Joseph C. Schallan (1881-1931) and Mary Louise (Wagner) Schallan (1883-1978). Married in 1907, Joe and Mary Louise first resided in Yankton, South Dakota, before settling in Havelock, in Pocahontas County, Iowa, in 1911. They were using "Schallan" instead of "Schallau" by the 1920s, for reasons now unknown to the members of their branch. Mary Louise Wagner was raised on a farm near Newhall, in Benton County, Iowa. Joe and Mary Louise had nine children -- Chester William (1909-1983), Ralph James (1910-1919), Rosalia (1911-1962), Viola (1913-1929), Lillian (1914-present), Daisy Mae (1916-1923), Opaline (1920-1991), Eugene (1924-1996), and Donald (1925-1925). (Original photo of Joseph C. Schallan owned by Joseph B. Schallan, his grandson; original photo of Mary Louise Schallan owned by Loryl Jean Cole, her granddaughter.)



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