrs. P. W. Cain, a daughter, were in attendance at the funeral of their mother. Mrs. Bauermeister's state of health would not admit of her coming. Mrs. Schaaf was in her 76th year. She was born in Bavaria, Germany. She was the widow of George Schaaf, and had resided at Garrison for some 30 years up to four years ago when she went to Canada to make her home with her daughter, Mrs. Bauermeister. She is survived by two sons and two daughters.
Anna was the youngest of at least three children of Jacob Deckert (1808-1876) and Caroline (Carol) Metzenroth ( b. abt. 1810). Records variously indentify their place of origin in Germany, but it was likely Heidelberg, in Baden, as Anna's married record indicates. The family immigrated to Philadelphia about 1842, when Anna was 7. She had a brother Jacob (1826-1871) and sister Josepha (Josephine, 1830-1880), both of whom married and remained in Philadelphia. Their parents owned a hotel/boarding house and kept a saloon in Philadelphia. Please see Anna's husband's biography for more details of her life after marriage. She wed Georges Schaaf, an emigrant from Alsace, on 26 May 1857 at St. Peter the Apostle Church in Philadelphia. The couple had five children, two of them daughters.
Anna's obituary appears below; errors of fact and spelling are left as printed.
ANNA SCHAAF OBITUARY
(Butler County Press, David City, Nebraska, May 25, 1911, p. 1, col. 7)
In Memory of Mrs. Anna Schaaf.
Many friends paid respect to memory of Mrs. Anna Schaaf by attending the funeral services of Mrs. Schaaf at St. Mary's Catholic church in David City on Monday morning, May 22, at 8:30 a. m., and the procession to the cemetery was a large one. The funeral services were by Rev. Father Caraher. Interment was in the cemetery at Center, by side of the graves of Mrs. Schaaf's husband and eldest son. Mrs. Schaaf died on May 17 at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Anna Bauermeister, at McLean, Saskatchewan, Canada, after a brief illness. The remains were accompanied here by her son-in-law, August Bauermeister. F. E. Schaaf of Lincoln and A. J. Schaaf of Columbus, sons of Mrs. Schaaf, and Mrs. P. W. Cain, a daughter, were in attendance at the funeral of their mother. Mrs. Bauermeister's state of health would not admit of her coming. Mrs. Schaaf was in her 76th year. She was born in Bavaria, Germany. She was the widow of George Schaaf, and had resided at Garrison for some 30 years up to four years ago when she went to Canada to make her home with her daughter, Mrs. Bauermeister. She is survived by two sons and two daughters.
Anna's obituary appears below; errors of fact and spelling are left as printed.
ANNA SCHAAF OBITUARY
(Butler County Press, David City, Nebraska, May 25, 1911, p. 1, col. 7)
In Memory of Mrs. Anna Schaaf.
Many friends paid respect to memory of Mrs. Anna Schaaf by attending the funeral services of Mrs. Schaaf at St. Mary's Catholic church in David City on Monday morning, May 22, at 8:30 a. m., and the procession to the cemetery was a large one. The funeral services were by Rev. Father Caraher. Interment was in the cemetery at Center, by side of the graves of Mrs. Schaaf's husband and eldest son. Mrs. Schaaf died on May 17 at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Anna Bauermeister, at McLean, Saskatchewan, Canada, after a brief illness. The remains were accompanied here by her son-in-law, August Bauermeister. F. E. Schaaf of Lincoln and A. J. Schaaf of Columbus, sons of Mrs. Schaaf, and Mrs. P. W. Cain, a daughter, were in attendance at the funeral of their mother. Mrs. Bauermeister's state of health would not admit of her coming. Mrs. Schaaf was in her 76th year. She was born in Bavaria, Germany. She was the widow of George Schaaf, and had resided at Garrison for some 30 years up to four years ago when she went to Canada to make her home with her daughter, Mrs. Bauermeister. She is survived by two sons and two daughters.
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ANNA DECKERT / WIFE OF / GEORGE SCHAAF / BORN DEC. 13, 1835 / AT BAVARIA GERMANY / DIED MAY 17, 1911 / AT McLEAN CANADA / MAY HER SOUL REST / IN PEACE
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