Frank William Schneider
Frank William Schneider was the son for Frank Xavier (or
Zavier) Schneider and Anna Josephina Noerthmann, and was Born on the July 21,
1876 in West Plains Howell County Missouri and died on October 6th 1913 in
Burley, Cassia County, Idaho. Frank
married in West Plans on September 24th 1898 to Hattie Barnett, the daughter of
James Dallas Barnett and Tennessee Gunter.
Hattie Barnett was born January 28, 1881 in West Plains and died June
16, 1955 in Santa Ana, Orange California.
After the death of Frank, Hattie remarried and had one child by a second
husband Hyrum Clarence Austin.--By Brock Guernsey
Memories of Frank William by Dallas Max Schneider
He (Frank William, also known to friends and family as Willy)
came from a large family and was in the middle.
His father (Frank Xaiver Schneider) was a civil war veteran. We know Willy could add and subtract, since
he ran a little store later, but not much else about his childhood. In the winter he also worked as a traveling
salesman. He was tall about
6'4". He picked up tuberculosis or
"consumption", so the doctor told him to move to a dryer
climate.
He went to Burley Idaho and bought 400 aces for farmland,
then built a house on it. There were no utilities,
so he dug a trench from a spring in the mountains for irrigation. Orval Dallas, his son, was 6 years old when
they moved from Missouri.
He would take his sons,Orval Dallas and Les, to the mouth of
the spring and he would tell the boys to put their ears to the rock so they
could hear the rushing water. He told
them that some day he would harness electricity to take care of all of Burley.
He felt better in Idaho, but slowly failed from the tuberculosis. He died at age 37. The family was so badly frighten that they
all ran outside-except Dallas.
Max (Dallas Max Schneider-son of Orval Dallas and grandson
of Frank William) never saw this grandfather but always felt close to him. He had a dream at one time that Dallas and
Willy came to Grande Cleaners (Dallas Max's Dry Cleaning Business) and the
looked just alike.
Relatives told Max that Willy was the kindest man that ever
lived.
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