James & the Envoy Continuation

James and Joe, sons of James McAskie
who arrived in Canada in 1851 on the Envoy

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4 Thomas James McAskie, b 20 August 1855, went to USA from Canada and married Eliza Ann Norton born on 11 Aug,1857 in Marshall Co IA - they married there about 1875. Thomas James and Eliza Ann attended Presbyterian Church, Sac City Iowa.. In 1895 they were in Jackson Town Sac Co along with Thomas James' brother John

(Eliza Ann's parents were Eli Norton 1823-1901 from Cork Ireland and Catherine Gilmore. Eliza Ann had a sister Fannie who married Ed Williams. She died in 1947 after the back bow of her apron caught fire as she turned from the stove)

Children of Thomas James and Eliza Ann:- Charles, Mary, Robert Oliver and Roy - all in Sac Co IA.

Charles was born in Grundy Co IA in 1877, He married Alice Cantrell born 1877 Iowa - 5 children
Ella, Florence, Anna Clarence and Lilian. Florence married Eby, Anna married Manser, Lilian married Wirth
(See entry for Charles in 1895 in the Sac City Institute booklet

Mary born 24 March 1894, married Charles Schanzenbach, born 7 Sep 1896 - in 1921 in Midland Haakon Pennington - a cowboy in South Dakota - he raised horses and cattle.

(Charles' parents came from Ammertsweiler, Neckarkreis, Wuerttemberg, Germany - Johann Jakob Karl Schanzenbach 1867 - 1917 and Karoline Fischer 1874 - 1970. They married on 09 Mar 1894)

Charles and Mary had 3 children:- Robert, Margaret and Living Son.
Robert 1921-2007 Margaret 1925 -2007 married Milford Knauf - he died in 1985.They had 5 children

Many of the Schanzenbach family are buried in Tacoma, WA at Mt.View Memorial Park.

When prices dropped in South Dakota, the Schanzenbachs moved in 1929 to Tacoma, Washington State - where work was plentiful & the climate milder. South Dakota has a severe winter climate A Schanzenbach family member froze to death in a snowstorm when he lost his way form the barn to the house. 2 cousins are still there and have expanded to 3 thousand acres

They travelled west in a freight train with their household belongings. It was the only way to be sure they didn't lose any household goods on the trip

Charles Schanzenbach's family came from Germany originally to Moscow Iowa. They moved on to South Dakota in 1904. They were neighbours of the McCaskies. Charles died in Jun 1982 and Mary in Feb 1986 - both at Tacoma, Pierce, Washington

Eliza Ann died in 1909 in Sioux City; James then homesteaded in Fort Pierre S Dakota. He received free land and lived in a sod house. In 1930 James was lodging in a house at Haakon Midland Town South Dakota. He died in Iowa in 1935

Gravestone of Eliza Ann McAskie

McCaskie family
Sac City 1900

The Schanzenbachs
in 1930

James McCaskie 1930 Haakon

Today the town of Strabane Co Tyrone is twinned with the City of Sioux Falls - what a coincidence

Strabane	Sioux-Falls
	Fort Pierre, gateway to the old West
Picture taken in 1910. The homestead was between Midland & Fort Pierre in S Dakota

I am in touch with descendants of Charles & Mary.

Details of a book about these early pioneers "Prairie Progress in West Central South Dakota" published in 1968, can be found on the Rootsweb website - under Haakon Co.

Robert Oliver 1891-1978 married Gladys 1895 -
3 children Helen Grace and Harold - live in Montana

1930 McCaskies Montana

Roy 1887-1897 (diptheria)

See next page for Joe McCaskie

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