Darke County OHIO Biographies.....Emma Viola Shultz April 12 1914 - November 23 1998 ******************************************************* File contributed for Ohio Biographies Project by: Francis Motschman, Sr. dalesr99@earthlink.net July 24, 2003, 10:52 am Author: Francis D. Motschman, Sr. The Shultz Family of Darke County, Ohio The Biography of Emma V. Shultz Daughter of William Sherman Shultz and Whilemena "Lillie" Mae Petersime by Francis D. Motschman, Sr. The last child born to Sherman & Lillie Shultz. She came into their life on Sun., April 12, 1914. They would name her Emma Viola Shultz. Emma lived with them until she married John Beachler in the spring of 1939. He was born on Tue., October 5, 1909. His parents were W. Earl Beachler and Bertha of LaFeyette, Indiana. Things were still very tough even though the great depression was in its waning days. John was an all A student in high school but suffered from extreme shyness. He was never good in interviews because of this and he tried other means to find a job. He especially tried to get a "Railroad Inspectors" position, by mail, but never made it. They some how managed to buy a small farm just outside of Rossburg, Darke County, Ohio and spent most of their married life working that farm. Emma took care of the house and the live stock which included milking the cows. John took care of planting, maintenance and harvesting the crops. They never had children and it's probably a good thing because they never did much more than eke out a living on the farm. I remember many family picnics at the home of Emma's brother, Sherman Harold Shultz, in Laura, Ohio. Emma and John would come and bring Rickie, Earl's widow, from Ansonia. Rickie would mingle, but not have much to say. Emma would be all over, talking to everyone... John would get a chair as far away from the crowd as he could. He would watch and sometimes smile. If you went over and sat next to him he was a good conversationalist and was very interested in the stock car racing at Rossburg. John was strickened with cancer and lost his battle on Thu., July 15, 1976 in St. Elizabeth Hospital, Dayton, Montgomery Co., Ohio. He was buried in the Ansonia Cemetery, Ansonia, Darke Co., Ohio. Emma then did the only thing she could do... she sold the farm. She sold it for cash, in the form of cash and a note, and a run down house in Ansonia. The house was in bad shape but she thought it was wonderful because it had electricity and a bathroom. We came to Ansonia to see the house and she kept saying "Look", and smile and flip the light switch on the wall, on and off. While she lived there she delivered papers for the Greenville Advocate. They delivered the papers to her home and she would get them ready for delivery, stack them in a childs play wagon, and off she'd go making her deliveries. She was also an active member of The First Church of God of Ansonia, on SR118. She tought Sunday School there and absolutely loved working with the children. In the spring of 1990 Emma had a bad stroke that left her paralyzed and unable to talk or swallow properly. Her brother Sherman was trying to take care of her needs and sign papers for her and it was making a nervous wreck of him. I asked if maybe it would help both of them if I would be her Power Of Attorney. They both agreed and I saw her attorney in Greenville and he drew up the papers. As her Power of Attorney I was advised by her doctors that she would never be better than she was at that time. I was having to pay money out of her account every month to the nursing home and sometimes to doctors. She was running out of money. I determined that her only recourse was to sell her home. This turned out to be the best of times and the worst of times for my wife and I. Emma's house was a warehouse of yardsale purchases. She slept in a chair in the living room because all of the bedrooms were full of clothes, tableclothes, bedspreads, just everything you could imagine. One bedroom was so full we had to take the door off to get into the room. My wife and I went to Ansonia every day for a couple of weeks getting rid of all the things our "pack rat" had brought into the house. It was going through all of this stuff where we found out things about her and John that we never knew. For instance we found all of John's report cards from High School... all A's. We found the letters that he had written trying to get the Railroad Inspector's job. We also found receipts showing purchases made by Emma. She had bought a used car for a lady who needed one badly although she, herself, didn't own a car. Another lady with a number of children needed a new washing machine... Emma bought her a brand new one. On the same receipt was the purchase of a used one that Emma purchased for herself. Emma ended up on welfare at the nursing home but I'm sure she was wealthy when she got to heaven. Emma went to receive her reward on Mon., November 23, 1998. She is buried next to John in the Ansonia Cemetery, Ansonia, Darke County, Ohio. This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/bios/ohbios/ File size: 5.2 Kb