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Alexander Eugen VON ROSENBERG
1857 - 1930 (72 years)-
Name Alexander Eugen VON ROSENBERG Birth 27 Oct 1857 Round Top, Fayette, Texas, USA [1, 2] Gender Male Also Known As Alex Census 27 Jun 1860 Fayette County, Texas, USA [3] - P.O. Round Top
Census 17 Mar 1871 Fayette County, Texas, USA [4] - Beat 3, P.O. Round Top
Census 11 Jun 1880 Fayette County, Texas, USA [5] - Justice Precinct 2 Round Top
Census 1 Jun 1900 Round Top, Fayette, Texas, USA [6] Residence 21 Mar 1904 La Grange, Fayette, Texas, USA [7] Census 18 May 1910 La Grange, Fayette, Texas, USA [8] - Horton St.
Residence 15 Oct 1913 La Grange, Fayette, Texas, USA [9] Baptism 1914 La Grange, Fayette, Texas, USA [10] - at Saint Paul’s Lutheran Church
Census 2 Feb 1920 Fayette County, Texas, USA [11] - Justice Precinct 1, Washington St.
Census 25 Apr 1930 Fayette County, Texas, USA [12] - Justice Precinct 1
Residence Jun 1860: P.O. Round Top, Fayette, Texas
Jun 1880: Justice Precinct 2 Round Top, Fayette, Texas [3, 5]Religion Lutheran Occupation Store Clerk, General Merchant, Cattle and Horse Trader, Real Estate, Farmer, Stockman Death 11 Jun 1930 La Grange, Fayette, Texas, USA [1, 2, 10] - early in the morning at his home in the old W. W. Ligon home north of the city
Burial 13 Jun 1930 La Grange City Cemetery, La Grange, Fayette, Texas, USA [1, 2] Person ID I3883 Dyal and Speckels Last Modified 5 Feb 2012
Father Carl Eugen VON ROSENBERG, b. 13 Dec 1830, Memel, Memel, Preußen, Prussia d. 15 Oct 1913, Round Top, Fayette, Texas, USA (Age 82 years) Mother Theodora Anna Henriette SACK, b. 7 May 1829, Düsseldorf, Rheinprovinz, Prussia, Germany d. 21 Mar 1904, Round Top, Fayette, Texas, USA (Age 74 years) Marriage 17 Dec 1853 Round Top, Fayette, Texas, USA [7, 13] Photos Carl Eugen and Theodora von Rosenberg Carl Eugen and Theodora von Rosenberg Family ID F2719 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Emma WEYAND, b. 12 Jun 1858, Nassau, Fayette, Texas, USA d. 17 Mar 1943, La Grange, Fayette, Texas, USA (Age 84 years) Marriage 8 Apr 1880 Nassau, Fayette, Texas, USA [1, 10] - by Squire Henkel
Children + 1. George Alexander VON ROSENBERG, b. 2 Feb 1881, Round Top, Fayette, Texas, USA d. 5 Dec 1960, La Grange, Fayette, Texas, USA (Age 79 years) + 2. Albert Frederick VON ROSENBERG, b. 23 Aug 1884, Round Top, Fayette, Texas, USA d. 12 Jul 1967, La Grange, Fayette, Texas, USA (Age 82 years) + 3. Louise Lina VON ROSENBERG, b. 9 Aug 1888, Round Top, Fayette, Texas, USA d. 15 Jan 1953, La Grange, Fayette, Texas, USA (Age 64 years) 4. Alexander Eugen VON ROSENBERG, Jr., b. 20 Jan 1893, Round Top, Fayette, Texas, USA d. 25 Jan 1981, La Grange, Fayette, Texas, USA (Age 88 years) + 5. Max Alexander VON ROSENBERG, b. 17 Jul 1895, Round Top, Fayette, Texas, USA d. 15 Nov 1967, La Grange, Fayette, Texas, USA (Age 72 years) 6. Leona VON ROSENBERG, b. 6 Nov 1897, Round Top, Fayette, Texas, USA d. 7 Jul 1921, La Grange, Fayette, Texas, USA (Age 23 years) Family ID F2739 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 5 Jul 2008
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Headstones von Rosenberg, Alex Rosenberg
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Notes - Alexander’s first job was that of clerk at George Weyand’s general store at Nassau. There he met Emma Weyand, who would become his wife. After several years, he became employed by Knittle’s General Store in Burton. He then bought the Zapp store in Round Top, before selling the operation in 1900. At that time he moved his family to La Grange and bought the White Dairy. He ran this business as a dairy and meat market, then later as a general store. Later, he became successful at trading horses and cattle, and then real estate. It was from him that the land for the La Grange Fairgrounds was purchased.
Alexander enjoyed music, especially playing the piano. Although an active Democrat, he never sought public office. In 1914 he became a member of La Grange’s St. Paul’s Lutheran Church. Late in high life it was necessary for him to undergo a delicate eye operation which likely hastened his death. [1, 14, 15]
- Alexander’s first job was that of clerk at George Weyand’s general store at Nassau. There he met Emma Weyand, who would become his wife. After several years, he became employed by Knittle’s General Store in Burton. He then bought the Zapp store in Round Top, before selling the operation in 1900. At that time he moved his family to La Grange and bought the White Dairy. He ran this business as a dairy and meat market, then later as a general store. Later, he became successful at trading horses and cattle, and then real estate. It was from him that the land for the La Grange Fairgrounds was purchased.
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Sources - [S967] Thursday, June 12, 1930.
- [S77] conducted by Robert C. Barritt, Headstone survey, 14 Apr 2007.
- [S9] United States of America, Bureau of the Census, Eighth Census of the United States, 1860, Fayette County, Texas, p. 283.
- [S10] United States of America, Bureau of the Census, Ninth Census of the United States, 1870, Fayette County, Texas, p. 389, line 18.
- [S11] United States of America, Bureau of the Census, Tenth Census of the United States, 1880, Fayette County, Texas, ED 56, p. 17.
- [S12] United States of America, Bureau of the Census, Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900, Fayette County, Texas, ED 36, p. 1.
- [S971] La Grange Deutsche Zeitung, Thursday, March 31, 1904, p. 5.
- [S13] United States of America, Bureau of the Census, Thirteenth Census of the United States, 1910, Fayette County, Texas, ED 50, p. 19.
- [S967] Thursday, October 23, 1913.
- [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. 102.
- [S14] United States of America, Bureau of the Census, Fourteenth Census of the United States, 1920, Fayette County, Texas, ED 51, p. 16.
- [S15] United States of America, Bureau of the Census, Fifteenth Census of the United States, 1930, Fayette County, Texas, ED 3, p. 15.
- [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. 96.
- [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. 103.
- [S970] Jon Todd Koenig, Jon Todd Koenig’s Family Tree, 5 Jul 2008.
- [S967] Thursday, June 12, 1930.