Mildred Ophelia MEERSCHEIDT

Notes:

Mildred attended the public schools in San Antonio and graduated from the old Main Avenue High School. As a girl she was active in St. Mark’s Episcopal Church.

Jack Shiner whom she married was employed by the U. S. Department of Agriculture; so the moved from time to time.

To this union two children were born. Her home life has been very happy and a busy one; still she finds time to spend in her garden and sew for herself and grandchildren. She has also been Past Matron of the Laredo Chapter No. 86, Order of the Eastern Star. She is also a member of the Episcopal Church and now resides in El Paso, Texas.

Mildred married Vernon Jack SHINER on 9 Jun 1920 in San Antonio, Bexar, Texas, USA. Vernon (son of Milton Charles SHINER and Adeline Lewis JONES) was born on 10 Oct 1891 in San Antonio, Bexar, Texas, USA; died on 2 Apr 1988 in El Paso County, Texas, USA; was buried on 7 Apr 1988 in Restlawn Memorial Park, El Paso, El Paso, Texas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Mildred Adeline SHINER was born on 20 May 1920 in Laredo, Webb, Texas, USA; died on 28 Oct 1981 in Seviervfille, Sevier, Tennessee, USA; was buried in Saint Francis Gardens of Trinity Episcopal Church, Gatlinburg, Sevier, Tennessee, USA.
2. Vernon Jack SHINER, Jr was born on 8 Nov 1925 in Laredo, Webb, Texas, USA; died on 26 May 2021 in Bloomington, Monroe, Indiana, USA; was buried on 12 Jun 2021 in Restlawn Memorial Park, El Paso, El Paso, Texas, USA.

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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

Notes:

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

Notes:

Married:
by F. Ernst, J. P.

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

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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]

Notes:

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.