Henry Meerscheidt HEIN

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Henry grew up in San Antonio where he attended Brackenridge High School and played the French horn in the high school band. He was a talented musician and a member of an accordion quartet that performed for various functions in San Antonio. Henry attended San Antonio College before being drafted into the Infantry in 1944. He served n the 328th Infantry, 26th Division in the European Theater where was killed in action in February 1945.

Buried:
Tablets of the Missing

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Henry attended school in Comfort, studied both German and English. He worked in a drug store when quite young, then came to San Antonio, Texas, and worked for Ed. Steves & Son Lumber Yard. As his health was failing he later went to Boerne, Texas, and worked in the Wilkes Drug Store. Then he attended the college of pharmacy in Baltimore, Maryland, where he received a Degree of Doctor of Pharmacy in 1912. He returned to San Antonio and went into business himself.

After many years in the drug business, he sold his store and entered politics serving as Park Commissioner for 12 years. After being defeated he went back into the drug business and has to his credit about 50 years of service.

He was active in the Masons, the American Legion and St. John’s Lutheran Church of San Antonio. His hobby was traveling and seeing the country, both foreign and local.

Henry married Paula Martha MEERSCHEIDT on 28 Nov 1923 in San Antonio, Bexar, Texas, USA. Paula (daughter of Paul MEERSCHEIDT and Bertha L. FREDE) was born on 13 Oct 1891 in San Antonio, Bexar, Texas, USA; died on 23 Nov 1975 in San Antonio, Bexar, Texas, USA; was buried on 25 Nov 1975 in Mission Burial Park South, San Antonio, Bexar, Texas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Paula attended the public schools, and as a child was very active in sports. She was married to Henry Hein on November 28, 1923, and two sons were born to this union, Henry M., who gave his life for his country in World War II, and Robert who is a pharmacist.

Paula’s hobbies were traveling and club work. She had visited every state in the United States, also Canada, Europe, Mexico and Cuba. She had a record of being a local, state, and national president of the Ladies Auxiliary of the Retail Druggist Association, past president of the American Legion Auxiliary, past Matron of the Eastern Star and past president of the Women of St. John’s Lutheran Church. Her church work was very dear to her and she had been a faithful worker for many years in the Lutheran Church in San Antonio, Texas.

Died:
at 8:20 a.m. at Southwest Texas Methodist Hospital

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Married:
by Rev. A. S. Wolff

Ludwig married Rosa TREIBER Rosa was born on 19 Aug 1867 in Draßmarkt, Burgenland, Transleithania, Austria-Hungary; died on 15 May 1941 in San Antonio, Bexar, Texas, USA; was buried on 18 May 1941 in San Jose Burial Park, San Antonio, Bexar, Texas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Paul was born at the Nassau Farm and attended school in Round Top and La Grange. He went to university at Hildesheim, Germany with his brother Axel. However, he returned to Texas the next summer. In La Grange, he studied law under Judge Teichmuller and later at Vanderbilt University, graduating in the class of 1881. At one time he served as deputy sheriff in La Grange for two years. He practiced law in La Grange until 1889 when he moved his family to San Antonio, joining his brother in the real estate business. In 1900 he was elected Bexar County Tax Collector, serving until 1908.

He and his wife celebrated their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary while on board ship to Germany. Then at the age of 57 he had a severe case of pneumonia, leaving him very weak. As a result, he was ordered by a physician to spend some time in New Mexico. Years later he acquired diabetes, later dying from complications of this illness.

Died:
at 8:50 a.m. at his residence, 313 W. Park Ave.

Buried:
Block 6, Lot 667, Space 12

Paul married Bertha L. FREDE on 2 Jun 1883 in La Grange, Fayette, Texas, USA. Bertha (daughter of August FREDE and Barbara FINK) was born on 4 Jul 1862 in La Grange, Fayette, Texas, USA; died on 12 Oct 1948 in San Antonio, Bexar, Texas, USA; was buried on 14 Oct 1948 in Mission Burial Park South, San Antonio, Bexar, Texas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Bertha was orphaned, along with her three brothers, at the age of five. During childhood she lived with her grandmother Elise Frede, her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. John Schuhmacher of La Grange, and later with another aunt, Mrs. Kate Wurzbach of San Antonio.

She was fond of music, enjoyed crocheting, gardened, and traveled.

Died:
at 1:30 p.m. at her residence, 313 W. Park

Buried:
Block 6, Lot 667, Space 11

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Married:
by L. W. Moore, Judge of 15th District

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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.

August married Barbara FINK. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]