Hendley Edgar TOMLINSON, Jr.

Hendley married Marguerite Dolores MELFI on 24 Oct 1954 in South Orange, Essex, New Jersey, USA. Marguerite (daughter of Benjamin MELFI and Theresa FERDINANDI) was born on 21 Aug 1929 in Newark, Essex, New Jersey, USA; died on 21 Oct 2011 in Beaumont, Jefferson, Texas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Thomas Benjamin TOMLINSON was born on 18 Aug 1955 in Houston, Harris, Texas, USA; died on 27 Sep 2021 in Whitehouse, Smith, Texas, USA; was buried on 2 Oct 2021 in Whitehouse Cemetery, Whitehouse, Smith, Texas, USA.
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Hendley married Alma Julie VON ROSENBERG on 27 Nov 1912 in Hallettsville, Lavaca, Texas, USA. Alma (daughter of William Carl VON ROSENBERG and Metta BROSSMANN) was born on 11 Aug 1890 in Hallettsville, Lavaca, Texas, USA; died on 16 Jan 1963 in Houston, Harris, Texas, USA; was buried in Oak Knoll Cemetery, Bellville, Austin, Texas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Edgar married Helen SIMPSON about 1883. Helen was born in 1854 in Virginia, USA; died in 1933. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Metta BROSSMANN on 9 May 1889 in Bellville, Austin, Texas, USA. Metta (daughter of Charles Henry BROSSMANN and Elise UMLAND) was born on 12 Aug 1866 in Bellville, Austin, Texas, USA; died on 5 Aug 1928 in Houston, Harris, Texas, USA; was buried on 6 Aug 1928 in Hallettsville City Cemetery, Hallettsville, Lavaca, Texas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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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.

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]

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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.

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originally interred 24 Mar 1894 at another location in La Grange

Charles married Elise UMLAND. Elise was born in 1845 in Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg; died in 1924. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]