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Family: Henry William SPECKELS / Anna MEERSCHEIDT (F987)

m. 2 Jul 1890

• Male Henry William SPECKELS

  
  

  Birth	15 Jan 1864	Warrenton, Fayette, Texas, USA
  Death	7 Nov 1931	Austin, Travis, Texas, USA
  Burial	8 Nov 1931	La Grange City Cemetery, La Grange, Fayette, Texas, USA
  Marriage	2 Jul 1890  [1, 2]	La Grange, Fayette, Texas, USA  [1, 2]
  Other Spouse	Maria Hermine S. KARGES | F1030
  Marriage	16 Mar 1898	Fayette County, Texas, USA
  Father	John Christopher SPECKELS | F917 Group Sheet
  Mother	Gesche Margarethe IMKEN | F917 Group Sheet

  
  

  Female Anna MEERSCHEIDT

  
  

  Birth	2 Aug 1865	Nassau, Fayette, Texas, USA
  Death	29 Sep 1895	La Grange, Fayette, Texas, USA
  Burial		Old La Grange City Cemetery, La Grange, Fayette, Texas, USA
  Father	Arthur Carl Wilhelm Gustav Anton Archibald VON MEERSCHEIDT-VON HUELLESSEM | F918 Group Sheet
  Mother	Amanda Karoline VON ROSENBERG | F918 Group Sheet

  
  

  Female + Lillian Edna SPECKELS

  
  

  Birth	10 Jul 1891	La Grange, Fayette, Texas, USA
  Death	1 Mar 1969	Austin, Travis, Texas, USA
  Burial	3 Mar 1969	Austin Memorial Park, Austin, Travis, Texas, USA
  Spouse	Newton Joseph RABENSBURG | F989
  Marriage	23 Jun 1915	La Grange, Fayette, Texas, USA

  
  

  Male + Gilbert Otto SPECKELS

  
  

  Birth	10 Sep 1892	La Grange, Fayette, Texas, USA
  Death	20 Aug 1969	Van Nuys, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
  Burial	25 Aug 1969	Glen Haven Memorial Park, Sylmar, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
  Spouse	Ellen Mae KING | F1013
  Marriage	15 Nov 1913	San Antonio, Bexar, Texas, USA
  Spouse	Hazel CRESSWELL | F928
  Marriage	Aug 1944

  
  

• Photos

  Children of Henry William Speckels from left to right: Gilbert, Irwin, Lillian, Bernard

  
  

  Documents

  Henry W. Speckels and Anna Meerscheidt marriage license Fayette County, Texas, vol. 5, p. 292

  
  

• Notes

  Married: by William Hess, M. G.

  
  

• Sources

  [S248] Fayette County, Texas, Marriage Records, vol. 5, p. 292. [S370] ed., Alma von Rosenberg Tomlinson, The von Rosenberg Family of Texas, (Toepperwein Publishing Co. (Boerne, TX, 1949); reprint: Nortex Press (n.p., 1986)), p. 127.