Shultz Obituaries

Name of Deceased: Catharine Geier Shultz
Newspaper: Reading Eagle
Date: Monday, March 16, 1903
Title: Mrs. Henry G. Shultz

Catharine, wife of Henry G. Shultz was found dead in bed shortly at 7.a.m today by her husband, at her residence, 526 North 10th, aged 78 years. She was ailing for some time with paralysis, and was partly helpless. She retired in her usual health. Besides her husband, 3 children remain: Samuel S., Reading; Charles H., Sunbury and John A., of Harrisburg; also a brother Thomas Geiger of Phila., and these sisters: Mrs. Edward Auchenbach, Phila.; Mrs. Jacob Fryer, Milton; Mrs. Amanda Case, Chicago; Mrs. George Walker, Reading; Mrs. John Batz and Mrs. William Snell, Reading. Deceased was a member of the United Brethren church.

Coroner Moyer viewed the body and granted a certificate of death from natural causes.

Name of Deceased: Henry G. Shultz
Newspaper: Reading Eagle
Date: Friday, May 21, 1909
Title: Henry G. Shultz Dies At Harrisburg--Was a Former Resident of Reading

Henry G. Shultz, aged 86 years, 9 months and 18 days, a former resident of this city, died at the home of his son, John Shultz at Harrisburg. The remains will be brought to this city next Tuesday and interred in Charles Evans Cemetery by Undertaker C. Irvin Miller.

While in this city, Mr. Shultz resided at 526 North Tenth Street. He moved to Harrisburg only a few years ago.

Deceased was born at Womelsdorf, Aug. 2, 1822, and his father, Samuel Shultz, died there in 1831. The son attended the school taught by the late Walker Stephen, then a well-known and successful teacher. In 1q837 the widow, Mrs. Shultz removed with her family to Orwigsburg, where the deceased attended school until he was old enough to learn a trade. He served his apprenticeship as carpenter with Jacob Snyder, for whom he worked as a journeyman for some time after learning his trade.

In 1846 deceased went to Schuylkill Haven and worked six months in the P & R. car shops, after which he worked a year for others as a carpenter, and later engaged in business for himself as a contractor and house builder. In the spring of 1860 he went to Tower City, where he worked on houses and at coal breakers as a carpenter, until the fall of 1882, when he came to this city.

The first two years he worked as a journeyman carpenter, and during the ensuing 16 years, from 1884 to 1900, he was in the employ of the Penna. Railroad Company, working on buildings, at stations, bridges and trestlings.

His widow, Catharine (nee Gier) died about 5 years ago. Two sons survive: Charles, a master carpenter at Sunbury, and John, at Harrisburg, with whom deceased resided.

© 2002 Nancy J. Freehafer

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