Greenwood Cemetery
Compiled by
Fredericksburg Genealogical
Society
February, 1994
DEDICATION
This publication is dedicated to the memory of Tyrus Thorpe Cox, 1912-1994.
Mr. Cox provided wise Counsel, a place to meet, storage space and furniture
during the beginning years of the Fredericksburg Genealogical Society.
The History of Greenwood Cemetery
The Greenwood Cemetery Association was incorporated on September 17,
1894. The incorporators were A. W. Moursund, A. O. Cooley, both lawyers,
Alfred van der Stucken, L. Hagen and Louis Priess, prominent local businessmen.
The Association was formed because the City Cemetery was filling up and
the land adjacent to it was a cotton field that's value was to much for
purchase as cemetery space.
The Association purchased 15 acres from Henry Kordzik Sr. The
tract was located on the then outskirts of the city, now on North Llano
Street. an additional 12.4 acres was purchased from Kurt Eckhardt
in 1969. Both tracts of land were heavily wooded and trees have been
retained to provide a serene natural setting.
At the time that Greenwood Cemetery was founded, The Llano road was
only a rough, gravel right-of-way, so in 1912 a plot of land was conveyed
to Gillespie County in exchange for the county providing a graded road
from town to the cemetery entrance. This plot is used for the burial
of indigent and paupers.
The first map of the cemetery, dated 1898, shows family plots with
room for eight to twelve people. These were later subdivided into
quarters. About 1965 the eastern part of the cemetery was replatted
into individual burial sites.
Not many burials took place in the early years because the area was
overgrown with brush and poison ivy but as it was cleared people started
purchasing plots, One of the first burials was of Almon O. Cooley,
one of the incorporators, he died on September 26, 1899. Hedwig Martin
Kordzik, the first child born in the new colony of Fredericksburg is buried
in Greenwood. She was born on March 30, 1849 and died on January
6, 1928.
Note: This book has an index of maiden (nee) and married (surname)
names. It then lists alphabetically the names of the persons buried
there with maiden, notes, born, died, wed on, section, lot and plot.
I purchased mine at the Verein Kirche.
Index to names in Greenwood Cemetery
Adams, Ahrens, Akey, Akin, Albert, Alberthal, Allen, Allred, Althaus,
Ames, Anderson, Andexler, Andrews, Annis, Apelt, Arhelger, Arizola, Arlitt,
Arlt, Arnold, Arredondo, Ashmore, Avant, Ayres, Baab, Baethge, Bailey,
Baker, Ball, Balser, Barclay, Bardwell, Barham, Barker, Barnes, Barrow,
Barsch, Barth, Bartholmae, Barton, Barwise, Basse, Bassette, Bauer, Baumann,
Beasock, Beaty, Beckmann, Becraft, Beerman, Behrends, Bench, Bender, Benedict,
Benner, Bennett, Benorden, Benway, Bergman, Bergner, Bernhard, Berry, Beumer,
Beveridge, Beyer, Bible, Biermann, Bierschwale, Billings, Birck, Bishop,
Black, Blackburn, Blair, Bledsoe, Blythe, Boan, Bober, Bobo, Bode, Boening,
Boerner, Bohannon, Bohnert, Bolyn, Bonn, Boos, Borchers, Borski, Botkins,
Bowen, Bowers, Bracher, Brady, Braeutigam, Brehmer, Brelsford, Britz, Brown,
Browning, Bruhn, Bruns, Buchrucker, Buchholz, Bumpas, Burdett, Burg, Burrer,
Burrier, Burrow, Busch, Butcher, Byerley, Callaway, Callison,Calloway,
Cameron, Campos, Canady, Cap, Carlan, Carreon, Carter, Castillo, Castro,
Cavitt, Cawthon, Cervantes, Chaffee, Chisholm, Choate, Clark, Clemmons,
Clifton, Coffman, Cogan, Collier, Cone, Connelly, Conner, Connor, Cook,
Cooley, Cornehl, Cornettt, Cortez, Counts, Covert, Cox, Crane, Crenwelge,
Crittenden, Cunningham, Curl, Curry, Cyphers, Dabney, Dale, Caniel, Danz,
Darden, Dare, Daugherty, Davidson, Davis, Dawson, Dearmon, Debusk, Dechert,
Degarimore, Delz, Demuth, Dickie, Dietel, Dietrich, Dietz, Dietzel, Dittemore,
Dittmar, Dixon, Dodson, Dolezal, Dollahite, Doppler, Dorr, Dotson, Dowell,
Driscoll, Driver, Duecker, Dunnet, Durden, Durkop, Durst, Dyer, East, Easterwood,
Ebeling, Eckert, Eckhardt, Eckstein, Edwards, Ehrenborg, Eissler, Elam,
Ellebracht, Eliot, Elliott, Ellis, Enderle, Enderlin, Ersch, Erwin, Esensee,
Evers, Fairchild, Fanning, Farnhof, Faust, Feller, Felps, Feuge, Fiedler,
Filter, Finch, Fischer, Fitze, Flenniken, Flint, Foerster, Ford, Foster,
Fox, Franklin, Frantzen, Franz, Freeman, French, Fricke, Friedrich, Frisbie,
Fuchs, Fuller, Funderburgh, Gahler, Gammenthaler, Gandre, Gantebein, Garza,
Gease, Gee, Geistwidt, Gellerman, Gellermann, Gerhard, Gerloff, Gerlt,
Gilliam, Glase, Godfrey, Goehmann, Gold, Gooch, Goodale, Goss, Gossett,
Gott, Goudy, Grahm, Grauke, Greable, Greathouse, Green, Greenwood, Gregoire,
Grienke, Griffin, Griffith, Grimm, Griner, Grinke, Grobe, Grona, Grosenbacher,
Grote, Grub, Gruber, Haddick, Hahn, Hahne, Hale, Hallford, Hammock, Hancock,
Hanlon, Hannemann, Hansen, Hanson, Haralson, Hardin, Hardt, Hare, Harris,
Harrison, Hartman, Hartmann,Harvey, Harwood, Hasteller, Haun, Hedgpeth,
Heep, Heeson, Heimann, Hein, Heiner, Hellings, Helmers, Henderson, Henke,
Hennig, Hennon, Herber, Herbort, Herring, Herzog, Hickman, Hillburn, Hinterlach,
Hitchner, Hockada, Hodgins, Hoerster, Hohenberger, Hohmann, Hohn, Hollaway,
Holmes, Holt, Honig, Hooton, Hoots, Hopf, Horlen, Hostetler, Houy, Howaard,
Hudnut, Huebner, Humes, Igler, Isleib, Itz, Jackson, Jacoby, James, Jamison,
Janousek, Jenkins, Johanson, Johnson, Jones, Jordan, Jost, Joy, Juenke,
Jung, Kaderli, Kaiser, Kallenberg, Kamman, Kasper, Keffeler, Deidel, Keller,
Kendall, Kensing, Kent, Ketron, Keyes, Keyser, Kiehne, Kikta, Kilian, Kilman,
Kilpatrick, King, Kirchhoff, Kirchner, Kirkwood, Klappenbach, Klein, Klett,
Klier, Kleigelhoeffer, Kinksiek, Kneese, Knight, Knopp, Knutson, Koch,
Koenig, Koennecke, Koeppern, Kolmeier, Kordzik, Kosche, Koteras, Kothe,
Kothmann, Kott, Kowert, Kramer, Kranz, Krenzler, Krieger, Kroll, Kropat,
Kuemmel, Kuhlmann, Kunz, Kusenberger, Ladnier, Lafery, Lalanne, Land, Landis,
Lane, Lang, Lange, Langehennig, Langerhans, Langley, Lapka, Laughlin, Launch,
Laurence, Lawton, Lea, Ledford, Lehmann, Lehne, Leifeste, Lentz, Leonard,
Leonhard, Lewis, Leyendecker, Light, Ligon, Lindenberg, Lindig, Lindsey,
Linson, Lochte, Loitz, Lollar, Lomenick, Long, Longshore, Looke, Lorenz,
Lorimier, Lott, Loudon, Lucas, Luckenbach, Luedke, Lundeen, Maier, Malechek,
Malone, Maner, Mangum, Mann, Manske, Marmor, Martin, Mason, Materne, Mathisen,
Mauldin, Maurer, Maxey, Mayfield, Mazurek, McConnell, McCoy, McCune, McDaniel,
McDorsey, McDougall, McElroy, McKee, McKinzie, McMahon, McMillen, McMurtrey,
McPheeters, McSpadden, McWilliams, Meek, Meier, Menking, Merkel, Merrick,
Meyer, Mezzetti, Michaels, Michener, Miears, Miiller, Mikeska, Miller,
Mills, Mitchell, Mittendorf, Moehle, Moellendorf, Moellering, Moffett,
Mogford, Mohr, Molberg, Moldenhauer, Moore, Mooris, Moran, Morgan, Moritz,
Mosel, Moursund, Mueller, Muller, Mumme, Mund, Murray, Nabinger, Nagel,
Nash, Neffendorf, Nehr, Nelson, Nemkey, Nettle, Newman, Newsom, Nixon,
Nocker, Nogle, Norman, Novian, Oehler, Oestreich, Ogi, Ohlenburg, Olfers,
Olson, Osbourn, Ottens, Ottmers, Pancoast, Pape, Parker, Passwaters, Patton,
Peacock, Pearce, Peese, Peeters, Peitzmeier, Penick, Pennington, Perrett,
Perry, Peterman, Petermann, Peters, Peterson, Petmecky, Petsch, Pfau, Pfeil,
Pfiester, Phillips, Pirtle, Pittman, Plasterer, Pluenneke, Powell, Prause,
Pressler, Price, Priess, Prill, Probst, Pullen, Quinn, Rabke, Rachel, Raeke,
Rahe, Rainbolt, Rains, Rakes, Ransleben, Ratliff, Raute, Rector, Reddig,
Reed, Reeh, Reeves, Reichenau, Renick, Ressmann, Reynolds, Riggs, Riley,
Rivera, Roberts, Robertson, Robinson, Robles, Roddy, Rode, Roeder, Rosalez,
Rowe, Royer, Rusche, Russell, Russo, Rutledge, Ryan, Sack, Sagebiel, Salazar,
Samford, Sanchez, Sanders, Sasko, Sauer, Saunders, Scantlin, Schaefer,
Schaeferkoeter, Schandua, Schaper, Schellhase, Schenk, Scherer, Schiller,
Schilling, Schlaudt, Schlueter, Schmidt, Schneider, Schnelle, Schnerr,
Schonberg, Schroeder, Schuch, Schuette, Schultz, Schulz, Schwank, Schwarz,
Schweers, Scott, Scrogin,Settles, Shaw, Shombek, Shropshire, Sidden, Sidlo,
Sieckmann, Siefert, Simmons, Simon, Simonds, Sims, Sivley, Smallwood, Smith,
Solbrig, Spangeberg, Specht, Spiva, Springall, Springall, St. Clair, Staats,
Stafford, Staggs, Stahl, Stahlschmidt, Stamm, Starks, Stech, Stehle, Stehling,
Stein, Steitle, Steubing, Stewart, Stieler, Stoker, Stone, Strackbein,
Striegler, Stuart, Stucke, Stuckenburg, Sullivan, Sultemeier, Summers,
Sutton, Sweeney, Syltie, Talley, Tanner, Tatsch, Taylor, Teschner, Theriot,
Thompson, Thurman, Tietz, Tobin, Tomlinson, Tomme, Towers, Towner, Trammell,
Treibs, Trevino, Trice, Trimble, Trueblood, Tucker, Turner, Urbanec, Usener,
Van Der Stucken, Van Tuyl, Van Zandt, Vaughan, Vestal, Virden, Visser,
Voelkel, Voight, Boigt, Vollmar,
Von Netzer, Wade, Wahl, Wahrmund, Walker, Wallendorf, Walls, Walston,
Walter, Warner, Washburn, Watson, Watts, Webb, Weber, Webster, Weed, Wehmeyer,
Weichert, Weiershausen, Weirich, Welch, Welge, Welgehausen, Wells, Wendel,
Wertheim, Wesson, West, Westerfeldt, Weston, Weynand, Whitehead, Wickson,
Wieser, Wilder, Wiley, Wilke, Will, Williams, Williamson, Willmann, Wilson,
Wiltrout, Winder, Winkel, Wise, Witt, Wittig, Woerner, Wolf, Wolter, Wood,
Wright, Wunderlich, Wynn, Yancey, Young, Zatopek, Zeitler, Zess, Zwernemann
Maiden Names
Ahrens, Alberthal, Aldis, Allen, Althaus, Anderegg, Andersen, Archibald,
Arhelger, Arlt, Asay, Ashbrook, Baethge, Bailey, Baney, Barkhurst, Barrett,
Barsch, Basse, Bauer, Baumann, Beeson, Behr, Behrend, Behrends, Behrens,
Bennett, Berg, Bergmann, Bernhard, Beville, Beyer, Bierschwale, Birk, Black,
Blaylock, Bledsoe, Boan, Boldt, Boles, Borchers, Boyd, Bradshaw, Braeutigam,
Brandenberger, Brehmer, Brown, Bruns, Bryan, Bubak, Bureigh, Burke, Burks,
Burrer, Burrier, Burrow, Byerley, Caraway, Cathcart, Chastain, Chevalier,
Clayton, Clemmons, Coffee, Colbath, Collier, Connally, Conrads, Cordes,
Cornehl, Cox, Crenwelge, Crosby, Dannheim, Daugherty, Davis, Delz, Denison,
Dietert, Dietrich, Dietz, Dittmar, Dixon, Doebbler, Doell, Dubose, Duecker,
Duelm, Durst, Eckert, Eckhardt, Edelmann, Edwards, Eggers, Ehlo, Ellebracht,
Ellis, Elmore, Elswick, Enderlin, Ersch, Evers, Fanning, Farmer, Faske,
Faught, Feller, Felps, Fencik, Ferkau, Feuge, Fiedler, Filter, Fischer,
Fitch, Flint, Foerster, Forres, Frantzen, Freeman, Friedrich, Fryar, Fuller,
Gammenthaler, Garrett, Gastinger, Gates, Gee, Geistweidt, Gellermann, Gerhard,
Gerloff, Gibson, Gillaspy, Goehmann, Gold, Gordon, Grienke, Grobe, Grona,
Grote, Guynn, Hass, Hagens, Hahn, Hahne, Hannemann, Hansen, Hardin, Hardt,
Harkey, Harlan, Harpel, Hartmann, Hatcher, Haufler, Haun, Havins, Heimann,
Heiner, Helmers, Henke, Herber, Herbort, Hetzel, Heye, Hicks, Hilker, Hitzfeld,
Hohenberger, Hohmann, Holbert, Holkamp, Holloway, Honig, Hoots, Horlen,
Housman, Houy, Hutschenreuter, Hyden, Icke, Immel, Itz, Jacobs, Jacoby,
Jamison, Jenkins, Johns, Johnson, Jordan, Joseph, Juenke, Jung, Kallenberg,
Kammlah, Kanemeier, Kay, Kearley, Keathley, Keller, Kensing, Ketron, Keyser,
Kiehne, King, Kirchhoff, Kirchner, Kiser, Klaerner, Klagmann, Klappenbach,
Klein, Klett, Klier, Klingelhoefer, Klinsiek, Knake, Kneese, Knesek, Knight,
Knopp, Koehler, Koenig, Kordzik, Kothe, Kothmann, Kott, Kramer, Kroll,
Kuemmel, Kuenstler, Kuhlmann, Kuhn, Kunz, Kusenberger, Lamberth, Land,
Landrum, Langbein, Lange, Langerhans, Lentz, Leonard, Leyendecker, Lindsley,
Lochte, Loitz, Long, Lord, Lorenz, Lucas, Luckenbach, Luersen, Lummus,
Lyons, Maier, Mallamo, Manglberger, Manske, Martin, Mauerman, Mayberry,
McCracken, McDonald, Meckel, Mehollin, Meier, Mergenthaler, Mertens, Meyer,
Miculka, Miiller, Miller, Mitchel, Moehle, Moellering, Mogford, Moldenhauer,
Moore, Moritz, Mowinckle, Mynar, Nabinger, Nagel, Neffendorf, Nehr, Nichols,
Nixon, Novian, Oehler, Oestreich, Olfers, Osborne, Ot, Ittmers, Owen, Palmer,
Pancoast, Pardue, Parker, Pascoe, Patton, Peese, Peter, Peterman, Petermann,
Peters, Pfiester, Phillippus, Phillips. Pieper, Pinn, Prator, Price, Priess,
Prochnow, Prothro, Rainbolt, Ransleben, Ranslebn, Raute, Raynore, Real,
Rech, Redlin, Reeh, Reichenau, Reinbach, Resinger, Renick, Ressmann, Riley,
Robberson, Rode, Rodenbusch, Roeder, Rogge, Roscher, Roth, Royall, Ruebsahm,
Ruegner, Rusche, Russell, Saenger, Sagebiel, Salter, Sande, Satterwhite,
Sattler, SAuer, Schaefer, Schaeferkoeter, Schaeffer, Schandua, Schaper,
Scharnhorst, Schlaemeus, Schlaudt, Schmidt, Schneider, Schnerr, Schoeneman,
Schoenewolf, Schulze, Schumann, Schupp, Schupp, Scott, Seelig, Shaw, Short,
Simmons, Simon, Smith, Snelson, Sowders, Spaeth, Staffelbach, Staggs, Stahl,
Stanhope, Starke, Stein, Stewart, Stieler, Stinson, Strackbein, Streetman,
Striegler, Stromquist, Sultemeir, Sweatman, Tanner, Tatsch, Taylor, Teschner,
Thigpen, Thomas, Thompson, Thomson, Thornblom, Treibs, Tubb, Usener, Vaughn,
Virtue, Vogel, Voigt, Von Lienen, Wahl, Wahrmund, Waitt, Walker, Walter,
Walters, Watts, Weber, Wehmeyer, Wehring, Weigelt, Weinheimer, Weirich,
Weiser, Welch, Welge, Welgehausen, Wendel, Westfall, Weyrich, Whatley,
White, Wiedner, Wienecke, Wilke, Will, Winkelmann, Witt, Wittig, Wunderlich,
Wylie, Young, Zenner, Zoeller
County Section
Arreualla, Athey, Avelar, Barker, Brockman, Bulbrook, Burkhalter,
Cress, Cumbie, Dalrymple, Dalton, Dunn, Edmondson, Foster, Garcia, Hartman,
Heimann, Herrera, Lehman, Lewis, Macomber, Mitchel, Rackel, Sammons, Schrank,
Spivey, Steen, Tavarez, Timberlake, Vollmeyer, Williams, Wolf