Christina Schepper

Source Citation:
Year: 1930; Census Place: Irvington, Essex, New Jersey; Page: 2B; Enumeration District: 0465; FHL microfilm: 2341066

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheffield_Farms

The National Archives at St. Louis; St. Louis, Missouri; World War II Draft Cards (Fourth Registration) for the State of New Jersey; Record Group Title: Records of the Selective Service System; Record Group Number: 147; Series Number: M1986

The Daily Record; Publication Date: 17 Apr 1948; Publication Place: Long Branch, New Jersey, USA;

      Christina (Christie) Schepper (maiden name given as Schaeffer on one record but cannot be confirmed.) was born on the 19th of August 1889 in the Austro-Hungerian Empire.  

On the 1930 U.S. Census, Christina states that she immigrated to the United States in 1906.  Also reported on the census is that she married  Frederick (Fred) John Schepper (formaly Schnepper) in 1925.  Fred was born in Brooklyn in 1892, the son of German émigrés.

The Scheppers' lived in New Jersey where Fred worked as a manager for the Sheffield Farms Company in West End, New Jersey.  Fred and his brothers had been involved in the dairy business for many years.

Fred Schepper died suddenly of a heart attack on the 17th of April 1948. He was buried in Brooklyn, New York.

Christina Schepper died on the 19th of May 1986 in the Far Rockaway Nursing Home, and was buried on Hart Island on the 18th of June 1986.