In 1930, 32 year old Roy O. Croy rented a home for $15 a month at 308 North St. in Caldwell, Noble County, Ohio. He lived there with his wife, Helen (age 28), and daughters Betty (6) and Joan (2 yrs, 3 mos.). Betty attended school. The dwelling must have been a two-family house, because a 37 year old widow named Madge Ferguson lived at the same address with her 12 year old daughter Jean. Ray and Helen were 22 and 20 years old, respectively, when they were married. This puts their wedding at about 1920. All members of the household, as well as their parents, were born in Ohio. Ray was employed as an overseer in a saw mill. The Croy family owned a radio set.
Ray Croy's obituary appeared in the Zanesville Times Recorder on 13 Dec 1934:
RAY CROY IS SUMMONED
Ray Croy, 56, father of Mrs. Joan Black of Pinkerton lane, died at
5 o’clock Saturday morning at his home near Senecaville following a
heart attack.
Mr. Croy was a well known lumber dealer and was co-owner of
Madge’s Specialty shop in Caldwell. He was a son of Nathan and
Sarah Fish Croy.
In addition to the daughter here, he is survived by his widow, Helen;
another daughter, Mrs. Betty Walters of Bandera, Tex.; four brothers,
Frank Croy of Fort Wayne, Roy of McConnellsville, Arthur of Columbus
and Nathan of Marietta; three sisters, Mrs. Mabel Davis of Cleveland,
Mrs. Margaret Weber of Athens and Mrs. Madge Gray of Caldwell, and
five grandchildren.
The body was removed to the McVay funeral home at Caldwell, where
services will be held at 2 o’clock Tuesday afternoon.
The following article, published in the Zanesville Signal on 3 Mar 1934, establishes a link between Dorothy Roehrig (Rhoric) and the Croy family.
BIRTHDAY SURPRISE
Mrs. O.R. Cory (sic) was pleasantly surprised on her birthday, Thursday
evening, when a number of friends gathered at her home on Main street, where
a delicious menu was served in her honor. She received many beautiful and
useful gifts. The guests were seated at one long table centered with a large
birthday cake.
Those attending the affair were: Mrs. Madge Ferguson and daughter, Jean,
Mrs. Nelle Headley, Misses Susan Kink, Frances Fogle, Dorothy Rhoric (sic),
Laura Alice Croy, and Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Gray and Mr. and Mrs. O. R. Croy.
Living in Massillon, Stark Co., OH in Nov 2000.
Obituary:
Dorothy A. Bing, age 91, of Massillon passed away Sunday at Aultman
Hospital. Dorothy was born January 17, 1913 in Noble County to the late
Albert and Amelia (Schott) Roehrig and lived most of her life in Massillon.
She was a member of St. Barbara’s Catholic Church.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Norman C. Bing in 1990, a son,
Edward Roehrig in 2000; sisters, Freda Gill, Mary Craig, Leora Roehrig, and Evlalia
Valot; brothers, Roy, Terrance and Bernard Roehrig; and a step great grandchild.
She is survived by son, Ronald Charles Bing of Massillon; sister, Eleanor Riski of
Caldwell, OH; eight grandchildren and 11 great grandchildren; five step-grandchild-
ren, six step-great grandchildren and one step great great grandchild.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. at St. Barbara
Catholic Church; her pastor, Fr. Thomas Cebula will officiate. Burial will be at
Brookfield Cemetery. Friends may call Tuesday from 6-8 p.m. at the Paquelet
Funeral Home in Massillon.
Name on death certificate: Norman Bing
The following article, published in the Zanesville Signal on 3 Mar 1934, establishes a link between Dorothy Roehrig (Rhoric) and the Croy family.
BIRTHDAY SURPRISE
Mrs. O.R. Cory (sic) was pleasantly surprised on her birthday, Thursday
evening, when a number of friends gathered at her home on Main street, where
a delicious menu was served in her honor. She received many beautiful and
useful gifts. The guests were seated at one long table centered with a large
birthday cake.
Those attending the affair were: Mrs. Madge Ferguson and daughter, Jean,
Mrs. Nelle Headley, Misses Susan Kink, Frances Fogle, Dorothy Rhoric (sic),
Laura Alice Croy, and Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Gray and Mr. and Mrs. O. R. Croy.
Living in Massillon, Stark Co., OH in Nov 2000.
Obituary:
Dorothy A. Bing, age 91, of Massillon passed away Sunday at Aultman
Hospital. Dorothy was born January 17, 1913 in Noble County to the late
Albert and Amelia (Schott) Roehrig and lived most of her life in Massillon.
She was a member of St. Barbara’s Catholic Church.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Norman C. Bing in 1990, a son,
Edward Roehrig in 2000; sisters, Freda Gill, Mary Craig, Leora Roehrig, and Evlalia
Valot; brothers, Roy, Terrance and Bernard Roehrig; and a step great grandchild.
She is survived by son, Ronald Charles Bing of Massillon; sister, Eleanor Riski of
Caldwell, OH; eight grandchildren and 11 great grandchildren; five step-grandchild-
ren, six step-great grandchildren and one step great great grandchild.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. at St. Barbara
Catholic Church; her pastor, Fr. Thomas Cebula will officiate. Burial will be at
Brookfield Cemetery. Friends may call Tuesday from 6-8 p.m. at the Paquelet
Funeral Home in Massillon.
In 1910, 30 year old farmer Albert H. Roehrig lived with his wife of 5 years, Mollie (28) on a farm they owned in Enoch Twp., Noble Co., Ohio. Living with them were their sons Terence J. (5) and Roy J. (3). Listed immediately before Albert and Mollie on the census are Albert's parents John and Mary Roehrig with their children Andrew and Maggie. Other families living nearby were those of Henry Schell and Ignatz Fox.
When Albert and Mollie had a daughter in 1919, and it came time for her to be baptised, Mollie was too ill to attend the ceremony. She instructed her husband Albert, before he left for St. Mary's, with the infant girl, to tell Father Oienk to name her Elizabeth. Father Oienk refused, saying that it was the feast day of St. Eulalia, and that Elizabeth would be her middle name. Albert was unwilling to stand up to his parish priest. Talk about loyalty to one's religion! (Source: Grandson Dennis Valot)
According to the 1920 census, 39 year old farmer Albert H. Roehrig lived with his wife Mollie (37) on a farm they owned in Enoch Twp., Noble Co., Ohio. Living with them were their children Tarance (sic) (15), Roy (12), Freda (9), Dorthy (7), Mary M. (4 yrs 2 mos), Bernard (2 yrs 7 mos), and Eulalia (2 mos). The 3 older children attended school. All members of the household were born in Ohio as were Albert and Mollie's parents. Listed nearby on the census were Mollie's brother and John P. Schott and his wife Clara Leasure Schott.
According to the 1930 census, 50 year old farmer Albert Roehrig lived with his wife Mollie (48) on a farm they owned in Enoch Twp., Noble Co., Ohio. Based on the census, Albert and Mollie had been married for 26 years. Living with them were their children Roy (23), Dortha (sic) (17), Margret (14), son (this was Bernard) (12), Eulalie (10), and Elanore (4 yrs 2 mos). Also living with them was Mollie's 68 year old, widowed mother Margaret Schott. All of the children except Elanore attended school although Roy listed his occupation as farm laborer. Living nearby were the families of John and Lena Schwallie and Perry and Helen Noll.
Albert Henry Rohrig's (Roehrig) obituary appeared in The Zanesville (OH) Signal on May 26, 1955 NOBLE CO. FARMER DIES IN HOSPITAL CALDWELL - Albert Henry Rohrig, 75, a retired farmer of
Fulda, died this morning in Guernsey Memorial hospital at
Cambridge following a lingering illness. He was admitted
to the hospital Tuesday. Mr. Rohrig was a son of the late John and Mary Hupp
Rohrig. He was a member of St. Mary's Catholic church
at Fulda. Surviving are his widow, Mary; four sons, Terrence, Ber-
nard, Edwin and Roy Rohrig of the home, five daughters,
Mrs. Eleanor Riski, Miss Freda Rohrig and Mrs. Mary
Margaret Craig of Caldwell, Mrs. Dorothy Bing of Massillon
and Mrs. Eulalia Valot of Canton; three sisters, Mrs. Sylvia
Saling of near Caldwell and Miss Catherine and Miss
Anna Rohrig of Caldwell; a brother, Walter Rohrig of
Canton, and seven grandchildren. The body was removed to the Estadt funeral home.
Funeral services will be held Saturday morning at St.
Mary's church at Fulda. Burial will be in the church
cemetery.
The following appeared in The Times Recorder (Zanesville, OH) newspaper on April 1, 1933. SURPRISE PARTY ENJOYED Mrs. Albert Roehirg was pleasantly surprised at her home in
Fulda when a number of friends gathered to celebrate her 51st
birthday anniversary. The evening hours were spent with cards,
and delightful refreshments were served. those present included:
Mrs. Otto Miller and children, Jerome, Cletus, Ardella and Cleota,
Mrs. John Weaver, Mrs. John Schwallie, Mrs. Gerhard Kress and
son Rupert, Mrs. Perry Noll, Charles Gill and children, Frederick
and Mildred.
The following article appeared in the Zanesville Times Recorder on 7 Sep 1933:
LITERARY PROGRAM WILL BE GIVEN BY FULDA GRANGE
CALDWELL, O., Sept. 1 - The ladies of the Fulda Grange will sponsor
the literary program to be resented at their regular meeting on Friday
evening, September 8, at 8 o’clock.
Greeting song, Marie Miller; reading, “A Farmer’s Wife is Queen,
” Mrs. Elizabeth Michael;; Talk on Cooking, Mrs. John U. Brahler;
dialogue, “Selling Stock,” Emma Snider and Helen Hill; reading,
“Grumble Corner and Thanksgiving Street”; play, “A Pretty Hat,” Mollie
Rohrig, Marie Miller and Hlen Noll; reading, “A Boy’s Sermon,” Amelia
Crum; dialogue, “Parting,” Lurina Michael and Silvina Miller; reading,
“Rose High School Kids,” Rose Crock; Orange Stunt and Red and
White Handkercheif Drill, by the ladies of the grange; play, “The Darkies
Insurance Agent,” Sophia Estadt and Clara Schott; Closing song.Clara Schott Miller remembers that Aunt Mollie had a heavy German accent. In the 1950's and 60's, the Roehrig's still had the old crank-style phones that were owned and operated by a phone co-operative. Mollie Roehrig's ring was one long and two shorts.
Amelia's grandson Dennis Valot recalls:
Grandma told me that she and her brothers and sisters first learned English in grammar school. Their parents couldn't understand English, at least not very well at that point in time. The children thought that it was great fun to be able to converse in a language their parents couldn't understand.Grandma mentioned that when she graduated (or left school), she went to work for a family as a housekeeper in the Braddock section of Pittsburgh. Most vivid were her memories of the horse drawn beer wagons on the brick streets there.
My grandparents always butchered their pigs on Thanksgiving and a steer on New Year's Day. I assume that it was done that way because temperatures were cool and there was less chance of the meat spoiling, frost would have killed off flies that would have been a health menace, and the corn from the fall harvest would have been fed to the livestock to fatten them up. They had to have lard on the pigs since Grandma fried an awful lot of food in lard. And the used lard wasn't wasted: it was mixed with lye to make laundry soap. My aunts thought that the soap stunk. I personally liked it.
Amelia (Mollie) Schott Roehrig cooked on a natural gas stove, and when I was real little I can remember a natural gas space heater in one of the rooms of her house in Fulda.
My Grandmother was very conscious of fire prevention in the farm buildings. There were lightning rods on the roofs of the main buildings, i.e. the houses, barns and granaries. And Grandma would weave the blessed palms from Church on Palm Sunday into cone-like artifices and put them in the different buildings hoping that God would protect them from fire. During thunder storms (she lived in a house on the highest hill in Fulda so it seemed that lightning was attracted to it), she would burn blessed candles and pray the rosary.
Grandma said that her father raised sheep, but she hated them. They were so stupid they coudn't get back up if they fell on their back, and they stunk. She said that they would bathe them in the creek on the farm. (She never complained about the hogs, whose smell I found less than pleasant.) She loved to grow flowers in her yard, and would save the seed each fall to sow in long narrow beds along the farmhouse and the fifty-foot long edge of a vegetable garden closest the house.
I don't remember the heavy German accent so much, but she had some linguistic idiosyncrasies: she pronounced the letter "v" like the letter "w", e.g. my first cousin (once removed) was named Vergil but she pronounced his name Wergil. Also, she pronounced the letter "a" at the end of a word like the letter "y", so that "Fulda" was pronounced "Fuldy". I had three years of German in college, but I can't figure out these linguistic traits. When my brother and I were little she taught us simple German words, like Kuh (cow), Hund (dog), etc. That instilled a love a foreign languages in me so that I majored in them in college. When I was a teenager visiting her in Fulda, Grandma amazed me when she gave me a running translation of the German spoken by Nazi soldiers in war movies on television. But then even my Mother, Eulalia Roehrig Valot, the third generation of our family born in this country, could understand and speak some German. I got in trouble once for using a German swear word in front of my sister.
Elroy Schott never married. Nephew Dennis Valot remembers, "In the winters when there were few farm chores, my Uncle Elroy would dig coal from a hand-dug mine under the farm."
Roy Roehrig's obituary appeared in The Times Recorder (Zanesville, OH) newspaper on April 26, 1958. ROY ROEHRIG NOBLE COUNTY FARMER DIES CALDWELL, O. -- Roy John Roehrig 51-year-old Noble
county farmer who spent all his life near Fulda, died at
10:30 Thursday night at the home where he resided with
his mother, Mrs. Mollie Schott Roehrig, Death was sudden
and apparently due to a heart attack. He was a member of the St. Mary's Catholic church near
Fulda. Mr. Roehrig never married. His father, Albert, died
in 1955. Surviving also are three brothers, Terrance, Bernard and
Eddie, all of Fulda; and five sisters, Freda of Caldwell,
Dorothy of Massilon, Mary Margaret of Kettery, Me., Eulalia
of Canton and Eleanor of Caldwell. Friends may call at the Estadt funeral home here. Last rites
at 9:30 a. m. Monday will be conducted at the church by the
pastor, Rev. Fr. J. J. Donaldson with burial in the church
cemetery.
A tale from someone who wishes to remain nameless:
Picture it: Fulda in the late 1950s - early 1960s. An adolescent "city boy" (yours truly, who shall remain nameless) goes to spend several weeks during the summer with his relatives, including two booze-loving, middle-aged, bachelor "uncles" on the farm. Uncle Wiener (I did not make this up; this actually was his nickname... his real name was Bernard) has mash soaking in a barrel in the biddy house. There were no biddies (chicks) in it at the time, and I imagine that it was used for moonshine since it was close to the smokehouse (the significance of which will be noted later) or because nobody would ever check a Fulda biddy house for fermenting mash.
After an appropriate amount of time, the mash must be disposed of in a way so that the authorities (i.e. the Noble County Sheriff) won't find it. Solution: have the city-slicker kid shovel it into buckets and carry it about 150 yards away into a cornfield where Uncle Wiener will hoe it into the ground around the corn stalks (I guess that's how you make popcorn-a joke-but I digress).
Uncle Wiener, in a rare moment of sobriety, decides to warn his cosmopolitan nephew to be careful not to get caught by the Sheriff. Well, to make a long story even longer and more boring, the one and only time I ever saw a patrol car drive through Fulda was while I was carrying two buckets of spent mash down the drive to the cornfield and my waiting uncle. I thought that I was going to get busted, and wet my pants!! Fortunately the Sheriff simply drove by. (How anticlimactic.)
Later, Wiener transferred the fluid in which the mash had been fermenting to a still in the smoke house (smoke coming from the smokehouse wouldn't arouse suspicion, I guess) and distilled it. Days later, Wiener's Aunt Mary, a woman with considerable knowledge of the science of moonshining, came by and browned sugar in an iron skillet and helped Wiener pour that into bottles of the moonshine. I'm not quite sure why they did that. Probably to make the nasty stuff more palatable.
From death certificate:
Name: Leona Mildred Roehrig
Age: 1 year 9 months 10 days
Birth: 14 Oct 1923, Noble Co.
Father: Albert Roehrig, Noble Co., Ohio
Mother: Mollie Schott, Noble Co., Ohio
Informant: Albert Roehrig, Caldwell, Ohio
Ed Sailing ran a mill in Caldwell. (Source: Tom Singer)
Obituary: SOURCE: Daily Jeffersonian . . Cambridge, OH . . 4 Mar 2001
CALDWELL — Edward J. Saling, 84, of Caldwell, died Friday (March 2, 2001) at his home.
He was born Dec. 3, 1916, in Dexter City, son of the late John and Veronica (Fogle) Saling. Mr. Saling was a graduate of Dexter City High School. Early in his life he was employed as a miner for Union Carbide Co. until becoming disabled. He was a member of St. Stephen Catholic Church and Moose Lodge 221, both of Caldwell.He was preceded in death by a son, Michael Saling; a daughter, Carol (Saling) Havener; six brothers, Albert, Leo, Frank, Harry, James and Charles Saling.
He leaves his wife, Genevieve C. (Miller) Saling, whom he married Aug. 13, 1942; five daughters, Janet Saling of Zanesville, Mrs. Ron (Sandra) Arbogast of Orrville, Mrs. Greg (Melinda) Antill and Mrs. Rick (Mona) Buckey, both of Caldwell, and Mrs. Ron (Roxanne) Reed of Sarahsville; a son, John (Sue) Saling of Caldwell; four sisters, Mary Ramage and Bertha Schroeder, both of Dexter City, Ruth Erb of Lowell, and Jean McElroy of Ava; 14 grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren.
Friends may call from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. today and Monday at McVay-Perkins Funeral Home, Caldwell, where a wake service will be 8:30 p.m. Monday. Mass of Christian burial will be 10 a.m. Tuesday at St. Stephen Catholic Church, Caldwell, with the Rev. Father Dale Tornes officiating. Burial will be in St. Mary’s Catholic Church Cemetery, Fulda.
Named "Grace" on the 1930 census. Gennie Saling was living in Caldwell, Noble Co., OH in 2003.