schumcker's son samuel mosheim schmucker (or smucker) was a writer of popular biographies. his son beale melanchthon schmucker was also a noted lutheran clergyman. schmucker is buried in evergreen cemetery (gettysburg, pennsylvania). another son, samuel d. schmucker, enlisted in the 26th pennsylvania emergency militia in the days prior to the battle of gettysburg, and was engaged in a brief skirmish against confederates west of gettysburg on june 26, 1863.