Notes:

Frank Schuster was a weaver by trade in his native Germany and early became imbued with a desire, like thousand of his fellow countrymen, to come to America to find a home amid the free conditions of the unsettled West. Weaving by night and farming by day, he saved enough money to bring himself and wife and their small children here.

Upon his arrival in this country, he settled in St Louis and after a couple of years there joined the German colony of Cooper County and bought a farm of timbered land in Lamine township, and there built a home. The children born to him and his wife . . .

The mother of these children died at her home in Lamine township about 1861, and five or six years later, Frank Schuster returned to Germany and there married a second time, returning to his home in cooper County with his second wife. Some years later he made a second trip to Germany on a visit to kinsfolk. Not long after his return home, a wagon in which he was riding was caught at a railway crossing by a train and he recieved injuries from which he died not long afterward.

Frank married Cleten, Theresa in UNKNOWN in Germany. Theresa was born in 1824 in Baden-Württemberg, Germany; died in 1861 in Lamine Township, Cooper, Missouri, USA; was buried in 1861 in Cooper, Missouri, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Schuster, Frank Joseph was born on 6 Jun 1849 in Bonn, Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany; died on 1 Apr 1936 in Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA; was buried on 4 Apr 1936 in Sts Peter and Paul Catholic Cemetery, Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA.
2. Schuster, William Cletus Sr was born on 4 Jul 1850 in Frohnlach, Coburg, Bayern, Germany; died on 22 Oct 1915 in Pilot Grove Township, Cooper, Missouri, USA; was buried in Oct 1915 in St Martin Catholic Church Cemetery, Martinsville, Cooper, Missouri, USA.