Caroline Ernst

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Caroline Ernst (born February 13, 1819 in Oldenburg , Grand Duchy of Oldenburg ; † May 12, 1902 in Lockhart , Texas , United States ) was one of the very first German settlers in Texas with her family in 1831 .

family

She was the daughter of the German immigrant Friedrich Ernst (1796–1848) from Oldenburg and Luise Weber (1800–1888).

At the age of 18 she married Ludwig von Roeder's first marriage on May 21, 1837 (born October 24, 1806 in Vörden , Westphalia , † July 19, 1840 in Cat Spring , Austin County , Texas), a soldier in the Texas Army and son of Immigrant Anton Ludwig Sigismund von Roeder (1774–1847) and Caroline Luise Sack (1782–1865). She had 3 children with him, but only one of them reached adulthood.

After the early death of her first husband, she married the second marriage on August 6, 1841 in Cat Spring (Austin County) his brother, the farmer Albrecht von Roeder (born July 31, 1811 in Vörden, Westphalia; † June 11, 1857 in Texas, USA, fallen in Cart War ), with whom she had 7 children.

After his death, Ernst finally married in his third marriage in February 1860 in Indianola ( Calhoun County , Texas) the immigrant Werner von Hinüber (1828-1887), a farmer in San Antonio and son of the royal Hanoverian judiciary Justus von Hinüber (1798-1842) and his first wife Mathilde von dem Bussche-Hünnefeld (1799-1870). This third marriage, in which two sons were born as twins, were divorced again in 1872.

Life

The Ernst family, parents with 5 children, emigrated from Le Havre ( France ) to the USA in 1829 , where they arrived in New York City at the end of the year and initially stayed there. Then they actually wanted to go to the state of Missouri , but considering the positive reports about the excellent settlement opportunities in Austin County, Texas, they preferred to move there and reached the Mill Creek area in Texas on March 9, 1831. They founded the first German settler family in Texas a settlement near San Felipe (Austin County) on the Brazos River , later named Industry (Texas) .

Caroline Ernst initially lived there in her new parents' house - a hut with a thatched roof , without windows or doors. From then on, father Ernst made his house available to many German immigrants as the first accommodation option and helped his compatriots wherever he could. So he was finally nicknamed " Father of the Immigrants ". Even Robert J. Kleberg and Albrecht von Roeder with their families were among its first guests.

In 1899, Caroline Ernst described the hospitality of her parents at the time and their simple living conditions in her chronicle " Life of German Pioneers in Early Texas ".

After her brief first marriage to Ludwig von Roeder, she and her second husband Albrecht von Roeder moved to the family of his brother-in-law Robert Justus Kleberg and other Roeder relatives in the " Latin Settlement " Meyersville in DeWitt County . After the death of her second husband, who died on the battlefield in 1857, she had to sell several hundred acres of land in order to be able to support herself and her then 9 children. In 1861, she finally married a third time.

After her divorce from her third husband Werner von Hinüber (1872), Caroline Ernst first lived with her younger children in Yoakum County ( spun off from Bexar County in 1876 ), later she and her daughter Rosa moved to Lockhart to live with one of their adult sons. Daughter Rosa probably had polio , was now disabled, and mother Caroline looked after her daughter all her life until she died in Lockhart in 1902.

Works

  • Life of German Pioneers in Early Texas . 1899.

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personal data
SURNAME Seriously, Caroline
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Roeder, Caroline von; Over, Caroline von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American farmer
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH Oldenburg , Lower Saxony
DATE OF DEATH May 12, 1902
Place of death Lockhart , Texas , USA