A portrait of Jacob S. Shade Jr., a miner and farmer of Gratz, and Specktown, Lykens Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.
Jacob S. Shade Jr. was born 19 May 1866, the son of Jacob S. Shade Sr. (1831-1891) and Catherine [Smeltz] Shade (1830-1906). On 31 July 1892, Jacob Jr. married Elizabeth Louise “Lizzie” Ritzman (1873-1946), the daughter of Franklin M. Ritzman (1850-1929) and Susan J. [Wolf] Ritzman (1855-1932).
Jacob and Lizzie had at least eight known children, one of whom was Charles Edwin Shade (1895-1918), the first Gratz–Lykens Township soldier killed in World War I. The returning soldiers named the local American Legion Post for him.
Jacob S. Shade Jr. died on 11 June 1928 and Lizzie died on 13 July 1946. Both are buried at the Gratz Union Cemetery.
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