Conrad Charles SCHMALZ

Roman Reith provided information including the following source citation information:,

Ahnenliste: Vater war Bruder von Kaspar Schmalz MVVV

Kirchenbuch Varnhalt

• Geburtseintrag (1876)

• Im Jahr 1881 mit Eltern nach Nordamerika ausgewandert.

Bureau of Land Management,

NAME MERIDIAN TWP RANGE SECTION ACREAGE TYPE CASE TYPE DOCID DATE

SCHMALZ CONRAD 07 009 N 004 E 015 80 251500 PA 666533 02/18/1919

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Key to Case Types

250000 Disposition: Use and Occupancy

251000- Homestead

252000- Desert Land Act

253000- Indian Patents

254000- Color of Title Act

255000- Mining Claim Occupancy Act

Land Conveyance types in this database:

PA - Patent

Meridians

07 - Black Hills Meridian -- located on the SD - WY border

Conrad left Paris, Arkansas and headed North to Minnesota where he met and married Nettie Christine Urness. Conrad and Nettie had four children; two boys and two girls.

At some point Conrad and Nettie moved to Belle Fourche, South Dakota. When they arrived in Belle Fourche they lived in a covered wagon while Conrad built their house. They homesteaded and farmed 80 acres, growing wheat and raising cattle. Conradwent to Texas on occasion and drove a heard of cows back to South Dakota to replenish the heard on his farm. Nettie didn't like being alone for the long time it took Conrad to go and return from Texas so he stopped going and let his farm hands do the trail drives.

During their time in Bell Fourche Conrad and Nettie were in an auto accident in which Nettie required medical attention not available in the area. They moved the family back to Red Wing around 1920 so they could be closer to the Mayo Clinic and the medical help Nettie needed. Their home in Red Wing was located at 1037 Sturdevant St.

They moved to Cleveland, Ohio in 1931. In Cleveland, Conrad owned a restaurant at 17313 Euclid . At that time there was a crooked police chief using extortion to intimidate the local businessmen in the area and the police chief's two brothers regularly threatened Conrad in order to get him to sell his business so that the police chief's cronies could control all the businesses in the area. Eventually the police chief was able to buy all the properties on the block and evicted Conrad fromthe building where the restaurant was located. Subsequently Elliot Ness came in, ousted the corrupt Chief and his gang of hoodlums and cleaned up the corruption in the area. I enjoyed hearing this story... Especially when Lucille Schmalz, who was relating the tale, got a sort of smirk on her face and a gleam of satisfaction in her eyes as she got to the part about Elliot Ness getting rid of that police chief. Conrad was able open a new restaurant after he was forced to close the old one.

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