Person:Emanuel Shultz (1)

Jon Shultz - Nov 15, 1999 View | Edit | Delete | Viewers | Reply to th is item

   Emanuel and Sarah Canvass (St. Clair) Shultz lived in Girton [near Ris ingsun OH]   for more than forty years.   Emanuel ran a grocery store the re. Every   Saturday Emanuel would remind his wife Sarah to get any provis ions she needed for Sunday from the store as it would be locked up Sund ay for observence of the Lord's Day.   Sunday morning   Emanauel would hit ch his horse to the wagon   for the ride to the Latter Days Saints Chur ch in Bradner.   Marvin Shultz   and his brothers would wait along the rou te to wave at their grandfather as he drove by.

Emanuel refused to sell tocacco or liquor products in his store. This m ay have been because of his association with the Latter Day Saints Churc h. According to Marvin, a particularly persistent salesman found himse lf being bodily thrown from the store by Emanuel when he would not ta ke no for an answer.

When the local male school teacher was left bound, tied to a tree by so me of his overaged male students, and no one could be found to take the jo b, Emanuel volunteered. Apparently in the late fall when these young m en were no longer needed in the fields, and their parents wanted to get r id of them, they were sent off to school. Not wanting to be there, the se young thugs would take their ire out on the teacher.

On the new school teacher's first day, Emanuel, seated in front of the cla ssroom informed the young thugs that their days of terrorism where over, e mphasizing his resolve by pulling out a gun from under the desk and slammi ng it down. It is no wonder that in later years that the reputation of E manuel's toughness was still talked about. Just recently I talk ed to a gentleman [Ibert Burns] who is in his eighties and still remembe rs that all Emanuel had to do was look at a student and he would become qu ite acquiescent.

According to his grandniece Gertrude Shultz Musser, Uncle Manny also h ad a more gentle side. Gertrude's father, Alrick [Archie Shultz's 1st co usin] would load the family into the car at least once a year to visit t he relatives at Girton, Squires, and Risingsun. Gertrude remembers how t hey would drive up to Manny's house and get out of the car. Uncle Man ny would take the children into the store and let them choose what candy t reat they wanted. While the adults would visit, the children sat on t he porch enjoying their treat and listening to the conversation.

If anyone can add any information or corrections, I would greatly apprec iate it.

added by Jon Jay Shultz on December 23, 2003.