Johannes Carl VON ROSENBERG b. 21 Mar 1826 Eckitten, Memel, Ostpreußen, Prussia d. 9 Nov 1906 La Grange, Fayette, Texas, USA: The von Rosenberg Family

1826 - 1906 (80 years)

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Name	Johannes Carl VON ROSENBERG
Birth	21 Mar 1826	Eckitten, Memel, Ostpreußen, Prussia
Gender	Male
Death	9 Nov 1906	La Grange, Fayette, Texas, USA
Burial	10 Nov 1906	La Grange City Cemetery, La Grange, Fayette, Texas, USA
Person ID	I3881	von Rosenberg Family Tree
Last Modified	29 May 2011

Father	Peter Carl Johann VON ROSENBERG, b. 2 Oct 1794, Eckitten, Memel, Ostpreußen, Prussia d. 19 Oct 1866, La Grange, Fayette, Texas, USA (Age 72 years)
Mother	Johanna Dorothea FROELICH, b. 12 Jun 1797, Tilsit, Ostpreußen, Prussia d. 30 Apr 1826, Memel, Memel, Ostpreußen, Prussia (Age 28 years)
Marriage	2 Jun 1819	Memel, Memel, Ostpreußen, Prussia
Photos		Peter Carl von Rosenberg and family
Family ID	F2723	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Julia Wilhelmine Christine GROOS, b. 29 Apr 1829, Straßebersbach, Dillenburg, Nassau d. 22 Mar 1894, Round Top, Fayette, Texas, USA (Age 64 years)

Marriage 26 Oct 1850 Round Top, Fayette, Texas, USA

Children

+	1. Emilie Amanda VON ROSENBERG, b. 23 Sep 1851, Round Top, Fayette, Texas, USA d. 3 Apr 1924, Round Top, Fayette, Texas, USA (Age 72 years)
+	2. Friedrich Karl Theodor VON ROSENBERG, b. 26 Apr 1853, Round Top, Fayette, Texas, USA d. 5 Mar 1937, La Grange, Fayette, Texas, USA (Age 83 years)
	3. Gustav Adolph VON ROSENBERG, b. 15 Jan 1855, Round Top, Fayette, Texas, USA d. 6 Sep 1873, Eagle Pass, Maverick, Texas, USA (Age 18 years)
+	4. Carl Johannes VON ROSENBERG, b. 4 Feb 1857, Evergreen, Washington, Texas, USA d. 20 Jul 1934, Austin, Travis, Texas, USA (Age 77 years)
+	5. Johanna Carolina VON ROSENBERG, b. 12 Mar 1859, Evergreen, Washington, Texas, USA d. 26 Oct 1935, La Grange, Fayette, Texas, USA (Age 76 years)
	6. Charlotte VON ROSENBERG, b. 1861, Evergreen, Washington, Texas, USA d. 18 Jun 1866, Round Top, Fayette, Texas, USA (Age 5 years)
+	7. William Carl VON ROSENBERG, b. 9 Aug 1863, Evergreen, Washington, Texas, USA d. 5 Feb 1905, Hallettsville, Lavaca, Texas, USA (Age 41 years)
+	8. Otto Carl VON ROSENBERG, b. 7 May 1866, Round Top, Fayette, Texas, USA d. 6 Feb 1944, Hallettsville, Lavaca, Texas, USA (Age 77 years)
	9. Wilhelmine VON ROSENBERG, b. 21 Apr 1868, Round Top, Fayette, Texas, USA d. 8 Apr 1941, Luling, Caldwell, Texas, USA (Age 72 years)
	10. Hulda VON ROSENBERG, b. 14 Apr 1870, Round Top, Fayette, Texas, USA d. 19 Sep 1955, La Grange, Fayette, Texas, USA (Age 85 years)
	11. Johannes VON ROSENBERG, b. 10 Feb 1872, Round Top, Fayette, Texas, USA d. 14 Feb 1873, Round Top, Fayette, Texas, USA (Age 1 year)
	12. Hans Julius VON ROSENBERG, b. 14 Apr 1874, Round Top, Fayette, Texas, USA d. 24 May 1875, San Antonio, Bexar, Texas, USA (Age 1 year)

Family ID F2737 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 28 Jun 2022

Notes

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.