Margaret Elizabeth Gatons

  Noted events in her life were:

• Census, 08 Jun 1900, Joliet, Will, Illinois, USA. ¹⁰
Name Rel Col Sex Mo Year Age Self Father Mother Occ.
Gaton, Margaret Dau W F June 1884 15 Ill New York Ill At School

• Residence: 209 Cass Street, 1900, Joliet, Will, Illinois, USA. ¹¹

• Census: 1910 US, 21 Apr 1910, Joliet, Will, Illinois, USA. ³
|145|167|Schuck, William.|Head|M|W|31..|M|1|.|.|Illinois|Ger German|Ger German|||English|Salesman....|Hardware|W|No|0|Y|Y|.|R|.|H|..|.|.|.|
|145|167|Schuck, Margaret|Wife|F|W|24..|M|1|1|1|Illinois|Illinois..|Illinois..|||English|None........|........|.|..|.|Y|Y|.|.|.|.|..|.|.|.|
|145|167|Schuck, Eugene..|Son.|M|W|5/12|.|.|.|.|Illinois|Illinois..|Illinois..|||English|............|........|.|..|.|Y|Y|.|.|.|.|..|.|.|.|

• Residence: 207 Cass St, 21 Apr 1910, Joliet, Will, Illinois, USA. ³

• Census: 1920 US, 12 Jan 1920, Joliet, Will, Illinois, USA. ¹²
|28|50|Schuck, William.|Head|R|.|M|W|41..|M||||.|Y|Y|Illinois||Illinois||Illinois|Y|Salesman|Hardware store|M|.|
|28|50|Schuck, Margaret|Wife|.|.|F|W|34..|M||||.|Y|Y|Illinois||Illinois||Illinois|Y|None....|..............|.|.|
|28|50|Schuck, Eugene..|Son.|.|.|M|W|10..|S||||Y|Y|Y|Illinois||Illinois||Illinois|Y|None....|..............|.|.|
|28|50|Schuck, Raymond.|Son.|.|.|M|W|08..|S||||Y|.|.|Illinois||Illinois||Illinois|.|None....|..............|.|.|
|28|50|Schuck, William.|Son.|.|.|M|W|05..|M||||.|.|.|Illinois||Illinois||Illinois|.|None....|..............|.|.|
|28|50|Schuck, Lawrence|Son.|.|.|M|W|1/12|S||||.|.|.|Illinois||Illinois||Illinois|.|None....|..............|.|.|

• Residence: 209 Cass Street, 12 Jan 1920, Joliet, Will, Illinois, USA. ¹²

• Census: 1930 US, 03 Apr 1930, Joliet, Will, Illinois, USA. ¹³
|18|22|Schuck, Wm P....|Head|R|10.00|R|N|M|W|51|M|29|N|Y|Illinois|Germany.|Illinois||61|13|1||||Y|Salesman|Hardware Co|4590|W|N|25|N|
|18|22|Schuck, Margaret|Wife|.|.....|.|v|F|W|44|M|23|N|Y|Illinois|Illinois|Illinois||61|..|.||||Y|None....|...........|....|.|.|..|.|
|18|22|Schuck, Eugene..|Son.|.|.....|.|v|M|W|20|S|..|N|Y|Illinois|Illinois|Illinois||61|..|.||||Y|Salesman|R R Station|4577|W|N|26|N|
|18|22|Schuck, Raymond.|Son.|.|.....|.|v|m|W|19|S|..|Y|Y|Illinois|Illinois|Illinois||61|..|.||||Y|None....|...........|....|.|.|..|.|
|18|22|Schuck, William.|Son.|.|.....|.|v|M|W|15|S|..|Y|Y|Illinois|Illinois|Illinois||61|..|.||||Y|Laborer.|Mills Steel|7824|W|Y|15|N|
|18|22|Schuck, Lawrence|Son.|.|.....|.|v|M|W|10|S|..|Y|Y|Illinois|Illinois|Illinois||61|..|.||||Y|None....|...........|....|.|.|..|.|

• Residence: 209 Cass St, 03 Apr 1930, Joliet, Will, Illinois, USA. ¹³

• Social Security Number: 360-38-6294, 1963, Joliet, Will, Illinois, USA. ¹⁴

• Residence: 1205 N Raynor St, Mar 1968, Joliet, Will, Illinois, USA. ¹⁵

• Obituary: Joliet Herald News, 12 Mar 1986, Joliet, Will, Illinois, USA. ¹⁶  

Mrs. Margaret E. Schuck, 82, of 1205 N. Raynor Ave. died Monday at Saint Joseph Hospital following a brief illness.

Mrs. Schuck was a daughter of pioneer Joliet settlers, the late Samuel and Mary Ann Mahoney Gatons.

Her husband, the late William P. Schuck, was a retire (sic) employee of Poehner and Dillman Co.

She is survived by four sons, Eugene G. of Joliet, Raymond W. of Sparta, Wis., William J. of Villa Park and Lawrence J. of Wallace, ID; Three sister (sic), Mrs. John (Loretto) Riordan of Joliet, Mrs. Alice McGinnes and Sister Germine (Agnes); nine grandchildren and 12 great grandchildren.

Services will be at 9 a.m. from Fred C. Dames Funeral Home to the Cathedral of St. Raymond Nonnatus at 9:30 a.m. for a requiem mass.

Burial will be in St. John's Cemetery.

Friends may call from 7 to 9 p.m. today and from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday.

The Altar and Rosary Society will recite the rosary at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home.

• Cemetery: St John's Catholic Cemetery, 13 Mar 1968, Joliet, Will, Illinois, USA. ¹⁷  
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MARGARET E. SCHUCK
JUNE 3, 1886
MAR 24, 1968

Margaret married William Peter Schuck, son of John Schuch and Gertrude Gorges, on 08 Oct 1908 in Joliet, Will, Illinois, USA.¹ (William Peter Schuck was born on 19 Aug 1878 in Joliet, Will, Illinois, USA ^{3 18 19 20 21}, christened on 01 Sep 1878 in Joliet, Will, Illinois, USA,²² died on 15 Sep 1946 in Joliet, Will, Illinois, USA ^{21 23} and was buried on 18 Sep 1946 in Joliet, Will, Illinois, USA ^{21 24}.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Marriage: (Recorded at St John's Catholic Church - see William's birth documentation), 08 Oct 1908, Joliet, Will, Illinois, USA. ²⁵
Name Schuch, Peter William Bk 2, Pg 141, No 57

Born August 19, 1878
Baptized September 1, 1878
Father John Schuch
Mother (nee) Gertrude Gorges
Sponsor Peter Weller
Sponsor Mary Elizabeth Welte
Priest Fr. Gerard Becher, OFM

Matrimony
Date October 8, 1908
To Whom? Margaret Gaton
Place B.V.M. .....Joliet, Ill.

• Marriage, 08 Oct 1908, Joliet, Will, Illinois, USA. ²⁵

• Residence, 1947, Joliet, Will, Illinois, USA. 67 W. Cass
Margaret E. (widow of Wm P)

• Letter: From Barbara Schuck Rosalas to John Schuck, 15 Jan 1996, Tucson, Pima, Arizona, USA. ²⁶  
Dear John,
 
Enclosed are family photos and other information. You may keep everything.
 
I do have a Schuck family photo album and a box of pictures. I also have some tin plates. You are welcome to keep what you want.

I do know somw stories about the Schuck and Gaton family. You may know some.
 
Elizabeth would go to early Sunday mass which gave her the opportunity to go back to church when the people in church. She would pick a horse and buggy and drive it around the block. She had to take Louise along or else she would tell.
 
Louise, at times, after work would stop at the neighborhood bar. Elizabeth had to get her.
 
My dad told me this story about your dad. He said Aunt Elizabeth baked a great coffeecake and always made an extra. He said, 'Ray and I went to Aunt Elizabeth's house and they both eyed a coffeecake. Ray always had to carry the cake and once at home got the first slice. On the day that I asked to carry the cake, Ray said no. When it was time to go Elizabeth took the cake and went to wrap it. She came back with the wrapped cake and Ray hurried out the door with cake in hand. Elizabeth started laughing. She handed me another wrapped cake and said 'your brother just took the garbage home.' When I entered my home and went to the kitchen, Ray had a knife and was carefully cutting the string to get what he thought was the cake.' My dad said the look on his face was something he never would forget. They took turns carrying a cake from Aunt Elizabeth's home.
 
Our Grandma Schuck was a well mannered lady for times. My dad said one day for dessert she made a strawberry shortcake. She passed the bowl of strawberries and when she handed back the bowl she started eating from the bowl without thinking. They gave her a good ribbing and would not let her forget every time they ate strawberries.

  Marriage Notes:

 
1100…, 1201…, , 1205. I wasn't sure I would recognize it but I did. The sandstone colored brick house with an east-facing porch was both bright and familiar in the morning light. Liz and I were too early for the courthouse to open and when I crossed N. Raynor Street the name rang a bell in my head so we drove up the road. I had not been to the place since 1970 when mother and I drove south to visit my dying Aunt Lou. She was concerned for me as I was in Vietnam for my second tour and she told mother she would hold on until I came home safe. She was good to her word.

I parked the car around the corner and took out the camera. As I walked toward the front of the house two men working in the garage of the corner house followed me and watched as I took the photo. "Is it for sale, then?" said the first. "No," I laughed, "I'm just taking a picture, my grandmother owned the house and I am here in town to work on genealogy and I thought I would stop by." "Are you a 'Schuck?'" said the other man. I was surprised and said, "Why, yes, I am." The second man said, "I didn't know they had any children." I said, "My father was Raymond, you're thinking of my Uncle Eugene and Aunt Charlotte who lived in the house after Grandmother Schuck died. "Oh, you're Ray's boy," said the old man.

"Charlotte had the house about six years after Gene died and after she died it was a real mess," said the one. "Yeah!" said the older man, "it was sold and it became a 'crack house.'" We had addicts and drunks all over the place. We asked the police to help but that wasn't working fast enough and finally we got our councilman to step in and get it back under control. The current people have had the place for six years or so and we have a good neighborhood again. That is why we were wondering if it was going to be sold." I reassured them that I was just in Joliet to do genealogy research. "That's good, more people should do that," said the first.

They breathed easier as I got into the car and drove on.
^{[ W John Schuck] 27}