Other Events and Attributes:

• Also Known As: Arthur MEERSCHEIDT
• Also Known As: Otto
• Religion: Lutheran
• Occupation: Laborer, Farmer, Postmaster
• Immigration: 2 Jan 1850, New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, USA
• Census: 2 Sep 1850, Fayette County, Texas, USA
• Census: 27 Jun 1860, Fayette County, Texas, USA
• Census: 23 Jun 1870, La Grange, Fayette, Texas, USA
• Census: 1 Jun 1880, La Grange, Fayette, Texas, USA

Notes:

Arthur Meerscheidt’s given name was Arthur Carl Wilhelm Gustav Anton Archibald von Meerscheidt-von Huellessem. He was educated in Braunschweig. At sixteen years of age he became a cadet in Prince Wasa’s Hungarian regiment and age nineteen became an officer in the Hungarian army. He was wounded while fighting as a revolutionary at Czegedin. After recovering from his wound, he traveled down the Danube en route to Constantinople when he was captured by Serbians. He was spared by a friendly Hungarian and was allowed to continue his journey. He then returned home to Germany where he attempted to join the army of Schleswig-Holstein, at his mother’s bidding. However, the war that army was in had ended. Shortly after he sailed for the United States.

He arrived at the Port of New Orleans, Louisiana aboard the “Ohio” on 2 Jan 1850. From there he met an acquaintance, a man named Jenski, who was from near Nassau in northern Fayette County, Texas. Arthur settled in that area and became a farmer and family man. He later became a merchant in nearby Round Top before moving to La Grange in 1874. There he was appointed Postmaster, in which office he remained until his death. He took a trip west because of ill health, but saw little improvement. He died in Boerne, Texas due to a heart ailment.

Immigration:
aboard the “Ohio”

Census:
in the Carl von Rosenberg household

Census:
P.O. Round Top

Arthur married Amanda Karoline VON ROSENBERG on 9 Nov 1850 in Fayette County, Texas, USA. Amanda (daughter of Peter Carl Johann VON ROSENBERG and Amanda Henriette Louise FALLIER) was born on 15 Jun 1832 in Memel, Memel, Preußen, Prussia; died on 29 Aug 1911 in La Grange, Fayette, Texas, USA; was buried in Old La Grange City Cemetery, La Grange, Fayette, Texas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Also Known As: Lina
• Confirmation: Crottingen, Memel, Preußen, Prussia
• Religion: Lutheran
• Baptism: 8 Apr 1838, Memel, Memel, Preußen, Prussia
• Immigration: 6 Dec 1849, Galveston, Galveston, Texas, USA
• Census: 2 Sep 1850, Fayette County, Texas, USA
• Census: 27 Jun 1860, Fayette County, Texas, USA
• Census: 23 Jun 1870, La Grange, Fayette, Texas, USA
• Census: 1 Jun 1880, La Grange, Fayette, Texas, USA
• Residence: 1895, San Antonio, Bexar, Texas, USA
• Census: 12 Jun 1900, San Antonio, Bexar, Texas, USA
• Census: 26 Apr 1910, La Grange, Fayette, Texas, USA

Notes:

“Lina” von Rosenberg was born at Eckitten Estate, was baptized at St. Johannis Kirche in Memel, and was confirmed at the Landkirche in Crottingen. She spent much of her youth with her mother’s relatives in Königsburg where she attended school and enjoyed musical entertainment.

She came with her family to Texas in 1849 and married Arthur Meerscheidt a year later. They lived in a log house near Nassau, but later moved to La Grange. After the death of her husband, Lina moved to San Antonio where she kept house for three of her children, Max, Otto, and Martha. She and Martha also raised Max’s two sons after his wife passed away. In old age she returned to La Grange to live out her days in an invalid’s chair, cared for at the home of her daughter, Lieschen Scholz. She enjoyed reading and stayed abreast of politics.

Birth:
at Eckitten Estate

Confirmation:
in the Landkirche

Baptism:
in Sankt Johannis Kirche

Immigration:
aboard the Bark “Franziska”

Census:
P.O. Round Top

Residence:
630 Guenther

Census:
302 Adams

Census:
Franklin St. with her daughter, Louise Scholz

Notes:

Married:
by F. Ernst, J. P.

Carl married Louise VON GIRSEWALD in 1825. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Lutheran
• Occupation: Farmer
• Baptism: 5 Oct 1794, Memel, Ostpreußen, Prussia
• Emigration: 1 Oct 1849, Bremen, Germany
• Immigration: 6 Dec 1849, Galveston, Galveston, Texas, USA
• Census: 2 Sep 1850, Fayette County, Texas, USA
• Naturalization: 26 Mar 1856, La Grange, Fayette, Texas, USA
• Census: 27 Jun 1860, Fayette County, Texas, USA

Notes:

“Peter Carl Johann von Rosenberg was the third son of Otto von Rosenberg and his second wife, Maria Wilhelmine von Stempel-von Rosenberg, of Raddeilen and Eckitten Estates. He was nine years old when his parents were divorced and we know nothing of his early life and education. He enlisted in the Prussian Army at an early age and at twenty-one he became a lieutenant in the cavalry. He was a member of the Uhlans and on the old scroll he is called a Jager, which was a title given to certain German cavalry regiments.

“He later told his grandson Arthur von Rosenberg that in the Battle of Leipzig his horse’s mouth was shot away, but he quickly mounted another horse whose rider had been killed.

“He fought with the Prussian guards under Bluecher with Wellington. When Napoleon faced the English on Belgian soil at Waterloo, with the remnant of the once-defeated Prussians and the fresh Prussian forces under Bluecher, the tide of battle turned on June 18, 1815. The histories tell us this Prussian Guard knew how to die but not how to surrender.

“The Uhlans fought with lances. They were chiefly employed for reconnoitering, skirmishing, and outpost duty. Originally they were light cavalry. Peter Carl was a Lieutenant in this company at Waterloo, we learn from the old scroll and from letters.

“In 1819 he inherited Eckitten Estate after the death of his widowed stepmother, and the same year he married Johanna Dorothea Froelich. They had four children before she died at the age of twenty-nine, six weeks after the birth of Johannes.

“Peter Carl was a “Frei Denker” and in the disturbing days of 1848 was severely criticized for his political views. The consequent humiliation of the family was the direct cause of the immigration to Texas.”

Baptism:
in Sankt Johannis Kirche

Immigration:
aboard the Bark “Franziska”

Census:
P.O. Round Top

Peter married Amanda Henriette Louise FALLIER on 11 Feb 1830 in Memel, Memel, Preußen, Prussia. Amanda (daughter of Jean Pierre FALLIER and Anne Caroline MARQUARDT) was born on 6 Sep 1806 in Königsberg, Ostpreußen, Prussia; died on 22 Apr 1864 in Round Top, Fayette, Texas, USA; was buried in Richters Cemetery, Round Top, Fayette, Texas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Lutheran
• Baptism: 8 Oct 1806, Königsberg, Ostpreußen, Prussia
• Immigration: 6 Dec 1849, Galveston County, Texas, USA
• Census: 2 Sep 1850, Fayette County, Texas, USA
• Census: 27 Jun 1860, Fayette County, Texas, USA

Notes:

Amanda was baptized Amande Henriette Louise. Her godparents at the French Reformed Church in Königsberg were Mr. Jean Frédéric Marquart, Mr. Guillaume Schubert, Mrs. Marie Hagen, councillor and secretary, and Mrs. Marie Anne Matz.

Baptism:
in the French Reformed church by Pastor Foussiqué LaCanal

Immigration:
aboard the Bark “Franziska”

Census:
P.O. Round Top

Friedrich married Caroline ERDMANN. Caroline was born on 18 Jul 1766 in Berlin, Brandenburg, Prussia; died on 29 Jun 1844 in Hirschberg im Riesengebirge, Hirschberg im Riesengebirge, Schlesien, Preußen, German Confederation. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Cause of death: Stroke

Notes:

“Otto von Rosenberg was born on the Radeilen estate which was near the village of Krottingen near Memel in Kurland, East Prussia.  He was a Baron of the East Prussian nobility.  He married three times and was divorced twice.  Upon the dissolution of his second marriage to Maria Wilhelmine von Stempel, he kept the Eckitten estate as well as a mill on the estate, and a brewery and hotel in Memel which he had received as a part of the dowery from the von Stempel family.  He was appointed the Royal Forester of the Royal Braslausten Estate in the then Kingdom of Prussia by King Friedrich Wilhelm III towards the end of his life.  The estate was located far east of Memel near the village of Sarasen (now present day Jeziorosy in Lithuania).  Shortly after his arrival on the Royal Estate with his second wife, Catharina Borkenhagen and their children, Baron Otto suffered a stroke and was buried three days later in the local Lutheran churchyard.  He was a Lieutenant in the Infantry of the Royal Prussian Army.  JTK”

Buried:
on the Braslausten Estate

Otto married Maria Wilhelmine VON STEMPEL on 21 Oct 1791 in Eckitten, Memel, Ostpreußen, Prussia, and was divorced in 1803. Maria was born in 1768; died in 1831. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: at death: Kuplitzergasse No. 7, Königsberg, Ostprueßen, Germany
• Religion: French Reformed
• Occupation: Master Dyer
• Cause of death: A Debilitation

Notes:

Jean Pierre’s marriage record indicates that he was a native of Landsberg, Ostprueßen, Germany (now Górowo Ilaweckie (Bartoszyce), Olsztyn, Poland), and that he was residing there when he married. His death record indicates that he was born in Sorau, Brandenburg, Germany (now Zary, Poland). Church records for that period of time in Sorau are not available through the Family History Center. An examination of the Evangelisch church records at Landsberg may shed some light on this contradiction. At this time the birth in Sorau seems the most probable with his residence in Landsberg at the time of his marriage plausible.

Died:
at 4:30 p.m.

Buried:
in the French Reformed cemetery

Jean married Anne Caroline MARQUARDT on 11 May 1804 in Königsberg, Ostpreußen, Prussia. Anne (daughter of Johann Friedrich MARQUARDT and Regine Charlotte HEIN) was born on 8 Oct 1786 in Königsberg, Ostpreußen, Prussia; died on 31 Oct 1828 in Königsberg, Königsberg, Ostpreußen, Prussia; was buried on 9 Nov 1828 in Königsberg, Königsberg, Ostpreußen, Prussia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: French Reformed
• Cause of death: Inflammation of the Chest
• Baptism: 11 Oct 1786, Königsberg, Königsberg, Ostpreußen, Prussia

Notes:

Baptism:
in Dom Kneiphof

Died:
at 3:30 a.m.

Buried:
in the French Reformed cemetery

Notes:

Married:
at the French Reformed church by Pastor Schlick