Albrecht von Roeder
Franz Ferdinand Albrecht Ludwig von Roeder (born July 31, 1811 in Vörden , Westphalia , † June 11, 1857 in Five-Mile Coleto Creek , Texas , United States , killed in the Cart War ), was a German-American soldier in the Texas War of Independence and farmer in Texas and founder of the town of Cat Spring in Austin County .
family
He was the son of Anton Ludwig Sigismund von Roeder (1774-1847) and Caroline Luise Sack (1782-1865).
On August 6, 1841, Roeder married Caroline Ernst , the widow of his brother Ludwig, who had died the year before, in Catspring . With Albrecht von Roeder, Caroline had seven more children in addition to the three children from her first marriage.
Life
Roeder grew with its 15 siblings on the grounds of Abbey Marienmuenster on, a former Benedictine - Abbey at Hoxter in Westphalia. After attending school, he began studying law at the University of Göttingen on October 1, 1832 .
In the spring of 1834 he emigrated to Texas with his two brothers Joachim and Ludwig and his eldest sister Valeska in order to find a suitable settlement for his extended family; the other relatives wanted to follow later. Shortly after their arrival in the settlement of Stephen F. Austin in July 1834, near the later settlement of Catspring, they too became seriously ill with yellow fever , which was raging in the region that summer. Joachim and Valeska von Roeder died, but Albrecht and Ludwig survived after their brother Rudolph von Roeder and brother-in-law Robert Justus Kleberg joined them at the end of 1834 and were able to nurse them back to health.
November 3, served until December 13, 1835 Roeder in the Texas War of Independence as a private in Captain ( captain ) John York of the Republican Army of Texas and participated in the Battle of company Bexar (5 to 10 December 1835) and San Antonio in part . After the war Roeder returned to his new home county to live as a farmer and, after being allocated a large piece of land on March 29, 1838, founded the Catspring settlement . Roeder is said to have given this settlement its name - "Katzenquelle" - after one of his sons was killed by a wildcat .
Around 1847 Roeder moved with his wife and numerous children to his brother-in-law Robert Justus Kleberg and other Roeder relatives in the " Latin Settlement " Meyersville in DeWitt County . At the beginning of October 1848, Roeder and Kleberg and 40 other settlers under the leadership of Captain John York set out to fight the Lipan Indians , who opposed the land grabbing of the white people, on Escondido Creek near Yorktown west of the San Antonio River . Both survived, but most of the others died in battle - including John York.
Web links
- Biography in the Handbook of Texas
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| SURNAME | Roeder, Albrecht von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Roeder, Franz Ferdinand Albrecht Ludwig von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-American soldier and farmer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 31, 1811 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vörden , Westphalia |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 11, 1857 |
| Place of death | Five-Mile Coleto Creek , Texas |