Robert Junior TRENCKMANN

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Bob was born on his parents’ farm where he farmed with his father for many years. It was then sold in 1967 when his father passed away. He worked from 1961 until he retired in 1979 for Mason County Highway Department as a heavy equipment operator. He served in the community including the School Board and the Cemetery Association Board. He was also secretary of the volunteer fire department, the Grange, Grays Harbor County Fair Board for 15 years as well as the Mason County Fair Board for five years. After joining the Good Sam RV Club, Bob became an assistant director and eventually State Director for the State of Washington. He became widowed in 1986 and later remarried. Retirement life includes traveling in the RV.

Robert married Melba Lucile JONES on 29 Jul 1938 in Aberdeen, Grays Harbor, Washington, USA. Melba (daughter of Le Roy Ansel JONES and Janet CRAWFORD) was born on 17 Oct 1918 in Melbourne, Grays Harbor, Washington, USA; died on 22 Dec 1986 in Shelton, Mason, Washington, USA; was buried in Satsop Cemetery, Satsop, Grays Harbor, Washington, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Married:
at St. Andrew’s Church by Hamilton West, Chaplain

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Robert married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Robert Trenckmann was born February 11, 1887, in Bellville, Texas. He had his early schooling there. He graduated from Texas A. & M. College in 1907. He worked for a year in Beloit, Wisconsin, and then journeyed to Seattle, Washington. He was married to Beulah Meerscheidt on April 16, 1910. In 1912 they purchased a farm in the southwest corner of Mason Co., near Shelton, Washington. Here he dairy farmed for many years. He served as County Commissioner in Mason Co. for six years, served as Superintendent of Shelton General Hospital, served as Chairman of the Agriculture Committee of the Shelton Chamber of Commerce for many years. He was an active of the Eagles, the Kiwanis and the Grange, being a charter member of the Hatchery Grange. He was on the School Board for over twenty years. He was a member of the Episcopal Church. Robert died in Shelton on February 2, 1950.

Robert married Beulah Anna MEERSCHEIDT on 15 Apr 1910 in Seattle, King, Washington, USA. Beulah (daughter of Alexander MEERSCHEIDT and Olga REMER) was born on 20 Aug 1887 in San Antonio, Bexar, Texas, USA; died on 16 Aug 1958 in Aberdeen, Grays Harbor, Washington, USA; was buried in Satsop Cemetery, Satsop, Grays Harbor, Washington, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Beulah Anna Meerscheidt was educated in the San Antonio schools and in various schools in Europe. She made several trips between the United States and Europe during her childhood. In 1906 her parents moved to Seattle, Washington. In 1910 she was married to Robert Trenckmann in Seattle and in 1912 they moved to Mason Co., Washington. To this marriage two sons were born, William and Robert.

Beulah was a charter member of the Hatchery Grange and helped to develop the community in which they lived. She was a member of the Episcopal Church and Church Guild. She loved her home and was very happy in her role as a farm wife.

She passed away on August 16, 1958, after suffering a stroke.

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Died:
at 3:45 a.m. at his residence, 704 E. 23rd St.

Buried:
Sec 1, Row 249, Grave 10

William married Mathilda B. MILLER on 20 Apr 1886 in Austin County, Texas, USA. Mathilda was born on 3 Nov 1866 in Galveston, Galveston, Texas, USA; died on 11 Mar 1946 in Austin, Travis, Texas, USA; was buried on 12 Mar 1946 in Austin Memorial Park, Austin, Travis, Texas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Died:
at 4:06 p.m. at her residence, 704 E. 23rd St.

Buried:
Sec 1, Row 249, Grave 9

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At age thirteen “Axel” was sent to live with his aunt and uncle, Emma and Karl Koerber, in Bad-Herzberg, Germany. This would be the first of eleven trips to Germany. It was there that he began his formal education, taking an advanced course in architecture at the University of Hildesheim and taking graduate courses in Paris. It was also in Germany that he married his cousin, Lilly Koerber who had become ill with tuberculosis and had fallen in love with him. Axel was fond of her and grateful to her parents for all of the assistance with his early life, that he married Lilly in July 1877 at Braunschweig. The soon left for the United States, where she died a year later.

Axel studied law under Judge Teichmuller in La Grange and passed the bar exam. Then he moved to San Antonio where he built a real estate business. He fell in love with Olga Remer of New Braunfels and married her in 1881. They lived twenty-five years in a beautiful home in San Antonio. He became rather successful in the real estate business there, where a residential district was named “Meerscheidt Addition.”

Axel and Olga also enjoyed an active social calendar. He belong to several clubs, such as the Beethoven Verein and the Casino Whist Club. He loved to travel to Europe, where he would visit his son, Arthur, a chronic invalid who lived with a famous physician. Axel would take his family to Europe for periods up to a year. While he and Olga traveled, the children would study in German private schools.

In 1906, after his tenth trip to Europe, he moved with his family to Seattle, Washington. He remained in the real estate business, but he also enjoyed political discussions and taking care of his garden, and parties, including the Sunday night suppers on Mercer Island. However, he succumed to a heart ailment in 1921.

Alexander married Olga REMER on 16 Feb 1881 in New Braunfels, Comal, Texas, USA. Olga (daughter of Dr. O. REMER and Franciska SCHLEIER) was born on 4 Feb 1864 in New Braunfels, Comal, Texas, USA; died on 26 Feb 1931 in Seattle, King, Washington, USA; was buried in Seattle, King, Washington, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Olga maintained a large home, but she was also expected to entertain in a beautiful manner. Axel’s wealth made it possible to hire servants, but Olga’s personality, devotion, and skill as cook and seamstress perfected her household. She and Axel enjoyed their many trips to Europe where she bought clothes, many designed for royalty and worn once at a state occasion. She filled huge bins full of Christmas cookies each year, sending them to friends in the U.S. and Germany, a tradition that her daughters carried on. After Axel’s death, her unmarried daughter, Emita, lived with Olga. Olga died of pneumonia at the of sixty-seven.

Birth:
1900 census: Apr 1866

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Married:
by T. G. Muelder

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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.

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]

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“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

in the Landkirche

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Married:
by F. Ernst, J. P.

O. married Franciska SCHLEIER. Franciska was born about 1826 in Prussia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]