| Name | Ottilie FUCHS  54, GGG Grandmother, F |
| Birth | 27 Feb 1836, Koelzow, Mecklenburg-Schwerin454,455 |
| Birth | abt 1836, Mecklenburg456 |
| Emigration | 13 Nov 1845, Bremerhaven56 Age: 9 |
| Emigration Memo | On the Gerhard Hermann |
| Immigration | 10 Jan 1846, Galveston, Texas56,455 Age: 9 |
| Death | 23 May 1926, Cypress Mill, Texas54 Age: 90 |
| Burial | Goeth-Wenmohs Cemetery, Cypress Mill, Texas457 |
| Occupation | Writer54 |
| Father | Adolf FUCHS, M (1805-1885) |
| Mother | Luise Johanna RUEMKER, F (1809-1886) |
| 1 | Anton Karl Ludwig GOETH , GGG Grandfather, M |
| Birth | 7 Mar 1835, Wetzlar, Rhenan, Prussia54,455 |
| Birth Memo | Anton Karl Ludwig names on birth certificate |
| Birth | abt 1835, Prussia456 |
| Emigration | 26 Apr 1852, Hamburg190 Age: 17 |
| Emigration Memo | on the sailing ship Miles |
| Immigration | 4 Jul 1852, Galveston, Texas54,455 Age: 17 |
| Immigration Memo | with his mother and stepfather. Ernst Goeth at same time |
| Naturalization | 25 Aug 1857, Wooster, Wayne Co., Ohio458,455 Age: 22 |
| Death | 16 Dec 1912, Cypress Mill, Texas459 Age: 77 |
| Death Memo | died unexpectedly in his sleep |
| Burial | Goeth-Wenmohs Cemetery, Cypress Mill, Texas |
| Occupation | Printer in Wetzlar, Saddle maker in New Braunfels & New Ulm, Rancher, Texas State Legislator460,461 |
| Occupation | 1880: Wool Grower456 |
| Occupation | 1900: Stock Farmer455 |
| Education | Classical education in Wetzlar Gymnasium462 |
| Flags | Confederate Soldier |
| Father | Anton Christian GOETH, M (-1848) |
| Mother | Anne Elise Henriette FRANKE, F (1813-1868) |
| Family ID | 6483 |
| Marriage | 19 Sep 1859463 |
| Children | Adolf Carl, M (1862-1927) |
| Luise, F (1866-) | |
| Ottilie, F (1867-1936) | |
| Conrad, M (1869-) | |
| Edward William, M (1871-1936) | |
| Richard A., M (1874-) | |
| Carl, M (-<1863) | |
| Toni, F (>1862-1865) | |
| Max, M (1877-1950) |
In Carl GOETH household
Ottilie GOETH, Wife, 44 years old, b. Mecklenburg, married, Keeping House, ather born in Baden-B., mother born in Hamburg
Carl GOETH household, Wife; see Anton Karl Ludwig GOETH's card for census abstract.
"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
Carl GOETH, Head, 45 years old, b. Prussia, married, Wool Grower, father born in Baden-B., mother born in Hamburg
Ottilie GOETH, Wife, 44 years old, b. Mecklenburg, married, Keeping House, ather born in Baden-B., mother born in Hamburg
Odolph GOETH, Son, 17 years old, b. Texas, single, Clerk in Store, father born in Prussia, mother born in Mecklenburg
Louisa GOETH, Daughter, 14 years old, b. Texas, single, At School, father born in Prussia, mother born in Mecklenburg
Ottilie GOETH, Daughter, 12 years old, b. Texas, single, At School, father born in Prussia, mother born in Mecklenburg
Conrad GOETH, Son, 10 years old, b. Texas, single, At School, father born in Prussia, mother born in Mecklenburg
Edward GOETH, Son, 8 years old, b. Texas, single, At School, father born in Prussia, mother born in Mecklenburg
Richd. GOETH, Son, 6 years old, b. Texas, single, At School, father born in Prussia, mother born in Mecklenburg
Max GOETH, Son, 3 years old, b. Texas, single, father born in Prussia, mother born in Mecklenburg
John WENMOSS, white male, 20 years old, b. Texas, single, Stock Raiser, father born in Mecklenburg, mother born in Saxony
John GOEBEL, white male, 21 years old, b. Hungary, single, Wool Grower, father born in Mecklenburg, mother born in Saxony
Herman TEUFEL, white male, 21 years old, b. Saxony, single, Shepherd, father born in Mecklenburg, mother born in Saxony
Otto FUCHS, white male, 64 years old, b. Mecklenburg, single, Teacher, father born in Mecklenburg, mother born in Saxony
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
Carl GOETH, Head, b. Mar 1835, Germany, married 40 y., Immigrated 1852, Naturalized, Stock
Farmer, owns farm, farm schedule No. 117
Ottilie GOETH, Wife, b. Feb 1836, Germany, married 40 y., 7 of 9 children living, Immigrated
1846, Alien
Max GOETH, Son, b. May 1877, Texas, single, Clerk
Albert FREELAND, Boarder, b. May 1866, Alabama, single, Painter
Henry SCHULDT, Boarder, b. Oct 1878, Germany, single, Immigrated 1897, Alien, Sheep Herder
Otto FUCHS, Cousin, b. Dec 1814, Germany, widowed, Immigrated 1848, Naturalized, Teacher
Caroline KROLL, Cook, b. Oct 1841, Germany, widowed, no children, Cook, reads and writes (prob.
German), but doesn't speak English
Alfred H. WAGENER, Boarder, b. Feb 1874, Germany, single, Immigrated 1896, Alien, Novelist455
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.475
Lived in New Ulm 1859-1862.
Returned to Burnet Co. 1862.
Bought land in Blanco Co. from Robert Wolters 1864. Consisted of 320 acres and a residence for $1,500.
Moved to Cypress Mills 1867. Lived in log house 1867-1882.
Carl Goeth residence built 1882.
Lived in New Ulm 1859-1862.190
Returned to Burnet Co. 1862.
Bought land in Blanco Co. from Robert Wolters 1864. Consisted of 320 acres and a residence for $1,500.477
Moved to Cypress Mills 1867. Lived in log house 1867-1882.477
Carl Goeth residence built 1882.478