Melba Janiece KNEIP

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Buried:
Section 8 Site 984

Melba married Fred Paul HALL on 14 Oct 1939 in Floresville, Wilson, Texas, USA. Fred (son of Samuel HALL and Dora FULGHAM) was born on 20 Sep 1908 in Blytheville, Mississippi, Arkansas, USA; died on 11 Oct 1985 in Victoria County, Texas, USA; was buried on 15 Oct 1985 in Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery, San Antonio, Bexar, Texas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Gus Kneip had lived in Victoria, Texas since 1962. He had also lived in Coupland, Texas. He was a lumber yard manager. He was a member of First Presbyterian Church and had also been a member of Hermann Sons Lodge for over 50 years.

Died:
at 4:05 a.m. in a nursing home

Gustav married Sidone Geradine SCHUHMANN on 8 Apr 1914 in Round Top, Fayette, Texas, USA. Sidone (daughter of Paul SCHUHMANN and Anna ALBERS) was born on 24 Sep 1895 in Coupland, Williamson, Texas, USA; died on 7 Sep 1983 in Victoria, Victoria, Texas, USA; was buried on 9 Sep 1983 in Memory Gardens Cemetery, Victoria, Victoria, Texas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
at 9:50 a.m. in a nursing home

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Adolph Kneip was married in 1870 to Elise Huth who died in 1878 leaving three young sons, Carl, Adolph, and Heinrich. Adolph came to Texas from Germany with his parents and four brothers, one of whom died in the Civil War. They lived on a farm in Fayette County that they had purchased in 1852. His father died in 1866 and his mother in 1896 when the three surviving sons and their families were still living on the family farm. They lived in peace as one large group on the family land for forty-four years.

Adolph married Emilie Amanda VON ROSENBERG on 14 Jul 1879 in Round Top, Fayette, Texas, USA. Emilie (daughter of Johannes Carl VON ROSENBERG and Julia Wilhelmine Christine GROOS) was born on 23 Sep 1851 in Round Top, Fayette, Texas, USA; died on 3 Apr 1924 in Round Top, Fayette, Texas, USA; was buried on 4 Apr 1924 in Florida Chapel Cemetery, Round Top, Fayette, Texas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Emmie was born on Nassau Farm, lived on Evergreen Farm, and moved to Round Top with her parents when her father entered the mercantile business there. She attended a school taught by her uncle, Herman Hellmuth. She and her husband Adolph lived on the old Kneip farm near Round Top, then moved into town for five years. Later they went to live with their son Gus in Coupland, Texas, and after 1920 with their daughter Lillie. After Adolph’s death in 1921 Emmie became ill. She was bedridden until her death in 1924. She was named for her aunt, Emilie Groos, and her step-grandmother, Amanda Fallier von Rosenberg.

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Married:
at the home of her parents by Pastor Neuthard

Paul married Anna ALBERS. Anna was born in Sep 1863 in Texas, USA; died on 17 Mar 1932 in Fayette County, Texas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Adolph married Christine IMMELT. Christine was born in 1810 in Germany; died in 1896. [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]

Notes:

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.

Buried:
originally interred 24 Mar 1894 at another location in La Grange