Frederick Schemmer - Line 7

Source - Year: 1900; Census Place: Township 95, Gregory, South Dakota; Roll: T623_1550 Page: 11A; Enumeration District: 41.

Frederick Schemmer - Line 78

Source - Year: 1910; Census Place: Schriever, Gregory, South Dakota; Roll: T624_1481; Page: 2B; Enumeration District: 30; Image: 324.

Source - World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918; Registration Location: Lusk, Niobrara, Wyoming; Roll: 2022243; Draft Board: 0;

Source - South Dakota Marriages, 1905-1949

Clinton Schemmer - line 1

Source - Year: 1920; Census Place: Whetstone, Gregory, South Dakota; Roll: T625_1719; Page: A; Enumeration District: 71; Image: 355.

Clinton Schemmer - line 26

Source - Year: 1930; Census Place: Winner, Tripp, South Dakota; Roll: 2231; Page: 4A; Enumeration District: 40; Image: 481.0; FHL microfilm: 2341965.

Source - U.S. National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, 1866-1938; Branch: Battle Mountain Sanitarium, Hot Springs, SD; Image: 1212

Source - World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945; Registration Location: Washington, , D.C.; Record Group Number: 147; Box or Roll Number: 060

Rev. John L. Wolff, rector of Trinity Episcopal Church, and Mrs. Wolff left Thursday for Winner, S.D., where Father Wolff will officiate Saturday in Trinity Episcopal Church, Winner at the funeral of Mrs. Wolff's father, Clinton Henry Schemmer, 81, who died Monday night in California at the Long, Beach Veterans' Hospital.

Rev. Richard H. McGinnis, rector of Trinity Episcopal Church, Winner, the Schemmer family's home parish, will assist the Watervliet priest.

Mr. Schemmer was born in the Dakota Territory in 1889. He served in the U. S. Army during World War I, and subsequently became a state and federal game warden in South Dakota, transferring to the Secret Service and the Treasury Department in Washington, D.C.

He married the late Minna Heese in 1920 and they had three sons and a daughter. Several years after Mrs. Schemmer's death he married Mellie Ringer and resided in San Bernardino, Calif., where he was active in the Masonic Order and veterans' organizations.

He was a communicant of St. Francis of Assisi Episcopal Church in San Bernardino. leaves his wife, two sons, Clinton and Benjamin of Kentucky and Virginia, as well as his daughter Mrs. Wolff of Watervliet, and 11 grandchildren.

At the time of his death, Mr. Schemmer was one of the few surviving cowboys of the pre-World War open ranch of the Dakotas, Wyoming and Montana. Interment will be in the Winner cemetery.

Source - The Troy Record - Nov 6, 1970

Source - Photo courtesy of Find a Grave member #46882703.