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Hobart Gazette, Nov. 9, 1923.
… inspired me to look into John and Faye Shults, to try to figure out if they were related to the Ainsworth-area Shultses.
The answer is: I think so. John's parents, like William's and Charles', were Charles (born in Sweden) and Caroline (born in Germany) Shults, and the date of his birth (1887 or '88) was within the lifetimes of the Charles and Caroline. The only reason I don't say definitely is that all these names were so common.
The 1880 Census shows Charles Sr. and Caroline ("Lena") living in LaPorte County, Indiana, with three children: William, Charles Jr., and Emma. Charles Sr. died in LaPorte County in 1899. Then, in the 1900 Census, Caroline shows up in Union Township, Porter County, in a rented home, with four more children — Edward, Mary, John, and Freddie. To judge by the few of her neighbors who owned their land, I think she was near Union Center, thus not far east of Deep River.
In February 1910, John married Faye Ella Smithers in Lake County (Indiana Marriage Collection).
The 1910 Census shows John and Faye on a rented farm, apparently north of Merrillville in the Turkey Creek area, to judge by the fact that they were recorded near the Schillo family. By August of 1919 John and Faye were renting the farm that Peter and Hulda Palm bought.[1]
In the 1920 Census, John and Faye are recorded on a farm on the "southwest road out of Hobart past the green house," which sounds like west 10th Street, the "green house" being the Kellen greenhouse where present-day Lake Park Avenue/Grand Boulevard meets 10th Street.
In the 1930 Census, they are again on 10th Street, owning a farm. I can't find a Shults parcel on 10th Street in either the 1926 Plat Book or the 1939 Plat Book, so their farm may have been one of the smaller parcels (10 acres, perhaps) where the owner's name is not marked.
John, unfortunately, didn't live to be recorded in the 1940 census. He was killed in an accident on his 10th Street farm in 1939.
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Hammond Times, July 2, 1939.
This obituary also tells us that John was connected to the Hillcrest Dairy.
Faye was still living on the same 10th Street farm when the 1940 census came around. She described herself as a "farm manager." The only other person in the household was a 20-year-old farm laborer who boarded there. Her surviving child, Howard, had married and moved out.
Faye never remarried, I gather. When she died in 1971, she was buried in Crown Hill Cemetery with her husband and daughter.
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[1] "Local Drifts," Hobart Gazette, Aug. 1, 1919.
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