Eva (Schmidt) Schlicher
also known as Eva Schmidt, maiden
b. 1837-12-29, Bavaria, Germany
d. 1915-10-24
This is the mother of the Schlicher children — wife of Theobald “David” Schlicher and mother of Flora, Emma, and their four brothers (George, Daniel, David F, and Edward).
Her name is now settled: Eva Schmidt
Her identification rested for a time on an ambiguous record: Dale Eesley’s GEDCOM family record (@F56@) names Flora’s mother as “Eva Schmidt,” and a second “Eva Schmidt” appears elsewhere in the tree.
The Schmidt family-history sheet and 1899 obituary in Chuck’s keeping resolve it independently. Eva Schmidt was the daughter of the Bavarian farmer John Jacob Schmidt (1817–1899) and Eva Barbara (Bourtine) Schmidt; she was born 29 December 1837 in Bavaria, came with her family to Washington County, Ohio in the late 1840s, married Theobald David Schlicher on 20 January 1861 at Marietta, and died 24 October 1915. Her father spent his last year in her and David’s Greene Street home and died there in January 1899. That documentary chain confirms she is the Schlicher mother, and the GEDCOM tangle can be set aside.
Six children, six living
The 1900 census records her at 739 Green Street, aged 61, and puts a figure against her that no chart could: “6/6” — six children born, six living.
The archive lists exactly six — George, Daniel, David F, Edward, Flora and Emma. Their mother confirmed the count herself, and confirmed that she had buried none of them, which in a German immigrant household in nineteenth-century Ohio was not the ordinary outcome. (Her neighbours the Röesers, on the same abstract, reported nine children born and four living.)
The same entry gives her immigration year as 1848 — she came as a girl of nine or ten, four years before her future husband, and had been in the country fifty-two years when the enumerator called.
She is Chuck’s ancestor on the Schlicher line: Eva → Flora Schlicher Wildermuth → Earl Adam Wildermuth → Robert Earl Wildermuth → Terrie → Chuck.
Sources: family-history sheet “John Jacob Schmidt” and the transcribed 26 January 1899 Daily Register obituary (Chuck’s keeping), which name Eva (Schmidt) Schlicher with her birth (29 December 1837), death (24 October 1915), and 20 January 1861 Marietta marriage; Eesley/Wildermuth GEDCOM tree family record @F56@.
