Schaefer Photos

These are the few photos that I have of the Schaefer family (I thought I had a few more than this, but I guess not – I do have a lot more photos of the Spohr family). These first three photos are all of Nonnie Schaefer, a daughter of William Albert Schaefer and his first wife, raised by William and his second wife, Amalie Spohr Schaefer.

[Another regret I have from those years when I first started collecting copies of photos and family papers is that I cropped the pictures to just show the people who we could identify, and it looks like I didn’t keep copies of the original photos before they were cropped – now I wish that I had the full pictures because it might be possible to now identify the other people in the photos with the help of some of the other Schaefer descendants. Oh well, I guess you learn as you go.]

This is a photo of Nonnie Schaefer with my great great grandmother, Anna Marie Ott Spohr, the wife of Ludwig Spohr. (So, since Ludwig Spohr’s sister was Amalie Spohr Schaefer, Nonnie would have been Anna Marie’s niece).

My Grandpa identified the man on the right in this photo as “Kenny Schafer.” He didn’t know who the other man was. I don’t know how Kenny Schaefer is related to the other Schaefers – does anyone have any ideas about that?

And this is a photo of my great grandmother, Nettie Dorothy Graham Spohr, with her son (my Grandpa Carl) in front of a business owned by the Schaefers. I can’t tell exactly what kind of business from the sign – possibly ‘Schaefer’s Gas’ or ‘Schafer’s Garage’? The sign says ‘tri-cities,’ which refers to an area near the south-western Illinois border (not far from St. Louis, Missouri) that consisted of Granite City, Madison, and Venice, Illinois. I don’t know anything about which Schaefer family member owned this business, or even which town it was in in the tri-cities.