Arthur Meerscheidt SCHOLZ, Jr.

Notes:

Arthur entered the Navy after graduating from Tech High School and served in the South Pacific during World War II. Following the war he was married and worked mainly in the U.S. Civil Service until 1963. AT that time he suffered a bad automobile accident, which forced him into early retirement. He worked at numerous other jobs the remainder of his life. Arthur loved the outdoors, fishing, and hunting.

Buried:
Plot: Block 2, Lot 372

Arthur married Mary Jane WEST on 6 Jun 1947 in San Antonio, Bexar, Texas, USA. Mary (daughter of Ira Elisha WEST and Mary L. (WEST)) was born on 28 Nov 1925 in Shreveport, Caddo, Louisiana, USA; died on 11 Apr 1987 in San Antonio, Bexar, Texas, USA; was buried in Mission Burial Park South, San Antonio, Bexar, Texas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Susan Jane SCHOLZ was born on 14 Sep 1948 in Bexar County, Texas, USA; died on 6 Aug 1972 in San Antonio, Bexar, Texas, USA; was buried on 9 Aug 1972 in Locke Hill Cemetery, San Antonio, Bexar, USA.
2. Living
3. Gerald Stephen SCHOLZ was born on 28 Dec 1954 in San Antonio, Bexar, Texas, USA; died on 29 Nov 1978 in Uvalde, Uvalde, Texas, USA; was buried in Mission Burial Park South, San Antonio, Bexar, Texas, USA.
4. Living
5. Living

Notes:

Arthur attended public school in La Grange, Texas, then moved to San Antonio where he attended Draughon’s Business College. He then worked for Paul Meerscheidt in the Bexar County Tax Collector’s office for eight years. This began his many years’ experience in city and county back tax matters.

Arthur survived a bout of typhoid fever and Bright’s disease when he was in his late twenties. On doctor’s orders he lived and worked as a storekeeper for six months at Medina Dam. He was employed for sixteen years by Maverick Clark Litho Co. where he rose to Vice President and General Manager. He was the head of one of the draft boards in San Antonio during World War II. Before his last serious illness he worked as an agent negotiating for and purchasing properties to clear way for the first construction of the San Antonio Expressway system.

He was a deacon of the First Presbyterian Church of San Antonio for twenty-five years. He enjoyed hunting, fishing, and telling stories of his experiences.

Died:
at 4:32 a.m. at Baptist Memorial Hospital

Arthur married Agnes MEERSCHEIDT on 20 Jan 1906 in San Antonio, Bexar, Texas, USA. Agnes (daughter of Paul MEERSCHEIDT and Bertha L. FREDE) was born on 9 Mar 1887 in La Grange, Fayette, Texas, USA; died on 10 Sep 1969 in San Antonio, Bexar, Texas, USA; was buried on 13 Sep 1969 in Mission Burial Park South, San Antonio, Bexar, Texas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Agnes was a member of the First Cumberland Presbyterian Church of San Antonio. She was also a member of the church’s Sunday school and was an evangelism teacher. In addition, she was active in Bexar County P.T.A.

Died:
at 9:25 p.m. at Baptist Memorial Hospital

Notes:

Henry, an only child, came to the United States from Germany with his parents in 1849. They landed in Galveston and settled in La Grange. He and his father enlisted in same company of Oswald Battalion, Confederate Army on November 4, 1861. Since he was too young to fight, Henry served as a drummer boy. He was discharged at San Jacinto on April 30, 1862.

After the war, he assisted his parents with their general merchandise business. He continued the business with his mother after his father died. He married Lieschen in 1874, spending many evenings with his family. He would play the cornet and his wife the piano. He was bandmaster of the La Grange Band for many years. His hobbies were gardening and duck hunting. While on a hunting trip he contracted a severe cold, as he was not fully recovered from a case of the mumps. He died shortly afterwards.

Henry married Louise MEERSCHEIDT on 16 Apr 1874 in La Grange, Fayette, Texas, USA. Louise (daughter of Arthur Carl Wilhelm Gustav Anton Archibald VON MEERSCHEIDT-VON HUELLESSEM and Amanda Karoline VON ROSENBERG) was born on 25 Jan 1855 in Nassau, Fayette, Texas, USA; died on 26 Feb 1927 in La Grange, Fayette, Texas, USA; was buried on 28 Feb 1927 in Old La Grange City Cemetery, La Grange, Fayette, Texas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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“Lieschen” was born on the Nassau Farm near Round Top. She was confirmed in the Lutheran Church by Pastor Bauer and remained of this faith throughout her life. She attended school in Round Top and, later, La Grange. Immediately after marrying Henry Scholz, they began living in the home he had bought. She lived the rest of her life in this house.

She was left to care for her six children after Henry died. After they reached adulthood, her mother, her sister Martha, and the twin sons of her brother Max, came from San Antonio to live with them.

She was a dedicated church worker, serving as president of the Lutheran “Frauen Verein” for many years. She also served as president of the La Grange Ladies Cemetery Association. During the time she cared for her mother she was able to partake more in her hobbies of crocheting and tatting. She also enjoyed flowers, loving to tell of the gardens she visited when she and sister Martha travelled to Seattle, Washington.

Died:
at 11 p.m.

Notes:

Married:
by E. Henkel, J. P.

Notes:

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]

Notes:

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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Birth:
(unsure which Leuben)

Theodor married Pauline HOEPTNER. Pauline was born on 22 Jun 1817 in Germany; died on 19 Feb 1895; was buried in Old La Grange City Cemetery, La Grange, Fayette, Texas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

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]

Notes:

“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]