JOSEPH M. SCHAAF

Born: April 7, 1828 Alsace-Lorraine, Rhin-Bas, France
Died: March 29, 1911 New Ulm, Brown, Minnesota
Buried: Calvary Cemetery, St. Paul, Ramsey, Minnesota

Parents:

Marriage:

Occupation:

Michael Schaaf
Madelaine Acker

Franciska "Francis" Cecelia Stimmler
May 1, 1855
St. Mary the Assumption Church
Manayunk, Pennsylvania

Farmer [Source: NA Film No. T9-0635, p. 256D]
Justice of the peace
Retired merchant of wood and coal [Source: MN Certificate of Death 1391]

Children:	Joseph N.	May 11, 1856	† Apr. 4, 1933
	Anna Maria "Mary Ann"	Dec. 5, 1857	† Sept. 7, 1930
	Maria Magdalena	Abt. 1859
	Otilia	Feb. 1860
	Anna T.	Nov. 3, 1861	† Apr. 9, 1938
	Cecilia	Abt. 1864
	John M.	Feb. 1865	† Apr. 28, 1869
	Emma	Feb. 1866
	Valentine George	Jan. 28, 1869	† May 30, 1940
	John Michael	Jan. 31, 1872	† May 11, 1948
	Veronica Rosa	Oct. 20, 1874

Notes:

Joseph and Frances Schaaf and their family located for a brief period at St. Paul and later moved to Carver County where they resided on a farm in Laketown for some years. On May 11, 1858, Joseph was elected as one of two justices of the peace in the first town meeting for organizing Laketown.

He was living in Chaska, Carver, Minnesota on Sept. 27, 1864 when he was inducted as a Private into Minnesota Regiment B Heavy Artillery for the Union Army in the American Civil War.

In 1880 his brother-in-law, Father Valentine, founded St. Joseph's parish in Murdock, Minnesota. Joseph and Frances moved with their family from Victoria in 1879 and settled in Murdock, and Father Valentine visited the parish once a month.

At the time of the 1880 federal census, Joseph was 54 years old and living with his wife Frances and their 9 children on the family farm in Dublin, Swift, Minnesota [Source: NA Film No. T9-0635, p. 256D].

At the time of the 1900 federal census, Joseph was 72 years old and living with his wife Frances C. and their 30-year-old widowed daughter Emma (working as a cigar dealer) at 582 Lafond St., St. Paul, Ramsey, Minnesota. He was working as a wood and coal dealer. He stated that he had immigrated to the United States from France in 1844. [Source: Vol. 48, E.D. 130, Sheet 1, Line 13]

As of June 15, 1908 Joseph was living at 582 Lafond St., St. Paul, Ramsey, Minnesota. He was 80 years old at the time. [Source: General Affidavit signed by Joseph Schaaf, June 15, 1908]

Joseph died of liver cancer at 11 p.m. on March 29, 1911, just nine days short of his 83rd birthday.