Hello Schlotterbacks from the year 2020!

Hello Schlotterback family!    

This is Chad Schlotterback reporting out of Los Angeles, CA.   I'm 48 and sell real estate out here.   My rocking brother is Thad Schlotterback and he's in Arizona where he owns a successful locksmithing company.   We're just checking in on this site as it has not been updated in some time BUT I do own schlotterback.com and I'll keep that URL so it never falls into hands other than those with our family name.  

You can always reach me at chadschlotterback@gmail.com and you can reach Thad at onegoodwire@gmail.com.     We're two proud Schlotterback's working on securing our family legacy online.   

(Thad on the left, Chad on the right)   2019

Two Schlotterback brothers at your service!   2019

DNA results in - we're very German indeed!

So I decided to purchase one of those DNA kits from ancestry.com and a few spits in a vial and I put the DNA in the mail.  Now here are the results!

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Sound off, we're fully European.  Thoughts?

German wins the 2014 World Cup!!!!

Ship plans for the Phoenix 1743

Here's something very cool from British archives, ship plans for what I think is the VERY ship that Hans Gorg Schlotterbeck rode over in 1751.  Check out the records of his arrival here: USGWarchives.org.

The Phoenix was a 6th rate 24 gun war ship that was built in 1743.  She was built at the Deptford Dockyard which is in London on the River Thames.

(The Deptford Dockyard in 1747. by John Cleveley the Elder)

The plans below are original dating back to 1743 and they're found at the National Maritime Museum located in London.  I'm not sure if you're understanding just how cool this is.  269 year-old ship plans for the very vessel that issued our family name to the New World. 

As more and more archives are becoming digitalized and published it's making tracing back history easier.  But with new information comes new questions.  I wonder what life was like on board the Phoenix.  How long did they spend in their journey from Europe to Philadelphia? 

What made Hans Gorg pledge his allegiance and take the big trip?

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Hopefully in time we'll learn more.  If YOU have anything to add, please contacts us at 2schlotterback@gmail.com or comment on this post.

To learn more about the Phoenix go here: www.collections.rmg.co.uk/phoenix.

Schlotterbacks in Iowa win the lotto!

Here's a cool story out of Iowa where Paul and Patty Schlotterback won a cool $200,000 in a lotto!  Good for them, you see, the Schlotterback name holds lucky winning power!  Now just don't creep out and start calling these two asking for money as long lost relatives!  :-)

Check out the full story here: www.ialottery.com/Pressroom.  A big congrats to Paul and Patty.

The life of Irene (Schlotterback) Mart

Funeral services for Mary Irene Mart, 95, of Knoxville, who died Saturday, Feb. 9, 2002, at her home, were held Thursday, Feb. 14, at Evans-McCleery Funeral Home in Knoxville.

She was born Feb. 2, 1907, in Knoxville, the daughter of Clyde M. and Mary Courtney Schlotterback. She graduated from Knoxville High School in 1925.

She married Dwight B. Mart on Feb. 3, 1926, in Knoxville. She lived in Knoxville her entire life. In addition to being a mother and homemaker, she worked as a clerk for several Knoxville stores. She was a member of the First United Methodist Church for over 50 years.

She served on many committees and was awarded a U.M.W. Recognition Pin in 1972. She was also a member of Sarah Circle. She especially enjoyed spending time with her family.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Dwight; and three brothers, Dwight, Robert and Merle.

A piece of Schlotterback history!

Here's a link where you can checkout a 1927 jersey worn by then hoops hot-shot Lucille Schlotterback for the Newhall girls' championship basketball team.   It's listed on the University of Iowa's archives site.

According to them..."Lucille Schlotterback, member of the 1927 Newhall girls' high school state championship basketball team was born November 13, 1910, in Newhall, Iowa.  She was raised on a farm located near the extended family of Schlotterback cousins in Benton County.  She was a sophomore on the Newhall high school basketball team that won the state championship in 1927.  Her cousins Luella Gardemann and Melba Gardemann, were forwards on the team. Schlotterback graduated from Newhall High School in 1929."

Read more about it here: www.lib.uiowa.edu/findingaids/Schlotterback.

A Schlotterback is rocking and rolling!

Oh, The Story is an indie pop-rock band based out of Baltimore, Maryland.  Josh Schlotterback has been with the band since 2009 as a bass guitarist and also for background vocals.  

(Josh at a MTV event in 2009)

Check them out further at:  www.ohthestory.com.

What's the meaning our our name, Schlotterback?

Schlotterback, what a great name.  13 characters and everyone loves saying it.   I've heard that "Schlotter", or some variation of that, means to shake or quiver in German.  Check out the German word, schütteln, and hear it pronounced here,  Google Translate.  I've also heard that it somehow is translated to the family who baked bread by the muddy river, not exactly glamorous. 

("Schütteln-back's in the United States)

But who's got the real proof of our family name?   Give us links in our comments please!

George Henry Slaughterback

Here's a photo of George Henry Slaughterback along with what we think is a young "Bud" Raymond Saltsgaver.  These two are chilling on a log in a photo taken maybe around 1940 something???

I don't know much about the man, can anyone help me out here?

Help a Schlotterback help kids of Los Angeles

Yours truly is trying to help out kids of Los Angeles by doing a charity stair climb September 24th, 2010.  As of date, I've gotten up to $180 with a LARGE portion of that coming from Wes Von Schlotterback.  Good work brother, or should I say cousin?

I have to climb up 1,500 stairs over 75 stories of the US Bank Building that's Downtown Los Angeles.   If you can lend support please click:  www.stairclimberchad.com.

Thank you!

Well, since USA is out...

...go Germany, our homeland!!!

Bonus link:  FIFA's official World Cup page

Who are Johann and Katherina Schlotterback???

According to this site, Genealogyplace.com/Schlotterback, Johann Schlotterback was born in Pennsylvania in 1734 and died in 1782 at the young age of 48.  In the picture below is Johann and Katherina Schlotterback and family provided by a S. Evilsizer.

A simple click on Johann Schlotterback here, Johann Schlotterback, has got me more confused than when I first started.  Is she directly related to Hans Gorg Schlotterback???   And who's who in the photo above?

If her Hans was her Father then how was she born in the new land in 1734?   And when was this pic taken?

We'll get this all solved folks, if we comment on these posts I can update this blog as the mystery begins to solve itself. 

A good read from "History of Marion County, Iowa, and its people" 1915

JOHN DAVIE SCHLOTTERBACK 

Age 38 in 1898

Born 1860 and passed on in 1911

John Davie Schlotterback is at present county auditor and has demonstrated his fitness for public office by the conscientiousness and capability with which he has discharged the duties devolving upon him.  He was born in Knoxville, Iowa, on the i3th of March, 1860, a son of Michael and Johanna (Toler) Schlotterback, natives of Ohio and Indiana respectively.  The paternal grandfather was John Schlotterback, a resident of Pennsylvania of German descent.  He was a carpenter by trade and went to Ohio in the early days of the history of that state.  In the '505 he came to Iowa and located in this county, where he resided until his death.  His wife lived to reach the remarkable age of one hundred years.

John Davie Schlotterback was reared upon the home farm and received that well-rounded education common to the sons of farmers, as he was not only well grounded in the fundamental branches of book learning, but also learned the principles of agriculture and became familiar by actual experience with the work of the farm. He followed agricultural pursuits until he was twenty years of age and then learned the printer's trade and was employed for many years on various Knoxville and Des Moines papers. In 1893 he was elected city assessor of Knoxville for a two-year term and in 1895 was reelected, serving until January i, 1898. Subsequently he was again employed at the printer's trade in Knoxville until the spring of 1907, when he was again elected city assessor, resigning that position, however, on the ist of January, 1909, to become deputy county auditor. In 1912 he was elected county auditor, taking office in January of the year following. He was his party's candidate for reelection in November, 1914, and was chosen by a handsome majority, leading his ticket. As county auditor he has made a record of which he may well be proud, and his present term of office does not expire until January i, 1917. He has been prompt, accurate and systematic in the performance of his work and has been uniformly courteous in his treatment of those with whom he has been brought in contact in an official capacity.

Mr. Schlotterback is a democrat in his political affiliation and stanchly supports the candidates and measures of that party. Fraternally he belongs to the lodge and encampment of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Red Men, the Foresters, the Knights of Pythias and the Moose. He and his wife are both members of the Rebekahs. His entire life has been spent in this county and the fact that those who have known him intimately from his early youth are his truest friends is incontrovertible proof of the genuineness of his worth as a man.

For the entire read go here:  Google Books

Was Hans Gorg Schlotterback from Mittelstadt, Germany?

Behold the map below, is this the city of birth of OUR Hans Gorg Schlotterback?  We know that Hans was born in German in 1735 then departed for "The New World" in 1751 at the age of 16.  But where was he born?   I've heard several reports out there that it was in the city of Mittelstadt. 

Here's a Google Map of Mittelstadt!

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Now I don't know if this 100% true but I'm trying!   Help me, am I on the right track? 

Old yet cool documents on Michael Schlotterback

Now don't go killing your eyes, just click on the document and it'll blow up so you can read it.  Some of his children were born in Knoxville's Schlotterback Cemetery.

This document has info on Michael Schlotterback and his 6 kids!  Michael lived in Ohio, Indiana and finished off his 93 good years in Iowa.  Michael was born in 1818, married in 1842 and was laid to rest in 1911. 

A wonderful photo of Clyde Schlotterback

Here's a photo of Clyde Schlotterback out of Iowa taken in 1981 by Mike Schlotterback - his Great-Grandson!   Mike e-mailed me this photo with a nice e-mail complimenting the web site and telling me how he has more information about the Schlotterback family line dating all the way back to Hans George!

It goes without saying, we're excited!

Clyde Schlotterback  - 1981

Clyde Schlotterback in 1887

  Clyde was born August 23rd, 1886 and worked his whole live in Iowa.  Over 50 years this man worked for a newspaper in Knoxville, Iowa laying the media foundation for central Iowa.  The baby photo was an old "tintype" photo, don't know what it means?   Click here:  Tintype Photos

A George Schlotterback headstone - I'm confused!

So I found this recent photo of a George Schlotterback cemetery headstone.  From what I can tell it reads his birth in 1830 and he passed on in 1905 putting him at a nice 75 years of life.  

This cemetery is located in southwest corner of Washington State - Washougal Cemetery.

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Who can help me piece this one together?

Coming to straight out of Knoxville, Iowa...

...the one, the only, The Schlotterback Cemetery!

Thanks to Bryan & Amanda Schlotterback, local Knoxville residents (and Bryan a local celebrity athlete) we have updated photos of The Schlotterback Cemetery.

Located in Knoxville, Iowa, is a cemetery named after our family name.  It's located right in the middle of a golf course on the grounds of the VA Medical Center.  It's across the street from Knoxville's "other" cemetery Graceland where Dwight and Marguerite Schlotterback are burried.   (Thad and Chad's grandparents)

* First burial is reported to be in 1842
* Persons buried there: John, Elizabeth, Anna. Maybe others?

*  It's been vandalized over the years.  :-(

BONUS LINK:
  Google Map of Cemetery

John Schlotterback was rocking away!

Here's a rocking chair made by skilled hands of John Schlotterback for his wife and is now in a museum in Iowa.  

Think about it, this would not have been easy to make!   Koodo's John Schlotterback!