John Bernard Schenk

Pic 1: Ferd & John as the bartenders at a wedding Pic 2: John & Therese, Ferd & Eileen, Otto & Laura

John was adopted at the age of four from a Catholic orphanage in New York. He was nicknamed Rotjohannes or Red Johnny because he had red hair. 

John Bernard Schenk was born on 9 June 1888, in New York, United States. He married Theresa Koressel on 20 October 1916, in Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in United States in 1949 and German Township, Vanderburgh, Indiana, United States in 1950. He died on 25 June 1961, in Evansville, Knight Township, Vanderburgh, Indiana, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Saint Philip Church Cemetery, Saint Philip, Marrs Township, Posey, Indiana. (familysearch.org)