Life History

Notes

• 1920 Federal Census, Haskell County, Oklahoma, 3 February, Center, District 28, page 1B, Hse #14, Fam #16
  Schuster, John H Head  Owns M W 36 Married AR NY Austria-Father's mother tongue German Farmer
  Schuster, May Wife M W 27 Married OK MD OK
  Johnson, Prentice Stepson M W 10 Single OK OK OK [b abt 1909]
  Johnson, Phipps Sep-dau F W 6 Single OK IL OK [b abt 1903]
  Schuster, Frank Son MM W 1yr10mos Single OK OK OK [b abt 1918]
  
  1930 Federal Census, Haskell County, Oklahoma, 10 April, Center, District 31-4, page 3A, Hse #47, Fam #48
  Schuster, John H Head Rents $8 Has Radio M W 45  First married at 32  OK Austria NY (parents opposite of the 1920 report) Coal Miner
  Schuster, May Wife  F Ind 37  First married at 23  OK Mixed Choctaw [1896 Choctaw record and roll show her father was Intermarried White]
  Schuster, Frank O Son M Ind 12  Single OK Mixed Choctaw white]
  Schuster, Junita (Juanita?) Dau F Ind 7 Single OK Mixed Choctaw
  Schuster, Wallace B Son M Ind 5 Single OK Mixed Choctaw
  Johnson, Ridgely P Step-Son M Ind 20 Single OK Mixed Choctaw
  Phipps, Emma Step-Dau F Ind 17 Single OK Mixed Choctaw
  
  John's last child, Wallace, was reported in the 1930 census as age 5, so born about 1925.  All later records for John and for May are in southern California.  They moved at least before 1934, since Pearl is reported on the voter registration rolls for that year in Long Beach City, Los Angeles County.  But she is the only one listed.  Not John or any other Schuster.  They may have divorced about this time.
  
  In the 1940 census, Pearl was reported as Pearl Rogers, and as a widow.  She is a single head of household living in Banning, Riverside County, with her daughter Juanita and son Wallace in the home.  The census tells us their residence in 1935 was Coachella, Riverside County.  So they moved soon after that 1934 voter registration.
  
  I have not found a record for John in the 1940 census.  But in 1940 he did register for the WWII draft in Riverside County, where he reports he is working for the county in a camp.  His residence is Camp Keen, though his work location is Herkey Creek Camp.  John reported his contact as his son O F Schuster in the Navy in New York.
  
  It would appear that they divorced some time after he 1930 census when they are together with their younger children, then she married someone named Rogers, for whom we have found no record, then Rogers died before the 1940 census.  John Schuster was buried in Riverside County.  Both he and Pearl died in San Bernardino County, but she was shipped back to Oklahoma for burial in her home town, Kinta.
  
  U.S., World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942
  John Herman Schuster
  Residence Keen Camp, Riverside, California
  Age 58, Born 25 January 1884 Braden (Le Flore County), Oklahoma
  Contact Person O F Schuster [son Frank], USS Brooklyn, New York, NY, c/o F Div
  Employed by Riverside County, at Riverside, Herkey Creek Camp Ground, Keen Camp, Riverside County, California
  (back)
  5' 9" 140 lbs, Blue Eyes, Brown Hair, Light Complexion
  Registered 27 April 1942 Hemet (Riverside County), California
  Signed J H Schuster
  
  California, Death Index, 1940-1997
  John Herman Schuster
  Birth 25 Jan 1884 Oklahoma
  Death  13 Nov 1953 San Bernardino County
  Mother's Maiden Name Hahn
  Father's Surname Schuster
  
  John H Schuster
  BIRTH 1884
  DEATH 1953 (aged 68-69)
  BURIAL San Jacinto Valley Cemetery, San Jacinto, Riverside County, California, USA
  Created by C Carter 7 Feb 2015
  --  Find a Grave Memorial 142328976, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/142328976

Sources

• 1. 1920 Federal Census, Haskell County, Oklahoma
  • 3 February, Center, District 28, page 1B, Hse #14, Fam #16
• 2. 1930 Federal Census, Haskell County, Oklahoma
  • 10 April, Center, District 31-4, page 3A, Hse #47, Fam #48
• 3. Oklahoma, County Marriage Records, 1890-1995
• 4. U.S., World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942
• 5. California, Death Index, 1940-1997
• 6. Find a Grave Memorial Registry
• 7. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007
• 8. Obituaries from California
• 9. U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947
• 10. 1940 Federal Census, Riverside County, California
  • 11 April, Banning, District 33-66, Page 11A, 440 North Haywood, Hse #219, Owns $2000