Anton Scherer

   Cause of his death was automobile accident.⁹

  General Notes:

 
Antone was born in Oconto, Wisconsin. He was a machinist and carpenter by trade. When John was in Nahma, Antone followed him. He married there and lived in John's home while John was in a Chicago Hospital for 3 years. In 1905-06 he and his family moved to Marinette, Wisconsin. He purchased a home at 60 Terrace Ave. and lived there until his death in 1936 [1933]. I remember going there as a child. He had a beautiful garden and he would make Martha and I whistles from green onion tops. He also carried pink and white mints in his pocket. ^{[Ester Jaeger Bushey]}
 
 
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My memories of Uncle Tone are of a period when he lived on Terrace Ave [Marinette]. He was alone, his children married and gone. He had a huge garden and shared the bounty. In the early 30's he found a lady friend, Tillie - a sparse, sparrow of a lady. He used to stop in to the Jewel Box and visit with Gil whenever he was downtown and wait there for the bus. Thus we kept pretty good tabs on him.
 
In early years he had a boat called the 'Gertrude.' He had an affair with a neighbor girl, last name Kehl, which produced a son Jake Kehl. When Mrs. Kehl came to his mother with the baby, he took off on the Gertrude and went to Nahma where my Grandpa was and worked in the mill there. I recall at Uncle Tone's funeral that Jake was there with the other children. He too walked with a limp having injured his leg while working on the freight elevator at Lauerman's store. It never healed properly and he was always fussing with dressings and medication. I loved to go to his house. He was a great story teller and great with children. ^{[Betty Jaeger Gilbertson]}
 
 
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I have heard Aunt Kitty and Aunt Bizz, my mother’s sisters, talk about visiting at Uncle Tone’s after his wife died and he had made a coffin and had it in the living room for himself when he died. They talked about playing in the coffin - opening it and climbing in and shutting the cover - but he had made this himself and had had it ready for him when he died.
 
He had a beautiful garden and a fence all around his yard. We would go there to get vegetables and apples. He had a wood shed that had lots of tools in it. He would take the green top off an onion and pound it on an anvil to break it a little and then give it to us kids to blow on as a whistle and it would make a noise.
 
Somewhere along his life Uncle Tone was helping put in the elevator at Lauerman’s store and he fell and got something rammed into his leg and I can remember him cleaning this shin bone out and packing fresh gauze in it to clean up the infection. It finally did heal but he walked with a limp.
 
He went on a Thanksgiving we will never forget. We had two families - the Chris Jaegers and the Richard Jaegers and Uncle Tone. The river was frozen solid at Thanksgiving that year and my Mom and Aunt Emma had cooked a turkey and gotten vegetables all ready to cook, derssing made and etc. We started two cars for our old Camp Buck Ste Hoo. We went in the farm before us and parked our cars at Hyatts and got out the sleds and we started up river for about a mile to out cottage. It had to be opened, a fire started and tables set. Anyone of any size pulled a sled or carried something to get things there. We even took molded ice cream in a large container so they would be in good shape when we got there. There were turkey and pumpkins. We got them from Luecks Ice Cream factory. So we finally all got there and had the fire going, put the turkey in the old wood stove, put potatoes on to cook and had vegatables and coffee and milk. After the meal had filled us up we had to close the cottage and pack things on sleighs to start the walk back down the middle of the river to Hyatts. As we were going down river the moon came up - a full moon, and it was gorgeous. Uncle Tone helped take care of my brother Dick. It was a day none of us will ever forget. The full moon and all of us tracking down the river and pulling sleds or just helping the smaller kids and the river frozen hard enough for us to walk on and travel far and the full moon coming upwhilw we were in the river walking to Hyatts to get in the cars and head back to Marinette - 27 miles away - Wonderful memories.
 
Before I can remember but I heard talk of your grandfather Antone while a young man had a girl in Oconto by the name of Kehl. He got her pregnant but would not marry her. After the baby was born (a boy) her mother would walk the baby in a buggy past the Scherer home in Oconto every day possible but your grandfather left Oconto and went up to Nahma and worked for his brother John at the Farnsworth mill.
 
He met and married Anne LaFonde, your grandmother, and he lived in my grandfather’s house when he [John Scherer] had to go to Chicago to the hospital for tuberculosis of the bone from an accident at the Farnsworth Nahma mill. They lived in John’s house and John’s wife Alta and her two children Margaret and Pauline went to Grand Ledge, Michigan to live with her parents on their farm. It was two years or better he was in the hospital and when Antone moved back to Marinette he took all of the furniture that was in the house of John’s. So many things my mother can remember now were at Antone and Anne’s home.
 
A number of years ago my sister, Esther Jaeger Bushey, was in - I think - Appleton and a man came up to her and asked if she was related to the Scherers. She said yes and he identified himself as the Kehl boy. ^{[Martha Jaeger Mogensen]} 
 
 
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When John and Alta Scherer left Nahma Uncle ‘Tone took over for him and lived in their house. All the furniture was left there as they did not know how soon Grandfather would be back. So things that my mother could remember as theirs ended up at Uncle Tone’s.
 
When Uncle ‘Tone still lived in Oconto he got a Khel girl pregnant. After the baby (a boy) was born the mother used to ride up and down in front of the Scherer home but Uncle ‘Tone married while up in Nahma, to Anne Lafond. ^{[Martha Jaeger Mogensen]} 
 
 
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You know that Tone’s son, the illegitimate son, used to go to all the funerals. He sat right next to Barbara [Keefe] one of those times ­ she was a cousin. And I’ll tell you, everyone was on needles and pins, and neither one of them flinched... it was great. ^{[Betty Jaeger Gilbertson] 10 11 12 13 14}

  Medical Notes:

 
Anton H. Scherer... passed away about 6:45 o'clock Monday evening in the M. and M. hospital, where he had been a patient for the past seven weeks. He was taken to the hospital after he was seriously injured when struck by an automobile...

  Noted events in his life were:

• Census: 1860 US, 17 Aug 1860, Oconto, Oconto, Wisconsin, USA. ¹⁵
268 | 239 | Henry Shearer | 31 | M | Mason | 600 | 200 | Prussia Germany |
268 | 239 | Mary Shearer | 29 | F | | | | Prussia Germany |
268 | 239 | Matthew Shearer | 6 | M | | | | Wis |
268 | 239 | John Shearer | 4 | M | | | | Wis |
268 | 239 | Antone Shearer | 1 | M | | | | Wis |

• Census: 1870 US, 02 Jul 1870, Oconto, Oconto, Wisconsin, USA. ¹⁶
| 78 | 76 | Sherer, Henry | 47 | M | W | Brick Mason | 800 | 100 | Prussia | / | / | | | | / | / | | / |
| | | Sherer, Mary | 37 | F | W | Keeping House | | | Prussia | / | / | | | | / | / | | |
| | | Sherer, Mathew | 17 | M | W | Laborer | | | Wis | / | / | | | | / | / | | |
| | | Sherer, John | 14 | M | W | At Home | | | Wis | / | / | | | / | / | / | | |
| | | Sherer, Antone | 12 | M | W | At Home | | | Wis | / | / | | | / | / | / | | |
| | | Sherer, Jacob | 9 | M | W | At Home | | | Wis | / | / | | | / | | | | |
| | | Sherer, Magdelana | 5 | F | W | At Home | | | Wis | / | / | | | | | | | |
| | | Sherer, Margaret | 2 | F | W | At Home | | | Wis | / | / | | | | | | | |

• Occupation: millwright, carpenter, and machinist, 1876-1934, Marinette, Marinette, Wisconsin, USA. ¹⁷

• Residence: the Scherer Homestead, 210 Scherer Avenue, 1860-1880, Oconto, Oconto, Wisconsin, USA. ¹⁸

• Publication: Marinette Eagle-Star, 21 May 1934, Marinette, Marinette, Wisconsin, USA. ¹⁹  
BOTH LEGS, ARM BROKEN IN AUTO ACCIDENT HERE
Anton H. Scherer, 75, Struck by Car on Main Street

Anton H. Scherer, 75, 602 Terrace avenue, this city, is in the M. and M. hospital with both legs broken below the knee, a right forearm and bad bruises about the body as a result of being struck by an auto Saturday night about 9:30, as he was getting off a bus.

The driver of the auto which struck Mr. Scherer, Nels Christensen, 27, Broadway, Menominee, was driving west on Main street, from the direction of Menekaune, when he swung out to pass another car just in front of him.

The aged man, who had gotten off a city but [sic] at the corner of Main and 6th street, had walked around the rear of the bus and had stepped toward the middle of the street when he saw the lights of the two cars approaching him.

Just before the cars reached him the Christensen car turned out to pass the one in front, running directly into Mr. Scherer.

Driver is Released

Christensen, who is a worker in the Lloyd Loom factory, was taken into custody at the hospital, where he had taken Mr. Scherer, by the police department. Ed Magnuson, 34, Hosmer street, Marinette, riding with Christensen, at the time of the accident, was also held as a material witness.

Both men were, however, released Sunday on order of Dist. Atty. S. E. Eastman pending further investigation.

Christensen told the district attorney that he had not seen Mr. Scherer until he struck him. He admitted he had turned out to pass the other car, but said that he was driving only 20 miles an hour at the time of the accident.
 
The Menominee driver carries no liability insurance on his auto.

Christensen told Dist. Atty. Eastman that he would return to Marinette at any time he was called on an investigation of the accident.

The condition of Mr. Scherer was reported today to be serious, but a chance was held out for the recovery of the aged man.

• Obituary: Marinette Eagle-Star, 10 Jul 1934, Marinette, Marinette, Wisconsin, USA. ²⁰
ANTON SCHERER PASSES MONDAY
Injuries Prove Fatal to Estimable Resident; Funeral Thursday

Anton H. Scherer, 75, resident of this city for more than thirty years, passed away about 6:45 o'clock Monday evening in the M. and M. hospital, where he had been a patient for the past seven weeks. He was taken to the hospital after he was seriously injured when struck by an automobile, and had suffered the fracture of both legs, one arm and three ribs.

The deceased was born in Oconto, August 5th, 1859. He was a millwright and carpenter by trade.

He is survived by two daughters, Mrs. F.W. Lindsay, 937 Main street, this city and Mrs. Charles Crossman, Hammond, Ind.; one son, Bernard, West Allis; also a brother, John Scherer, DePere, formerly of Marinette, and three sisters, Mrs. Al Whittaker, Mrs. D. D. Keefe, and Miss Etta Scherer, Oconto.

The deceased was a member of the Holy Name society of Our Lady of Lourdes church.

Remains were removed to the McLain funeral home and on Wednesday will be taken to the family home, 602 Terrace Avenue.

Funeral service will be held on Thursday at 9 a. m., in Our Lady of Lourdes church. The Very Rev. Dean John R. McGinley will officiate at the requiem mass.

Interment will be at Forest Home cemetery.

• Obituary: Oconto Enquirer, 12 Jul 1934, Oconto, Oconto, Wisconsin, USA. ²¹
ANTON H. SCHERER, A FORMER RESIDENT OF OCONTO PASSES AWAY


Death claimed Anton H. Scherer, 75, a resident of Marinette, formerly of Oconto, at 6:45 o'clock Monday evening at the M. and M. hospital, Marinette, where he had been a patient for the past seven weeks. He was taken to the hospital after he was seriously injured when struck by an automobile and had suffered the fracture of both legs, one arm and three ribs.

Funeral services were held at 9 o'clock this morning in Our Lady of Lourdes church, Marinette, with the Rev Dean John R. McGinley officiating at the requiem mass assisted by Mr. Scherer's nephew, Fr. A.M. Keefe, DePere. Burial was in the Forest Home cemetery, Marinette.

Anton Scherer was born in Oconto August 5th, 1859 [1858]. He was a millwright and carpenter by trade. For the past 30 years he has lived in Marinette.

Mr. Scherer was a member of the Holy Name society of Our Lady of Lourdes Church of Marinette. He is survived by two daughters, Mrs. F.W. Lindsay, 937 Main Street, Marinette, and Mrs. Charles Crossman, Hammond, Ind.; one son, Bernard, West Allis; also a brother, John Scherer, DePere, and three sisters, Mrs. Al. Whittaker, Mrs. D.T. Keefe, and Miss Etta Scherer, Oconto. Mrs. Al. Whittaker, Mrs. D.T. Keefe and daughter, Barbara, Miss Etta Scherer, Mrs. Edith Scherer and Mrs. Carl Johnston of Oconto attended the funeral.

• Cemetery: Forest Home Cemetery, 12 Jul 1934, Marinette, Marinette, Wisconsin, USA. ^{5 22}  
       FATHER 
ANTON SCHERER 
   1858 † 1934

Anton had a relationship with someone Kehl, daughter of John Kehl and Amelia Hambach.¹

Anton next married Anna Lafond, daughter of William Lafond and Sophie Mayou, in Fayette, Delta, Michigan, USA.² (Anna Lafond was born on 01 Dec 1881 in Fayette, Delta, Michigan, USA,⁵ died on 22 Feb 1909 in Marinette, Marinette, Wisconsin, USA ²³ and was buried in Marinette, Marinette, Wisconsin, USA ²⁴.) The cause of her death was giving birth.⁹