Linn E. and Ada Grace Sheckler's children details
    Merril Sheckler
    Lester Sheckler
    Teressa Sheckler
     
    Lois Marie  Sheckler
    Baby Sheckler
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    Teressa (Sheckler) Gibbs
    Tret (Teressa, as spelled on her grave) was 6 years old when her mother, Ada Sheckler passed away.  She moved  to live with her Aunt Hazel and Uncle Alvin in Battle Creek as did her sister Lois. Their father, Linn, was driving truck at the time.  This is where Linn met his second wife Ethel and was married. They later all moved to Grand Rapids where Linn took a job with Consumers Power Company.  Keeping the same job they moved to Sparta where brother Lester took a job with the Carnation Milk Company and met future wife Ileath Bird.  When Linn moved his family to Casco(South of Fennville), Tret was ready for High School and she moved in with Pastor Spears and family, completed her four years of high school in South Haven.  At the end of that time they moved to Chicago.  Soon Tret moved  to Sparta, staying with Lester and Ileath and went to school at Davenport Insitute. Her brother Merril helped her pay for the schooling. She then took a job in Sparta. This is where she meet William Prescott Gibbs, they got married, lived in Sparta until their deaths. 
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    William and Teressa had one child
    Rick Gibbs


    Born:  19 Feb., 1913
    Died: 4 Oct., 1978
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    William Gibbs
    Born: 23 Dec. 1903
    Died: 30 Nov. 1980
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