 1825 - 1897 (71 years)
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| Name |
Auguste Franziska ANDERS |
| Birth |
6 Nov 1825 |
Herzberg, Schweinitz, Sachsen, Prussia  |
| Gender |
Female |
| Death |
6 Oct 1897 |
Austin, Travis, Texas, USA |
| Burial |
Oakwood Cemetery, Austin, Travis, Texas, USA |
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| Person ID |
I3909 |
von Rosenberg Family Tree |
| Last Modified |
24 Jun 2022 |
| Family |
Carl Wilhelm VON ROSENBERG, b. 14 Oct 1821, Memel, Memel, Ostpreußen, Prussia d. 4 Dec 1901, Austin, Travis, Texas, USA (Age 80 years) |
| Marriage |
5 Sep 1849 |
Herzberg, Schweinitz, Sachsen, Prussia |
| Children |
| + | 1. Carl Wilhelm VON ROSENBERG, Jr., b. 13 Jul 1850, Round Top, Fayette, Texas, USA d. 16 Aug 1918, Greeley, Weld, Colorado, USA (Age 68 years) |
| + | 2. Arthur VON ROSENBERG, b. 1 Sep 1851, Nassau, Fayette, Texas, USA d. 30 Aug 1934, Austin, Travis, Texas, USA (Age 82 years) |
| + | 3. Ernst Johann VON ROSENBERG, b. 25 Nov 1852, Round Top, Fayette, Texas, USA d. 18 Aug 1915, Austin, Travis, Texas, USA (Age 62 years) |
| + | 4. Paul VON ROSENBERG, b. 12 Aug 1854, Round Top, Fayette, Texas, USA d. 14 Mar 1935, Lubbock, Lubbock, Texas, USA (Age 80 years) |
| + | 5. Laura VON ROSENBERG, b. 26 Feb 1856, Round Top, Fayette, Texas, USA d. 7 Oct 1918, Fort Worth, Tarrant, Texas, USA (Age 62 years) |
| + | 6. Emma VON ROSENBERG, b. 15 May 1857, Austin, Travis, Texas, USA d. 19 Dec 1924, Austin, Travis, Texas, USA (Age 67 years) |
| + | 7. William VON ROSENBERG, Jr., b. 14 Jan 1859, Austin, Travis, Texas, USA d. 5 Jan 1919, Austin, Travis, Texas, USA (Age 59 years) |
| + | 8. Anna VON ROSENBERG, b. 10 Oct 1860, Austin, Travis, Texas, USA d. 8 Jul 1932, Austin, Travis, Texas, USA (Age 71 years) |
| | 9. Marie VON ROSENBERG, b. 31 Jan 1863, Austin, Travis, Texas, USA d. 27 Aug 1864, Austin, Travis, Texas, USA (Age 1 year) |
| + | 10. Lina VON ROSENBERG, b. 27 Oct 1864, Austin, Travis, Texas, USA d. 16 Jun 1959, Austin, Travis, Texas, USA (Age 94 years) |
| + | 11. Frederick Charles VON ROSENBERG, b. 3 Nov 1866, Austin, Travis, Texas, USA d. 14 Nov 1931, Austin, Travis, Texas, USA (Age 65 years) |
| | 12. Minna Agnes VON ROSENBERG, b. 17 Jan 1869, Austin, Travis, Texas, USA d. 28 Mar 1949, Austin, Travis, Texas, USA (Age 80 years) |
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| Family ID |
F2735 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
3 Mar 2014 |
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| Notes |
- The Anders family made fine cloth, like fine linens. Father Anders was a dashing officer in the Prussian Army, and a heavy bettor on horses. After his marriage he is said to have bet away much of his wife's money, and finally disappeared. It is thought that he came to the United States, but that was never established.
Auguste's mother's people were flour millers in Herzberg, Saxony, and very wealthy. Auguste had two very handsome sisters, one of whom married a Koenig, of Koenig u. Verlag, publishers.
Of medium stature, Auguste herself was beautiful, with brown hair, and liquid blue eyes. A serious, devout girl, she doubtless inherited some typical Prussian sternness of cold countries, where life is hard. Or did the trials of her dear mother make her so earnest and conscientious? It is agreed, however, by all who knew her, that she was genuinely kind, sweet, and generous. Perhaps, too, she chose to share William's feeling of at least partial responsibility for bringing the family to Texas, and therefore a determination to help him make good here.
Aged twenty-four, she was newly married and en route to a strange, rough land, with a life mainly of hardships and pioneering ahead, after probably some affluence and elegance. This must have required courage and determination, and great love and faith. She never saw her beloved mother or sisters, or her homeland again.
A good thing, perhaps, that the next twenty years were far too busy for vain regrets. She bore twelve children during years of pioneering, Civil War, and "Reconstruction" days. And she raised them well; lost but one—little Marie at the age of one and a half years.
She and her dear William helped found St. Martin's Lutheran Church of Austin. She never forgot the prospective positions apparently in store for them in the fatherland at the time of their betrothal. If one considers it a fault, then she was certainly partly responsible for the William von Rosenbergs sometimes being called "those proud, aristocratic von Rosenbergs." Yet with their accomplishments, they surely had a right to hold their heads high. Sweet, patient Grandmother Auguste richly deserved the affluence that came their way in later life.
Her death was caused by apoplexy at the age of seventy-two, and she is buried in Oakwood Cemetery in Austin, Texas.
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