Other Events and Attributes:

• Also Known As: Fritz
• Occupation: Bar Keeper
• Occupation: Deputy Sheriff / Constable
• Occupation: Farmer
• Occupation: Lumber Yard Manager
• Occupation: Rancher
• Occupation: Saddler
• Cause of death: Coronary Thrombosis
• Baptism: 29 Mar 1857, Round Top, Fayette, Texas, USA
• Census: 31 Jul 1860, Washington County, Texas, USA
• Census: 16 Mar 1871, Fayette County, Texas, USA
• Census: 12 Jul 1880, Fayette County, Texas, USA
• Census: 2 Jun 1900, La Grange, Fayette, Texas, USA
• Census: 16 Apr 1910, Fayette County, Texas, USA
• Census: 2 Feb 1920, La Grange, Fayette, Texas, USA
• Census: 26 Apr 1930, Fayette County, Texas, USA
• Residence: 5 Mar 1937, La Grange, Fayette, Texas, USA

Notes:

Fritz established a saddlery business after he finished the available schooling in Round Top. The business was located on the premises of his parents’ home, inn, and store. He had the help of his brothers on occasion, but they eventually entered into businesses of their own. After 1880, Fritz left the business.

He married his first cousin, Lina Marie Groos, and they raised cattle on a ranch near Gonzales. He later moved to La Grange where he served as deputy sheriff and constable for a period before becoming manager of a lumber yard.

Fritz was known as a quiet and dignified man who enjoyed his home and family. As such, he did not take much interest in outside affairs. He enjoyed baseball and dominoes.

Baptism:
on Easter Sunday by Otto Haun, Lutheran pastor at the home of his grandfather Groos

Census:
P.O. Evergreen

Census:
Beat 3, P.O. Round Top

Census:
Justice Precinct 1

Census:
Main St.

Census:
Justice Precinct 1

Died:
at 4:05 a.m.

Friedrich married Lina Marie GROOS on 11 Feb 1880 in Round Top, Fayette, Texas, USA. Lina (daughter of Adolph Karl Ludwig GROOS and Johanna BREY) was born on 31 Jul 1860 in Round Top, Fayette, Texas, USA; died on 8 Oct 1936 in La Grange, Fayette, Texas, USA; was buried on 9 Oct 1936 in La Grange City Cemetery, La Grange, Fayette, Texas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Gustav Adolph VON ROSENBERG was born on 22 Apr 1882 in Round Top, Fayette, Texas, USA; died on 8 Jan 1900 in La Grange, Fayette, Texas, USA; was buried in La Grange City Cemetery, La Grange, Fayette, Texas, USA.
2. Benno F. VON ROSENBERG was born on 2 Aug 1884 in Gonzales, Gonzales, Texas, USA; died on 28 Nov 1943 in Dallas, Dallas, Texas, USA; was buried on 30 Nov 1943 in Sparkman Hillcrest Memorial Park, Dallas, Dallas, Texas, USA.
3. Johanna VON ROSENBERG was born on 18 Sep 1886 in Round Top, Fayette, Texas, USA; died on 16 Oct 1975 in La Grange, Fayette, Texas, USA; was buried on 18 Oct 1975 in La Grange City Cemetery, La Grange, Fayette, Texas, USA.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Farmer
• Occupation: Innkeeper
• Occupation: Merchant
• Baptism: 31 May 1826, Memel, Memel, Ostpreußen, Prussia
• Immigration: 6 Dec 1849, Galveston, Galveston, Texas, USA
• Census: 3 Sep 1850, Fayette County, Texas, USA
• Census: 31 Jul 1860, Washington County, Texas, USA
• Census: 16 Mar 1871, Fayette County, Texas, USA
• Census: 10 Jul 1880, Fayette County, Texas, USA
• Census: 6 Jun 1900, La Grange, Fayette, Texas, USA

Notes:

Johannes was born at the Eckitten Estate. When he was a few weeks old, his mother died. The Veithofer-Froelich grandmother immediately took him and raised him until his father remarried. He was schooled at the Paul-Narmund Estate and was mobilized in the National Guards of East Prussia after having received his education. After serving his term in the Guards, he became a Sergeant Major in the infantry.

He held no fond feelings for the Germany he left in 1849 as evidenced in an letter he wrote his favorite cousin, Lottchen von Holty in Germany. “As the news came to me in Saxony, where I was Oekonomie Inspector at the age of twenty-three that our beautiful Eckitten was, to my notion, squandered by being sold at a loss, and that many unpleasantries were happening to my family, and also with much disagreeable and disturing news from my beloved Litthauen, my life was so embittered that I left for America with the vow never to be heard from again in Germany. Now it is nearly thirty years since, and this is the first letter that I send across the ocean; I never received one either and never cared to read one that did come; but as you, dear cousin, would like to know something about each of us, I shall write now to please you.”

Johannes married shortly after arriving in Texas. They lived on a farm that was a part of the Nassau Plantation in Fayette County. He had cultivated that land while boarding with his sister, Hannchen Hellmuth. He later bought a farm at Evergreen in Washington County. After the Civil War began, he and his older brother William served together in the Engineer’s Corps in East Texas.

After his return from the war he gave up farming, moved into Round Top, and resided there until his wife died in 1894. There he began a mercantile business and an inn which was well known to travelers. After the death of his wife he retired and moved in with his two unmarried daughters, Hulda and Wilhelmine.

Johannes was said to be a charming but quiet man who was sweet and gentle. As for a hobby, it was the same in Texas as it had been at Eckitten: raising pigeons.

Immigration:
aboard the Bark “Franziska”

Census:
P.O. Evergreen

Census:
Beat 3, P.O. Round Top

Census:
Washington St.

Johannes married Julia Wilhelmine Christine GROOS on 26 Oct 1850 in Round Top, Fayette, Texas, USA. Julia (daughter of Carl Apollo Wilhelm GROOS and Sophie Wilhelmine Louise MARTIN) was born on 29 Apr 1829 in Straßebersbach, Dillenburg, Nassau; died on 22 Mar 1894 in Round Top, Fayette, Texas, USA; was buried in La Grange City Cemetery, La Grange, Fayette, Texas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Also Known As: Julchen
• Occupation: Keeping House
• Cause of death: Uremia
• Census: 2 Sep 1850, Fayette County, Texas, USA
• Census: 31 Jul 1860, Washington County, Tennessee, USA
• Census: 16 Mar 1871, Fayette County, Texas, USA
• Census: 10 Jul 1880, Fayette County, Texas, USA

Notes:

Julia came to Texas in 1848 at the age of 19 years with her father and siblings. Her mother had died in 1844, and the family had suffered business losses. The family lived their first year in Texas as renters on the old Ernst place near Industry, but the father soon bought a farm that had been a part of Nassau Plantation. With this move they became neighbors of the von Rosenberg family.

Julia was a busy housekeeper who also found time to help friends and neighbors. She was part of a group of women who took turns cooking soup for sick neighbors. Her only outside interests were quilting parties and the midafternoon “Kaffee Klatch” with the other women. Small in stature and energetic, she wore her hair in braids tied around her head with a black velvet bow. She is remembered for her gentle manners, good fashion taste and home decorations.

Census:
P.O. Evergreen

Census:
Beat 3, P.O. Round Top

Buried:
originally interred 24 Mar 1894 at another location in La Grange

Notes:

Married:
p 65 has 26 Aug

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 Johanna Dorothea FROELICH on 2 Jun 1819 in Memel, Memel, Ostpreußen, Prussia. Johanna (daughter of Christoph FROELICH and Johanna Dorothea VEITHOFER) was born on 12 Jun 1797 in Tilsit, Ostpreußen, Prussia; died on 30 Apr 1826 in Memel, Memel, Ostpreußen, Prussia; was buried in Memel, Memel, Ostpreußen, Prussia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 22 Jun 1797, Tilsit, Ostpreußen, Prussia

Notes:

Buried:
in the churchyard at Collaten Estate, the old Froelich burial grounds

Other Events and Attributes:

• Also Known As: Charles
• Occupation: Farmer
• Occupation: Merchant
• Census: 2 Sep 1850, Fayette County, Texas, USA
• Census: 19 Jun 1860, Fayette County, Texas, USA
• Census: 24 Sep 1870, Washington County, Texas, USA
• Census: 1 Jun 1880, New Braunfels, Comal, Texas, USA

Notes:

Census:
P.O. Round Top

Census:
Precinct 4, P.O. Burton

Census:
Seguin St.

Carl married Sophie Wilhelmine Louise MARTIN. Sophie was born in 1805; died in 1844. [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:

• Occupation: Pastor

Christoph married Johanna Dorothea VEITHOFER in 1793. Johanna was born in 1778; died in 1846. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]