SCHULER
Michael Schuler
Michel Schuler was born 30 October 1818 in Hesse, Germany and died 02 March 1871. He is buried in Nicolaus Cemetery in California. He left Germany 25 November 1868 on the ship Hoisatia. His occupation is listed as "Arbeiter." He was naturalized in the Northern District of California.
Margaretha "Margaret" Phillippina Stein
Margaret Stein was born 18 May 1820 (baptized 28 May) in Hesse, Germany to Jacob Stein and Christine Elizabetha. M.P. Stein was the El Dorado street grain merchant. She married Michael Schuler and traveled with him on 08 December 1868 to the United States. In August 1893, she fell while going down to the cellar at her son's house and fractured one of the lower bones of her right leg below the knee. She passed away at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. H.H. Schutz at No. 110 A Street on 01 December 1899. Interment was made in the Marysville cemetery.
PILLARS SCHULER
Conrad Schuler
2nd Wife Emma Gottwals
Conrad Schuler was born 11 November 1849 in Frankfurt on Main, Germany. He left Hamburg, Germany on the ship Borussia and arrived in New York 13 July 1868. He bought the Clem Kimball ranch on the Township Road in 1887. He owned 316 acres near Harkey's Corners. He was also road overseer in 1874 and school trustee in 1875-76. On 27 March 1875 he married Rosa Zinz in Sutter, California. Her family was wealthy, and they built the first brewery in Sacramento. After Rosa's death, he married Emma Gottwals 11 March 1877 in Marysville. In September 1887, Conrad sold the old Danville ranch (1,500 acres) twelve miles north of Marysville on the river road and eight miles from Gridley on account of it being too small to come up to his ideas of California farming. He bought the Kimball ranch in Sutter county. He held an auction to reduce his inventory of ranch animals and equipment. June of 1890, he advertised his Percheron Normal Milan Stallion (Pedigree: Milan, No. 2,738 and bred by M. Dupont of Argentan) available for stud. The stallion was dark gray, 7 years old, 1800 pounds, 17 hand high on short legs with remarkable muscle and heavy, clean, flat bone. He was a grain farmer who added peaches and almonds. 03 February 1893, he was reportedly quite sick with pneumonia. In September 1894, he had his left thumb mashed with a hammer and required a surgeon. In June 1896, he bought a Holt Brothers' 1896 Combined Harvester and by November 1896, he filed with court a petition, schedule, and inventory in insolvency. In June 1899, he was paid $3 by the county for blacksmithing. In September 1916, he filed a will amounting to $24,000 mostly in realty at O'Banion Corners. He died of an extended illness, principally a heart affection. He was an active member of the Masonic Lodges of Yuba City and Marysville and Marysville Commandery of Knights Templar. In 1923, a suit for quiet title of the 2800 acres in the Marcuse Colony that was inherited by Michael Hefner's children. A mausoleum was built for his and his family's remains.
2nd Wife Emma Gottwals
2nd Wife Emma Gottwals
Emma Gottwals was born in February 1858 in Colusa, California to Conrad Gottwals and Margarethe Hoer, a well known Sutter County pioneer woman who, at the time of her death, owned property estimated at $50,000 (480 acres of land and bank stock). Conrad Gottwals owned the Sutter cafe on Third street and died at his home of blood poisoning. There is a monument which marks his grave on the Gottwals plot. He had been a member of numerous lodges including Marysville Parlor No. 6, Native Sons of the Golden West, Apache Tribe No. 148, Improved Order of Red Men, Wahnita Council Degree of Pocahontas, and the German society of Marysville. He was a grand officer in the Knights of the Royal Arch. Emma died at her home in Marysville, 725 Sixth Street (former residence of Dr. A.E. Kline), on 22 January 1925 having been stricken with paralysis. She had had several strokes. She is entombed in the mausoleum in Yuba City. Carl G. Ott was a pallbearer.
1st Wife Rosa Zins
1st Wife Rosa Zins
Rosa Zins was born 22 September 1849 in Sacramento County, California to George Zinz and Dorothea Mueller. She died 27 December 1875 in Yuba County, California. She is buried in the Marysville Cemetery in the Schuler Plot. Her mother, Dorathea Mueller Wolfinger was born in Germany and came with her first husband Wolfinger from Germany. They joined the ill fated Donner Party where Mr. Wolfinger was killed by two men from the Party at Humboldt Sink. Dorothea survived the event by being rescued by the First Relief. She married Georg Zins, a native of Searsburg, Lorraine. Zins started a brick making business in Sutterville in 1847 and hauled the bricks for the first brick structure at 1323 Front Street in Sacramento by oxen teams. In 1849, Zins constructed a two story brick house, the Anchor House, at the cost of $40,000 obtained from John Sutter.
OTT SCHULER
Carl Gerhardt Ott
Carl Gerhardt Ott
Carl Gerhardt Ott
Carl Gerhart Ott was born 28 March 1881 in Keokuk County, Iowa. He was medium build and weight with light blue eyes and light brown hair. During World War 1, he was a machinist. During World War 2, he lived on Route 1, O'Banion Corners, Sutter where he owned a ranch. Carl Ott met Lauretta Schuler when they both took part in an amateur play, "Hearts and Diamonds," given to raise money to build a pony shed for kids who rode their ponies to school on the old Gaither school grounds. Carl played the villain, and Lauretta and her sister played twin sisters. On 08 November 1906, he married Lauretta Schuler at the German Lutheran Church in Sacramento and spent their honeymoon in San Francisco and the coastal areas. He came to Sacramento as a youth working as a blacksmith, and then moved to Sutter County to work in the Blacksmith shop (burned to the ground 02 September 1948) of Erich Schmidt (Saxony, Germany), associated with Buffalo Bill as a cowboy, at O'Banion Corners where he built buggies and wagons. He built a Surrey without the fringe on top for a customer and for himself he built the first "rubber tired" buggy in the neighborhood." He told about a practical joke played on him, "My own horse was lame and I borrowed a horse from the stables of Abbot orchard. Well, I didn't know it but the horse I was given was one that would often stop along the road whenever it pleased his fancy. This evening I had taken my best girl to Marysville and we were making the return trip when the horse decided to stop and nothing we could do or say could induce him to so much as budge. Finally after an hour or so, the spirit must have moved him. . .I was greeted with a laugh when the horse and I arrived at the Abbot orchard and I knew that the fellows had played a joke on me by giving me that particular horse which was known to be a temperamental creature" He purchased the blacksmith shop and worked it until he was injured while shoeing a horse. Since then he became an orchardist, raising cherries, cling and freestone peaches. In 1903, he "made complaint. . .that a dark bay mare belonging to hims was stolen from the block, 16th and 17th, R and S Street" For vacation July 1910, the couple went to Pacific Grove. In 1929, Charles owned 80 acres on Carlson road at the Hutchinson road intersection and 50 acres of it is in peaches, the remainder used as a hog ranch. In 1930, he was a member of the Central-Gaither Aggie club. On 23 December 1950, he was elected "overseer" of the General Sutter Grange. He lived at 843 Cooper Ave, Yuba City when he died 23 September 1965 and is buried in Sutter Cemetery (E-63-4). Social Security # 553-18-8957.
Lauetta Schuler
Carl Gerhardt Ott
Carl Gerhardt Ott
Lauetta (pronounced LOU-ETTA). Schuler was born 10 June 1881 near Yuba City and moved to Honcut when a small child. Her parents were Conrad Schuler (11 Nov 1849 in Frankfort-on-Main, Duchy of Nassau - 02 Sept 1916 in Sutter) and Emma Gottwals (Feb 1858 in Colusa - 22 Jan 1925 in Yuba City). The Schulers were a large, extended family who settled in the greater Sacramento area in the late 1850s. Conrad Schuler moved in 1868 to the Marcuse district of Sutter County before settling on a farm in Honcut. He purchased land in O'Banion corners. In partnership with U. Jones, he owned and operated one of the first stationary threshing machines. 16 July 1941, her grandparents were living in Modesto, and the Otts drove down to visit often. She appears at nearly every social event with the Seuferts and the Schulers. She was a member of the Martha Circle of Grace Ladies' Aid. She married Carl Gerhardt Ott in November 1906 in California. She died 29 October 1966 in Placer County and was buried in Sutter Cemetery.