Augusta Paula VOGELSANG

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Growing up, Augusta helped her parents with their many civic and social activities. She also helped her father with his business operations, including in the cotton gin he operated. She learned fine music and homemaking from her mother. She was also accomplished with needlework. She lived on the farm with her husband after they married and later moved into New Ulm to operate a cafe.

Augusta married Herman August NEUMANN on 3 Jan 1911 in Shelby, Austin, Texas, USA. Herman (son of Wilhelm NEUMANN and Wilhelmina ECKERMANN) was born on 19 Jul 1883 in New Ulm, Austin, Texas, USA; died on 19 Feb 1967 in La Grange, Fayette, Texas, USA; was buried in New Ulm Cemetery, New Ulm, Austin, Texas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Wilson George NEUMANN was born on 29 Jul 1912 in New Ulm, Austin, Texas, USA; died on 8 Apr 1980 in Bellville, Austin, Texas, USA; was buried on 9 Apr 1980 in New Ulm Cemetery, New Ulm, Austin, Texas, USA.
2. Morris Leon NEUMANN was born on 22 Dec 1917 in New Ulm, Austin, Texas, USA; died on 20 Dec 1997 in Bellville, Austin, Texas, USA; was buried on 22 Dec 1997 in New Ulm Cemetery, New Ulm, Austin, Texas, USA.

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George grew up on his parents’ farm and attended school in Shelby. While young, he learned to play both the cornet and the violin. In later life he played in orchestras. He was also a member and director of the Shelby Lone Star Band.

He and his wife, Anna, owned a farm near Shelby, but George also ran a cotton gin with his brother, C. Paul, until 1901.We was a member of Woodmen of the World, serving a time as banker of the local camp at its organization and was later consul commander.

George married Anna Theodora VON ROSENBERG on 14 Jan 1885 in Round Top, Fayette, Texas, USA. Anna (daughter of Carl Eugen VON ROSENBERG and Theodore Anna Arnoldine Henriette (Dorchen) SACK) was born on 10 Jul 1860 in Round Top, Fayette, Texas, USA; died on 10 Jan 1942 in Shelby, Austin, Texas, USA; was buried on 11 Jan 1942 in Shelby Cemetery, Shelby, Austin, Texas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Anna’s mother taught her to sing and play the piano. She became a member of Round Top singing societies, she performed at school functions, and she took part in plays. She also enjoyed gardening, being able to keep her flowers blooming year-round. Anna painted and did needlework, crochet, embroidery, tatting, and filet, as well as making cakes. Her work earned many prizes and fairs and exhibits. She was a member of the Shelby Cemetery Association, serving as its treasurer for many years.

August married Emma DAHLGRUEN. Emma was born about 1831 in Prussia; died in 1900. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Emma married Gustav Siebel after the death of her first husband August Vogelsang.

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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.

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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]