Submitted by: Cathy Millburn

 

 

 

PAUL SCHEIBLICH, SR.

 

 

 

     Paul Scheiblich, Sr., b November 27, 1853 in Prussia, d February 27, 1930 in Marlin, Falls County, Texas ‑ came to Marlin as a young man before 1880. He established a grocery business which he operated for the remainder of his life. In 1907, he was associated with a well‑known butcher, Furney F. Green.

     On December 25, 1882 in Marlin, Paul was married to Elizabeth Pieper b March 26, 1865, d November 14, 1959, and buried in Calvary Cemetery.  The couple had six children:

     Bertha Scheiblich b ca 1885 married Orr Aaron Edwards.

     Annie Marie Scheiblich, b August 7, 1887, d November 14, 1969 and buried in Calvary Cemetery in Marlin ‑ was never married.

     Elsie Scheiblich, b March 31, 1890 in Marlin, d March 6, 1939 and buried in Calvary Cemetery ‑ was never married.

     Alice A: Scheiblich, b June 6, 1896, d March 6, 1977 and buried in Calvary Cemetery. Alice was a 1914 graduate of Marlin High School. She worked for the Waco News Tribune newspaper for many years, and later moved to Beaumont, where she married Gus Flasdick. They had no issue.

     Paul J. Scheiblich, b 1899, d 1972 in Marlin‑was married July 6, 1924 to Furney Louise Pierson, b 1903 in Marlin ‑ a daughter of Benjamin Andrew and Martha (Green) Pierson. "Furn" was named for her grandfather, Furney F. Green, a business associate of Paul's father. Paul J. spent his entire life in the grocery business started by his father. The store was expanded and became a family affair with three stores in Marlin operated by Paul J., his brother, Herman, and his brother‑in‑law, Edward Gray Pierson. Furn, also worked in her husband's store. They were members of the First Presbyterian Church and Furn is still active in the Women of the Church Council. They had no issue, but Paul J. Scheiblich will always be remembered for his kindness and benevolence to many, especially in helping teen‑age boys with employment.

     Herman Scheiblich, b 1901, d 1973, and buried in Calvary Cemetery ‑ married August 6, 1933 at the of his brother, Paul J. Scheiblich, to Norma Wren Mahan, b ca 1906, d 1985 in South Carolina, and buried in Marlin. Norma was a daughter of Joseph Spurgeon and Lucinda Pearl (Nabors) Mahan. She and her sister, Vista Mae Mahan, were orphaned when their mother died in 1910, and their father of influenza in 1919. Vista Mae married Clyde Haney and had Joe Tom Haney, Band Director of Texas A&M University's Band; and she married second to E. M. Dupuy. She worked as Bookkeeper at Scheiblich's Stores. Norma and Vista Mae had a half‑brother, Joseph Walter Mahan, son of their father's second marriage to Elsie Lemm.

     Herman and Paul built a new store on Coleman Street, which Herman managed; and Paul J. had the Kash‑Way Store on Live Oak Street.

     Herman was a Deacon in the First Presbyterian Church ‑ almost never missing a service, while Norma was active with the Marlin Band Parents and other school, church, and civic affairs. She was also an artist. Herman and Norman had two children:

Herman Edward Scheiblich, b September 8, 1939 ‑ graduated from Marlin High School in 1957, and earned a degree in Math from The University of Texas. Edward married Martha Hudson of Mexia, and the couple have two sons: Paul Herman Scheiblich, and Heath Scheiblich. Edward is a professor in the Math Department of Columbia University in South Carolina. In 1982, his mother sold her in Marlin to move to South Carolina to be near her son.

     Norma Sue Scheiblich was born ca 1941, and graduated from Marlin High School in 1958, and from the University of Texas, where she earned a degree in Economics, specializing in fashions. She worked in New York for the Simplicity Pattern Company until her marriage to Dr. Miles Pothost, Psychologist, who has a clinic in Mason City, Iowa, where the couple live. They have no children.

 

 

Copyright Permission granted to Theresa Carhart for printing the biographies of these Falls County Families to this Web page.
"Families of Falls County", Compiled and Edited by the Falls County Historical Commission, page 406 column 2 and page 407 column 1 and 2.  
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