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Dorothy BENGENER

Dorothy BENGENER

Female 1836 - 1913  (77 years)

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  • Name Dorothy BENGENER  [1
    Birth 2 Apr 1836  Germany Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3, 4, 5
    Gender Female 
    Also Known As Dorothea 
    Census 8 Aug 1860  Austin, Travis, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Census Jun 1870  Austin, Travis, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [6
    Census 5 Jun 1880  Travis County, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [7
    Census 7 Jun 1900  Austin, Travis, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [5
    • 1203 Cotton
    Census 16 Apr 1910  Austin, Travis, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [8
    • 610 Guadalupe
    Occupation Housewife 
    Cause of death Senility 
    Death 16 Aug 1913  Laredo, Webb, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3
    • at 8 p.m. at 1814 Victoria
    Burial Oakwood Cemetery, Austin, Travis, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    • Section 3 Lot 929
    Person ID I12496  Dyal and Speckels
    Last Modified 11 Feb 2018 

    Family Jacob C. HORNBERGER,   b. Abt 1829, Germany Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 28 Jan 1911, Austin, Travis, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 82 years) 
    Marriage 6 Dec 1855  Travis County, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [9
    Divorce Yes, date unknown  [5
    Children 
    +1. William Christian HORNBERGER,   b. 14 Sep 1856, Austin, Travis, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 9 Oct 1917, Austin, Travis, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 61 years)
    Family ID F8797  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 9 May 2011 

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    Dorothy Bengener Hornberger
    Dorothy Bengener Hornberger

  • Notes 
    • Dorothy and her family arrived from Peine, Hanover aboard the “Hercules” in November 1845. They landed in Galveston. She was the only daughter, having 4 brothers. In less than 6 months after arriving in Texas both her parents and two of her brothers died of either cholera or yellow fever. Their deaths are listed in the New Braunfels church records. Dorothy was 10 at the time. Her oldest brother Heinrich was 19 and the youngest, Wilhelm, was 5. Evidently Heinrich struck out on his own. Dorothy went to live with the Scholzburg family and Wilhelm with the Willcox family.
       
      Her family was accompanied by four other families by the name of Pape, which is the surname of Dorothy's mother. In 1855 she married Jacob Hornberger. She was 20 years old. It is not known how they met or when she came to Travis County. Evidently according to court records they had some property in Austin. Dorothy inherited 640 acres, but it is not known from whom as yet.
       
      In 1884 she filed for divorce from Jacob and requested that she be given their homestead. After the divorce was granted and after her daughter Lena was married she lived alone. She lived for many years at 1203 Cotton in Austin. [10]

  • Sources 
    1. [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. 44.

    2. [S1382] Find A Grave, Oakwood Cemetery, Austin, Travis County, Texas, USA, 9 May 2011.

    3. [S155] Death Records, File #18181.

    4. [S9] United States of America, Bureau of the Census, Eighth Census of the United States, 1860, Travis County, Texas, p. 282(b), line 24.

    5. [S12] United States of America, Bureau of the Census, Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900, Travis County, Texas, ED 94, p. 13B, line 67.

    6. [S10] United States of America, Bureau of the Census, Ninth Census of the United States, 1870, Travis County, Texas, p. 269(b), line 27.

    7. [S11] United States of America, Bureau of the Census, Tenth Census of the United States, 1880, Travis County, Texas, ED 122, p. 9, line 34.

    8. [S13] United States of America, Bureau of the Census, Thirteenth Census of the United States, 1910, Travis County, Texas, ED 69, p. 2A, line 49.

    9. [S1315] FamilySearch, Texas, Marriages, 1837-1973, Source film: 978164.

    10. [S3050] .