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     Her married name was Scheib.¹ Pauline Goldy Wolfgang was born on 10 September 1889.^1,2 She married Oliver Darius Scheib, son of Victor Emanuel Scheib and Elizabeth Anna Schwalm.^1,3 Pauline Goldy Wolfgang died on 24 March 1984, at age 94.^1,2 She was buried at Simeon United Lutheran Church Cemetery, Gratz, Dauphin County, PA.²

     Paul Edward Scheib was born on 11 July 1923, Gratz, Dauphin County, PA.² He was the son of Oliver Darius Scheib and Pauline Goldy Wolfgang.¹ Paul Edward Scheib married Clarita Bertha Blyler, daughter of Heister Paul Blyler and Bertha Camilla Lebo, on 8 January 1948, Elizabethville, Dauphin County, PA.³ Paul Edward Scheib died on 7 January 2016, at age 92.²
Newspaper obituary:
Paul Edward Scheib (92) entered into eternal life on January 7, 2016. Buddy was born on July 11, 1923 in Gratz, PA. He was the son of the late Oliver and Pauline Scheib.
Buddy served his country in the Navy during World War II on the USS Chenango. He was awarded the American Area Ribbon, Asiatic-Pacific – 2 Stars, Philippine Liberation Ribbon and Victory Medal. He was a member of the American Legion Post 326, Gratz VFW #2385 and Susquehanna Lodge #364 F&AM.
Buddy was preceded in death by his loving wife, Clarita Scheib and sister, Alfreda Davis. Surviving are a sister and brother, son and daughter-in-law, and daughter and son-in-law.
Buddy enjoyed spending time with his grandchildren and treasured the special memories he had with his neighbors in Millerburg and enjoyed watching Phillies baseball.
A viewing will be held on Wednesday, January 13, 2016 at Hoover-Boyer Funeral Homes. Services will be held at 11:00 a.m. in St. Paul’s Lutheran Church. A light lunch will be provided at the church (after the service) to be followed by burial services at Gratz Union Cemetery.
Harrisburg Patriot-News, 10 January 2016.^4,5
He was buried on 13 January 2016, at Simeon United Lutheran Church Cemetery, Gratz, Dauphin County, PA.²

     Her married name was Werntz.¹ Edna M. Scheib was born in 1920.² She was the daughter of Oliver Darius Scheib and Pauline Goldy Wolfgang.¹ Edna M. Scheib married Arthur Allen Werntz.¹ Edna M. Scheib died on 30 May 2016, Grantville, Dauphin County, PA.³
Newspaper obituary:
Edna M. Scheib Werntz, 96, of Grantville, died Monday, May 30, 2016 in her home.
She was a retired employee of the former Translux Move Theater, Colonial Park and a former member of the Fourth United Church of Christ, Harrisburg.
Edna was preceded in death by her parents, Oliver and Pauline Scheib; son, Glenn R. Werntz; granddaughter, Peggy Jo Sorgiovanni; brother, Paul Scheib; and sister, Freida Davis. She was the widow of Arthur A. Werntz and is survived by a son, a brother, two grandchildren, five great grandchildren and eight great great grandchildren.
Graveside Services and Burial will be held on Monday, June 13, 2016 at 11:00 am in Gratz Union Cemetery, Gratz, PA with Rev. Nathan Corl Minnich officiating. There is no viewing or visitation. Arrangements are being handled by Fackler-Wiedeman Funeral Home, Harrisburg
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to American Heart Assn., 1019 Mumma Rd.,Wormleysburg, PA 17043.
Harrisburg Patriot-News, 3 June 2016.³
She was buried on 13 June 2016, at Simeon United Lutheran Church Cemetery, Gratz, Dauphin County, PA.³

     Her married name was Davis.¹ Alfreida A. Scheib was born on 18 April 1921, Gratz, Dauphin County, PA.² She was the daughter of Oliver Darius Scheib and Pauline Goldy Wolfgang.¹ Alfreida A. Scheib married Harry Walter Davis.^1,3 Alfreida A. Scheib died on 10 March 2015, Gratz, Dauphin County, PA, at age 93.²
Newspaper obituary:
Alfreda A. Davis, 93, of Gratz, passed away on March 10, 2015, at her home in Gratz.
She was born in Gratz on April 18, 1921, a daughter of the late Pauline and Oliver Scheib.
Alfreda was employed at Mon-Mar Manufacturing, Gratz.
She was the wife of the late Harry Davis.
She was a member of Simeon United Lutheran Church, Gratz.
Alfreda is survived by her son, Jeffrey Davis of Gratz; two daughters, Paulette McGraw of Harrisburg, Wendy Davis of Landsdale; two brothers, Paul Scheib of Millersburg, Carl Scheib of San Antonio, TX; sister, Edna Werntz of Grantville.
Graveside Service will be held on Saturday, March 14, 2015, at 11:00 am at the Gratz Union Cemetery, with Rev. Martine Joseph, officiating.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions can be made to Simeon United Lutheran Church, Gratz.
James A. Reed Funeral Home, Pillow is in charge of the arrangements.
Published in Patriot-News on Mar. 11, 2015.⁴
She was buried on 14 March 2015, at Simeon United Lutheran Church Cemetery, Gratz, Dauphin County, PA.²

     Carl Alvin Scheib was born on 1 January 1927, Gratz, Dauphin County, PA.¹ He was the son of Oliver Darius Scheib and Pauline Goldy Wolfgang.¹ Carl Alvin Scheib was baptized on 17 April 1927, Zion (Klinger's) Church, Erdman, Lykens Township, Dauphin County, PA.² He married Georgine Sevilla Umholtz, daughter of Walter Jonas Umholtz and Minerva Irene Koppenhaver.¹ Carl spent 11 years (1943-1954) as a major leagure pitcher, mostly with the Philadelphia Athletics.
     From www.baseballlibrary.com (2005):
"Signed by the Athletics out of high school, hard-throwing Carl Scheib became the youngest player to appear in an American League game (16 years, eight months, five days) when he made his pro debut in the second game of a September 6, 1943 doubleheader. He pitched in 25 games with Philadelphia before being called to military duty in 1945. He returned in 1947, went 14-8 in 1948, but dropped to 3-10 with a league-high nine relief losses in 1950. For a pitcher, he was an outstanding hitter (.250, 5 HR). (AL)
"FROM THE BASEBALL CHRONOLOGY
"May 8, 1948: The A's win their 6th straight, pull off a triple play, and batter the White Sox, 16–1. Winning pitcher Carl Scheib puts the game away with an 8th-inning grand slam, and the A's are now tied for the American League lead with the Indians.
"July 18, 1948: Pat Seerey, chunky Sox left fielder, hits four home runs, the last in the 11th inning, to lead the Chicago White Sox to a 12–11 victory over the Athletics in Philadelphia. Seerey is the 5th ML player to accomplish the feat and is the only player in ML history to twice reach 15 or more total bases in a game, having totaled 15 bases in 1945. Fat Pat's first shot is over the LF bleacher roof off Carl Scheib, the next two —off Scheib and Bob Savage—are on the roof, and the last, off Lou Brissie, into the upper LF stands. Brissie, the 5th pitcher, is the loser against Howie Judson. The A's take the 2nd game, 6–1, in five innings as Seerey is 0-for-2. On the 24th, Seerey will become the first player to strike out seven times in a doubleheader.
"August 15, 1948: Before 72,468—the largest crowd of the season at Yankee Stadium—the A's sweep a pair from the Yanks by 5–3 scores and regain second place in the American League. The A's win the opener in 10 innings after Joe DiMaggio ties the score with his 20th homer of the year. Joe D also triples home a run in the extra frame but Lou Brissie preserves the win for Carl Scheib. The A's total 20 hits in the two games, including a triple and double by Sam Chapman. New York is now in 4th place, five games back.
"June 18, 1950: After Bob Feller blanks the A's, 7–0, on a 2-hitter, the Indians set a modern record by scoring 14 runs in the opening frame of the 2nd game. The output ties the most runs in any inning and is the most in the first inning. Except for pitcher Mike Garcia , all the Indians bat twice enroute to a 21–2 trouncing. Hegan piles on with a grand slam in the 3rd inning, off Carl Scheib.
"August 30, 1951: The A's topple the Indians, 6–2, beating Bob Feller and knocking the Tribe into 2nd place, a half game behind the idle Yankees. Morrie Martin and Carl Scheib combine for the win.
"May 22, 1953: The Red Sox add two more 3–2 wins to move within two 1/2 games of the Yankees. Unbeaten Mel Parnell wins his 6th in the opener as George Kell homers and singles in the winner. The Red Sox take the nitecap in 12 innings as Hersh Freeman beats Carl Scheib."³ Carl Alvin Scheib died on 24 March 2018, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX, at age 91.⁴
Online obituary:
Carl Scheib, Youngest Player in American League History, Dies at 91
By RICHARD GOLDSTEINAPRIL 5, 2018
In the summer of 1942, Carl Scheib was working on his family’s farm in Pennsylvania and anticipating another year in high school.
At age 15, he didn’t have a car, but he did possess a nifty fastball and curve, pitching for his high school baseball team.
He had never seen a major league game, but even if he had ventured to Philadelphia to watch the Athletics or the Phillies play, there wasn’t a lot to look at. Both teams had been in the doldrums for years, and baseball was beginning to lose ballplayers to military service in World War II.
Opportunity beckoned.
A salesman in his hometown, Gratz, Pa., happened to work as a part-time scout for the A’s, and on his recommendation the team invited Carl to a workout at Shibe Park. Connie Mack, the A’s president and manager, was impressed enough to ask him to come back the following summer.
Scheib dropped out of school for good in the spring of 1943 and became a batting-practice pitcher for the A’s.
“I hate to say it, but being born and raised in Gratz, where you worked on farms, we didn’t know about big league baseball,” Scheib once told The Patriot-News of Harrisburg. “I thought they were crazy to pay you to play ball.”
He made his major league debut on Sept. 6, 1943, relieving against the Yankees in the ninth inning of an 11-4 loss. He was 16 years, 8 months and 5 days old. In all, he got into six games that year, all in relief.
Scheib made his major league debut with the Athletics on Sept. 6, 1943, relieving against the Yankees in the ninth inning of an 11-4 loss. Credit The Topps Company
He pitched for the A’s in all or parts of 11 seasons, but when he died on March 24 in San Antonio at 91, Scheib was most remembered for having been the youngest player in American League history.
In fact, he was the youngest in all of modern Major League Baseball history when he pitched his first game for the A’s. But that distinction was erased when Joe Nuxhall pitched one-third of an inning for the National League’s Cincinnati Reds in his major league debut on June 10, 1944, at the age of 15 years, 316 days. (Nuxhall went on to a long major league career, mostly with the Reds.)
Scheib, a right-hander, 6 feet 1 inches tall and 190 pounds, became a mainstay of the A’s pitching staff as a starter and reliever and won 45 games for teams that were usually mediocre or worse.
His best season came in 1948, when he went 14-8 with a 3.94 earned run average and 15 complete games for an A’s team that finished fourth in the American League with an 84-70 record, the franchise’s best mark in his years with them. He also batted .298 that year, hit a pair of home runs along with eight doubles and three triples, and drove in 21 runs in 104 at-bats.
Carl Alvin Scheib was born in Gratz, a small town about 25 miles north of Harrisburg, on Jan. 1, 1927. He was one of four children of Oliver Scheib, a coal miner as well as a farmer, and the former Pauline Wolfgang.
Carl starred as a pitcher and outfielder for Gratz High School before making that barely imaginable leap to the major leagues.
He recalled that when he joined the Athletics, neither his teammates nor his coaches supplied advice.
“I was a shy, bashful kid,” he told Jim Sargent in an interview for the Society for American Baseball Research more than 60 years later. “My parents drove me down and dropped me off in the big city of Philadelphia, and, hey, it was rough. I had to find a restaurant to eat. I didn’t even know how to read a menu. I had never been 50 miles from home. The Great Depression was just getting over, and our family never had the money to go anywhere or do anything.”
Scheib pitched in 15 games for the Athletics in 1944 and in four games for them in 1945, all in relief, before being drafted into the Army that May. He pitched for an Army ball club that won the G.I. “World Series” of occupied Germany in September 1946, then returned to the A’s in 1947.
Scheib was part of a rotation that included combat veterans like Phil Marchildon, who had been a gunner on a Canadian bomber and taken prisoner by the Germans when his plane was shot down; Lou Brissie, who wore a brace to protect a leg that had been shattered by a German shell during the Italian campaign; and Bob Savage, whose division had taken part in the liberation of a concentration camp.
Scheib saved 11 games in 1951 and posted an 11-7 record in 1952. After experiencing arm problems, he was sent to the St. Louis Cardinals early in May 1954. He pitched in three games for them before his major league career ended at age 27.
He had an overall record of 45-65 and a career batting average of .250.
After leaving baseball, Scheib retired to San Antonio and owned a service station and carwash.
Scheib’s death, at a hospital, was confirmed by his family on Thursday. He is survived by his sons Kenneth and Carl Jr., his daughters Barbara McCauley and Sandy Pratt, six grandchildren, five great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren.
Scheib’s first wife, the former Georgene Umholtz, died in 1998, and his second wife, the former Sandra Lindinger, died in 2012.
Scheib returned to Gratz in 2005, the bicentennial of its founding, for a ceremony in which the community ballpark where he once pitched was renamed for him and a bronze plaque with his likeness was dedicated.
The small-town boy who had gone so far was awed by the tribute.
“Nobody knows what a man feels like when they put a monument up for him,” Scheib said. “I love this town, and I love the people in it.”
New York Times online, April 4, 2018.⁵

     Salome Ellen Welker is also referred to as Luma E. (?) in some sources. She was born on 4 June 1887.² As of circa 1904,her married name was Scheib.¹ She married Francis Washington Scheib, son of Victor Emanuel Scheib and Elizabeth Anna Schwalm, circa 1904.¹ Salome Ellen Welker was buried at Zion (Klinger's) Church, Erdman, Lykens Township, Dauphin County, PA.³ She died on 28 August 1976, Millersburg, Dauphin County, PA, at age 89.^1,2

     Her married name was Brosius.² Her married name was Leitzel.² Dorothy Adeline Scheib was born on 5 December 1912, Gratz, Dauphin County, PA.^3,4 She was the daughter of Francis Washington Scheib and Salome Ellen Welker.¹ Dorothy Adeline Scheib married William Raymond Leitzel, son of Oscar Troutman Leitzel and Sevilla Wolfgang, on 15 November 1930, Pillow, Dauphin County, PA.^2,1,5 Dorothy Adeline Scheib married Raymond W. Brosius on 28 October 1944.^2,1 Dorothy Adeline Scheib died on 18 September 2000, Millersburg, Dauphin County, PA, at age 87.^6,4 She was buried at Oak Hill Cemetery, Millersburg, Dauphin County, PA.⁴