TX Family Groupsheet for Carl Richard SCHMALTZ Family Submitted by: Daniel Bode Email address: danielbode@prodgy.net *********************************************** Copyright by submitter. All rights reserved. http://www.fgs-project.com/copyright.html *********************************************** Husband: Carl Richard SCHMALTZ Birthdate: Dec. 29, 1846 Birthplace: Shemnitz, Germany Death date: May 31, 1896 Place of death: Cleburne, Johnson Co., Texas Father: Mother: Marriage date: Dec. 7, 1879 Marriage place: Waco, McLennan Co., Texas Wife: Caroline J E BLANKENSTEIN Name: Caroline Johanna Elisabeth "Lina" BLANKENSTEIN Birthdate: May 2, 1859 Birthplace: Barby, Germany Death date: January 23, 1941 Place of death: Waco, McLennan Co., Texas Father: Gottfried Conrad BLANKENSTEIN Mother: Dorothea Sophia Friedericke HERBST CHILDREN Child No. 1: Dora Louise SCHMALTZ Sex: F Birthdate: April 15, 1881 Birthplace: Cleburne, Johnson Co., Texas Death date: March 10, 1964 Place of death: Houston, Harris Co., Texas Marriage date: January 18, 1905 Marriage place: Waco, McLennan Co., Texas Spouse's name: William BRETSCHNEIDER Child No. 2: Carl Richard SCHMALTZ, Jr. Sex: M Birthdate: February 25, 1883 Birthplace: Cleburne, Johnson Co., Texas Death date: December 18, 1922 Place of death: Waco, McLennan Co., Texas Marriage date: February 25, 1909 Marriage place: McLennan Co., Texas Spouse's name: Dora ITSCHNER Child No. 3: Oscar Gottfried SCHMALTZ Sex: M Birthdate: January 25, 1885 Birthplace: Cleburne, Johnson Co., Texas Death date: April 21, 1971 Place of death: Leroy, McLennan Co., Texas Marriage date: October 25, 1911 Marriage place: McLennan Co., Texas Spouse's name: Johanna Justine MEINSCHER Child No. 4: Gertrude Lina SCHMALTZ Sex: F Birthdate: November 15, 1887 Birthplace: Cleburne, Johnson Co., Texas Death date: January 14, 1971 Place of death: Hillsboro, Hill Co., Texas Marriage date: Marriage place: Spouse's name: None Documentation: * After her husband's death in 1896, Lina moved her four children from Cleburne to Waco, Texas. Lina ran a boarding house in Waco. Lina married John Henry SCHROEDER on July 18, 1900, in Waco. Mr. Schroeder was born April 25, 1850, in Amsterdam, Holland, and he died Sept. 21, 1925, in Waco, Tx. Lina and her two husbands were originally buried in Cleburne, Texas, but Lina's daughter, Gertrude, later had the remains of all three Lina and her two husbands moved to the Oakwood Cemetery in Waco, Texas. Sources: Dianne Blankenstein, Roze Marie Forkel Edrington, Mildred Bretschneider Organ, and William Schmaltz.