- Friedrich Joseph Schönhardt
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- Friederic Joseph Schönhardt (*10.04.1852 Mommenheim, +02.05.1918 Centralia WA)
"The story told to me by my grandmother, eldest child of Frederick, was that he was sent to sea as a young man to avoid the Prussian draft. She said that this was a sore point with him because it meant that the sons would not inherited the family land. No mention of his family was told to me, so I thought he was the only Schonhardt to ever come to America. Now that I know so many did, I wonder if he was ever in contact with them. He may have emigrated in 1869 as the 1910 census tells, however the 1900 census record states he came in 1875. As he was born 10 Apr 1852, leaving at age 17 is plausible, as is 23.
He is found as a single man on the 1880 Klickitat County WA census as Frederick Schoenhardt 28 laborer born in Prussia. First deed record found for him is a land transaction in Klickitat County, Washington on 14 Nov 1889. It was a purchase of land from John Henderson and Addison Loomis of Olympia, WA.
By 1892, he has moved to Thurston County WA and is listed as a single man on the State census.
The next land record is a warranty deed, Jan 1904, for F. J. Schonhard and wife, Mary Schonhard and a Frank Miare of WA for land in Thurston County WA.
Frederick married Mary Ann Obrate (*07.01.1861 Iowa, +28.03.1930 El Cerrito CA) in Olympia WA on 5 Feb 1894. The family lived many years near the town of South Union.
His daughter, Lillian, remembers him as a warm and loving father. He worked his daughters hard but they did not resent him."
Mary Ann O'Brate was the eldest daughter of Fredric Moritz Obrecht Obrate and Alice Dorney. She was buried in Olympia. She was with the family in Rush County KS in 1885. It is not known why or when she went west to Washington State. She met and married Fredrich Schonhard in 1894. She was a very quiet person and spoke less as she grew older. She suffered greatly with arthritis in her hands and later other joints. Her last years were very self secluded. Because of her quiet manner, she was not close to her children. Some records place her birth in Ohio and some in Iowa.
Carolyn Trent Stewart, 2007
Fredrick Joseph Schoenhardt and his wife Mary Ann Obrate
with daughters Mary Lillian, Helen, and Rose, circa 1900
- The Descendants of Friedrich Schönhardt
- 5.1.....Mary Lillian Schoenhard (*15.12.1894 Olympia WA, +03.07.1970 Richmond CA)
- Mary Lillian was married to Frederick Nobel Lease (*11.03.1891 Cascade MT, +09.11.1970 Placerville CA) in Seattle on 03 Jun 1919.
- Children: (4)
- 4.1.....Helen Lorraine Lease
- 4.2.....Mary Edith Lease (*09.03.1920 Washington, +11.05.1984 El Dorado, CA)
- Mary was wed to Albert Trent in San Francisco on 16.05.1938.
- Children: (1)
- 1.1.....Carolyn Lorraine Trent (*1938)
- Carolyn and Gordon W. Stewart were married ...............
- Mary later had three other husbands: In 1946 to Dale Oliver Thomas; in 1957 to Harrison James Ambler (* 20.01.1920, +09.10.1988 Mt. Aukum CA); and in 1982 to Richard Baumann.
- 4.3.....Thomas Lambert Lease (*19.09.1921 Washington, +04.01.1990 Contra Costa Cty CA)
- 4.4.....Frederick Noble Lease (*16.02.1927 El Cerrito CA)
- Margaret Josephine Buhlis was wed to Fred Lease in 1952 in Richmond CA.
- Children: (3)
- 3.1.....Karen Lease
- Fred was married to Catherine Baldwin in his second marriage on10 Jul 1959 in California.
- 3.2.....Patricia Lease
- 3.3.....Nancy Lorraine Lease
- 5.2.....Helen Franses Schonhard (*18.10.1896 South Union, Thurston WA, +10.04.1954 Honolulu, HI)
- Helen moved to Hawaii in 1921 following graduation from Washington State Teachers College. She began her teaching career there. She organized
the libraries of several area schools.
Helen was an avid swimmer who never married. She was buried in Diamond Head, Honolulu. - 5.3.....Rose Schonhard (*25.02.1899 South Union, Thurston WA, +22.07.1984 Kingman, AZ)
- Rose never married. She worked in industrial plants in the Los Angeles area during WW2. One photo of her makes one think of "Rosie the Riveter". She was
keenly interested in atomic power and wrote a play concerning it. The play was never published. She
wrote other plays and poetry.
Rose had a 'falling out' with her sister, Mary Lillian, but never would divulge what it was about. Rose lived most of her life in Los Angles but the last year lived in Kingman AZ where she is buried. - 5.4.....Alice Irene Schonhard (*22.07.1901 South Union WA, +28.10.1984 Oak Harbor WA)
- Alice married Cecil Vidor Ayers in about 1927 in Seattle.
- 5.5.....George Maurice Schonhard (*18.03.1903 South Union, Thurston WA, +12.10.1974 Wapato WA)
George Maurice Schonhard (*1903) - George and Mary Harriet Hageman (*19.04.1909 Anthony KS, +11.02.1988 Beaverton OR) were married 12 Jun 1937.
- Children: (2)
- 2.1.....George Phillip Schonhard (*02.08.1939)
- Judith Ann Clinkingbeard and George Schonhard were married.
- Children: (1)
- 1.1.....David Joseph Schonhard (*12.10.1963)
- 2.2.....Judy Lee Schonhard (*30.05.1942)
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