Hans Adam Sontag
and his wife Anna Elisabetha Pfaff
and Some of Their Descendants
Sixth Generation

CHARLES E.6 SUNDAY (Frederick5, Daniel4, Andrew3, Jacob2, Hans Adam1) was born at Silver Lake, Kosciusko County, Indiana, on 15 June 1870, a son of Frederick Sunday and his first wife Lucetta Weller, and died at Elkhart County, Indiana, on 19 June 1948.[1] He married at Adams County, Indiana, on 3 August 1892 BERTHA LORETTA HERR.[2] She was born at Adams County on 23 July 1879, a daughter of Peter Herr and Lydia Ann Cronaster. She died at Elkhart County on 14 September 1945.[3]

Charles Suinday was the sixth and last child of his parents. Soon after his birth his mother died. When Charles was sixteen months old his father remarried. His step-mother, Elizabeth, was ther only mother he would know. He was, in time, joined in the family by three half-siblings.

Charles and Bertha both grew up on farms in Indiana. When they married, Charles was twenty-two, and Bertha Loretta Herr only thirteen. Bertha's age is not a mistake. It is supported by her age and years married reported in each census record. Their four children were born when Bertha was aged 16, about 18, 20, and 22. According to the 1940 Census, Charles and Bertha had limited education, he completing fourth grade, she completing second.[4]

Charles Sunday was a railroad man. His occupation was recorded in censuses as follows:[5]

Census Location Occupation
1900 Lake Twp., Kosciusko Co. day laborer
1910 Elkhart laborer, railroad
1920 Elkhart N[ew] Y[ork] C[entral] R. R. signal
1930 Elkhart electric engineer, steam R.R.
1940 Washinton Twp., Elkhart Co. retired railroad man; genereal repair man

The 1900 Census reportred this family at Silver Lake village, Lake Township, with three children, ages fivem four, and three months. These were the only three children Bertha had borne.[6]

Eva died later in 1900, and Dorothy was born in 1902. The 1910 Census reported the family with children ages fourteen, thirteen and five.[7] This is the last record I have found of their son Fred.

Daughter Virginia Leona married at the age of sixtreen, in 1912, divorced in 1914, and married again in 1916. The 1920 Census found her and her second husband, Oscar Poper, living on Virginia Avenue in Elkhart. With them were their son, Rolland, and Oscar's brother, Warren.[8] Daughter Dorothy had also married at the age of sixteen, in 1919. The 1920 Census found Dorothy and her husband, Peter Shonholt, living with Charles and Bertha Sunday in Elkhart.[9]

Virgie must have divorced soon after that census, as she married, for her third husband, William Glanders, about 1922. William, a World War I veteran, worked in 1930 as "cutter, brasive pool," and in 1940 as a sheet metal worker in a corset shop. In 1930 they lived in Elkhart with her two sons from two marriages, Rolland Poper, 12, and Ralph Glanders, 6.[10] That same census reported Peter Shanholt in Elkhart, working as a chauffeur/truck driver for a lumber company. With him were his wife Dorothy, and their son, Gail, 10.[11] Charles and Loretta in 1930 were empty-nesters nearby in Elkhart.[12]

The 1940 Census reported William and Leona Glanders in Elkhart with their son Ralph, 16. Leona worked on cover cases for a band instrument manufacturer.[13] Her son by her prior marriage, Rolland Poper, also lived in Elkhart, with his wife May Jane and their daughter Carol Jean. Rolland, 22, worked as a punch press operator for a band instrument factory.[14] Dorothy Shanholt, widowed in 1935, lived in Elkhart with her son Gail, 20. Both were reported as laborers.[15] Charles and Loretta Sunday, ages 69 and 60, continued to live in Elkhart County.[16]

Charles Sunday and his wife Beretha Loretta Herr had the following children:

  1. VIRGIE LEONA7 SUNDAY b. at Kosciusko County on 3 October 1895;[17] d. on 1956;[18] m(1). at Elkhart County on 15 July 1912 FORD PEMBER, b. at Angola, Steuben County, Indiana, on 17 January 1890,[19] living on 1930, child of Nate Pember and Jennie Dotts. divorced on 2 December 1914. m(2). at Elkhart County on 5 December 1916 OSCAR W. POPER, b. at Defiance County, Ohio, on 21 July 1890,[20] d. at Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, on 18 January 1970, child of Ira W. Poper and Viola Hunt.[21] m(3). on 1922 WILLIAM E. GLANDERS,[22] b. at Indiana on 23 March 1891, d. on 27 July 1958.[23] Ford Pember m(2). at Grand Haven, Ottawa County, Michigan, on 6 August 1914 MARY ROBINSON, b. at Michigan about 1894-5.[24] He m(3). at Battle Creek, Calhoun County, Michigan, on 20 May 1918 NELLIE FRANCES LOGAN, b. at Athens, Calhoun County, about 1880-1.[25] Divorced 23 October 1922.[26] Child of Virgie and Oscar Poper:
    1. Rolland G. Poper b. at Elkhart on 5 November 1917, d. on 1 June 1989;[27] m. at Elkhart on 14 September 1938 Marian Rita Kieffer b. at Wausau, Marathon County, Wisconsin, on 22 August 1920.[28] Children of Rolland and Marian:
      1. Carol Jean Poper b.at Elkhart on 19 June 1939;[29] m. at Lawrence, Marion County, Indiana, on 26 December 1907 Benjamin Ciocan b. at Michigan about 1931-2.[30]
      2. James Thomas Poper b. and d. at Elkhart on 10 May 1946.[31]
    Virgie and William Glanders had the following child:
    1. Ralph Edwin Glanders b. at Elklhart on 16 June 1923,[32] d. on 22 August 2001;[33] m. at Goshen, Elkhart County, on 22 January 1943 Vivian Marie Schenk[34] b. at Elkhart on 10 October 1925, d. there on 24 October 1957.[35]
  2. FRED7 SUNDAY b. Indiana about 1896-7,[36] living on 1910.
  3. EVA L.7 SUNDAY b. at Silver Lake on 28 December 1899; d. there on 15 November 1900.[37]
  4. DOROTHY MARIE7 SUNDAY b. at Elkhart on 9 June 1902; m. at Elkhart County on 29 March 1919 PETER GAIL SHANHOLT, b. at Etna Green, Etna Township, Kosciusko County, on 25 December 1899,[38] d. on 1935,[39] child of Daniel Shanholt and Harriet Whittaker. Dorothy and Peter had the following child:
    1. Gail Daniel Shanholt b. at Elkhart on 5 March 1920, d. there on 28 December 2000;[40] m(1). at Henry County, Ohio, on 16 August 1941 Catherine (Horn) Beecher b. at Legonier, Noble County, Indiana, on 25 February 1970;[41] m(2). at Elkhart on 25 June 1983 Patricia A. (________) Manley[42] b. at Dayton on 9 October 1941, d. at Elkhart on 7 May 2015.[43] Catherin Horn had m(1). at Elkhart on 18 September 1923 Herman Edward Beecher b. at Saint Joseph County, Indiana, on 11 September 1903.[44]

NOTES

1Indiana State Board of Health, Death Certificates, 1900–2011, Elkhart Co. , no 17673, Charles Sunday, 1948; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 2 March 2019); Indiana Archives and Records Administration, Indianapolis, Indiana.
2Indiana Commission on Public Records, Indianapolis, Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007, Adams Co., p. 15, entry 9, Sunday-Hurr, 1892; digital images, Family Search (familysearch.org : accessed 27 February 2019).
3Indiana Death Certificates, 1900–2011, Elkhart Co. , no 26271, Loretta Sunday, 1945.
4Sixteenth Census of the United States: 1940, population, Washington Township, Elkhart County, Indiana, enumeration district (ED) 20-59, roll 1041, p. 3B, household 63, Charles Sunday family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 27 February 2019); NARA microfilm group T627.
5Twelth Census of the United States: 1900, population, Lake, Kosciusko County, Indiana, enumeration district (ED) 53, p. 3, household 70, Charles Sundy family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 20 March 2019); NARA microfilm group T623; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration. Thirteenth Census of the United States: 1910, population, Elkhart, Elkhart County, Indiana, enumeration district (ED) 20, roll 347, p. 10A, household 235, Charles Sunday household; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 27 February 2019); NARA group T624, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C. Fourteenth Census of the United States: 1920, population, Elkhart, Elkhart County, Indiana, enumeration district (ED) 62, roll 432, p. 11A, household 2, Charles Sunday family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 27 February 2019); NARA microfilm record group T625, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C. Fifteenth Census of the United States: 1930, population, Elkhart, Elkhart County, indiana, enumeration district (ED) 22, p. 8A, household 194, Charles Sunday family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 27 February 2019); NARA microfilm record group T626; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration. 1940 Census, Washington Township, Elkhart County, Indiana, ED 20-59, roll 1041, p. 3B, household 63, Charles Sunday family.
61900 Census, Lake, Kosciusko County, Indiana, ED 53, p. 3, household 70, Charles Sundy family.
71910 Census, Elkhart, Elkhart County, Indiana, ED 20, roll 347, p. 10A, household 235, Charles Sunday household.
81920 Census, Elkhart, Elkhart County, Indiana, ED 62, roll 432, p. 6B, household 170, Oscar Poper family.
91920 Census, Elkhart, Elkhart County, Indiana, ED 62, roll 432, p. 11A, household 2, Charles Sunday family.
101930 Census, Elkhart, Elkhart County, Indiana, ED 24, p. 17A, household 414, William E. Glanders family.
111930 Census, Elkhart, Elkhart County, Indiana, ED 22, p. 22AB, household 557, Peter Shanholt family.
121930 Census, Elkhart, Elkhart County, indiana, ED 22, p. 8A, household 194, Charles Sunday family.
131940 Cen sus, Elkhart, Elkhart County, Indiana, ED 20-25, roll 1040, p. 64B, household 492, William Glanders family.
141940 Census, Elkhart, Elkhart County, Indiana, ED 20-20, roll 1040, p. 13B, household 331, Rolland Poper family.
151940 Census, Elkhart, Elkhart County, Indiana, ED 20-21, roll 1040, p. 62A, Dorothy Shanholt family.
161940 Census, Washington Township, Elkhart County, Indiana, ED 20-59, roll 1041, p. 3B, household 63, Charles Sunday family.
17Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007, Steuben Co., p. 168 license application, Poper-Sunday, 1916.
18Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens, Osceola, Saint Joseph County, Indiana, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : accessed 7 March 2019), V. Leona Glanders; Created by: C & Y Zinn-Haines.
19Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007, Steuben Co., p. 337 license application, Pember-Sunday, 1912.
20Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007, Steuben Co., p. 168 license application, Poper-Sunday, 1916.
21Ohio Department of Health, "Index to Annual Deaths, 1958-2002," database, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 24 May 2019), Oscar W Poper, Montgomery County, 1970, no. 006282.
221930 Census, Elkhart, Elkhart County, Indiana, ED 24, p. 17A, household 414, William E. Glanders family.
23Rice Cemetery, Elkhart, Elkhart County, Indiana, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : accessed 7 March 2019), William E Glanders; Created by: Karen K. Details provided by informant.
24Michigan Department of Community Health, Division of Vital Records and Health Statistics; Lansing, Michigan "Michigan Marriage Records, 1867-1952," Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 27 March 2019), Pember-Robinson, Ottawa Co., 1914, p. 70-22, e. 234.
25Michigan County Courthouses, Michigan, County Marriages, 1820-1940, Calhoun Co., p. 67. e. 361, Pember-Logan, 1918; digital images of registers, Family Search (familysearch.org : accessed 27 March 2019).
26Michigan Department of Community Health, Division for Vital Records and Health Statistics; Lansing, Michigan, Michigan Divorce Records, Calhoun Co., p. 63, e. 17-403, Nellie-Ford Pember, 1922; digital images of registers, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 27 March 2019).
27United States, Department of Veterans Affairs, Washington, DC, "Beneficiary Identification Records Locator Subsystem (BIRLS) Death File, 1850-2010," database, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 27 March 2019), Rolland Poper.
28Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007, Elkhart Co., p. 62, Poper-Kieffer, 1938.
29Indiana State Board of Health, Birth Certificates, 1907-1940, roll 1, certificate 816, Carol Jean Poper, 1939; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 27 March 2019); Indiana Archives and Records Administration, Indianapolis, Indiana.
30Indiana State Board of Health, Marriage Certificates, 1958–2005, Marion County, no. 70-054036, Ciocan-Poper, 1970; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 24 May 2019); Indiana Archives and Records Administration, Indianapolis, Indiana.
31Indiana Death Certificates, 1900–2011, Elkhart Co., 14301, James Thomas Poper, 1946.
32Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007, Allen Co., no. 292, Glanders-Schenk, 943.
33Social Security Administration, "U.S. Social Security Death Index," database, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 27 March 2019), Ralph E. Glanders, 317-12-4584.
34Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007, Allen Co., no. 292, Glanders-Schenk, 943.
35Indiana Death Certificates, 1900–2011, Elkhart Co., no. 57-032210, Vivian Glanders, 1957.
361910 Census, Elkhart, Elkhart County, Indiana, ED 20, roll 347, p. 10A, household 235, Charles Sunday household.
37Indiana Death Certificates, 1900–2011, Kosciusko County, no. 88, Eva Georgetta Sunday, 1900.
38Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007, Elkhart Co., p. 108 license application, Shonholt-Sunday, 1919.
39Rice Cemetery, Elkhart, Peter G Shanholt; Created by: Karen K.
40Indiana Death Certificates, 1900–2011, Elkhart Co., no. 042034, Gail D. Shanholt, 2000.
41Ohio County Courthouses, Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013, Henry Co., p. 167, no. 25334, Shanholt-Beehler, 1941; digital images, Family Search (familysearch.org : accessed 27 March 2019).
42Indiana Marriage Certificates, 1958–2005, Elkhart Co.,, Shanholt-Manly, 1983.
43Patricia A. Shanholt," obitruary, The Elkhart Truth, 8 May 2015; Genealogy Bank (genealogybank.com : accessed 28 May 2019), Recent N ewspaper Obituaries.
44Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007, Elkhart Co., p. 318, Beecher-Horn, 1923.

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