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Anna MEERSCHEIDT

Anna MEERSCHEIDT

Female 1865 - 1895  (30 years)

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  • Name Anna MEERSCHEIDT 
    Birth 2 Aug 1865  Nassau, Fayette, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2
    Gender Female 
    Census 23 Jun 1870  La Grange, Fayette, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Census 1 Jun 1880  La Grange, Fayette, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Baptism 31 May 1888  La Grange, Fayette, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [5
    Religion Lutheran 
    Death 29 Sep 1895  La Grange, Fayette, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2
    Burial Old La Grange City Cemetery, La Grange, Fayette, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Person ID I2972  Dyal and Speckels
    Last Modified 23 Apr 2014 

    Father Arthur Carl Wilhelm Gustav Anton Archibald VON MEERSCHEIDT-VON HUELLESSEM,   b. 16 Apr 1827, Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 7 Apr 1887, Boerne, Kendall, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 59 years) 
    Mother Amanda Karoline VON ROSENBERG,   b. 15 Jun 1832, Memel, Memel, Preußen, Prussia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 29 Aug 1911, La Grange, Fayette, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 79 years) 
    Marriage 9 Nov 1850  Fayette County, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [6
    • by F. Ernst, J. P.
    Family ID F918  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Henry William SPECKELS,   b. 15 Jan 1864, Warrenton, Fayette, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 7 Nov 1931, Austin, Travis, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 67 years) 
    Marriage 2 Jul 1890  La Grange, Fayette, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [5, 7
    • by William Hess, M. G.
    Henry W. Speckels and Anna Meerscheidt marriage license
    Henry W. Speckels and Anna Meerscheidt marriage license
    Fayette County, Texas, vol. 5, p. 292
    Children 
    +1. Lillian Edna SPECKELS,   b. 10 Jul 1891, La Grange, Fayette, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1 Mar 1969, Austin, Travis, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 77 years)
    +2. Gilbert Otto SPECKELS,   b. 10 Sep 1892, La Grange, Fayette, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 20 Aug 1969, Van Nuys, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 76 years)
    Photos
    Children of Henry William Speckels
    Children of Henry William Speckels
    from left to right: Gilbert, Irwin, Lillian, Bernard
    Family ID F987  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 12 Feb 2009 

  • Photos
    Anna Meerscheidt Speckels
    Anna Meerscheidt Speckels
    Henry William Speckels and Anna Meerscheidt wedding photo
    Henry William Speckels and Anna Meerscheidt wedding photo

    Headstones
    Speckels, Anna Meerscheidt
    Speckels, Anna Meerscheidt

  • Notes 
    • Anna attended school in La Grange. She was known in the community for having a fine contralto voice. However, never being very strong, she contracted tuberculosis after her two children were born. She went to San Antonio to recuperate, but never really did. Being homesick for her Henry and her children, she returned to La Grange where she died. [5]

  • Sources 
    1. [S77] conducted by Robert C. Barritt, Headstone survey, 14 Apr 2007.

    2. [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. 113.

    3. [S10] United States of America, Bureau of the Census, Ninth Census of the United States, 1870, Fayette County, Texas, p. 508, line 8.

    4. [S11] United States of America, Bureau of the Census, Tenth Census of the United States, 1880, Fayette County, Texas, ED 55, p. 2.

    5. [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.

    6. [S248] Fayette County, Texas, Marriage Records, Vol. B, p. 17.

    7. [S248] Fayette County, Texas, Marriage Records, vol. 5, p. 292.