Orpheus Moyer "Orph" Schantz

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• Birth: Port Elgin, Saugeen Twp., Bruce Co., Ontario, Canada
• Name: Orpheus Moyer Schantz
• Eby ID Number: 00110-6960.2
• Residence: 1871, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; United Brethren
• Author: 1928; Birds of Illinois
• Residence: 1935, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States

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In the 1870s there was not much entertainment. In the winter revival services provided most of the excitement. These meetings would last six or seven weeks. Mr. Orpheus Shantz recalled a frame carriage shed which also stood near the Methodist Church in Hawkesville where myriads of bats congregated. Small boys delighted in beating the walls with sticks during the daytime, and then watching the bats fly out in swarms.

Hawkesville United Cemetery, Waterloo Region Branch, Ontario Genealogical Society.

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Orpheus M Schantz was the first born of Tobias & Mary Schantz, he left Conestogo to live with Mary's brother in Iowa in 1881. He was a regular visiter to his family home on Schneider Avenue in Berlin/Kitchener. An artist & expert naturalist, he often recorded events on bracket fungi he collected on woodland walks. Orpheus etched a snowy scene with evergreen trees. He wrote on the margin, "January 1, 1922, First visit by Orpheus in winter since leaving home October 1881." He included the family names including his great niece Dorothy. This curio and several similar decorated fungi were stored in the attic of the Schantz/Russell home until the last decade when it was donated to the Waterloo Region Museum.

Harold Russell 2016 Facebook

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RED BANK, N.J., Sept. 3-- Orpheus M. Schantz, well-known naturalist, who was one of the group instrumental in establishing the Old Smoky Mountain National Park, died here yesterday at the home of his son, Worth F. Schantz. His age was 87.

New York Times 3 Sep 1951

Orpheus married Cornelia Caroline "Carrie" Flagler 30 Jan 1889. Cornelia (daughter of Samuel A. Flagler and Melvina D.) was born 9 Aug 1864, Carbondale Township, Jackson, Illinois, United States; died 26 Oct 1922, Cicero, Cook, Illinois, United States; was buried , Mount Auburn Memorial Park, Stickney, Cook, Illinois, United States. [Group Sheet]

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• Eby ID Number: 00110-6960.6