Descendents of Friederich Schlado(e)r

Generation No. 1

1. Friederich¹ Schladoer was born Unknown in Germany, and died Unknown in Germany.

More About Friederich Schladoer:

Burial: Unknown, Germany

Children of Friederich Schladoer are:

+ 2 i. Gerhard Caspar Diderich² Schladoer, born Abt. February 20, 1815 in Germany; died 1855 in Between Comfort, Texas and Indianola, Texas.

+ 3 ii. Friederich Henrich Schlador, born 1827 in Germany; died Unknown.

Generation No. 2

2. Gerhard Caspar Diderich² Schladoer (Friederich¹) was born Abt. February 20, 1815 in Germany, and died 1855 in Between Comfort, Texas and Indianola, Texas. He married Christiana Lothiesen December 02, 1837 in Sankt Hubertus Katholisch, Heddinghausen, Westfalen, Preussen, daughter of Johann Lothiesen and Louise Boeck. She was born April 05, 1807, and died June 19, 1888 in Comfort, Kendall County, Texas.

Notes for Gerhard Caspar Diderich Schladoer:

From the book "Kerr County Album"

Christiane Schladoer was the daughter of Mrs. Christiane Belthauer Schladoer of Prussia, who had arrived at Indianola in 1855 only to find her husband (DIDERICH SCHLADOER)had disappeared on his trip from Comfort to meet his family. Searches were immediately made, but no trace was ever found of Mr. Schladoer or his valet.

NOTE: Some sources show spelling of first name as Diedrich.

More About Gerhard Caspar Diderich Schladoer:

Burial: Unknown Location

Emigration Ship: Oceanus

Port of Arrival: October 24, 1852, Galveston, Texas

Port of Departure: August 22, 1852, Bremen, Germany

Religion: Protestant

Notes for Christiana Lothiesen:

In the 1860 Kerr County census, the following is shown:

Precinct Number 2, dwelling #40

Constant Haeiter, Aged 40, Male, Farmer, Duckd. Lax-Gotha

CHRISTIANE SCHLADOR, Aged 45, Female, Prussia

Robert Schlador, Aged 18, Male, Prussia

Emma Schlador, Aged 13, Female, Prussia

Edmund Holland, Aged 26, Male, Duckd. Lax-Gotha

More About Christiana Lothiesen:

Baptism: April 15, 1807, Sankt Hubertus Katholisch, Heddinghausen

Burial: Comfort City Cemetary, Comfort, Kendall County, Texas

Census: 1860, Precinct 2, Dwelling 40, Kerr County, Texas

Obituary?: None

Port of Arrival: 1855, Indianola, Texas

Marriage Notes for Gerhard Schladoer and Christiana Lothiesen:

Diederich Schladoer's age at marriage was 22 years, 9 months & 9 days.

Christiana Lothiesen's age at marriage was 30 years, 7 months & 27 days.

More About Gerhard Schladoer and Christiana Lothiesen:

Marriage: December 02, 1837, Sankt Hubertus Katholisch, Heddinghausen, Westfalen, Preussen

Children of Gerhard Schladoer and Christiana Lothiesen are:

4 i. Friderica Catharina Sophia³ Schladoer, born December 16, 1838 in Germany; died Unknown in Germany.

Notes for Friderica Catharina Sophia Schladoer:

LDS Family Search Information

Source Information:

Batch No.: Dates: Source Call No.: Type: Printout Call No.: Type:

C976351 1807 - 1841 0948271 Film NONE

Lists her name as FRIEDERICA CATHARINA SOPHIA BERTA LOUISE EMILIE <SCHLADOER>

More About Friderica Catharina Sophia Schladoer:

Burial: Germany

Christening: January 01, 1839, Sankt Hubertus Katholisch, Heddinghausen, Westfalen, Preussen

5 ii. Johann Carl Schladoer, born November 10, 1840 in Germany; died Unknown in Germany.

More About Johann Carl Schladoer:

Burial: Germany

Christening: November 22, 1840, Sankt Hubertus Katholisch, Heddinghausen, Westfalen, Preussen

+ 6 iii. Robert Johann Christian Schladoer, born March 27, 1843 in Fuerstentum Waldeck, Germany; died January 09, 1929 in Comfort, Kendall County, Texas.

7 iv. Christiana Carolina Amalia Theresia Schladoer, born April 05, 1844 in Udorf, Fuerstenthum, Waldeck, Germany; died January 13, 1917 in Comfort, Kendall County, Texas. She married Louis Mathias Strohacker October 07, 1860 in Comfort, Kendall County, Texas; born July 07, 1833 in Weisach, Wuertenberg, Germany; died March 06, 1927 in Comfort, Kendall County, Texas.

Notes for Christiana Carolina Amalia Theresia Schladoer:

From the book "Kerr County Album"

Christiane Schladoer was the daughter of Mrs. Christiane Belthauer* Schladoer of Prussia, who had arrived at Indianola in 1855 only to find her husband had disappeared on his trip from Comfort to meet his family. Searches were immediately made, but no trace was ever found of Mr. Schladoer or his valet.

*This source cites the maiden name of Christiane's mother as Belthauer, but her gravestone states her maiden name was Lothiesen. All other records agree that Lothiesen was, in fact, her maiden name.

MRS. LOUIS STROHACKER

Mrs. Christiane Schladoer Strohacker, wife of Louis Strohacker of Comfort, a woman widely related throughout this community and respected and beloved by a multitude of friends, died Saturday, January 13, at 5:30 A. M. at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Hubert Heinen, where she had been removed from her own home several weeks ago in order to insure for her the greatest attention during an attack of grip from which she was suffering.

On the day preceding her death Mrs. Strohacker's condition showed marked improvement, and it was thought that her recovery was assured, but on Friday night a chronic weakness of the heart caused a collapse from which she could not be revived, and she sank quietly into her final sleep. All the members of her family excepting one daughter, who lives in El Paso, had been with her that day.

The funeral was held from the Hubert Heinen home Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock, and the interment took place in the Comfort cemetery. In spite of the very unpleasant weather which prevailed, a large number of friends and relatives assembled at the cemetery for the last tribute of respect and affection to the decedent, among them being persons from our neighboring communities and San Antonio. The pall bearers were: Ernst Schwethelm of Kerrville, Otto Wiedenfeld, Otto Flach, Sr., Walter Brinkmann, A. S. Faltin and Otto Holekamp.

The services at the grave consisted of two finely rendered songs by the Comfort Liedertafel and an eloquent obituary article composed and read by Wm. Wiedenfeld. At the close of the second song the casket was consigned to earth. A number of very beautiful floral offerings covered the grave.

The story of Mrs. Strohacker's life, like those of most of the pioneer women of this part of Texas, is one replete with the usual hardships and privations-all bravely borne-which were the common lot of all who took part in the early struggle which wrested this portion of Texas from marauding Indians, and converted in into the fine and flourishing country it is today.

Indeed, some of the circumstances of Mrs. Strohacker's early life were of a more trying kind than those which fell to the average pioneer family of that period. Born in Udorf in Fuerstenthum, Waldeck, Germany, April 5, 1844, she came of a good family named Schladoer. In June, 1853, she was brought to America by her mother, who with a family of four children left Germany in that year to join her husband who had come to Texas a couple of years before.

When the mother and her little ones landed at Galveston, where she expected to meet her husband, no trace of him could be found, and it was finally assumed that he had been killed for the money which he was known to have carried on his person.

The slender funds which Mrs. Schladoer had brought with her soon became the spoils of designing persons, and the family finding itself without money, made its way with much hardship to Comfort where F. H. Schladoer, a brother of the missing man, gave them a home, but one without any of the comforts they had known in the old country.

In 1860 Christiane Schladoer was married to Louis Strohacker of Comfort and lived happily with him until her death-a period of more than 56 years. This couple celebrated their golden wedding anniversary on October 12, 1910. There were four children born of their marriage. They are Mrs. Ernst Stieler and Mrs. Hubert Heinin of Comfort, Mrs. Theo. Saur of El Paso and Oscar Strohacker of Kerrville. All these children and her husband survive the decedent. She leaves also one brother, Robert Schladoer, of this community. Her grandchildren are ten in number and there are three great-grandchildren.

From "The Comfort News"

Friday, January 19th, 1917

In the 1860 Kerr County census, enumerated on June 11, 1860, Christiana is shown as being a servant in the house of F. H. and Franziska Schlador. Her mother, brothers and sister lived next door in dwelling #40.

More About Christiana Carolina Amalia Theresia Schladoer:

Burial: January 14, 1917, Comfort City Cemetery, Comfort, Kendall County, Texas

Cause of Death: "La Grippe" combined with "chronic weakness of the heart"

Census: 1860, Precinct 2, Dwelling 30, Kerr County, Texas

Christening: April 28, 1844, Sankt Hubertus Katholisch, Heddinghausen, Westfalen, Preussen

Notes for Louis Mathias Strohacker:

From The Comfort News, Thursday, March 10, 1927

LOUIS STROHACKER PASSES AWAY

On Sunday afternoon at 1 o'clock Louis Strohacker, pioneer of this section, passed away at the ripe age of 94 years. He had been in failing health for some time and his death was not unexpected. He was laid to rest in the Comfort cemetery Monday afternoon amidst a large gathering of friends and relatives, many of them coming from other communities to pay their last respects to the remains of their friend. At the grave, R. M. Flach read a eulogy of the departed, extolling the many fine qualities and self-sacrificing spirit of the man. The Comfort Liedertafel, of which the deceased was a founder, and honorary member, rendered two beautiful numbers. Louis, Henry, Edgar and Albert Stieler, Oscar Roggenbucke and Theo. Strohacker were the pall bearers. The honorary pallbearers were Julius, George and Dan. Holekamp, Herman Stieler, Chas. Arhelger, Chas. Roggenbucke, Richard Doebbler, T. O. Codrington, Otto Wiedenfeld, Fred. Allerkamp, Paul Karger, all of Comfort, Gus. Langvein, Sr., of Sisterdale, Chas. Bergmann, Sr. of Boerne, and Fritz Karger of Kerrville.

Louis Strohacker was born in Weisach, Wuertenberg, Germany, on the 7th. day of July, 1833. In 1853 he came to America and lived at Baltimore for two years. In 1855 he enlisted in the United States Army, 2nd. Cavalry, Co. D. In the fall of that year he came to Texas to do border duty. During his term of service he was in many skirmishes with Indians, on one such occasion in 1858, receiving a wound in his ankle. During the time that he was with the Army in Texas he was stationed at many different Forts. He often told of his many and varied experiences during these frontier times, and if they were recorded in chronological order they would be very interesting reading indeed. Let it be said here that through all those trying times when residents of Texas suffered many privations, this man never lost his courage or cheerfulness, but by his bravery and indomitable will he surmounted the obstacles and lived to a ripe and happy old age.

He received his discharge from the Army in May 1860, and in October of the same year he was married to Miss Christiane Schladoer. This couple was blessed with five children, one of whom, a son, died while quite small. Those surviving are Oscar Strohacker of Kerrville, Mrs. Theo. Sauer of El Paso, Mrs. Ernst Stieler and Mrs. Hubert Heinen of Comfort. One half-brother, Conrad Strohacker, lives at Comfort and a half-sister in Pennsylvania.

Mrs. Strohacker passed away in 1917, but five years before that, on October 10, 1910, this couple celebrated their golden wedding anniversary, all their children present.

We are not often granted the privilege of recording the life of a man who has had such wide and useful life and our only wish that we could do more justice to the life history.

More About Louis Mathias Strohacker:

Burial: March 07, 1927, Comfort City Cemetery, Comfort, Kendall County, Texas

Emigration: 1853, Baltimore, Maryland

Military service: 1855, United States Army, 2nd Cavalry, Co. D

Marriage Notes for Christiana Schladoer and Louis Strohacker:

Golden Wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Strohacker, The Comfort News, Comfort, Texas October 14, 1910

Golden Wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Strohacker

Saturday, October 8th, was the fiftieth anniversary of the wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Strohacker.

No announcement of this interesting occasion was made public and no formal celebration was attempted by Mr. and Mrs. Strohacker, but a number of their relatives and friends who were aware of the anniversary were present at the Strohacker home Saturday afternoon to extend congratulations and to wish continued health and happiness to the bride and groom of fifty years ago.

Refreshments were served and a jolly afternoon was passed, and in the afternoon, Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Heinen gave a dinner in honor of the occasion. This was attended by all of the family with the exception of Mrs. Theo. Saur and Mrs. Oscar Strohacker who were unable to be present. Messrs. Henry Stieler and Oscar Roggenbucke of San Antonio were among those present.

The evening was spent most delightfully, and none of those present was any livelier than were Mr. and Mrs. Strohacker themselves. Fifty years of married life has left them very young, and the good wishes of their friends for many happy returns of this anniversary are likely to be fulfilled. They were the recipients of a number of presents to mark the occasion.

More About Louis Strohacker and Christiana Schladoer:

Marriage: October 07, 1860, Comfort, Kendall County, Texas

Officiant: Theodore Weidenfeld, J.P.

8 v. Emilie Rudolphine Schladoer, born July 11, 1846; died April 11, 1880. She married Karl Heinrich Bergmann May 26, 1867 in Kendall County, Texas; born September 29, 1845 in Ebersbach, Koenigreich, Sachen, Saxony Germany; died November 21, 1938 in Boerne, Kendall County, Texas.

More About Emilie Rudolphine Schladoer:

Burial: Comfort City Cemetery, Comfort, Kendall County, Texas

Census: 1860, Precinct 2, Dwelling 40, Kerr County, Texas

Christening: July 26, 1846, Sankt Hubertus Katholisch, Heddinghausen, Westfalen, Preussen

More About Karl Heinrich Bergmann:

Obituary?: No

More About Karl Bergmann and Emilie Schladoer:

Marriage: May 26, 1867, Kendall County, Texas

Marriage license: Number 57

Officiant: Otto Brinkmann, Justice of the Peace

Witness 1: Louis Strohacker

Witness 2: C. Haerter

9 vi. Johanna Gertrud Schladoer, born September 03, 1851; died Unknown.

More About Johanna Gertrud Schladoer:

Christening: September 14, 1851, Sankt Hubertus Katholisch, Heddinghausen, Westfalen, Preussen

3. Friederich Henrich² Schlador (Friederich¹ Schladoer) was born 1827 in Germany, and died Unknown. He married Franciska Wiedenfeld Unknown, daughter of Wilhelm Wiedenfeld and Johanna Giesecke. She was born 1834 in Germany, and died July 01, 1920 in Los Angeles County, California.

Notes for Friederich Henrich Schlador:

CHRONOLOGY

1845 F. H. Schladoer from Iserlohn to Kendall County, ship "Washington"

Source: A "New Land Beckoned" by Geue, page 136

1852 " They made their home near Neu Braunfels until 1852..."

Source: "A Hundred Years of Comfort In Texas" by Ranslaben, page 15

1852 Settlers List of Comfort - F. Heinrich Schladoer & Family

Source: "A Hundred Years of Comfort in Texas" by Ranslaben, page 23

1862 Muster Roll of the Militia, recorded in the Comfort Precinct #2 Feb. 19, 1862

F. H. Schladoer, age 45, weapon rifle.

Source: "A Hundred Years of Comfort in Texas" by Ranslaben, page 23

1867 "Mr. Schmidtke...secured employment in F. H. Schladoer's mill. This was in 1867.

Schladoer owned a grist mill and a sawmill..."

Source: "Pioneer History of Bandera County" by Hunter, page 56

More About Friederich Henrich Schlador:

Census 1: 1860, Precinct 2, Dwelling 30, Kerr County, Texas

Census 2: 1880, Marion County, Oregon

Emigration: November 25, 1845, Galveston, Texas

Emigration Ship: Washington

Land Grant: McCulloch County, Texas

Occupation: 1880, Hotel Keeper

Port of Departure: Iserlohn, Antwerp

Property: 1852, Comfort, Kendall County, Texas

Notes for Franciska Wiedenfeld:

Mrs. Schladoer was the former Franziska Wiedenfeld, sister of Theodore and the daughter of Carl William Wiedenfeld and his wife, nee Henrietta Giesecke. In the passenger list of the ship Johann Dethard, mastered by Capt. Luedering, are included the family of Carl Wilhelm Weidenfeld, aged 54, occupation farmer; Mrs. Wiedenfeld, nee Henrietta Giesecke, aged 45, occupation housewife; Theodore Wiedenfeld, aged 20, occupation farmer; and Franziska Wiedenfeld, aged 12, daughter. Landing was made at Indianola on June 24, 1845.

Resting at lndianola after an almost three-month voyage, Mr. Wiedenfeld and his family left in company with other families for Neu Braunfels, 170 miles inland. Arriving there he immediately set to the task of building a home for his family after which he started a new career: ranching and cattle-trading. It will be noted in his declaration that Mr. Wiedenfeld, listed his occupation as that of farmer; however, he actually conducted an inn in Germany and had had no agricultural experience whatsoever. Mr. Wiedenfeld and his family evidently proved themselves equal to the self-chosen task of their new venture; even during their first few years of residence at Neu Braunfels they were gaining knowledge and progressing as satisfactorily as could be expected.

As in many other instances, unmarried young women being at a premium, it was not unusual for daughter Franziska to embark on the sea of matrimony in her early teens, becoming the bride of F. Heinrich Schladoer. They made their home near Neu Braunfels until 1852 when they were joined by Theodore who had also left the stages of bachelorhood the year before and migrated to the region near Comfort where Mr. Schladoer had purchased a tract of land situated west of the area later to be developed as a townsite.

Source: "A Hundred Years of Comfort In Texas" by Guido Ranslaben.

From the Los Angeles Times, July 3, 1920

SCHLADOR. Frances H. Schlador of 2119 East Fourth Street, aged 88 years, beloved mother of William Schlador. Funeral from Vesper & Ham's Chapel, 198? East First, Saturday, July 3 at 1:30 p.m.

More About Franciska Wiedenfeld:

Burial: July 03, 1920

Census: 1860, Precinct 2, Dwelling 30, Kerr County, Texas

Emigration Ship: Johann Dethard

Port of Arrival: June 24, 1845, Indianola, Calhoun County, Texas

More About Friederich Schlador and Franciska Wiedenfeld:

Marriage: Unknown

Children of Friederich Schlador and Franciska Wiedenfeld are:

10 i. Ida³ Schlador, born 1850 in New Braunfels, Comal County, Texas; died 1925. She married Johann P. Heinen October 21, 1868 in Bandera, Bandera County, Texas; born 1847; died 1922.

More About Ida Schlador:

Census: 1860, Precinct 2, Dwelling 30, Kerr County, Texas

More About Johann P. Heinen:

Obituary?: No

More About Johann Heinen and Ida Schlador:

Marriage: October 21, 1868, Bandera, Bandera County, Texas

+ 11 ii. William Schlador, born May 17, 1853 in Comfort, Texas; died Unknown.

+ 12 iii. Samuel Schlador, born March 26, 1855 in Texas; died October 27, 1949 in Los Angeles County, California.

+ 13 iv. Theodore Schlador, born April 16, 1857 in Texas; died February 17, 1892 in Silverton, Marion County, Oregon.

+ 14 v. Magdalena Schlador, born 1863; died August 04, 1892 in Los Angeles, California.

Generation No. 3

6. Robert Johann Christian³ Schladoer (Gerhard Caspar Diderich², Friederich¹) was born March 27, 1843 in Fuerstentum Waldeck, Germany, and died January 09, 1929 in Comfort, Kendall County, Texas. He married Carolina Mohrhoff May 22, 1866 in Kendall County, Texas, daughter of Henry Mohrhoff. She was born February 16, 1846, and died April 22, 1905.

Notes for Robert Johann Christian Schladoer:

CIVIL WAR VETERAN LAID TO REST

Robert Schladoer, aged 86 years, who died at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Meckel last Wednesday morning was laid to rest in the Comfort cemetery, the funeral being held Thursday morning at ten o'clock. Robert C. Herbst read the obituary ritual of the Order of Herman Sons of which the deceased was an honorary member, and made an obituary address at the grave. The Comfort Liedertafel sang two songs. The pallbearers, all grandsons of the deceased were Joe Grollimund, Henry Meckel, Henry, Herbert Edwin and Ernst Schladoer. Members of the Order of Herman Sons acted as honorary pallbearers. The funeral was a large one and the flowers were lovely. Among those from out-of-town who attended the funeral were Mr. and Mrs. G. Doehne, Mrs. Sadie Grounds, Thos Spenrath, Louis Pfeiffer, Emil Grollimund and Edwin Schladoer of San Antonio; Mr. and Mrs. Herm. Stieler, Mrs. Egon Hoeke and son, and Willie Hoeke of New Braunfels; Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Bergmann, Mr. and Mrs. Otto Bergmann, Mr. and Mrs. Willie Agold, Mrs. Emily Potschernick and Wm. Bergmann of Boerne, Oscar Strohacker and August Al...(this part of article cut off)

...was born at Fuerstentum Waldeck, Germany on March 27, 1843. In 1853 he came to America with his mother and her other children and they settled near Comfort*. Here he grew to manhood, working earnestly and enduring many hardships in company with the other early settlers of this section. For a time he was in the Confederate Army, then he fled to Mexico and later enlisted in the Union Army, serving in the First Texas Cavalry. On May 22, 1865 he was married to Miss Lina Morhoff and eight children were born to this couple. Three of these, one boy and two girls died at an early age, and Mrs. Schladoer passed away in 1905. He is survived by four sons, Chas. and George of Comfort, Richard of Bandera and Albert of San Antonio, and one daughter, Mrs. Emil Grollimund, of Comfort. There are also fifteen grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren.

Mr. Schladoer was one of those sturdy settlers who, half a century or more ago, cleared the wilderness, that the following generation might enjoy peace and tranquility. The whole community owes a debt of gratitude to such men as Mr. Schladoer, that can best be paid by emulating his example of industry and thrift.

From "The Comfort News"

Thursday, January 17, 1929

*COMFORT, TEXAS. Comfort, the second largest town in Kendall County, is located at the junction of State Highway 27, U.S. Highway 87, and Interstate Highway 10, sixteen miles northwest of Boerne on the county's western edge. The town was laid out near the site of an Indian village in 1854 by Ernst Hermann Altgelt,qv though its history goes back to a group of Germans from New Braunfels that settled in 1852 along the banks of the Cypress Creek above its confluence with the Guadalupe River. Freemasons, freethinkers, and political activists, middle-class German families, and liberals from Bettina and Sisterdale settled the area. Townsmen organized the community along cooperative lines and steadfastly opposed formal local government. Comfort opened a school shortly after its founding, but not until 1892 was a church built. The town was a center of Union sentiment during the Civil Warqv and lost many young men at the battle of the Nuecesqv in 1862. A monument on a hillside across from the high school campus honors these dead. From 1856 until Kendall County was organized in 1862, Comfort competed with Kerrville to become the county seat of Kerr County; Kerrville won.

Early agriculture and commerce in the area depended on sheep and goats, grains, lime burning (see LIMEKILNS), masonry, building rock, lumber, and shingles. In the 1940s and 1950s, when the Hill Countryqv was an international wool and mohair center, Adolf Stieler of Comfort reigned as "Angora Goat King of the World." In the 1980s agribusiness continued to dominate the local economy, but hunting, fishing, sightseeing, and youth camps drew increasing numbers of tourists.

Much of the original townsite is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Significant architectural sites include Bolshevik Hall, Turner Hall, a theater, and numerous half-timber and Victorian structures that survived a disastrous flood in 1978. A tradition of secular funerals was still widely observed in the twentieth century, and German turner (see TURNVEREIN MOVEMENT) activities and modern Volksmarsch celebrations continued. A local museum, volunteer and mutual aid organizations, and service and literary clubs provided informal governance. The population of the unincorporated town was over 1,400 in 1980, when the post office, established in 1856, still existed. In 1990 the population was 1,477.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Guido E. Ransleben, A Hundred Years of Comfort in Texas (San Antonio: Naylor, 1954; rev. ed. 1974). Vertical Files, Barker Texas History Center, University of Texas at Austin.

Glen E. Lich

More About Robert Johann Christian Schladoer:

Burial: January 10, 1929, Comfort City Cemetary, Comfort, Texas

Census: 1860, Precinct 2, Dwelling 40, Kerr County, Texas

Military service 1: 6th Field Battery, Texas Light Artillery, CSA

Military service 2: Pvt. 1 TX Cav. - Union Army - Civil War

More About Carolina Mohrhoff:

Burial: Comfort City Cemetary, Comfort, Texas

Obituary?: No

More About Robert Schladoer and Carolina Mohrhoff:

Marriage: May 22, 1866, Kendall County, Texas

Marriage license: Number 40

Officiant: Louis Strohacker, Justice of the Peace

Witness 1: Carl Herbst

Witness 2: F. Spenrath

Children of Robert Schladoer and Carolina Mohrhoff are:

+ 15 i. Charles⁴ Schladoer, born February 20, 1867 in Comfort, Kendall County, Texas; died December 18, 1952 in Comfort, Kendall County, Texas.

16 ii. Auguste Schladoer, born October 15, 1868 in Comfort, Kendall County, Texas; died August 12, 1942 in Comfort, Kendall County, Texas. She married Emil Grollimund August 05, 1888 in Kerr County Marriage Records, Book "B"; born September 02, 1862; died March 01, 1946.

Notes for Auguste Schladoer:

MRS. AUGUSTE GROLLIMUND LAID TO REST

Mrs. Auguste Grollimund, a life-long and respected citizen of Comfort passed away at her home last Wednesday morning after a long and painful illness. Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon at the Schaetter & Lindner Funeral home with interment in the Comfort Cemetery. The Mixed Choir sang a selection at the Funeral Home and another at the cemetery. At the grave, Robert C. Herbst read an obituary in which he paid tribute to the fine qualities of the deceased. The pallbearers, all nephews of Mrs. Grollimund, were Louie Pfeiffer, Ivan Schladoer, Walter Nuernberger, Ernst Schladoer, Henry Schladoer and Ben Schladoer. The funeral was a large one and the many lovely flowers werw a tribute to the affection felt for this good woman.

Mrs. Grollimund was born at Comfort on October 15, 1869, daughter of the pioneer settlers Robert and Lina Schladoer. She grew up here, attended the Comfort school and on August 6, 1889, married Emil Grollimund, the surviving husband. The lived on a farm on Cypress Creek* for some time and later moved to a farm on the Bend of the Guadalupe river. For a number of years, Mrs. Grollimund had lived in her own home just across Cypress Creek at the edge of Comfort.

Four children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Grollimund, all of whom are living. They are Mrs. Sadie Grounds, Arthur Grollimund of Hondo, Joe Grollimund of Camp Wood and Emil Grollimund, Jr. of San Antonio. Other survivors are five grandchildren, three great grandchildren and three brothers, Chas. Schladoer of Comfort, Richard Schladoer of Bandera and Albert Schladoer of San Antonio.

Mrs. Grollimund was preceded in death by her parents, and one brother, George Schladoer of Comfort.

Mrs. Grollimund was a woman of many fine qualities and The News joins her many friends in extending sympathy to the bereaved family.

From "The Comfort News"

August 20, 1942

*CYPRESS CREEK, TEXAS. The Cypress Creek community, also known as Cypressville, is ten miles southeast of Kerrville in eastern Kerr County. It was named after a tributary of the Guadalupe River and comprises some fifty farms and ranches along about thirty miles of secondary and tertiary roads between Comfort and Kerrville. One of the first settlements in what is today Kerr County, the picturesque, originally German-speaking community has been the subject of numerous paintings and many historical, literary, and linguistic studies, as well as an archeological study that suggests that the well-watered valley has been inhabited for nearly 10,000 years. The first two German families, Wiedenfeld and SCHLADOER, arrived in 1852. The pattern in which other families and individuals-Saur, Boerner, Steves, Lich, Hoerner, Zink, Lindner, Voigt, Nagel, Nuernberger, Allerkamp, Schellhase, Holekamp, Karger, Mohrhoff, Reeh, and others-followed typifies an extended process of cluster migration, dispersal, and settlement. Linked by kinship, friendship, and politics and bolstered by Reconstruction-era prosperity, a high birth rate, and unusually low infant mortality, the population grew to over 150 within thirty years. Many came from New Braunfels, Sisterdale, Bettina, and Kerrville, but some came directly from Europe. There were also English, Anglo-American, and Hispanic settlers. Plans to organize a township never materialized; however, a cemetery, shooting club, militia, and school-but no churches-were established early in the history of this liberal, freethinking community. A sawmill-gristmill named Perseverence Mill, constructed by Ernst Altgeltqv in 1855, served both the Cypress Creek community and the adjacent town of Comfort. A women's literary club maintained an active membership for over a hundred years. Droughtsqv of the 1950s and declining agricultural productivity in the 1960s lowered the population to about a hundred. The community grew again in the late 1960s with the completion of Interstate Highway 10, which put San Antonio within commuting distance. The population of the community was estimated at 200 in 1988. Historical markers located on the Sturdy Oak Farm commemorate the cemetery and a nexus of prehistoric sites. German place names abound in the community, including the colorful Hasenwinkel Creek, a small tributary. Among many historic homesteads, the most prominent is the Karger-Keidel ranchhouse (1860s and 1897), which German-Texan architect Albert Keidel inherited and extended between 1945 and 1950, thereby creating the prototype of Hill Countryqv German vernacular architectureqv later popularized in Fredericksburg, Austin, and San Antonio.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Francis Edward Abernethy, Built in Texas, Publications of the Texas Folklore Society 42 (Waco: E-Heart Press, 1979). Francis Edward Abernethy, ed., T for Texas: A State Full of Folklore, Publications of the Texas Folklore Society 44 (Dallas: E-Heart, 1982). Glen E. Lich, The German Texans (San Antonio: University of Texas Institute of Texan Cultures, 1981). Guido E. Ransleben, A Hundred Years of Comfort in Texas (San Antonio: Naylor, 1954; rev. ed. 1974). Vertical Files, Barker Texas History Center, University of Texas at Austin.

Glen E. Lich

More About Auguste Schladoer:

Burial: August 13, 1942, Comfort City Cemetery, Comfort, Kendall County, Texas

More About Emil Grollimund:

Burial: Comfort City Cemetery, Comfort, Kendall County, Texas

Obituary?: No

More About Emil Grollimund and Auguste Schladoer:

Marriage: August 05, 1888, Kerr County Marriage Records, Book "B"

Officiant: William Neunhoffer, J.P.

+ 17 iii. Richard Schladoer, born January 01, 1872 in Comfort, Kendall County, Texas; died May 12, 1943 in Bandera County, Texas.

+ 18 iv. George Schladoer, born September 18, 1877; died December 07, 1941.

+ 19 v. Albert Schladoer, born November 28, 1880 in Comfort, Kendall County, Texas; died December 12, 1945 in San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas.

20 vi. Infant Girl Schladoer, born Unknown; died Unknown.

21 vii. Infant Girl Schladoer, born Unknown; died Unknown.

22 viii. Infant Boy Schladoer, born Unknown; died Unknown.

11. William³ Schlador (Friederich Henrich², Friederich¹ Schladoer) was born May 17, 1853 in Comfort, Texas, and died Unknown. He married Grace Amelia Taylor December 04, 1879 in Bandera, Bandera County, Texas, daughter of John Taylor and Amelia Badger. She was born December 04, 1861 in Loda, Iroquois, Illinois, and died June 09, 1951 in San Bernardino County, California.

More About William Schlador:

Census 1: 1880, Bandera County, Texas

Census 2: 1860, Precinct 2, Dwelling 30, Kerr County, Texas

Occupation: 1880, Mail Carrier

More About Grace Amelia Taylor:

Census: 1880, Bandera County, Texas

Occupation: 1880, Housekeeper

More About William Schlador and Grace Taylor:

Marriage: December 04, 1879, Bandera, Bandera County, Texas

Children of William Schlador and Grace Taylor are:

23 i. Amelia E.⁴ Schlador, born November 20, 1880 in Bandera County, Texas; died October 07, 1965 in Riverside County, California. She married ? Madigan Unknown; born Unknown.

More About ? Madigan and Amelia Schlador:

Marriage: Unknown

+ 24 ii. Frederick Heinrich Schlador II, born September 22, 1882 in Bandera County, Texas; died January 03, 1959 in San Diego County, California.

25 iii. Arthur Raymond Schlador, born January 13, 1885 in Bandera County, Texas; died March 23, 1936 in Salem, Oregon.

More About Arthur Raymond Schlador:

Cause of Death: Heart Attack

Occupation: 1936, Granite Cutter

12. Samuel³ Schlador (Friederich Henrich², Friederich¹ Schladoer) was born March 26, 1855 in Texas, and died October 27, 1949 in Los Angeles County, California. He married Marie J. Trevino June 23, 1878 in Bandera, Bandera County, Texas. She was born 1861, and died Unknown.

More About Samuel Schlador:

Burial: California

Census 1: 1930, Moreno, Riverside County, California

Census 2: 1860, Precinct 2, Dwelling 30, Kerr County, Texas

Census 3: 1880, Bracketville, Kinney County, Texas

Land Grant 1: March 02, 1897, Riverside County, California

Land Grant 2: October 12, 1900, Riverside County, California

More About Marie J. Trevino:

Census: 1880, Bracketville, Kinney County, Texas

More About Samuel Schlador and Marie Trevino:

Marriage: June 23, 1878, Bandera, Bandera County, Texas

Children of Samuel Schlador and Marie Trevino are:

26 i. Henry⁴ Schlador, born Abt. 1879.

More About Henry Schlador:

Census: 1880, Bracketville, Kinney County, Texas

+ 27 ii. Elizabeth Schlador, born March 01, 1881 in Texas; died January 31, 1983 in Los Angeles County, California.

28 iii. Charles Schlador, born April 27, 1883; died May 15, 1981 in Contra Costa County, California.

29 iv. Samuel B. Schlador, born July 22, 1884; died June 07, 1978 in Los Angeles County, California.

+ 30 v. William Schlador II, born March 27, 1892 in California; died September 18, 1973 in Circle City Hospital, Corona, California.

31 vi. Harriett Marguerite Schlador, born August 18, 1894 in California; died July 21, 1991 in Los Angeles County, California. She married Arthur L. Armentrout May 27, 1921 in Colton, California; born August 06, 1897; died December 22, 1971.

More About Arthur L. Armentrout:

Obituary?: No

More About Arthur Armentrout and Harriett Schlador:

Marriage: May 27, 1921, Colton, California

32 vii. Mary Rose Schlador, born January 14, 1896; died January 09, 1992 in Riverside County, California. She married ? Shuster Unknown; born Unknown; died Unknown.

More About ? Shuster and Mary Schlador:

Marriage: Unknown

33 viii. Tomaso Schlador, born Abt. 1899; died March 27, 1918 in Los Angeles County, California.