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Scheloske Family History

Linda (Carpenter) Peterson has written many stories about the families of her ancestors – Glascock Family, Scheloske Family, Nesbit Family and Carpenter Family. She has also written about the first graduation at Weiser Junior High School, and her time as a student at Sunnyside Grade School.

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I found most of the history of the Ottmans, Glascocks and Scheloskes in my mother’s notebook. The Glascocks came from the Glascock book, the family trees of the Glascock. The Ottman history came from the family trees. I also found some information on Google for the Ottman, Glascocks and the Scheloskes. I have some newspaper articles about the Scheloskes. My father had the calendar that listed the birthdays, wedding dates, when people passed away and also the dates of their funerals. Some of the things I have mentioned have been some of my memories.

Fred, Albert and Bunny Scheloske went to East Side School. When my Grandfather Albert Scheloske was 12, my great grandfather Joe kept him out of school doing roofs, etc. My grandfather Albert Scheloske graduated out of the eighth grade on January 26, 1912.

My great grandfather Joe built houses, one stone house on West First Street and Liberty. I know the person who is living there now. Another stone house on Park Street. These houses are in Weiser, Idaho. He also built a house in Sunnyside on River Dock now. The house is gone, but it was located where Ned Anderson lived.

My great grandfather Joe Scheloske built the first car in Weiser, Idaho. It had a wood box and wheels. He was quite a guy to build things. He also built the first travel trailer, it was awful to pull. My great grandfather Joe came up with the 4 wheel drive concept, but he was 6 months to late for the patent.

In the Weiser Catholic Church, he helped build the first pews. He also built the gargoyles for front of the church. In later years, they took the gargoyles off the church and sold them to other churches.

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The start of the Scheloske history: it starts with my great, great, great grandfather Joseph Daniel Scheloske born September 5, 1799 in Silena, Bischofsau, Prussia, and passed January 3, 1879 in Erie, Erie County, Pennsylvania. He married his first wife (no name,) she was born in Germany and passed away in Germany. They had one child named John Joseph Scheloske he was born October 20, 1824 in Breslau, Silesia, Prussia, Germany and he passed away on April 16, 1875 in Erie, Pennsylvania. He married a lady named Martha Elizabeth Roth.

He married his second wife, my great, great, great grandmother Elizabeth Schiersman, she was born December 31, 1802 in Odenwaldkreis, Hessen, Germany and passed away on February 22, 1836 in Odenwaldreis, Hessen, Germany

They had my great, great grandfather Joseph Scheloske, he was born on September 1830 at Bischofsau, Stuben, Wohlau, Breslau, Silesia, Prussia. He married Margaret Weber on February 8, 1853 in Erie, Erie County, Pennsylvania.

Their child was Robert Scheloske, born in 1831 at Silena, Bischofsau, Prussia and passed away January 25, 1885 in Erie, Erie County, Pennsylvania. He married Mary Anna Strahl on February 10, 1857 in Erie, Erie County, Pennsylvania.

My great, great, great grandfather married his third wife Barbara, she passed away about 1857, Prussia

Their first child Johanna Scheloske born March 4, 1837 in Bischofsau, Prussia, Germany and passed away December 15, 1916 in Erie, Pennsylvania

Second – B. Scheloske born in 1840 in Prussia, Germany (no passed away date.)

Third – Joseph Scheloske, born in March 1844 in Prussia, Germany

Fourth – Arnold Scheloske born on November 15, 1846 in Prussia, Germany. He passed away on May 12, 1913 in Erie, Erie County, Pennsylvania. He married Joanna Auer in 1865 at Erie, Pennsylvania

Fifth child – Theodore Scheloske born on November 4, 1854 in Breslau, Silesia, Prussia, Germany and passed away January 7, 1929 in Erie, Erie County, Pennsylvania. He married Margaret Doemer on May 27, 1879

Sixth – Berthold Scheloske born in March 1856 in Berlin Stadt, Brandenburg, Preussen, he passed away January 12, 1923 in Jamestown, Chautauqua county, New York. He married Mary Ann Gehrlein on January 14, 1881 in Erie, Pennsylvania.

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My great, great grandfather Joseph Scheloske, had these children:

The first child – Catherine Anna Scheloske, born on July 15, 1855 at Erie, Erie County, Pennsylvania. She passed away on October 19, 1859 in Erie, Erie County, Pennsylvania.

The second child – Mary Frances Scheloske, born on May 14, 1856 at Erie, Erie County, Pennsylvania. No date when she passed away.

The third child – Mary Theresa Scheloske, born on May 8, 1858 in Erie, Erie County, Pennsylvania and passed away on October 19, 1859 at Erie, Pennsylvania.

Fourth – Mary A. Scheloske, born on March 1861 at Erie, Erie County, Pennsylvania and passed away in 1940 at San Bernardino, California. She married William Scott Anderson on January 30, 1879 at Potawatomi, Kansas

Fifth – Robert Scheloske born on July 8, 1863 in Erie, Erie County, Pennsylvania. Passed away June 12, 1936 at Winter Haven, Polk County, Florida. He married Emma Winifred, McMullen on June 1, 1883 at Potawatomi, Kansas

Sixth child – Elizabeth Scheloske, born on August 30, 1865 at Erie, Pennsylvania and passed away on November 8, 1870 at Erie, Pennsylvania.

Seventh – my great grandfather, Joseph Henry Scheloske, born on October 24, 1866 in Erie, Erie County, Pennsylvania. He passed away on May 2, 1946 in Ontario, Malheur County, Oregon. He married my Great Grandmother, Olive Alice Ellison on September 24, 1891 in Hamilton, Ohio

Eighth – Julia Scheloske, born on May 29, 1868 at Rochester, Monroe County, New York. She passed away on September 16, 1941 at North Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas. She married Martin A. Schuler on November 4, 1898 at Potawatomi County, Kansas.

Ninth – Joseph Scheloske, born on ????. He passed away on April 10, 1873 at Erie, Erie County, Pennsylvania.

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My great grandfather Joseph Henry Scheloske born October 24, 1866 in Erie, Erie County, Pennsylvania and passed away on May 2,1946 in Ontario, Malheur County, Oregon. He married Olive Alice Ellison on September 24, 1891 at Hamilton, Ohio

Olive Alice Ellison Scheloske was born November 7, 1871 at Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio and passed away on October 31,1942 in South Gate, Los Angeles County, California.

To this marriage they had the children.

First child – Oscar Edgar Scheloske, born January 8, 1892 in Boise, Ada County, Idaho

Passed away on January 9, 1892 in Boise, Ada County, Idaho.

Second child – my great Uncle, whom I always called Uncle Fred. His real name was Frederick (Fred) Joseph Scheloske born on March 29, 1894 in Boise, Ada County, Idaho.

Passed away on January 13, 1976 in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

He married Florence Lillian Pelley Miller on August 28, at Weiser, Idaho

Third child – my grandfather Albert Antone Scheloske. Born December 21, 1895 in Boise, Ada County, Idaho and passed away on February 26, 1959 in Weiser, Idaho

He married my grandmother Addie Rose Glascock Gallant on July 17,1917 at Vale, Malheur County, Oregon

Fourth child – Julius Edgar Scheloske, born February 10, 1898 in Boise, Ada County, Idaho. Passed away on August 12, 1919 in Weiser, Washington County, Idaho. He was killed when a horse kicked him in his head.

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My great grandparents Joseph Henry Scheloske and Olive Alice (Ellison) Scheloske, I don’t know anything about the move from Erie, Erie County, Pennsylvania to Boise, Ada County, Idaho. They lived on Resque Street in Boise, Ada County, Idaho.

I have an Article from The Idaho Statesman dated Wednesday December 25, 1901 in Pocatello, Idaho – on December 24, J.H. Scheloske, proprietor of the Dixey Lumber Mills of Boise, Idaho, shot five times tonight at Albert E. Strickling alias Ewing, two shots taking effect but neither being serious. One shot penetrated the right foot, the other going through the muscles of the right arm. Strickling fell when the shot pierced his foot and Mr. Scheloske, believed he had killed him, walked back towards the Sheriff’s office and delivered himself up to Deputy Sheriff George Griffith.

Behind the shooting is a story of a wife’s unfaithfulness. For the past six weeks Mr. Scheloske had been searching for his wife through the officers at Pocatello. During the same period Albert Ewing had been quietly living with the woman, who now’s develops to be Mrs. Scheloske, and has been working in the Oregon Short Line shops as a boilermaker.

Today, Mr. Scheloske came to Pocatello and tonight finding Ewing, whose true name is said to be Strickling, walking on the street with Mrs. Schelosk, he began shooting with the results narrated. The woman stayed with and comforted Strickling until requested by the officers to visit her husband at the jail.

The scene at the jail was pathetic but it had no effect on the woman. He asked her to reform and come home to the children, whose ages are given at 3, 5 and 7, respectively, but she declined and went back to nurse Strickling. According to Scheloske, Strickling is from West Virginia, and has a wife and three grown daughters there. Strickling’s wife, states Scheloske has been appealing to the officers to arrest and return her husband for some months.

Scheloske’s distress is pitiable, but it is all due to his children. These he states, are fretting for their mother, and for their sakes he would be only too glad to take her back. He apparently regrets the trivia results of the shooting.

Sheriff Daly of Ada County has been advised of the shooting and is expected to forward a warrant he holds for Strickling’s arrest. All the parties are now detained by the officers.

Story of the case. The elopement referred to in the foregoing dispatch occurred about two months ago. Strickling was an employee of Mr. Scheloske. Mrs. Scheloske was in the habit of collecting money due her husband here. Before eloping she collected several hundred dollars. When the couple disappeared, Mr. Scheloske had a warrant issued for their arrest on a charge of embezzlement but the officers were unable to find the accused. There being some doubt whether they had gone away together.

Mr. Scheloske, after shooting the destroyer of his home, wired J. H. Eawley, retaining him to look after his case. If a way could be found to secure the release of Mr. Scheloske and bring him and his wife together, while sending the guilty man to prison. All parties would be glad to co-operate in carrying it through for the sake of the children.

After this happened the Scheloske family moved to Weiser, Washington County, Idaho when Albert was 6.

They had a garage on State Street, middle of the block where King’s Variety Store was located. That location is where the business office for the Weiser Memorial Hospital is located.

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Things I remember about my grandfather Albert A. Scheloske. One time when I went with my grandfather to Tamarack, Idaho to pick up some lumber at Evergreen Forest Lumber Company. It was a chilly morning. A man waited on my grandfather that had a tracheostomy. There was a stream of mist rising from it. My grandfather thought I would ask the man why. I didn’t say anything to the man about the stream of mist coming from his throat. I wasn’t very old when this happened.

Grandfather’s tractor’s back wheels were covered with metal. We could ride on the back wheels. I can remember riding the tractor wheel going through the orchard of prunes, delicious apples, a few bing cherry trees and a few pie cherry trees. Pulling the trailer loaded with full wooden apples boxes filled with fruit.

My mother and family would pick prunes and apples for my grandfather and Uncle Fred.

We had a canvas bag we picked the fruit into, and we would dump it into wooden apples boxes. We had to keep a tally of the boxes we filled and we got paid 25 cent a box. My dad would come out after work and pick the tops of the trees on a special ladder that you could place over the branches in the tree. The prunes were ripe and very tasty.

My Grandfather and other men would load the full wooden apples boxes full of fruit onto a truck. Then they would drive the loaded truck to Henggeler Packing Company in Fruitland, Idaho. Then they would unload the truck.

My grandfather liked to stay active and working. So my Uncle Fred and my Grandfather started the Scheloske Brothers Moving Company. I can remember riding in some of houses on the streets of Weiser, Idaho. They had to lift the lines in the streets over the tops of the houses. They had an Army truck to move them from one place to another.

My grandfather helped my parents remodel our house and dig out a basement for the house on Feltham road (which is now Airport Road.) We would help grandfather in the daytime. We would clean up the mess that we made in the day. We had to straighten up the bent nails, so my grandfather could use them again. I can remember him feeling the kitchen cupboard doors, to see if they were smooth.

We went to the Pendleton Round Up. I can remember seeing all the Indians in their full feathers headgear. They had an Indian village set up with teepees. The Indians were from the Umatilla Indian Reservation. They were the Umatilla, Cayuse, and Walla, Walla Indians.

My Grandfather and my Dad tore down an old house for the lumber to build a new house on the triangle of the ranch.

After my grandparents sold the ranch. They moved into the small house on the triangle while they built the bigger house. The basement at that time was like an apartment with a full kitchen.

They had a redwood water tower on the property. My grandfather took it down and built 5 picnic tables. One for each of his children and one for himself. The table comes apart and can become a bench with a back on it. I have the one that my grandparents had in Weiser, Idaho with me.

They had a wringer washing machine. They had washed a feather bed. When I walked over to see them that day. My grandfather was trying to hang the wet feather bed on the clothesline. I didn’t want to stay, it was to comical to watch.

Every summer the whole Albert and Addie Scheloske’s families went to McCall, Idaho. We stayed in tents at the Ponderosa State Park. At that time you could camp any place in the campground. Today they have the camping areas marked for camping.

My Grandparents had a boat. He made two round things about the size of a tractor tire. They were hollow in middle. You could sit on these, they had two sides. We were pulled behind the boat on Payette Lakes in McCall, Idaho. We were having a good time until Uncle Carroll came into shore after water skiing. He opened his mouth and his bottom plate of his false teeth came loose and fell into the water. All the grown adults tried to find them in the fine mud. They didn’t find it. We did have a great time on that trip.

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At my grandparents Albert & Addie Scheloske house on Scheloske Lane. I, Linda (Carpenter) Peterson, entered Weiser, Idaho in September of 1943 at 11:30 p.m. With the help of my mother, Maxine Carpenter, and a next door neighbor, who was a nurse named Mrs. Alice Frank. I guess, the doctor didn’t come till the next day because of wartime. The doctor was a Doctor McGrath.

I was told by my mother Maxine Carpenter, that was the night that my Grandfather Albert and my great Uncle Fred Scheloske sold the sawmill on Fourth of July Creek in Washington County.

I assumed the buyer of the sawmill was Stan Culter. I was told that the Culter sawmill in Cambridge, Idaho was the Scheloske sawmill on Fourth of July Creek in the Mann Creek area. I didn’t remember that it burnt. I was told that the sawmill was shipped to the Philippine.

Things I can remember about my grandparents Albert & Addie Scheloske. They had a bay window with a bench built into the window sill. It made a nice place to read a book. You could also look upon the flowers and garden that my grandmother had planted.

According to the stories I was told, before they had electricity. They decorated the Christmas tree with candle holders clipped onto the tree branches. Grandfather used to have buckets of water around when they lit candles.

My grandfather would take a large box, fill it with wood for the fireplace, put more boxes into the larger box. Ending with the Christmas gift for my grandmother.

Grandmother Scheloske always had great decorated Christmas Trees. Especially when they came out with the bubble lights. I couldn’t believe how they made the bubbles work, when I saw them for the first time.

Grandmother Scheloske did her canning outside on a fire with a copper boiler with a lid on it.

She always had chickens running loose around the house outside.

One time my mother couldn’t get my hair to take a permanent, so she left it in to long. My hair was really curly. The next day when I walked to my grandmother’s house. She washed my hair. I can’t remember how many times, but a lot of them. My cousin and I would go up to the top of Scheloske Lane. I would ride on the handle bars. We tried to ride the bike down to the highway. We never made it to the highway, but we sure did have a lot of fun trying to make to the highway. No helmets, we never did have any accidents.

We went huckleberry picking every year with our grandparent’s Scheloske. We camped where Frazier’s Folly Road goes by the Price Valley Ranger Station helicopter pad is located by Tamarack, Idaho. I guess one time when I was little we camped there in tents. When the tall grass was wet with dew. I kept getting my clothes wet by walking through the tall grass.

I can remember my Grandmother Scheloske baking a huckleberry pie in a Dutch oven in the camp fire. VERY GOOD. We had to cover the bottom of a soup can when we were small. Then we went to a 3 # coffee can. We had to cover the bottom of the 3# coffee can before we could eat any huckleberries. So I would always hurry and get enough huckleberries picked, so I could eat some.

You never ate the red twin berries in the huckleberry patch, because they were poisonous.

One time while we were on the hillside by Smoky Boulder Campground while picking huckleberries. We had 2 bear cubs followed by their mother come down the trail by us. It was scary, we stayed quiet, they didn’t stop. THANK GOODNESS. I always got purple fingers and thumbs when I picked huckleberries. We usually got enough huckleberries to make huckleberry pancakes.

Usually the thimble berries were also ripe. They look like a raspberry, but are very seedy, but good tasting. Not as tasty as the huckleberries.

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One time when my Grandmother Addie was in the hospital at Baker city in 1973. My family with our three sons, aged 7, 5 and 2 went to visit her. She said I reminded of a hen with her chicks.

I remember my Grandfather Albert, when I see a cucumber. He told me he wouldn’t eat a cucumber, because pigs won’t eat one.

The memories I remember about my Uncle Carroll Martin and my Aunt Helen Martin:.

My uncle always had a garden planted behind his garage on West Galloway in Weiser, Idaho. He always had ground cherries, which I liked to sample. He worked at the flour mill in Weiser, Idaho.

My cousins and I would have sleep overs at their house and also mine. We walked to see their grandmother Mrs. Cora Martin on Court Street in Weiser, Idaho.

We played on the playground of Westside School ( which is no longer there). We also visited the West Side Store on Sixth Street in Weiser, Idaho. We brought snacks of course, like candy and soda pop.

They had a basement in their house that had a playroom for us to play. My Aunt Helen always had home made cookies. We had them with milk or juice.

My Uncle Carroll also cut and polished rocks. They were amazing to look at them.

I really enjoyed the friendship with my Aunt Helen and Uncle Carroll and my cousins.

My family would drive to LaGrande, Oregon to visit my Aunt Georganna and Uncle Lester Sater and cousin. My Uncle Lester was very nice looking with his State of Oregon Patrol uniform. Then we also went to visit my Aunt Georganna and cousin when they moved to Baker, Oregon. At that time it was called Baker, now it’s called Baker City. I really enjoyed riding in the car to go visit them.

When I was younger we called Edgar Albert Scheloske, Uncle Buster. When we got older we called him Uncle Bus.

My family went to visit My Aunt Marge and Uncle Buster when he was building the McNary Dam. He worked driving large equipment, wherever he worked.

He built an apartment on his house in Baker. My grandmother lived in it. The apartment that he built was very comfortable and nice to see.

When Uncle Buster retired, my Aunt Marge and him moved from Baker, Oregon to Fruitland,Idaho. Then they moved from Fruitland,Idaho to Ontario, Oregon. I went to visit them in both Fruitland and Ontario. They were both very nice. Buster was in the United States Army, he enlisted after graduating in 1945. He served several months in Alaska.

That is all the history I have on the Scheloske Family that I can remember. I might do the Carpenter history next and my own memories of growing up in Weiser, Idaho at my house on Feltham Road.

From Linda (Carpenter) Peterson

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