60. Aloysius (Louie) Michael5 Schneider (Nicholas4, Martin3, Anton2, Nickolaus1) was born in Dearborn, MI 7/26/1893. Louie, as he was known to his family and friends, died 9/25/1976 at 83 years of age.
He married Mary Elizabeth "Lizzie" Wittersheim 10/5/1915 in St. Alphonsus Church, Dearborn, Michigan.
Louie Michael and Lizzie Schneider had the following children:
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Dolores Schneider
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Cleta Schneider
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Margaret Schneider
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Louis Schneider
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Delphine Schneider
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Ruth T. Schneider
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William F. Schneider
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Kenneth Martin Schneider, born 9/23/1932
The following stories and images come from Kenneth (2/10/2008).
I am the 8th child of Louis M. Schneider of Dearborn. I am still alive and well, living in Trenton, MI. I have a small collection of Schneider bricks, gathered over the years from miscellaneous sites. We had a family reunion in 2000 which was held here in Trenton - all 8 of us attended, plus most of our kids and a good smattering of grandkids, about 100 total attended. I have always been the most interested in our heritage. I noted with special interest the note from Bob Wittersheim referring to me. My wife happened on his wife in a beauty parlor many years ago and we met and discussed lineage. Most interesting, my mother is referred to as Lizzie. I have a little pitcher they (my parents) got at a Detroit State Fair before they were married and it is inscribed with "Lizzie."
My dad signed his name Louis M. Schneider and I never knew him as Aloysius. He and his brothers all worked at the (Schneider) brickyard. I have been trying to find our what happened to the Schneider Brick Co. A friend recently did some research and found Joseph Nicholas listed as President and Manager - he was Nicholas younger brother. Dad's father, Nicholas, was killed in 1913. I do know that when Dad and Uncle Frank were married in 1915, they opened a grocery store together and did not work at the brickyard at that time. Nicholas' widow, Mary, sold the farm on Miller Rd. to Henry Ford - his first purchase of property to build the Ford Rouge plant. Here is a photo of Henry Ford with my grandmother and others when the purchase was consummated.
Both of my grandmothers, Mary Schneider & Caroline Wittersheim, baby sat Henry Ford. My grandfather (mother's side), Nicholas Wittersheim, built the first brick church at St.Alphonsus Parish in Springwells. Henry Ford came to both of my grandmothers' funerals.
Here are pictures taken in 1914 at the Henry Ford Homestead on Ford Rd. I scanned photocopies, I do not have the original photos. The article from the Ford World magazine of 1973 is of an interview with Peter Francis (Frank), my dad's twin. He relates in the first column how he remembers Henry Ford invited my grandmother, Mary Schneider, and her brothers to the Ford home to celebrate the first purchase of land for his Rouge Plant, her 55 acre farm on Miller Rd.
Seven of the eight children of Aloysius and "Lizzie" are living, Dolores, at age 91, to me, Kenneth, age 75. Only William F. is gone. Ironically, one of my grandsons is currently spending his junior year at the Univ. of Berlin and plans to investigate the area around Kehrig for relative traces. His grandfather on his father's side, last name Balhorn, also immigrated from the Koblenz area and settled in Dearborn. I said my namesake, my middle name is Martin, my sons middle name is Martin, and two grandsons carry the same.
All three articles are on the Schneider/Theisen & Henry Ford Page.
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