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HUSBAND: Karl SOMMERLATTE
date and place of birth: 23 November 1835 in Wörlitz, Anhalt Dessau
date and place of marriage: 11 February 1859 in Frelsburg, Colorado County, Texas, USA
military service: Confederate Army
date and place of death: 1 July 1904 in New Ulm, Austin County, Texas
place of burial: New Ulm Cemetery; Austin County, Texas
father: Christoph August SOMMERLATTE
mother: Johanne Louise JETZSCHMANN
other marriages: n/a
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WIFE: Johanne Katharine STROHMEYER
date and place of birth: 10 January 1835 in Udenhausen, Hesse-Kassel
date and place of death: 12 July 1922 near Shiner, in Gonzales County, Texas
place of burial: Shiner City Cemetery; Shiner, Lavaca County, Texas
father: (unknown)
mother: (unknown)
other marriages: n/a
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CHILD 1: Friederike Catharine SOMMERATTE
sex: f
date and place of birth: 28 August 1862 in Frelsburg, Colorado County, Texas
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CHILD 2: Anna Maria SOMMERLATTE
sex: f
date and place of birth: 11 July 1864 in Frelsburg, Colorado County, Texas
married: Charles William GERLAND
date and place of marriage: 22 March 1883 in Washington County, Texas
date and place of death: 17 January 1935 in Deanville, Burleson County, Texas
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CHILD 3: Emilie Hermine SOMMERLATTE
sex: f
date and place of birth: 25 March 1866 in Frelsburg, Colorado County, Texas
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CHILD 4: Norma SOMMERLATTE
sex: f
date and place of birth: 9 July 1869 in Frelsburg, Colorado County, Texas
married: Friedrich Louis Alvin Daniel Herman WAGNER
date and place of marriage: 27 December 1887 in Colorado County, Texas
date and place of death:4 December 1956 in Pleasanton, Atascosa County, Texas
place of burial: Jourdanton, Atascosa County, Texas
other marriages:n/a
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CHILD 5: Friedrich Carl SOMMERLATTE
sex: m
date and place of birth: 15 June 1871 in Frelsburg, Colorado County, Texas
married: Johanna Charlotte STARK
date and place of marriage: 29 November 1892 in Colorado County, Texas
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other marriages: Alma POENITZSCH (12 May 1901 in Colorado County, Texas)
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CHILD 6: Natalie SOMMERLATTE
sex: f
date and place of birth: 9 October 1874 in Frelsburg, Colorado County, Texas
married:Friedrich W. (“Fritz”) RICHTER
date and place of marriage: 22 November 1892 in Colorado County, Texas
date and place of death: 28 January 1954 in Colorado County, Texas
place of burial: New Ulm, Austin County, Texas
other marriages:
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SOURCES:
Wörlitz Evangelische Kirche Records
Ethel Hander Geue, New Homes in A New Land, German Immigration to Texas 1847-1861, Texian Press, Waco, TX, 1970, pgs. 134, 137 (C. Sommelette & Catharina Strohmeier)
Trinity Lutheran Church Membership Records; Frelsburg, Colorado County, Texas
"Vergissmeinnicht", a little book of poems, etc., with pages to record dates of important family events, owned first by Katharine Strohmeyer Sommerlatte, then by Natalie Sommerlatte Wagner.
Application for Widow’s Pension, No. A-18684 (Katharine Sommerlatte)
Tombstone, New Ulm Cemetery, Austin County, Texas
Janet B. Hewett, Editor, The Roster of Confederate Soldiers 1861-1865, Volume XV, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1996 (Friedrich Sommerlatte)
Application for Mortuary Warrant (Katharine Sommerlatte, filed by F.C. Sommerlatte)
1860/1880/1900 U.S. Census Colorado County, Texas
1910 U.S. Census, Austin County, Texas
1920 U.S. Census, Milam County, Texas
Gonzales County, Texas, Death Records, Vol. 4, page 317
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COMMENTS:
Both Karl Sommerlatte & Katharine Strohmeier (or Strohmeyer) immigrated to Texas in 1857. They sailed on the same ship, but family tradition says that did not know each other until they reached Texas.
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