Person:Peter Shultz (12)

The 1860 Federal Census says PETER was born in "Bavaria". However, as were most of the Urbana pioneers, he was probably actually born in the Bavarian PALATINATE, which was also partially ruled by Prussia.

Peter was the eldest of his line, of which we know. His children married into the Pretorius, Karns, Baker, and Grimm families. He had a lot of descendants in the Urbana, Indiana, area.

He migrated to America in circa 1839, but "Forty North" says 1843. He settled in Tuscarawas County, Ohio. He was "Naturalized" in Tuscarawas County, Ohio on August 15, 1848.

He migrated to Wabash County after February 1850 with his son-in-law 'Christian Grimm' (see his WeRelate page). Peter's son, George, had already migrated on to Wabash County in 1848.

His burial in the Urbana Cemetery "was one of the first" (although Henry Geibel was buried there as far back as 1854). Peter's wife was listed as the 2nd burial in the cemetery according to the CHURCH Records, which are not the same as the cemetery records compiled by James Haupert.

--White Creek 15:26, 11 September 2012 (EDT)

Note tombstone image below. It has weathered badly, but enlarging the image brings out just enough detail to prove it is his.

--White Creek 15:01, 29 May 2017 (UTC)

Note the spelling of Peter's surname. Most of the time it is spelled as given. However, some of his descendants spell it: SCHULTZ. This compiler uses the name as found - thus there might be some confusion in the data!

--White Creek 04:39, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

PETER SHULTZ

1. ↑ Wabash County Historical Society (Indiana); Linda Robertson; and North Manchester Historical Society (Indiana). Wabash County history, bicentennial edition, 1976, Wabash, Indiana. (Marceline, Missouri: Walsworth Publishing Company, c1976).
2. ↑ History of Wabash County, Indiana: a narrative account of its historical progress, its people, and its principal interests. (Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1914).
3. ↑ Metcalfe, Howard Hurtig. Forty north: lineages of some early settlers along the fortieth parallel : being the ancestry of Barbara Lenore Snowberger, including her parental lineages of Snowberger, Paul, Brumbaugh, Metzger, Covalt, Gustin, Cory, and Davis, and her maternal lineages of Barnes, Lee, Wagoner, West, Lippicott, Keaffaber, Haupert and Schultz. (Decorah, Iowa: Anundsen, c1997).

   The book can be found in the Wabash Carnegie Library in Wabash.

4. ↑ Donna Mylrea.
5. ↑ Sandra McBride of Texas.
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3} Haupert, James. St. Peter's Cemetery Records
   1978.
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1 7.2} St. Peter's CHURCH Records.
8. ↑ Woodward, Ronald L. Lagro Township Cemeteries. (Wabash, Indiana: C/S Printing (private), 2002)
   2002.
9. ↑ URBANA CEMETERY 1963