Upon his retirement from the National League, Scheible returned to Youngstown, where he continued to play amateur and semi-professional ball. He contracted
pneumonia shortly after being hired to pitch for a game in
Erie, Pennsylvania. Scheible became aware of his condition as he was about to board a train to Erie. He was rushed to
Mahoning County Hospital, where he died a few days later. Scheible's obituary states that he was survived by his father, John Sr., three sisters, Elizabeth and Katherine Scheible and Mrs. Mary Miller, and brothers Charles and William. (His surviving brother Charles became mayor of Youngstown in the early 1920s.) The newspaper article described Jack Scheible in the following terms: "As a ballplayer he was a determined person and as a citizen always sociable, quiet and unassuming". ==References==