FRANCISKA "Frances" CECELIA SCHAAF
(née STIMMLER)

Born: May 30, 1835    Wilwisheim, Alsace-Lorraine, Rhin-Bas, France
Died: February 7, 1912    New Ulm, Brown, Minnesota
Buried: February 10, 1912    Calvary Cemetery, St. Paul, Ramsey, Minnesota

Parents:

Marriage:

Occupation:

Johann Stimmler
Mary Magdalene Schmitt

Joseph M. Schaaf
May 1, 1855
St. Mary the Assumption Church
Manayunk, Pennsylvania

Housewife [Source: MN Certificate of Death 1298 (1912)]

Franciska 'Frances' C. Schaaf (née Stimmler)

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:

Johann and Magdalena Stimmler and their family lived in Wilwisheim, Alsace, France. They immigrated to the

United States, departing LaHavre aboard the packet ship Sully under the command of Captain William C. Thompson and arriving in New York on November 28, 1839. Daughter Franciska was 3 years old at the time [Source: N.A. Film No. M237-40, List 862]. She and her family were listed on the ship's manifest thusly:

Jean Stimler, age 48, M
Magd. Stimler, age 44, F
Magd. Stimler, age 15, F
Therese Stimler, age 11, F
Jean Stimler, age 9, M
Nicolas Stimler, age 6, M
Fransisca Stimler, age 3, F
Franz Stimler, age 1, M

With them they took two beds, a chest, a trunk and four bags.

Francis and parents and siblings lived in Manayunk, Pennsylvania. After she married Joseph Schaaf they moved to Minnesota. The 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. They were living in Laketown on May 11, 1858, when her husband Joseph was elected as one of two justices of the peace in the first town meeting.

In 1880 her brother, Father Valentine, founded St. Joseph's parish in Murdock, MN. Frances moved with her family from Victoria in 1879 and settled in Murdock, and he visited the parish once a month.

At the time of the 1880 federal census, Francis was 49 years old and living with her husband Joseph and their 9 children on the family farm in Dublin, Swift County, MN [Source: NA Film No. T9-0635, p. 256D].

At the time of the 1900 federal census, Frances was 65 years old and living with her husband Joseph and their 30-year-old daughter Emma at 582 Lafond St., St. Paul, Ramsey county, MN [Source: Vol. 48, E.D. 130, Sheet 1, Line 13].

Francis died of a cerebral hemorrhage on February 7, 1912 at the St. Alexander Hospital in New Ulm, Brown County MN. She was 76 years, 8 months and 16 days old.