Descendants possibly in Dallas City, Illinois in 1973. descendant - Clifford Schramm

Pontoosuc, IL on the Mississippi

Dec. 2008 -Laura Engel, by email
“I may be able to add a bit to your Schramm family tree.  My great grandfather, Clarence Marion Noble, was married to Amelia Bonneville Schramm.  I think she was the daughter of John M. Schramm of Pontoosuc, IL.  (I think it's Johann Michael Schramm in your tree).   According to the death record, she was born October 16, 1853 and died July 20, 1946 in Moline, Illinois.  She and Clarence lived in Pontoosuc in a rock house up on a hill overlooking Pontoosuc.  It still stands.  The story goes that my great grandfather died and his nephew and took over the estate and essentially robbed "Millie" blind.   She ended up in a nursing home in Moline, Illinois.”

1880 census - Living in the village of Pontoosuc, Hancock County, Illinois with wife and three children, age 71, a farmer and miller, born in Bavaria. Wife’s name looks like “Ameliza”, age 64, born in Ohio; her parents were born in Maryland (1900 census has her parents born in Maryland and Delaware). Two sons and a daughter living in the household, ages 26, 29 and 30, names are obscured by tape on the census page, but daughter appears to be “Mielia” and the eldest was born in Iowa, the two younger in Illinois.


“Schram, John - b: February 9, 1809   d: December 11, 1899  (h/o Ann Schram) “
“Pontoosuc Cemetery, Pontoosuc Township, Hancock County, Illinois
To get to Pontoosuc Cemetery the motorist takes partially gravel winding country road south from west-east Illinois state hard road No. 96 at the east Pontoosuc corner.  The east Pontoosuc corner is where the blacktop runs north from the hard road on to Pontoosuc.
The third gravel road which is about one car wide winds around to the southeast almost a quarter of a mile.  At that point a side road Francis off from its to the east, a narrow road mostly dirt and say and ascending up to the higher timber and farmland on the bluffs.  This side road is the road into the cemetery.
Up their on an acre or so of level spot the land surrounded by rough timber terrain on all sides is Pontoosuc Cemetery.”
John M. Schramm owned a plot in this cemetery in 1859.