TX Family Groupsheet for Gottfried Conrad BLANKENSTEIN Family *********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.fgs-project.com/copyright.html *********************************************** Submitted by: Daniel Bode Email address: danielbode@prodgy.net Husband: Gottfried Conrad BLANKENSTEIN Birthdate: April 14, 1822 Birthplace: Barby, Germany Death date: October 6, 1900 Place of death: Waco, McLennan Co., Texas Father: Johann Carl August BLANKENSTEIN Mother: Catharine Marie WUSTOFF Marriage date: June 1, 1851 Marriage place: Barby, Germany Wife: Dorothea Sophia Friedericke HERBST Birthdate: January 15, 1826 Birthplace: Badeleben, Germany Death date: January 1881 Place of death: Marlin, Falls Co., Texas Father: Gottlieb Heinrich Christoph HERBST Mother: Anna Dorothea BEKUR CHILDREN Child No. 1: Johannes August Heinrich BLANKENSTEIN Sex: M Birthdate: March 14, 1852 Birthplace: Barby, Germany Death date: January 14, 1858 Place of death: Barby, Germany Marriage date: Marriage place: Spouse's name: Child No. 2: Louise Marie Emilie Ida BLANKENSTEIN Sex: F Birthdate: September 2, 1853 Birthplace: Barby, Germany Death date: March 9, 1881 Place of death: Marlin, Falls Co., Texas Marriage date: November 6, 1872 Marriage place: Defiance, Ohio Spouse's name: Carl "Charlie" FINK Child No. 3: Gottfried Friedrich August "Fred" BLANKENSTEIN Sex: M Birthdate: June 18, 1855 Birthplace: Barby, Germany Death date: March 22, 1921 Place of death: Gerald Community, McLennan Co., Texas Marriage date: December 14, 1882 Marriage place: Marlin, Falls Co., Texas Spouse's name: Marie Dorothea Elisabeth FRIEDRICHS Child No. 4: Marie Hermine Auguste BLANKENSTEIN Sex: F Birthdate: January 27, 1857 Birthplace: Barby, Germany Death date: January 23, 1858 Place of death: Barby, Germany Marriage date: Marriage place: Spouse's name: Child No. 5: Caroline Johanna Elisabeth "Lina" BLANKENSTEIN Sex: Birthdate: May 2, 1859 Birthplace: Barby, Germany Death date: January 23, 1941 Place of death: Waco, McLennan Co., Texas Marriage date: December 7, 1879 Marriage place: Waco, McLennan Co., Texas Spouse's name: Carl Richard SCHMALTZ Child No. 6: Paul Johannes BLANKENSTEIN Sex: M Birthdate: April 13, 1861 Birthplace: Barby, Germany Death date: July 8, 1862 Place of death: Barby, Germany Marriage date: Marriage place: Spouse's name: Child No. 7: Rosalie BLANKENSTEIN Sex: F Birthdate: April 29, 1863 Birthplace: Barby, Germany Death date: July 27, 1866 Place of death: Barby, Germany Marriage date: Marriage place: Spouse's name: Child No. 8: Marie "Mary" BLANKENSTEIN Sex: F Birthdate: April 9, 1865 Birthplace: Barby, Germany Death date: January 25, 1949 Place of death: Waco, McLennan Co., Texas Marriage date: February 14, 1884 Marriage place: Cleburne, Johnson Co., Texas Spouse's name: John BAADE Child No. 9: Ernest August BLANKENSTEIN Sex: M Birthdate: May 2, 1867 Birthplace: Barby, Germany Death date: March 23, 1937 Place of death: Temple, Bell Co., Texas Marriage date: July 17, 1884 Marriage place: Marlin, Falls Co., Texas Spouse's name: Myra Evelyn "Nannie" WEEKS Child No. 10: Johann BLANKENSTEIN Sex: M Birthdate: April 2, 1870 Birthplace: Barby, Germany Death date: About 1872 Place of death: Defiance, Ohio Marriage date: Marriage place: Spouse's name: Documentation: *Gottfried and Dorothea's daughter, Lina Schmaltz, was widowed in 1896. Lina's second marriage was to John Henry Schroeder on July 18, 1900, in Waco, Tx. Gottfried and Dorothea Blankenstein immigrated to the U.S. in 1870. They lived in Pennsylvania a short while before moving to Defiance, Ohio, where they lived until 1878. In that year, they moved to Texas, settling at Cleburne, in Johnson Co. Dorothea died of pneumonia in 1881 after she had traveled in a stagecoach from Cleburne to Marlin, Texas, to visit her ill daughter, Louise Fink. Gottfried C. Blankenstein died in Waco, Tx. in 1900 and was buried in the First Street Cemetery in Waco near Fort Fisher. Sources: Mrs. Alma Blankenstein Banik, Mrs. Marguerite Posey, Dianne Blankenstein, William Schmaltz, Roze Marie Forkel Edrington. Courthouse records of McLennan Co., Waco, Tx. Microfilm records of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Barby, Germany, obtained through the Mormon Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah.