Selected Families and Individuals

Notes


Helen A. Nau

As of Feb, 2002, Helen Nau Miller was living with her daughter in Caldwell, Ohio.

Helen Miller's obituary was posted on the McVay-Perkins Funeral Home website:

Helen A. Miller, age 93, of Caldwell, Ohio, died Wednesday,
January 3, 2007, at Summit Acres Nursing Home, Caldwell. She
was born May 31, 1913, in Dexter City, daughter of the late John
and Minnie Hupp Nau. She was a member of the GMN Senior
Companion Program for 25 years and a member of St. Stephen
Catholic Church, Caldwell, and its Catholic Women's Club. She
was a homemaker.
In addition to her parents, she is preceded in death by her hus-
band, Gerald G. Miller, who died June 2, 1976; one daughter, Mary
Rose Miller; four sisters, Ida Burkhart, Amelia Fogle, Theresa Shilin-
ski, and Cora Myers; one brother, Edward Nau; one granddaughter,
Patricia L. Crock; and two sons-in-law, Melvin Wade and Joe Crock.
Surviving are one son, David G. Miller of Zanesville; four daughters,
Marilyn Phalin, Lillian Crock, Catherine Wade, and Shirley (Ronnie)
Hupp, all of Caldwell; one brother, Andrew Nau of Caldwell; 12 grand-
children; 22 great-grandchildren; 6 step-grandchildren; and 11 step-
great-grandchildren.
Friends may call Thursday, January 4, 2006, from 3-8PM at McVay-
Perkins Funeral Home, Caldwell. Funeral Liturgy with Mass will be held
Friday, January 5 at 10AM at St. Stephen Catholic Church, Caldwell, with
Fr. Dale Tornes as celebrant. Burial will follow at Mt. Olivet Cemetery,
Caldwell. Christian Scripture Services will be held Thursday evening at
7:30PM at the funeral home


Mary Rose Miller

Mary Rose Miller's obituary appeared in The Zanesville (OH) Signal newspaper on June 13, 1950. Funeral services for Mary Rose Miller, 11, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Miller of Caldwell, will be held at 9
o'clock Wednesday morning in St. Wilhelmina [sic: Philo-
mena] Catholic church in Caldwell. Burial will be in Olive
cemetery. The child died Monday morning in Children's hospital,
Columbus, after four weeks' illness. Surviving besides her parents are three sisters, Lillian,
Catherine and Shirley and a brother David, all of the home;
maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. John Nau of Fulda;
paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Alex Miller of Harriets-
ville, and a great grandmother, Mrs. George Miller of 1229
Wheeling avenue, Zanesville. The body is at the Estadt funeral home in Caldwell.

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From death certificate:
Name: Mary Rose Miller
Residence: Caldwell Rt 4
Age: 11 years
Birth: 19 Apr 1939, Ohio
Occupation: Student
Marital status: Single
Father: Gerald Miller
Mother: Helen Nau
Informant: Gerald Miller [father]


George Beda Schockling

Obituary:
GEORGE B. SHOCKLING
Funeral services were held Saturday morning at St. Mary's Church in
Fulda for George R. Shockling, 63, who passed away April 24 [1963] in
his home near Caldwell after an illness of several months. Burial was in
the church cemetery.
Surviving are his wife, Johanna; one daughter, Mrs. Edward F. Crum of
Louisville; four sons, including James C. Shockling of Louisville; and fourteen
grandchildren. Other area survivors include a sister, Mrs. Paul Monter of Louis-
ville, and two brothers, John Shockling of Louisville and Walter Shockling of
Canton.


Vernon F. Schockling

The following note appeared in The Zanesville Signal (pg 5) on 25 Mar 1940
INJURED IN FALL
The small son of Mr. and Mrs. George Schockling of the
Fulda community fell at his home Saturday and sustained a
deep gash on the forehead.

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Vernon Schockling never married.


Jacob Schockling

Jacob was the adminstrator for his father's estate following his death in 1884. He reached an agreement with his brothers Sebastian and August in 1885, and took over the two-story log home built by his father and grandfather, and the 88 acre farm. His two brothers purchased adjoining farms.

Between 1885 and 1908, Jake added a framed two-story section onto south end of the log house. The new addition contained a kitchen downstairs ,and a bedroom upstairs, and a stairway from the upstairs to the basement. The former stairway alongside the fireplace in the old section of the house was removed. Short boards in the upstairs floor today indicate where the orginal stairs were closed off.

In 1894, Jake hired Peter Bishop to build the barn for $100 (unconfirmed). The farm's big barn in 1894 with logs, lumber and foundation stone were cut from the farm. The huge sandstone laid as the west wall was cut from the sandstone bank on the upper 42 acre place adjacent to the Bill Hill farm. The year 1894 is chisled into the sandstone foundation at eye level.

In 1900, 38 year old farmer Jacob Schockling lived on a farm that he owned in Enoch Twp., Noble County Ohio with his 31 year old wife Rosa. They had been married for 11 years. With them lived four children: John (10), Agnes (8), Maggie (6), and Bede (9 mos).

Around 1908, Enoch Township trustees and most of Jake's neighbors wanted a road put through the upper place through the Bill Hill farm, then through the woods to the ridge road. Jacob objected to the proposed road and refused to give right-of-way. This generated bad feelings among his neighbors. Jacob lost interest in the farm and agreed to sell it to his brother August.

In fall of 1908, Jake bought the Sampson Harris farm. This farm is most commonly remembered as the place where Jake's family was raised. Many photographs of weddings and family gatherings were taken on this farm.

Living in the household at the time of the 1910 census were 48 year old Jacob Shockling, his 41 year old wife Rose, and their children: John A (20), Agnes C (19), Maggie (16), George B (11), Albert J (8), Frona B (5), and Walter J (2).

At the time of the 1920 census, widower Jacob Schockling (57) and his four youngest children -- George (20), Albert (17), Veronica (15) and Walter (12) -- lived in the household of his recently-married daughter Margaret (25) and her husband Clem Schafer (30). Clem and Margaret did not have any children. Also living in the household was Ignatz Rupple (65) his wife, Frances (Hohman) Schafer (63) and their daughter Margaret (17). Although Margaret Rupple would later marry a man named Francis Schafer, no blood relationship has been found between either Francis Schafer or the Rupples and the families of Clem Schafer or the Schocklings. The census-taker deviated from convention because he did not assign separate "family numbers" to each of the families in the household. All of the men in the household were farmers.

Leona Crum Hohman remembers that her grandfather owned a radio with a big horn. She believes that Jacob Schockling died of cancer.


Rosa Schoeppner

All eight of Rose's children were born in the two story Schockling home place build by John and Matthias. In 1900, four of Rosa Schoeppner Schockling's children were still living.

Rosa suffered from gallstones. A doctor was called, and he performed a gall bladder operation at the Schockling's home. Rosa did not survive.