• General Notes

  Alias:<ALIA> L.J. or /Jacob/
  REFN: 11
  Address:<ADDR> 358 W. Pine St.
  
  Marengo
  Iowa
  
  USA
  Bills filed in Levi's estate show treatment and doctors visits beginning
  March 3, 1912 and continuing with increasing frequency (sometimes 2 or 3
  visits a day & many visits at night) through September 1912, and include
  consultations with Chicago and Iowa City and reimbursement for trip to
  Chicago by Dr. Ira N. Crow. 
  Obituary in Marengo Republican of Marengo, Iowa, dated September 18, 1912:
  "Mr. L.J. Shedenhelm, one of our most highly respected citizens,
  passed from this life to his home eternal on Monday, Sept. 9th 1912, at
  2:40 o'clock P.M.  He had been ill for many months, yet the people of the
  city hoped that the exceptional vitality of the man would eventually
  result in his recovery.  But is was not to be so.  The sufferer finally
  had to yield to the grim Destroyer, and pass over the dark river of
  death.  He was an enterprising citizen, an obliging neighbor, and one in
  whom everyone placed implicit confidence.  He held the office of city
  councilman at the time of his death, and gave to the municipality his
  best efforts as a business man.
  L.J. Shedenhelm was born in Seneca county, Ohio, on Feb. 2nd, 1843,
  and was at the time of hes death 64 years 7 months and 7 days old.  He
  was the youngest of eight children born to Mr. and Mrs. Grafton
  Shedenhelm.  He grew up in his native state, and it was there that he
  received a good education in the public schools and good training in the
  principles underlying an honorable life.
  He left Ohio when 20 years of age and came as far as Marengo, Iowa,
  where the prospects looked inviting, staying for a time with his brother,
  the late R.W. Shedenhelm.  He was married in this city on June 9, 1870
  and to this union there was born two children, Mr. O.F. Shedenhelm, the
  eldest, was born in 1873 in Chicago, whither Mrs. and Mrs. Shedenhelm had
  moved in 1871; and Mr. G.W. Shedenhelm, born on the farm southwest of
  town in 1876, both of whom survive, with the wife and a step-son, C.A.
  Myers, who made his home with the family.  Seven grandchildren are also
  left to mourn.  There also survive four brothers, G.U., H.D., J.W. and
  Thos. M. Shedenhelm, all of Green Springs, Ohio; three half-brothers,
  John G, of Wyandotte County, Ohio; Francis M., of Charlotte, Mich., and
  J.M. of Marengo, two sisters, Mrs. Margaret Nevels, of Charlotte, Mich.,
  Mrs. Mary L. Culver of Wyandotte county, Ohio, and a number of cousins
  and other relatives in Ohio.
  The family removed from Chicago later and settled on a farm
  southwest of town.  By industry and economy he amassed a comfortable
  income, and after twenty-three years labor, moved to Marengo in 1900 with
  his faithful wife to spend their remaining days in ease and comfort.
  Mrs. Shedenhelm was a member of no church, but practiced the
  Christian virtues, and frequently attended the M.E. church.  He was a
  member of the Knights of Pythias, and was highly regarded by his brethren
  of the order.
  L.J. Shedenhelm was a man of unimpeachable honesty and unassailable
  integrity.  He was broad-minded, tolerant and sympathetic.  He was
  popular with all, and his death will be widely mourned.  He was a hind
  husband and an indulgent father, and the family will griever over their
  loss.
  The funeral services were held at the M.E. church on Wednesday
  afternoon, Sept. 11th 1912, at 2 o'clock.  Rev. C.R. Zimmerman conducted
  the services, assisted by the choir, and preached a sermon eulogizing the
  character of the deceased.  The floral offerings were very numerous and
  silently showed the respect to the dead and sympathy for the living.  At
  the close of the services the remains were taken to the I.O.O.F. cemetery
  for interment, the Knights of Pythias assisting at the last sad rites. 
  The sincere sympathy of the community is offered the bereaved widow and
  children."

Details of Levi Jacob's family with Martha A. Wood