Mary Ann Schefter

1851 - 1934  (82 years)

• Name	Mary Ann Schefter
  Born	26 Jul 1851	Maryhill (New Germany) Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-221557
  Died	1934  [1]
  Buried	Saint Peters Cemetery, Jefferson City, Cole, Missouri, United States   [1]
  Person ID	I221557	Generations
  Last Modified	25 Apr 2024

  
  

  Father	Leander Schefter,   b. 28 Feb 1812, Soufflenheim, District of Haguenau, Alsace, France ,   d. 14 Dec 1899, Bruce Twp., Bruce Co., Ontario, Canada  (Age 87 years)
  Mother	Stephania Uhrich,   b. 31 Dec 1813, Soufflenheim, District of Haguenau, Alsace, France ,   d. 16 Apr 1858, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 44 years)
  Family ID	F60479	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  PARALYSIS FATAL TO MRS. SAILER Mother of Founder of the Daily Post Succumbs at Age of 81 Mrs. Mary Ann Sailer died at her home oil West McCarty Street at 1:15 last, night after a brief illness of complications. She was 81. years old. Mrs. Sailer contracted pneumonia about two weeks ago but had apparently fully recovered. Thursday night she suffered a stroke of paralysis and since that time her death had been only a question of days. She was' conscious to the last. Mary Ann Schefter Sailer was born in Ontario, Canada, July 26, 1853. She married Henry Sailer there February 22, 1870 and a year later they started for Missouri. They first settled in Jefferson, City occupying a house on McCarty Street near the present home place. After two years Mrs Sailer purchased a farm three miles north at Cedar City. They resided there for ten years but desirous of affording their children better educational advantages than were offered at that time in the rural schools of Callaway County moved to Jefferson City where she has resided since that time. She was the mother of ten children Two died in infancy and one, the late Herman S. Sailer, widely known widely known printer was winning a reputation for himself as a man of letters, died September 30, 1917. The surviving children are Jos. Sailer, founder and for more than; twenty years editor and publisher of the Jefferson City Daily Post, Sister M. Angeline of the Ursaline Convent at Caruthersville, Sister M. Louise of the Ursaline Convent at Caruthersville, Mrs. R. F. Boehme , Sedalia, Mrs. F. W. Vogel of Jefferson City, Mrs. Rosanne Steel of Wood River, Ill. and Miss Florence Sailer or Jefferson City. There are fourteen grandchildren and one great - grandchild. One brother. Ignatius Schefter of Detroit also survives. Mrs. Sailer was a faithful and devoted member of St. Peters Church and was perhaps the oldest member of the Ladies' Altar Society of that parish. The funeral will take place Thursday. .

  
  

• Sources

  [S3231] Find A Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/23186583/mary-ann-sailer.

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 26 Jul 1851 - Maryhill (New Germany) Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario Buried - - Saint Peters Cemetery, Jefferson City, Cole, Missouri, United States  = Link to Google Earth