Pneumonia Again

Pneumonia took another child in February 1921.


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Frank Schumacher had spent his childhood on a farm northeast of Ainsworth. By 1910, he was farming for himself on rented land in Hobart Township. The next year he married Eliza Foreman. Some time before 1920, they moved onto the Small farm in Union Township, Porter County.


I believe this is the Small farm where the Schumacher family lived, as it appeared on a 1921 Union Township plat map, from http://www.inportercounty.org/maps.html.

"Foster sister Ceil" was Lucile Mains, who had been living with the Schumachers for some three or four years, and who had already suffered the loss of her biological brother.


Sources:
♦ 1910 Census.
♦ 1920 Census.
♦ "Funeral of Raymond Schumacher Held This (Thursday) Afternoon." Hobart News 10 Feb. 1921.
♦ Indiana Marriage Collection.
♦ "Master Raymond Schumacher Passes Away." Hobart Gazette 11 Feb. 1921.