August Sheeler ^{2 3 4 5}

   Another name for August was Gus Sheeler.⁶

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Census in 1930 in Norwegian Township, Schuylkill, PA. ⁷ The 1930 census recorded renting for $15 a month a home on Main Street in Seltzer City in Norwegian Township the household of August Sheeler, miner in coal mine, 28, living with wife May, laundress for private family, 25; step son William Jacobs, 8; and father-in-law William Rose, laborer in coal mine, 55, widowed and sister-in-law Grace, presser in shirt factory, 16. Everyone and their parents were born in Pennsylvania except August's parents in Lithuania, and William's father in Germany.

2. Residence: 308 Killoran Drive, Collins Park, DE on 11 Jun 1954 in Collins Park, New Castle, DE. ^{8 9}

3. Obituary: Pottsville Republican: obituary of August Sheeler on 25 Feb 1974 in Pottsville, Schuylkill, PA. ⁶ August (Gus) Sheeler, a native of Seltzer City, died Sunday morning in a hospital in Tampa, Fla., where he has lived for the past 10 years.
Mr. Sheeler was the son of the late John and Marie Greenwald Sheeler. He was a retired miner.
His wife, the former May Rose, died 10 years ago.
Surviving are a brother, John, Kennett Square; two sisters, Elva, wife of Warrant Office Pete Kasten, Tampa; Mrs. Emma Roderick, Washington D.C.; nephews and nieces.
Funeral services will be held in Tampa.

August married Sarah Mae Rose, daughter of William Gates Rose and Sarah Ann Commons, on 15 Jan 1927 in , Schuylkill, PA.¹ (Sarah Mae Rose was born on 28 Mar 1905 in Pottsville, Schuylkill, PA,^{10 11} died on 10 Sep 1958 in Farnhurst, New Castle, DE ^{4 11 12} and was buried on 13 Sep 1958 in New Castle: Gracelawn Memorial Park, New Castle, DE ^{4 11}.)