Anna Louise VON ROSENBERG

Anna married Aurel C. NEESE on 29 Jan 1907 in Round Top, Fayette, Texas, USA. Aurel (son of William NEESE and Mary Bertha SPECKELS) was born on 6 Aug 1884 in Texas, USA; died on 20 Oct 1907; was buried in Florida Chapel Cemetery, Round Top, Fayette, Texas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anna married Quintus Elton CARTER on 9 Jan 1912 in Waco, McLennan, Texas, USA. Quintus (son of Dr. James Thomas CARTER and Henrietta M. TIEMANN) was born on 23 Aug 1888 in Warrenton, Fayette, Texas, USA; died on 2 Jul 1946 in Bellville, Austin, Texas, USA; was buried in Florida Chapel Cemetery, Round Top, Fayette, Texas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Herman was educated in Round Top and La Grange. While attending school in La Grange, he stayed with his aunt, Amanda Meerscheidt. At the La Grange school he won a five dollar gold coin as most outstanding pupil in his math class.

He went to work at the age of sixteen as a clerk at George Weyand’s store at Nassau. He later clerked at Marburger’s store, located between Fayetteville and Industry. Herman bought C. F. Hellmuth’s interest in the Hellmuth and Umland store in Round Top. He later sold his interest to Umland and took over the barroom and cigar factory part of the business.

The cigar business became Herman’s main interest. He brought the tobacco in from Havana, employing as many as twenty-four men at a time. As his business increased, he added groceries to the store. He sold the liquor business as prohibition became an issue. He bought his brother Alexander’s dry goods, moving them to his own store. He also sold cotton and produce.

About 1892 he built a two story home on six acres adjoining the public square in Round Top. He also bought farms a mile from town. He was a pencil sketch artist, and he served as secretary, treasurer, and president of the Round Top Rifle Association.

Herman married Louise Marie LEVIEN on 1 Jun 1880 in Round Top, Fayette, Texas, USA. Louise (daughter of Carl Heinrich LEVIEN and Margaretha DURR) was born on 31 Jul 1862 in Greenvine, Washington, Texas, USA; died on 6 Dec 1950 in Bellville, Austin, Texas, USA; was buried in Florida Chapel Cemetery, Round Top, Fayette, Texas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Louise was born in Washington County, but her parents moved the family to a farm near Round Top when she was young. She was a member of the Lutheran church choir and singing society in Round Top. She was also talented at needlework and crochet, and she enjoyed dancing and horseback riding.

Anna took over managment of her husband’s general store and farms after her husband died. She did have the assistance of her oldest sons and daughters. A few years later she sold the store to her son Walter. She later sold her home in Round Top and moved to Bellville to give her children a better education. After her youngest daughter graduated from high school, she moved to San Antonio to be with her two youngest children. After several years they all moved to Houston, but at the age of seventy-five, Louise decided to move back to Bellville.

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Eugen arrived in Texas with his parents in 1849, settling on the Nassau Plantation. Soon he owned his own livestock. In adulthood he farmed and ran a freight express to the nearest railroad station. After serving in the Civil War, he made trips to Mexico to sell cotton. He enjoyed smoking a pipe, keeping a small patch of tobacco in his garden.

Carl married Theodore Anna Arnoldine Henriette (Dorchen) SACK on 17 Dec 1853 in Round Top, Fayette, Texas, USA. Theodore (daughter of Eduard Wilhelm Hieronimus Maximilian SACK and Dorothea Catharina Elisabeth FICKER) was born on 7 May 1829 in Düsseldorf, Rheinprovinz, Prussia, Germany; died on 21 Mar 1904 in Round Top, Fayette, Texas, USA; was buried on 22 Mar 1904 in Florida Chapel Cemetery, Round Top, Fayette, Texas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Theodora was educated in Dusseldorf, Germany, specializing in music. She arrived in Texas in 1849, settling near Round Top. She moved into town after marrying Wilhelm von Roeder. They had one child, a daughter named Marie, who married Tony van Hutton. After von Roeder’s death, she married Carl Eugen von Rosenberg.

Theodora taught piano and voice for more than forty years. She directed the Round Top Mixed Choir for many years, entertained at her home, painted, and engaged in filet. Many members of her family called her “Tante Dorchen.”

Died:
at 4 a.m.

Carl married Margaretha DURR. Margaretha was born in 1826; died in 1901. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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 ago 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 the 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.



The family of Carl von Rosenberg departed from Bremen, Germany on 1 Oct 1849 and arrived at Galveston, Texas on 2 Dec 1849. They travelled on the ship Franziska.

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]

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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.

Eduard married Dorothea Catharina Elisabeth FICKER. Dorothea (daughter of Living and Living) was born on 14 Dec 1799; died on 22 Oct 1832. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]