Individual Details

[Broderbund Family Archive #110, Vol. 2, Ed. 4, Social Security Death Index: U.S., Social Security Death Index, Surnames from M through Z, Date of Import: Aug 17, 1997, Internal Ref. #1.112.4.75787.149]

Individual: SLAGHT, Oscar
Birth date: May 20, 1893
Death date: Jun 1980
Social Security #: 399-22-5632
Last residence: WI 53820
State of issue: WI

He had red hair when young. Met Grandma SLAGHT when she came for a dance at the one room school house in Burton Wis. where her sister Minnie was the teacher. Grandpa attended this school.
Grandpa also planted a tree that is still standing in yr 1999 in the school yard during one Arbor Day.
He was a fair man in his dealings with everyone. He did have a temper and was known for following through with what he said.
One time the Methodist church board of which he was a member, wanted to buy a building next to the church to be used for youth group activities. Some of the members wanted to place on a sign over the door that no Catholic could enter the building or participate in the activities. Grandpa came home furious and said if they tried that he would burn the place down rather than let a sign of that nature be put on the building. They backed down and let all participate.
Grandpa was impartial in dealing with all Catholic or protestant and was respected by all. He kept many families in the southern half of Hazel Green from starving to death during the depression. He would frequently have one of the men do some work at his home and then pay him for it. Each year he would purchase a pig for the family. He probably paid less than $25 for it fully butchered. One year the HUSKEY family had returned from Arizona and had been eating rats and skunks and such just to stay alive.
Grandpa sat his family at the table and said there is a neighboring family that will probably not make it through the winter but will starve to death. We don't always finish the meat we get from the pig each year. Would you be willing to eat smaller portions of meat this year and give half the pig to that family? He told them that it had to be a family decision because it affected them all. They all agreed.
Another year the Methodist congregation tried to keep some Catholic families from purchasing land in the area. Grandpa felt this was unfair and went to the Sinsinawa Mound where the Catholic Church was headquartered in the area and told them what was happening and advised them to seek legal advice. Then he went back to the Methodists and told them that they would be in trouble if they kept going the way they were headed, and asked them to remember that there were many Catholics in the town of Hazel Green and many more in the Dubuque area and tempers would flair over unfair dealings and they would likely get hurt.
On the other hand, the Methodist minister bought a car and was a pretty fast driver. One day he accidentaly hit a young girl who popped out of tall weeds along the road and he couldn't stop in time.
She was a young Catholic girl and the Catholic congregation was up in arms. The minister went to grandpa and asked for his help. Grandpa went to the Mounds and talked with the former pastor of Hazel Green who had retired and the head priest at the School told them what had happened and the old priest said it could have been a Catholic who did it let the law take its course and there will be no problems with the results. Later this same minister was fired when he made the comment to his parishoners that when they didn't like their young folk going to Galena to the dance halls that if he had his way he would build a dance hall in back of the church and then they wouldn't have to go away to have a good time.
Grandpa bought the house in Hazel Green for $400. He wired it for electricity. Put in chimineys and furnaces. He did a lot of carpentry work. He built the kitchen cabinets for grandma so that they would be easy for her to reach as she was short . He loved grandma a lot and gave up many opportunities for advancement and success for her. He could have been commissioner of Highways but she wouldn't leave Hazel Green. He could have been in on an enterprise involving petrol in St. Louis MO. but she wouldn't leave the area and that was an extremely successful venture still in operation today.
Uncle Ray told a story to my dad about his dad shortly before Uncle Ray died. Alfred RODEL and some others from Dubuque had formed a band that went out to many of the smaller communities to play for dances etc. One night they had been to the area where the SLAGHTS were living and in that area some of the locals thought they would have some fun at the bands expense, such as take and break their instruments beat them up etc. Grandpa got wind of this and at the end of the Dance, he picked up the band in his wagon to drive them to the railroad station. When he got there the young men were waiting and grandpa took a shot gun from under the wagon seat and calmly inquired if they were planning to do anything because if they were they would go home full of holes. They knew he meant what he said and backed off.
Grandpa was a very wise person. He told my father he could not afford to send him to college, but would help him in every other way to get his degree, because he wanted to be able to send his girls to school so they would not have to be dependent on their spouses for a living in case there was ever any problem.
My dad built the third bay of the garage behind their house. He also built his younger sister Aunt Nan a log cabin play house with furniture and a working fireplace. I remember playing in it on my summer vacations as a young girl.
There was a great big old tree in the front corner of their property that had a mine shaft in front of it and mine tunnels ran under the property. The shaft had been closed over.
Grandpa always told the story of 5 brothers who when they left home each took a different spelling of the name. They were of Dutch decent. Spellings he said were SLAUGHT, SLAGHT, SLEICHT, SLEIGHT, I can't remember the fifth.

Marriage recorded in Dubuque IA courthouse
SLAGHT, Oscar married Burdean SCHULTER
Apr. 22, 1915 License # 1900 by H. PATCHISSON, M.S. of Dubuque
Oscar - Age ____ born Waterloo Twp, WI
Father: George W. SLAGHT
Mother: Mary E. BURROWS
Burdean: Age 22 of McCartney, WI
Father: Hubert SCHULTER
Mother: Florence CHAPMAN
Witness: Charles EICHORN & Mary E. SLAGHT
(Charles was husband of Oscar's sister Cora)


Birth recorded Grant Co., Courthouse
Vol. 5, p. 315 # 347
Oscar SLAGHT
Father: George SLAGHT
Occ: Laborer
Born: WI
Mother: Mary BURROWS
Born: WI
12:15 PM May 20, 1893 Cassville, Grant Co., WI
W.P. HARTFORD MD of Cassville
Cert: 21 May 1893
Reg: Oct 29, 1895
Add: Given name added in red ink and mother's given name added from supplemental by self Jun 23, 1959 Theresa HOFFMAN, Registrar


SSN 399-22-5632 WI bef 1951

Death date also listed as 29 Jun
Burial: Cassville Cem., Cassville, WI
Fact 1: Worked for Wisconsin State Highway Dept.

Birth	20 MAY 1893	Waterloo Twp., Grant Co., WI
Marriage	22 APR 1915	Dubuque, Dubuque Co., IA - Burdean SCHUELTER
Marriage	14 APR 1968	Potosi, Grant Co., WI - Florence Adolphina SCHAAL
Death	30 JUN 1980	Potosi, Grant Co., WI

Spouse	Burdean SCHUELTER (1892 - 1967)
Child	Zora SLAGHT (1916 - 1993)
Child	Frederick Wesley SLAGHT (1922 - )
Child	Living

Spouse

Florence Adolphina SCHAAL (1899 - 1990)

Father	George Washington SLAGHT (1865 - 1950)
Mother	Mary Elizabeth BURROWS (1863 - 1941)
Sibling	Harry Leroy SLAGHT (1890 - 1935)
Sibling	Cora Edith SLAGHT (1891 - 1981)
Sibling	Ray Henry SLAGHT (1898 - 1996)