Living married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Also Known As: Worth
• Military: Worth enlisted in the U.S. Army on 25 Jun 1943 and was released from service on 28 Jan 1946.
• Residence: 5 Feb 1997, Georgetown, Williamson, Texas, USA

Notes:

Buried:
Plot: Section T

Ishmael married Doloris Ima LATER on 27 Dec 1945 in Talco, Titus, Texas, USA. Doloris was born on 1 Mar 1920 in Evansville, Vanderburgh, Indiana, USA; died on 25 Oct 2007; was buried in Cook-Walden Capital Parks Cemetery, Pflugerville, Travis, Texas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Education: Baylor University
• Education: Paris Junior College

Notes:

Buried:
Plot: Section T

Other Events and Attributes:

• Also Known As: Walter
• Occupation: Veterinarian
• Census: 23 Apr 1910, Austin, Travis, Texas, USA
• Census: 5 Jan 1920, Austin, Travis, Texas, USA
• Residence: 1924, Austin, Travis, Texas, USA
• Residence: 1927, Austin, Travis, Texas, USA
• Census: 9 Apr 1930, Austin, Travis, Texas, USA
• Residence: 1935, Austin, Travis, Texas, USA
• Residence: 1937, Austin, Travis, Texas, USA
• Residence: 1942, Austin, Travis, Texas, USA
• Residence: 17 Feb 1986, Cedar Park, Williamson, Texas, USA

Notes:

As a child, Walter watched his gentle father suffer in the job market during World War I as anti-German sentiment tarnished innocent German-Americans. Walter was 22 when the stock market crashed, inaugurating the Great Depression. Casting about for a livelihood that would combine his interest in natural science with job security and independence, he picked veterinary medicine. Lacking the funds to live on the Texas A&M campus, he was passed around the dorm by his friends, bunking in first one room and then another to avoid the frequent room inspections. He would hurriedly move his clothes and books to a different floor before an inspection; but once, caught off guard, he hid in the very back of a closet, holding his breath while the officer scanned its contents for military neatness. Walter graduated from Texas A&M in 1935 and opened the Wupperman Animal Hospital in 1938 on North Lamar. About ten years later, he teamed up with Dr. Sam Spangler and expanded his office space. Widowed in 1951, Walter continued raising his two small children with the help of an aunt and other family members. After three years of single parenthood, he went to a PTA meeting one night and met his son’s third grade teacher, Elizabeth Knox Rowe. Elizabeth was an attractive widow with three young children of her own and two older stepchildren. They were married in 1954 and adopted each other’s children. Liz and Walter stayed young at heart by building their life around their family. Camping, hunting, fishing trips, picnics, barbecues, and large extended-family Oktoberfests were held at their country property. “Music Abend” —listening to classical music with friends in the evening, and year-round gardening at their Cedar Park ranch, after his retirement kept Walter, also known as “Doc” and “Wupp” active.

Census:
601 Rio Grande

Census:
313 E. 38th St.

Residence:
502 E. 37th

Residence:
502 Texas Ave.

Census:
502 Texas Ave.

Residence:
502 Texas Ave.

Residence:
506 Texas Ave.

Residence:
5908 Georgetown Rd.

Buried:
Plot: Homestead Section, Row 23, Grave 38

Ernest married Demaris Elizabeth KNOX on 26 Aug 1954 in Austin, Travis, Texas, USA. Demaris (daughter of Robert Randolph KNOX and Beneva Claire WITHERS) was born on 13 Apr 1918 in Krum, Denton, Texas, USA; died on 19 Apr 2012 in Georgetown, Williamson, Texas, USA; was buried on 24 Apr 2012 in Bagdad Cemetery, Leander, Williamson, Texas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Also Known As: Elizabeth
• Also Known As: Liz
• Religion: Methodist
• Education: North Texas State Teachers College
• Occupation: Teacher
• Census: 6 Mar 1920, Denton County, Texas, USA
• Census: 21 Apr 1930, Denton County, Texas, USA
• Residence: 1 Apr 1935, Denton County, Texas, USA
• Census: 23 Apr 1940, Denton County, Texas, USA

Notes:

“Known to her many friends as Liz, she was born Demaris Elizabeth Knox on April 13, 1918, to Robert Randolph Knox and Beneva Claire Withers Knox. She arrived at home on her family's farm near Slidell in Denton County, Texas. She was fourth of five children, and the only girl. As she wrote in a 1996 memoir, growing up with four brothers made her thoroughly resilient and her mother was sometimes hard-put to overcome her tomboy ways with ribbons and dresses.

“On both her mother's and father's sides, she was descended from men who served in the Continental Army. Her maternal great-great-great grandfather, George Michael Bedinger, was the youngest major to serve under George Washington, and went on to assist in securing the American frontier, including protecting Fort Boonesboro, during the Indian Wars. Her paternal ancestors, the Knoxes and Hamiltons, have a long history in America from colonial times.

“Even in Liz's farming family, education was an important objective. Her mother's father, John Allen Withers, taught Latin in a Springfield, Missouri college, and his wife, Mary America Coleman, was tutored by her own mother, Anne Bedford, who had been educated at a convent in England. Liz's uncle, Harry Withers, was editor of the Dallas Morning News for more than 30 years, and her grandfather Withers had given land for the founding of Texas Normal College and Teachers' Training Institute in Denton, from which Liz would later graduate -- as a teacher.

“As a young man, Liz's father, Robert Knox, spent five years in the Alaskan gold fields, and his children grew up with stories of tent towns, miners, the sun shining at midnight, and a tent city called Gold Hill. He owned a mine with his cousin, Henry Hamilton, and the stories of their adventures -- plus her father's unfulfilled desire to go back -- gave Liz a lifelong yearning to visit Alaska. She finally succeeded, some 50 years later.

“After graduating from the University of North Texas (then North Texas State Teachers College), Liz began teaching in Trinidad, Texas, where she met a handsome young widower and war veteran named Joseph Rowe.

“Joseph had two adorable children, George and Mary, 10 and 8, and when he and Liz married in 1941, she acquired an instant family. They moved to Austin, where Joseph pursued his degree at the University of Texas, and Liz taught until their son Joseph Jr. was born in 1942. She went back to teaching, but her career was interrupted by the births of Benjamin in 1945 and Ann in 1946. She was soon back in the classroom.

“Tragically, Liz was widowed herself when her husband died of a stroke in the summer of 1951. They had just moved to Arlington, Virginia, where Joseph, a chemical engineer, had obtained a job with the Natural Rubber Bureau. Liz packed up her five children and moved back to Austin. She resumed teaching and the family lived in a two-bedroom duplex on Bull Creek Road. By this time, George and Mary were in college.

“One year Liz had a cute little brown-eyed boy in her third grade class at Highland Park Elementary, named David. He had a younger sister, Johanna. Their mother had passed away a few years before. David loved his teacher and insisted that his dad, Dr. Walter Wupperman, a veterinarian, come to PTA. Walter was a native Austinite from a line of Texas Germans that included artists Hermann Lungkwitz, his great-grandfather, and Richard Petri, his great-great uncle. When he and Liz met, it was as if they already knew each other. Walter proposed to her to the strains of Mendelssohn's ‘Midsummer Night's Dream,’ and thus in 1954, Liz again married a handsome widower with two adorable children.

“She and Walter each adopted the other's minor children, and thus a rowdy and loving family was born. They moved to a modern L-shaped house on 25 acres in the woods outside of Austin, on a country road called Balcones Trail, now known as MoPac and Steck. It took that much land, plus a milk cow and a succession of pet dogs, to get the last five kids to adulthood.

“Their union was a happy one, filled with barbecues, large Christmas and Easter gatherings, camping trips, many ‘music nights’ (a group of friends listening to the Wuppermans' beloved classical music), a succession of surrogate children, and 10 grandchildren, until Walter's death in 1986. Against daunting odds, they made it work, and Liz's greatest pride was that her children all got along and loved each other all her long life.

“After her second widowhood, Liz indulged her love of travel and took many trips with friends and relatives. She regularly visited her daughter and son-in-law, Ann and Gary Seaman, in Los Angeles where Gary is a professor of Anthropology at the University of Southern California. One of their traditions was picnicking at the Hollywood Bowl and then taking in a concert that included Mendelssohn's ‘Midsummer Night's Dream.’

“Liz was a charter member of Cedar Park Methodist Church and also a member of St. Philip's Methodist Church. She had lifelong friends from both houses of worship, and many other friends from all walks of life.”

Census:
Justice Precinct 5

Census:
Justice Precinct 8

Census:
Justice Precinct 8, Bolivar-Slidell Road

Buried:
Plot: Homestead Section, Row 23. Grave 37

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Congregationalist
• Occupation: Bookkeeper
• Occupation: Hardware Merchant
• Occupation: Internal Revenue Collector
• Occupation: University Instructor
• Immigration: 1898
• Census: 23 Apr 1910, Austin, Travis, Texas, USA
• Residence: 12 Sep 1918, Austin, Travis, Texas, USA
• Census: 5 Jan 1920, Austin, Travis, Texas, USA
• Residence: 1924, Austin, Travis, Texas, USA
• Residence: 1927, Austin, Travis, Texas, USA
• Census: 9 Apr 1930, Austin, Travis, Texas, USA
• Residence: 1935, Austin, Travis, Texas, USA
• Residence: 1942, Austin, Travis, Texas, USA

Notes:

Walter’s German forebears were mainly merchants and industrialists, but Walter wished to become an artist or musician. His father wisely insisted on his also learning bookkeeping.

Germany’s cold climate sent Walter to Texas in 1898, as salesman for his brother’s enamel wares. He also engaged in crockery and hardware merchandising in Seguin, then Austin, before teaching German at the University of Texas. But WWI brought an end to German at the University. It was then that the unpleasant bookkeeping tasks provided livelihood for his family for several years. Walter then served thirteen years as deputy Federal income tax collector, in which similar work he continued, enjoying art and concerts opportunely.

Somewhat strict religious upbringing influenced his convections which formed the basis of his emphasis on home, and firm and understanding control over his family. With always meager funds, he nonetheless managed to maintain his large comfortable home, help the less fortunate and take genuine, enlightened interest in humanity’s uplift and well being. He also enjoyed playing his viola in string quartettes and the Austin Symphony Orchestra.

A handsome, modest man he was. It was he who suggested and helped establish the von Rosenberg family reunions.

Census:
601 Rio Grande

Residence:
3700 Duval St.

Census:
313 E. 38th St.

Residence:
502 E. 37th

Residence:
502 Texas Ave.

Census:
502 Texas Ave.

Residence:
502 Texas Ave.

Residence:
506 Texas Ave.

Died:
at 11:30 a.m. at his residence, 506 Texas Ave.

Buried:
Plot: Section 4, Lot 99

Walter married Elisabeth Marie VON ROSENBERG on 20 Apr 1904 in Austin, Travis, Texas, USA. Elisabeth (daughter of Ernst Johann VON ROSENBERG and Helene Clara LUNGKWITZ) was born on 7 Aug 1880 in Austin, Travis, Texas, USA; died on 27 Oct 1967 in Austin, Travis, Texas, USA; was buried on 29 Oct 1967 in Oakwood Cemetery, Austin, Travis, Texas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Also Known As: Else
• Religion: Congregationalist
• Occupation: Homemaker
• Cause of death: Myocardial Decompensation
• Census: 4 Jun 1900, Austin, Travis, Texas, USA
• Census: 23 Apr 1910, Austin, Travis, Texas, USA
• Residence: 12 Sep 1918, Austin, Travis, Texas, USA
• Census: 5 Jan 1920, Austin, Travis, Texas, USA
• Residence: 1924, Austin, Travis, Texas, USA
• Residence: 1927, Austin, Travis, Texas, USA
• Census: 9 Apr 1930, Austin, Travis, Texas, USA
• Residence: 1935, Austin, Travis, Texas, USA
• Residence: 1942, Austin, Travis, Texas, USA
• Residence: 27 Oct 1967, Austin, Travis, Texas, USA

Notes:

Else, a lovely, jolly person, respected learning, art and music. She also was practical, energetic and resourceful. This was more important, for, in frugal years, their orchard, garden and chickens became very helpful to her family and sometimes others. One wonders how many school lunches she prepared, over the years, each with loving concern for balanced nutrition. Her perseverance enabled husband and three children to earn university degrees.

Else and Walter were much loved and respected by their children, relatives and friends. They had membership in the Congregational Church. Else was never enabled to make the hoped for trip to Germany to visit Walter’s kin, but later had lovely visits with children and grandchildren to New York, Florida and California. There were also congenial visits with numerous Austin kin and fine art and music available to enjoy. Thus, even with some hardships and disappointments, was Else’s life full and blessed in many ways.

Census:
1900 San Antonio

Census:
601 Rio Grande

Residence:
3700 Duval St.

Census:
313 E. 38th St.

Residence:
502 E. 37th

Residence:
502 Texas Ave.

Census:
502 Texas Ave.

Residence:
502 Texas Ave.

Residence:
506 Texas Ave.

Residence:
506 Texas Ave.

Died:
at 4:00 p.m. at Francis Retirement Home

Buried:
Plot: Section 4, Lot 99

Notes:

Married:
license: Guadalupe County, Texas

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Farmer
• Cause of death: Injuries sustained in an automobile accident
• Residence: 12 Sep 1918, Krum, Denton, Texas, USA
• Census: 6 Mar 1920, Denton County, Texas, USA
• Census: 21 Apr 1930, Denton County, Texas, USA
• Residence: 1 Apr 1935, Denton County, Texas, USA
• Census: 23 Apr 1940, Denton County, Texas, USA
• Residence: 27 Apr 1942, Krum, Denton, Texas, USA
• Residence: 10 Oct 1953, Denton, Denton, Texas, USA

Notes:

Census:
Justice Precinct 5

Census:
Justice Precinct 8

Census:
Justice Precinct 8, Bolivar-Slidell Road

Residence:
1008 Bernard St.

Died:
at 7 p.m. at Denton Hospital & Clinic

Robert married Beneva Claire WITHERS about 1908. Beneva was born on 5 Dec 1885 in Texas, USA; died on 2 Sep 1983 in Denton County, Texas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 12 Sep 1918, Krum, Denton, Texas, USA
• Census: 6 Mar 1920, Denton County, Texas, USA
• Census: 21 Apr 1930, Denton County, Texas, USA
• Residence: 1 Apr 1935, Denton County, Texas, USA
• Census: 23 Apr 1940, Denton County, Texas, USA
• Residence: 27 Apr 1942, Krum, Denton, Texas, USA
• Residence: 2 Sep 1983, Denton, Denton, Texas, USA

Notes:

Census:
Justice Precinct 5

Census:
Justice Precinct 8

Census:
Justice Precinct 8, Bolivar-Slidell Road