Schneider / Shackleton

John M. Schneider was a Methodist minister who raised his family in Elgin, IL -- a city close to Chicago. John built a cottage at Little Point Sable (in western Michigan on the Lake Michigan shore) that he used as a retreat for his family. Soon many of his colleagues in the Methodist church built cottages and joined him for vacations. All of John's sons built their own cottages, and the extended Schneider family still vacations there today.

Roy Shackleton raised his family in Indiana. He then moved to Chicago, IL, and then to the Washington, DC, area after he had become ill with Parkinson's disease. He died in DC.

Russell Schneider and Alice Shackleton met while both were attending Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. As the story goes, Russell saw Alice in a school play and pursued her. They married after college, and around 1939 they moved to the Washington, DC area, living first in Arlington, VA, then Silver Spring, MD, and finally winding up in the District proper in 1947. Russell built a house for his by-then family at 3551 Tilden Street, NW. After their four daughters were old enough to live outside the house, Russell and Alice were going move to an apartment in Arlington. Russell became very ill with cancer and soon died in early 1970. Alice lived in the Arlington apartment for a short time, but soon moved to an apartment in the Parkside development in north Bethesda, MD, where she lived for a long time. She then moved to Asbury Village where she spent her final years. She recently succumbed to the effects of a stroke in October 1999.

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