Descendants of Adolf and Luise FUCHS
Second Generation

Family of Adolf FUCHS (1) & Luise Johanna RUEMKER

2. Adolf FUCHS1, GGGG Uncle, M. Born in Waren, Mecklenburg-Schwerin. .

Died young

3. Luise FUCHS9, GGGG Aunt, F. Born in 1830 in Waren, Mecklenburg-Schwerin.9 Luise died in Jun 1847 in Cat Springs, Austin Co., Texas.16 died of acute fever. Buried in Jun 1847 in Cat Springs, Austin Co., Texas.16 Emigrated on 13 Nov 1845 from Bremerhaven.4 On the Gerhard Hermann. Immigrated on 10 Jan 1846 to Galveston, Texas.4 Alias/AKA: Lulu. .

On 22 Apr 1847 Luise married Wilhelm VON ROEDER16, M.16 .

youngest son

4. Ulrike FUCHS8, GGGG Aunt, F. Born in 1832 in Waren, Mecklenburg-Schwerin.8 Ulrike died in Jul 1915 in Marble Falls, Burnet Co., Texas.17,18 Had a bad fall and never recovered. Emigrated on 13 Nov 1845 from Bremerhaven.4 On the Gerhard Hermann. Immigrated on 10 Jan 1846 to Galveston, Texas.4 Alias/AKA: Ulla.18 .

1850 Austin Co, TX Census lists as Ula Fox, 19 yr.5 Birthdate calc from that data. Birthplace prob. same as Ottilie.


On 18 Nov 1853 Ulrike first married Carl Andreas MATERN19, M, in Cat Spring, Texas. Born on 9 Feb 1820 in Bavaria.19,18 Carl Andreas died in 1868.18 Occupation: forester in Bavaria, built furniture in Texas.19 .

They had the following children:
11 i. Marie, F (1854-1917)
12 ii. Anna, F (1856-1950)
13 iii. Adolf, M (1858-)
14 iv. Helene G., F (1860-1931)
15 v. Ivo B., M (1862-)
16 vi. Herman, M (1864-)
17 vii. Luise, F (1866-)
18 viii. Ulrike, F (1868-1942)

Ulrike second married Adolf VARNHAGEN20,18, M. Born on 31 Jul 1831.18 Adolf died on 17 Jul 1880; he was 48.18

5. Konrad FUCHS9, GGGG Uncle, M. Born in 1834 in Waren, Mecklenburg-Schwerin.8 Konrad died in 1889.21 fell from pecan tree. Emigrated on 13 Nov 1845 from Bremerhaven.4 On the Gerhard Hermann. Immigrated on 10 Jan 1846 to Galveston, Texas.4 Konrad died on 16 Feb 1898 in Marble Falls, Burnet Co., Texas.18 Occupation: farmer.1 .

1850 Austin Co, TX Census lists as Conrad Fox, 16 yr, laborer.

On 28 Aug 1861 Konrad married Annie E. J. PERLITZ18,21, F, in La Grange, Fayette Co., Texas.18 Born abt 1838.18 . They were separated abt 1889.21

They had the following children:
19 i. Konrad, M (~1863-)
20 ii. Roland, M (~1865-)
21 iii. Adolf C., M (1866-1937)
22 iv. Lina, F (~1867-)
23 v. Ino, F
24 vi. Benjamin, M
25 vii. Friedrich, M (~1863-)
26 viii. Werner, M (~1869-)

6. Ottilie FUCHS1, GGG Grandmother, F. Born on 27 Feb 1836 in Koelzow, Mecklenburg-Schwerin.22 Ottilie died in Cypress Mill, Texas on 23 May 1926; she was 90.1 Buried in Goeth-Wenmohs Cemetery, Cypress Mill, Texas.23 Emigrated on 13 Nov 1845 from Bremerhaven.4 On the Gerhard Hermann. Immigrated on 10 Jan 1846 to Galveston, Texas.4 Occupation: Writer.1

1850 Austin Co, TX Census lists as Ottelea Fox, 14 yr. 5 Godfather was Justizrat Otto von Prolius, Concillor of Justice.13 Named for him.24 Broke her hip in 1912.25

Biographical Sketches: Wrote Memoirs Of A Texas Pioneer Grandmother (Was Grossmutter Erzaehlt 1805-1915).

"We hurried towards the setting sun, the magic West beckoning." Thus succintly stated, Ottilie Fuchs Goeth described the very essence of her memoirs. It was the expression of her thoughts as the family set sail in 1845 from Germany to the shores of Texas.

Ottilie Fuchs Goeth was an alert seventy-nine years old when she completed her memoirs in the German language for her family. Born the year of the Texas revolution, 1836, she migrated with her family in 1845, eventually settling in the Cypress Mill community near the Pedernales River west of Austin.

Daughter of the pastor of a parish church in Germany, Mrs. Goeth was nurtured in family life, literature, and music and her writings reflect a keen observation of life in Texas from the beginning of statehood to past the turn of the century.-Irma Goeth Guenther

"The original (in German) has been a classic document of Texas pioneer days since its appearance.... She wrote with the descriptive and objective eye - and at times in the manner - of a nineteenth century realistic novelist and thus provided memoirs which are at once aesthetically pleasing and at the same time invaluable as a source for scholars, teachers, and students." - Professor Hubert Heinen, University of Texas, Austin


"One of the more eloquent immigrants during the surge of the mid-forties was Ottilie Goeth, nee Fuchs.... She wrote with refined eloquence and communicated the intense desire for freedom and the undaunted pioneer spirit.... evidently our readers also enjoyed reading of the German Texans as that issue was a total sellout." - Jennifer Gordon, Texas Highways Magazine, in letter to Irma Goeth Guenther


On 19 Sep 1859 when Ottilie was 23, she married Anton Karl Ludwig GOETH, GGG Grandfather, M, son of Anton Christian GOETH, M (-1848) & Anne Elise Henriette FRANKE, F (19 Jun 1813-10 Jun 1868).26 Born on 7 Mar 1835 in Wetzlar, Rhenan, Prussia.27 Anton Karl Ludwig names on birth certificate. Anton Karl Ludwig died in Cypress Mill, Texas on 16 Dec 1912; he was 77.28 died unexpectedly in his sleep. Buried in Goeth-Wenmohs Cemetery, Cypress Mill, Texas. Emigrated on 26 Apr 1852 from Hamburg.29 on the sailing ship Miles. Immigrated on 4 Jul 1852 to Galveston, Texas. with his mother and stepfather. Ernst Goeth at same time. Occupation: Printer in Wetzlar, Saddle maker in New Braunfels & New Ulm, Rancher, Texas State Legislator.30,31 Education: Classical education in Wetzlar Gymnasium.32 Served in the Army of the Confederacy.

Carl Alexander. Drafted into Confederate Army mid Nov 1862. Served in the Quartermaster Department in Austin, making saddles. Later detailed to Rangers in Burnet Co.33 Attended the centennial celebration in Philadelphia.34 Played the cello.35 Very accomplished at gardening36 Tombstone inscription: "Du warst unser Sonnenschein"37 Naturalized 25 Aug 1857 at the county court of Wooster, Wayne Co., Ohio.38 Served as Justice of the Peace and several terms as County Commisioner.39 In 1886 elected by large majority (2,285 to 174 for the Independent Republican candidate40) to the House of Representatives of the 20th Texas State Legislature.41 Ran again in 1910, but lost.42

Biographical Sketches: Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Distinguished Texans. Compiled and Published by L. E. Daniell, Austin Press of the City Printing Company, 1887.

Carl Goeth was born March 7, 1835, in Wetzlar, one of the former imperial free towns of Germany, now a part of the Rhenan province of Prussia. After a course in the public school, he entered the Royal College of his native town, where he studied classics and mathematics, his grandfather Ernst Franke, being one of the professors. At the age of sixteen he learned the trade of compositor, emigrated with his parents to the United States in 1852, and landed at Galveston July 4, from where the family started with an old-fashioned ox-team towards Austin County, and bought there a farm in cultivation, with all the stock, on the identical spot where now the small town of New Ulm is located.

Here the young man worked on the farm and helped to reap the first year's crop in the fall of the same year, ten bales of cotton and fifteen hundred bushels of corn. Three years afterwards, his only sister having married a saddlemaker, young Goeth connected himself with his brother-in-law in the then quite profitable business. After having learned the trade, he traveled and worked as a saddlemaker in different parts of the United States, and when five years in the country, he became a citizen of the United States in Ohio, in the year 1857, when he cast his first vote for Governor Payne, the Democratic Governor of that state.

Returning to Texas, he started his own business in New Ulm, married Miss Ottilie, daughter of Adolphus Fuchs (Fox), professor of music, and a gentleman well known among the early settlers, having immigrated in 1845, first settling at Cat Spring, Austin County, and eight years afterwards in the southern part of Burnet County, near Marble Falls, becoming the first sheep rancher in that part of the state.

At the beginning of the Civil War, Carl Goeth also moved into Burnet County to leave his wife and child under the protection of her parents, while he himself had to serve the State in the quartermaster's department in Austin, under Major McKinney, as saddle-maker. During the Indian raids, he was detailed to join the Rangers near his family home, but still making saddles for the government....

After the close of the war, Mr. Goeth moved to Cypress Mill, Blanco County, his present domicile, where he engaged in the sheep business.... He was successful, like many others, and is at present the owner of fine homestead and splendid range in one of the most beautiful valleys of our State, cheifly occupied in the wool business, having a large herd of fine Merinos, interbred with the famous Rambouilet stock.

In 1867, General Reynolds offered Mr. Goeth the assessor and collectorship for Blanco, but the latter declined, as an appointment to office by the military authorities was at the time quite unpopular, but since then Mr. Goeth held at various times different offices, such as school trustee, justice of the peace, county commissoner, etc.

At the Democratic district convention, previous to the election of 1886, he was nominated to the office of Representative for the Eighty-ninth district, composed of the counties of Blanco, Comal, and Gillespie, and elected by a vote of 2,285 against 174 cast for the Independant Republican candidate.

Texas-The Country and Its Men.
by L. E. Daniell, date of publication not specified, but after 1912. Repeats some of the material in the earlier Daniell's article, and in addition states the following:

Mr. Goeth's family consists, besides his wife, of five sons and two daughters. The eldest daughter (Luise) married John Wenmohs, of Cypress Mill. The second daughter (Ottilie) is the wife of Otto Wenmohs, cousin of John, who took an honorable discharge from the German Army to become a citizen of Texas. His eldest son (Adolf) married a daughter (Julia) of Walter Tips, of Austin, and is now president of the Walter Tips Hardware Company and manager of the large hardware business founded by his father-in-law at the state capital. Conrad, the second son, graduated from the Law School of the State University in 1890, and in the same year, at the age of twenty, was admitted to the bar, and some years ago associated himself with the late Hon. J. E. Webb in the practice of law at San Antonio. He married Carrie Groos, daughter of F. Groos, a prominent banker of San Antonio. Dr. R. A. Goeth, another son, is a prominent physician of San Antonio who married Alma Tips of Austin. Edward and Max Goeth are prosperous ranchers of Blanco County. Edward married (Gussie) a daughter of August Schroeter, a pioneer of Burnet County. Max Goeth, the youngest of the family, married (Marie) a daughter of the Hon. Ernst von Rosenberg, for many years officially connected with the State General Land Office, and now lives at the old Goeth homestead. This home, in the valley of Cypress Creek, within the shadows of the foothills of Shovel Mountain, has long been known for its true Southern hospitality, and here the founder of the family spent his last years, and passed away, mourned by sorrowing relatives and an endless array of affectionate friends.43

Records: Blanco Co., Texas Land Grants
Surveyor Grantee League Abs #
HE&WT RR CO C. GOETH 92 1342
SM&S C. GOETH 2 1341
CARL GOETH C. GOETH 66 880
SM&S C. GOETH 879
CARL GOETH C.GOETH 810
CARL GOETH J.BREMOND 407 67




They had the following children:
27 i. Carl, M (-<1863)
28 ii. Adolf Carl, M (1862-~1927)
29 iii. Toni, F (>1862-1865)
30 iv. Luise, F (1866-)
31 v. Ottilie, F (1867-)
32 vi. Conrad, M (1869-)
33 vii. Edward William, M (1871-1936)
34 viii. Richard A., M (1874-)
35 ix. Max, M (1877-)

Carl and Ottilie met in 1855 in Burnet Co.44
Lived in New Ulm 1859-1862.29
Returned to Burnet Co. 1862.
Bought land in Blanco Co. from Robert Wolters 1864. Consisted of 320 acres and a residence for $1,500.45
Moved to Cypress Mills 1867. Lived in log house 1867-1882.45
Carl Goeth residence built 1882.46

7. Wilhelm George FUCHS9,18, GGGG Uncle, M. Born on 28 Feb 1838 in Koelzow, Mecklenburg-Schwerin.8,18 Wilhelm George died in Cypress Mill, Blanco Co., Texas on 20 Aug 1903; he was 65.47,18 stroke. Emigrated on 13 Nov 1845 from Bremerhaven.4 On the Gerhard Hermann. Immigrated on 10 Jan 1846 to Galveston, Texas.4 Occupation: operated the mill on Cypress Creek, later owned large ranch near Perdenales River.48 .

1850 Austin Co, TX Census lists as William Fox, 12 yr.5

On 8 Oct 1861 when Wilhelm George was 23, he married Luise Helene Elise ROMBERG49,18, F, daughter of Johannes ROMBERG, M & Frederike BAUCH, F, in La Grange, Fayette Co., Texas.18 Born on 11 Feb 1840 in Boizenberg, Germany.18 Luise Helene Elise died on 28 Jun 1931; she was 91.18 Cause of death: Heart attack.18 .

They had the following children:
36 i. Dora, F (1862-1920)
37 ii. Johanna, F (1864-1929)
38 iii. Theodor, M (1865-1947)
39 iv. William Bernhard, M (1867-1946)
40 v. Ida Manna, F (1869-1954)
41 vi. Herman Pauls, M (1870-1877)
42 vii. Julius J., M (1872-1950)
43 viii. Luise, F
44 ix. Bernhardina S., F (1875-1941)
45 x. Paula, F (1878-1921)
46 xi. Rheinhold, M (1880-1945)
47 xii. Adolf D., M (1882-1957)
48 xiii. Johannes R., M (1886-1968)

8. Adolphine FUCHS5,9, GGGG Aunt, F. Born in 1840 in Koelzow, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Germany.5 Adolphine died in 1869 in Marble Falls, Burnet Co., Texas. Emigrated on 13 Nov 1845 from Bremerhaven.4 On the Gerhard Hermann. Immigrated on 10 Jan 1846 to Galveston, Texas.4 Alias/AKA: Ino.8

1850 Austin Co, TX Census lists as Audelphina Fox, 10 yr. 5

On 26 Dec 1864 Adolphine married Adolf VARNHAGEN29, M.29,18 O. F. Goeth had "abt 1863". Born on 31 Jul 1831.18 Adolf died on 17 Jun 1880; he was 48.18 .

Nephew of Varnhargen von Ense, promient German author.29

9. Hermann T. FUCHS10,18, GGGG Uncle, M. Born on 7 Jan 1842 in Koelzow, Mecklenburg-Schwerin.50,18 Hermann T. died in Marble Falls, Burnet Co., Texas on 29 Jul 1907; he was 65.51 Emigrated on 13 Nov 1845 from Bremerhaven.4 On the Gerhard Hermann. Immigrated on 10 Jan 1846 to Galveston, Texas.4 Occupation: Angora goat Rancher in Burnet Co., Texas.52 .

1850 Austin Co, TX Census lists as Harman Fox, 8 yr.5


On 10 Jul 1868 when Hermann T. was 26, he married Caroline Julie ROMBERG18,53, F, daughter of Johannes ROMBERG, M & Frederike BAUCH, F, in La Grange, Fayette Co., Texas.18 Born on 30 Jan 1846 in Boizenberg, Germany.18 Caroline Julie died on 9 Sep 1942; she was 96.18 Alias/AKA: Lina.49 .

They had the following children:
49 i. Johanna, F (~1871-)
50 ii. Frieda Hermana, F (1875-)
51 iii. Albano, M

10. Benjamin FUCHS10, GGGG Uncle, M. Born on 21 Jan 1848 in Cat Springs, Austin Co., Texas.5,50,18 Benjamin died in 1900 in Marble Falls, Burnet Co., Texas.18 Benjamin died bef 1907.54 Alias/AKA: Benno.55 .


On 26 May 1876 when Benjamin was 28, he first married Emma KELLERSBERGER56, F.18 Born in 1851.18 Emma died on 29 Feb 1880.18 .


They had the following children:
52 i. Cora, F
53 ii. Oscar, M (1879-1961)

In 1894 Benjamin second married Anna MACKENSEN55, F.18 Anna died abt 1900.55 .


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