Clara Louise Schultz ^{1 2 3 4 5 6 7}

  Birth Notes:

Name: Clara Schultz
Gender: Female
Birth Date: 20 May 1881
Birthplace: Oakwood, Wabasha, Minnesota
Race: White
Father's Name: William
Father's Birthplace: Germany
Mother's Name: Bertha
Mother's Birthplace: Germany
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C75120-2
System Origin: Minnesota-EASy
GS Film number: 1320190
Reference ID: v A p 219

Citing this Record:
"Minnesota, Births and Christenings, 1840-1980," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FDQ8-3FH : accessed 19 Nov 2014), Clara Schultz, 20 May 1881; citing Oakwood, Wabasha, Minnesota, reference v A p 219; FHL microfilm 1320190.
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  Death Notes:

Clara Rollins
United States Social Security Death Index
Age: 85
Given Name: Clara
Surname: Rollins
Birth Date: 21 Apr 1881
State: Wisconsin
Last Place of Residence: Clark, Wisconsin
Previous Residence Postal Code: 54446
Event Date: Jul 1966

Citing this Record
"United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V9CY-NPG : 20 May 2014), Clara Rollins, Jul 1966; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).
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  Noted events in her life were:

• She has alternate birth date of 21 April 1881 and a birth location of Minnesota.

In spite of the Minnesota Birth record which provides a birth date of 20 May 1881, the 1900 census indicated a birth date of Apr 1881.
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• She appeared on the 1900 US Census in Sigel, WI on 16 June 1900. ⁶

1900 US Census
Page 5A, District 55, Dwelling 85, Family 88
Sigel, Chippewa County, Wisconsin
farm owned with mortgage
Clara Schultz..Daughter..Apr 1881..19..MN
(Living with parents.)
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• She appeared on the 1910 US Census in Fremont, WI on 10 May 1910. ¹

1910 US Census
Sheet 12B, District 24, Dwelling 232, Family 236, Roll 1704
Fremont, Clark County, Wisconsin
Farm owned, with mortgage
newly married
Clara L. Rollins..Wife..28..MN
(Living with husband and widowed mother-in-law.)

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• She appeared on the 1920 US Census in Fremont, WI on 8 January 1920. ²

1920 US Census
Sheet 2B, District 18, Dwelling 41, Family 43, Roll 1979
Fremont, Clark County, Wisconsin
Farm owned, with mortgage
Clara L. Rollins..Wife..38..MN
(Living with husband, 2 children, mother-in-law, sister-in-law, and brother-in-law.)
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• She appeared on the 1930 US Census in Fremont, WI on 2 April 1930. ³

1930 US Census
Sheet 1A, District 11, Dwelling 6, Family 6, Roll 2563
Fremont, Clark County, Wisconsin
Home owned
Clara Rollins..Wife..48..MN
(Living with husband, son, and adopted daughter.)

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• She appeared on the 1940 US Census in Fremont, WI on 3 May 1940. ⁴

1940 US Census
Sheet 11B, District 10-11, Family 230, Roll 4465
Fremont, Clark County, Wisconsin
Home owned, $1000
Residence in 1935: Same house
Clara Rollins..Wife..58..8th grade..MN
(Living with husband and adopted daughter.)
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• She was buried after 25 July 1966 in the Loyal City Cemetery in Loyal, WI.

Find A Grave Memorial #74003446
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Clara married John T. Rollins Jr., son of John H. Rollins and Josephine, on 14 September 1909 in Sigel, WI.^{1 2 3 4} (John T. Rollins Jr. was born on 25 January 1869 in Adams County, WI,^{1 2 3 4 8} died on 27 September 1947 in Loyal, WI ⁸ and was buried after 27 September 1947 in Loyal, WI ⁸.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• They appeared on the 1910 US Census in Fremont, WI on 10 May 1910. ¹

1910 US Census
Sheet 12B, District 24, Family 236, Roll 1704
Fremont, Clark, Wisconsin
Farm owned, with mortgage
Newly married
John Rollins..Head..41..WI..Farmer, General
Clara L. Rollins..Wife..28..MN
Josephine Rollins..Mother..82..ME..Widowed
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• They appeared on the 1920 US Census in Fremont, WI on 8 January 1920. ²

1920 US Census
Sheet 2B, District 18, Family 43, Roll 1979
Fremont, Clark, Wisconsin
Farm owned, with mortgage
John Rollins..Head..50..WI..Farmer
Clara L. Rollins..Wife..38..MN
Vera L. Rollins..Daughter..9..WI
Robert R. Rollins..Son..7..WI
Josephine Rollins..Mother..91..ME..Widowed
Amanda Tarbox..Sister..72..ME..Widowed
Edgar Rollins..Brother..65..MI..Widowed
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• They appeared on the 1930 US Census in Fremont, WI on 2 April 1930. ³

1930 US Census
Sheet 1A, District 11, Family 6, Roll 2563
Fremont, Clark, Wisconsin
Home owned
John Rollins..Head..61..WI..Farmer
Clara Rollins..Wife..48..MN
Robert Rollins..Son..17..WI..Laborer, Farm
Cecila Rollins..Adopted daughter..11..WI
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• They appeared on the 1940 US Census in Fremont, WI on 3 May 1940. ⁴

1940 US Census
Sheet 11B, District 10-11, Family 230, Roll 4465
Fremont, Clark, Wisconsin
Home owned, $1000
Residence in 1935: Same house
John Rollins..Head..71..WI..8th grade..Farm Laborer
Clara Rollins..Wife..58..8th grade..MN
Cecelia Rollins..Daughter..21..WI
Louis Vanderhoff..Hired hand..34..WI
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  Marriage Notes:

Prepared by: KevinRess@yahoo.com; John & Clara's great-grandson on July 27, 2014:

See the included image of the postcard that was written in 1909 by John T. Rollins to his future bride, Miss Clara Louise Schultz. It is postmarked August 24, 1909 at 6 p.m. in Spencer, Marathon County, Wisconsin post office. The front of the postcard depicts the street scene in Chili (Clark County), Wisconsin. The back side contains a secret message John writes to Clara that only the two of them could decipher. The initials "J. R." in the upper-left hand corner are John Rollins, who was 40 years old at the time; his love Clara would've been 28 years old. At the time, John was farming at the Chili homestead. Clara, was working in the kitchen at the Hotel Manley in Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wisconsin. Kevin Ress shared the postcard with members of the Associated Bank Information Security team in January 2014. Very quickly, they decoded it. The message reads:

My love, my darling, my own sweet wife.
This is a picture of your future home.
Dearest how do you like it love?
I am still lame but at work all the same.
Good bye my love.
Write soon. Your loving.

John and Clara would marry a month after this postcard in the Town of Sigel, Chippewa County WI on September 14, 1909. They would subsequently have two children, Vera Louise (Lavandowski) on June 3, 1910 (death March 23, 2004) and a son Robert Roy Rollins on May 20,1912 (death December 23, 1994).

John and Clara also had a third child they fostered, Charolette Helen (Libby) Rollins; known to the family as "CeCe". She comes from John's older brother Charles, who had a daughter named Perseus that bore three children. Unfortunately Spanish Influenza took the lives of Perseus and her husband Thomas Libby. The two oldest children, Thomas Jr (named after their father) and Josephine (named after her grandmother) were sent to an orphanage. The youngest was CeCe; she was sent to live with John and Clara. In 1925, when CeCe was 6 years old, John and Clara adopted her.
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