Husband Levi Schuckers 1
AKA: Levi Sugar 2
Born: 26 Jan 1840 - Minersville, Schuylkill Co, PA 1 3
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Father: Daniel Schuckers (Abt 1813-1858) 1 4
Mother: Elizabeth Heim (Abt 1813-1863/1864) 3
Marriage: 1 Sep 1863 - Jefferson Co, PA 5 6
Wife Elizabeth Kroh 2 5 6
Born: 2 Jul 1844 - Pinecreek Twp, Jefferson Co, PA 5 6
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Father: Jacob Kroh (Abt 1801-1876) 2 5 6
Mother: Catherine Haupt (Abt 1800-1872) 5 6
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1 M Elmer E. Schuckers 5 6
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Spouse: Lovilla Hetrick ( - ) 5 6
2 M Homer G. Schuckers 5 6
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Spouse: Mary Snyder ( - ) 5 6
3 M James A. Schuckers 5 6
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Died: Bef 1917 - Van Lear, Johnson Co, KY
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Spouse: Lillie Sherwood ( - ) 5 6
4 M Kennedy C. Schuckers 5 6
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Spouse: Bersa Dunken ( - ) 6
5 M Glen L. Schuckers 5
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Spouse: Ada Mowery ( - ) 6
6 F Cora E. Schuckers 5
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Spouse: Lyle Gourley ( - ) 6
7 M Lee S. Schuckers 5 6
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Spouse: Carrie Myers ( - ) 6
8 F Clara Emma Schuckers 6
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General Notes: Husband - Levi Schuckers
His early educational privileges were quite limited, he being able to attend school for only two four-months' terms; but he made the most of his advantages and become a well-informed man. He remained with his parents until reaching the age of twenty-three, working on his mother's farm during the summer and in the woods during the fall and winter months. Much of his time was spent in clearing the wild land, grubbing up the stumps, and in other arduous and laborious tasks; but prosperity at length crowned his efforts, and he became one of the well-to-do citizens of Winslow township. In early life he took many rafts of lumber down Sandy Lick and Red Bank creeks and the Alleghany river. He first purchased 187 acres of land for $5,000, paying only $1,200 down; but at the end of four years the place was free from debt, although he had to pay ten per cent interest on the principal. He added to the original tract until it comprised 417½ acres of the most valuable farming land in central Pennsylvania. It was supplied with all the conveniences and accessories of a model farm, and Mr. Schuckers spared no pains in making it one of the most attractive spots in Jefferson County. He did not confine his attention alone to agricultural pursuits and lumbering, but branched out into other lines of business, and was a stock-holder in the First National Bank of Reynoldsville, and also in the Pennsylvania & Buffalo Land Company, of Buffalo, New York. As a stalwart Democrat, he took quite an active and prominent part in political affairs, and served as school director and assistant assessor.
He was born at Minersville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, where he spent his early years. With the usual limitations farm boys of that time and place had to contend with, he did not have many educational privileges, attending school for only two terms of four months each. He came with the family to Jefferson County in 1857, arriving July 7th, having driven a one-horse Dearborn covered wagon all the way. When the father was dying he called Levi to his bedside and said, "You will have to turn out to be a man now or a good-for-nothing." Though he had no great experience in farming the greater part of the responsibility was on his young shoulders, but fortunately the grandfather remained with them and gave him the benefit of his advice. There was a debt of eight hundred dollars on the home place, and he entered upon the work of clearing it, lumbering during the winter months and farming in the summer season. He learned to hew square timbers, chopping, sawing and hauling in the winter months and rafting in the spring, his lumber being generally marketed at Brookville, and sometimes at the mouth of the Red Bank creek, where it emptied into the Allegheny river. He took many rafts down the Sandy Lick and Red Bank creeks and the Allegheny. He remained with his mother up to the time of his marriage, and then settled upon a farm of his own in Winslow township, bought from his father-in-law, Jacob Kroh. When he purchased his tract of 167 acres he had but twelve hundred dollars to pay down on the price, five thousand dollars, yet he was out of debt in four years, although he was paying ten per cent interest. The original barn was rebuilt and enlarged by him, until it was 72 by 66 feet in dimensions and one of the finest barns in the locality when it burned down, entailing great loss besides the structure itself, eighteen hundred bushels of grain, eighty tons of hay, six horses, six cows, wagons, machinery and tools being destroyed with it. Mr. Schuckers rebuilt, erecting a new barn on the place, which was 42 by 72 feet. The farmhouse was built by Jacob Kroh. Mr. Schuckers lived and worked there for some time, until he sold to his son Glen L., who then resided there. But meantime he acquired and operated other farm property of great value. He bought the old Bliss farm in Pinecreek township that was later owned and occupied by his son Homer, the tract comprising 142 acres, of which the father retained a strip of six or seven acres for his own home. He built the barn on this property, which was sixty feet square, and his son Glen put up the other buildings. This son owned another tract which his father purchased and cleared of fine pine timber. Mr. Schuckers also bought the John Baum farm of 136 acres in Pinecreek township, cleared it of pine stumps, and for years operated these properties, doing general farming and keeping various kinds of stock. At times he fed stock for the market, and his various occupations combined to their common profit. When the First National Bank at Reynoldsville was started he was one of the stockholders; he was a stockholder in the Pennsylvania & Buffalo Land Company, of Buffalo, New York; one of a company of coal land owners selling coal under royalty; and a member of a company which sank a gas well on the Bliss farm, going down thirty-five hundred feet but without getting an extensive flow.
While living in Winslow township, Mr. Schuckers served as school director, township auditor and assistant assessor. Though a Democrat, he was independent in his support of candidates and measures, working for men of any party who appealled to him as eligible for public trusts.