The Schroeder family immigrated to the port of Galveston, Texas in 1879, settling briefly in the community of Shelby in Austin Co. before moving to the Round Top area in Fayette Co., where their son Adolph was confirmed in the Lutheran Church in 1882. In 1891 the family moved to Cheapside in Gonzales Co., TX. Heinrich Nicolaus Schroeder died at Cheapside on 22 Dec. 1891. His wife Johanna Charlotte Dorathea (Bode) Schroeder died at Cheapside on 5 Jan. 1902. Both are buried in Ruppert Cemetery in Cheapside.
The Schroeder family immigrated to the port of Galveston, Texas in 1879, settling briefly in the community of Shelby in Austin Co. before moving to the Round Top area in Fayette Co., where their son Adolph was confirmed in the Lutheran Church in 1882. In 1891 the family moved to Cheapside in Gonzales Co., TX. Heinrich Nicolaus Schroeder died at Cheapside on 22 Dec. 1891. His wife Johanna Charlotte Dorathea (Bode) Schroeder died at Cheapside on 5 Jan. 1902. Both are buried in Ruppert Cemetery in Cheapside.
Inscription
HIER RUHT
JOHANNA
CHARLOTTE
DORATHEA
SCHROEDER
GEB. IN
LUENEBURG
PROVINZ
HANNOVER
DEUTSCHLAND
26 OKT. 1834
GEST.
5 JAN. 1902.
RUHE SANFT
WIR HOFFEN DAS
DEIN SEELENFREUND
DER EWIG TREUE
HIRT, DER'S HIER
MIT DIR SO WOHL
GEMEINT, MICH SCHON
EMPFANGEN WIRD