Elsie May Schantz

Brief Life History of Elsie May

When Elsie May Schantz was born on 3 May 1884, in Trumbauersville, Bucks, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Enos Franklin Schantz, was 21 and her mother, Mary Ann Fronheiser, was 21. She married Irwin Conrad Renninger on 11 November 1905, in Montgomery, Pennsylvania, United States. She lived in Franconia Township, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, United States in 1900 and Upper Hanover Township, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, United States in 1910. She died on 25 April 1960, in Allentown, Lehigh, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Souderton, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Family Time Line

Horace Snyder Gerhart
1879–1948
Elsie May Schantz
1884–1960
Mildred Gerhardt
1907–1996

Sources (8)

  • Elsie Reninger in household of Irwin C Reninger, "United States Census, 1910"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Elsie May Schantz - Published information: birth-name: Elsie May Schantz
  • Elsie May Schantz, "Pennsylvania Civil Marriages, 1677-1950"

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World Events (8)

1886

Statue of Liberty is dedicated.

1886 · Giving Working Men a Union

The largest union group in the United States during the first half of the 20th century. It still exists today but merged with The Congress of Industrial Organization.

1904

St. Louis, Missouri, United States hosts Summer Olympic Games.

Name Meaning

German: from Middle High German schanz ‘work jacket’, probably applied to someone who wore an unusual and noticeable one.

German: topographic name from Late Middle High German schanze ‘defense structure, earthwork’, earlier ‘(bundle of) brushwood’, piles of which were used to construct defense lines. The name may have been applied to someone who built or lived near such a structure.

German: nickname for a gambler, from Middle High German schanz(e) ‘game of dice, hazard’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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