She was born in Wittenberge, Prignitz, Brandenburg, Germany.
I have not been able to find her actual arrival into Texas, she did NOT come with the rest of her family. The rest of her family, parents and siblings and grandfather, arrived in Galveston, Texas on October 12, 1850 and went to Cat Springs in Austin County Texas to live.
Fredericka was married in Austin County, on December 24th, 1856 at the age of 17.
After marriage they lived in Serbin, which at that time was in Bastrop County, but later was transferred to Lee County.
By 1876 they had moved to Brenham where her husband first ran a general store and then founded a bank.
Shortly after the death of her husband, the family money was lost, so she left Brenham with two unmarried sons, living first in San Antonio in an apartment next to a married daughter, and then Saint Louis.
She did return to Brenham before her death.
The children that I know of are:
Charles A. 1857 -
Elisabeth Phillipine 1860-1906
Herman Otto 1864 -
Selma 1865 - 1935
Josephine Henrietta 1869 - 1955
Rosa 1871 - 1874
Lillian Lidia 1873 -
Infant 1876 - 1876
Bruno Edmund 1877 - 1880
Edgar Edmund 1880 -
Temple Daily Telegram (Temple, Tex.), vol. 9, no. 40, ed. 1, Sunday, 26 December 1915, page 2
Texas Woman Pioneer Dies
Brenham, Tex., Dec. 24 - The sad death of Mrs. Sophie Engelke occurred Wednesday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. W. E. Reichardt, in Brenham. With her passes away one of the pioneers of Texas, she having been a resident of this part of the state since 1847.
Deceased was born January 12, 1839 in the town of Wittenberg, in Saxony, Germany. She came to Texas with her parents in 1847, settling in Austin County, where she later married F. A. Engelke. They came to Brenham in 1870. Mr. Engelke died in 1890. Mr. Engelke organized and was the first president of the First National Bank of Brenham. Mrs. Engelke is survived by August Engelke of Pittsburg, PA; Otto and Edgar Engelke of Philadelphia; Mrs. Theodore Vinke of San Antonio, and Mesdames Arthur Wangemann and Wm. E. Reichardt of Brenham. Also one brother, August Heineke of Aransas Pass, and two sisters, Mrs. Charles Asbeck of Edna and Mrs. Mueller of Uvalde County.
Funeral services were held Thursday from the residence of Mrs. W. E. Reichardt, Rev. E. A. Sagebiel of the Brenham Lutheran Church officiating. The following gentlemen acted as pallbearers: honorary - B. Eldridge, H. F. Hohlt, D. C. Giddings, F. W. Schuerenberg, W. W. Searcy and A. H. Grug; active - Henry Mueller, William Lusk, August Lindermann, R. E. Pennington, Otto Baumgart and Robert Jahnke.
I have not been able to find her actual arrival into Texas, she did NOT come with the rest of her family. The rest of her family, parents and siblings and grandfather, arrived in Galveston, Texas on October 12, 1850 and went to Cat Springs in Austin County Texas to live.
Fredericka was married in Austin County, on December 24th, 1856 at the age of 17.
After marriage they lived in Serbin, which at that time was in Bastrop County, but later was transferred to Lee County.
By 1876 they had moved to Brenham where her husband first ran a general store and then founded a bank.
Shortly after the death of her husband, the family money was lost, so she left Brenham with two unmarried sons, living first in San Antonio in an apartment next to a married daughter, and then Saint Louis.
She did return to Brenham before her death.
The children that I know of are:
Charles A. 1857 -
Elisabeth Phillipine 1860-1906
Herman Otto 1864 -
Selma 1865 - 1935
Josephine Henrietta 1869 - 1955
Rosa 1871 - 1874
Lillian Lidia 1873 -
Infant 1876 - 1876
Bruno Edmund 1877 - 1880
Edgar Edmund 1880 -
Temple Daily Telegram (Temple, Tex.), vol. 9, no. 40, ed. 1, Sunday, 26 December 1915, page 2
Texas Woman Pioneer Dies
Brenham, Tex., Dec. 24 - The sad death of Mrs. Sophie Engelke occurred Wednesday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. W. E. Reichardt, in Brenham. With her passes away one of the pioneers of Texas, she having been a resident of this part of the state since 1847.
Deceased was born January 12, 1839 in the town of Wittenberg, in Saxony, Germany. She came to Texas with her parents in 1847, settling in Austin County, where she later married F. A. Engelke. They came to Brenham in 1870. Mr. Engelke died in 1890. Mr. Engelke organized and was the first president of the First National Bank of Brenham. Mrs. Engelke is survived by August Engelke of Pittsburg, PA; Otto and Edgar Engelke of Philadelphia; Mrs. Theodore Vinke of San Antonio, and Mesdames Arthur Wangemann and Wm. E. Reichardt of Brenham. Also one brother, August Heineke of Aransas Pass, and two sisters, Mrs. Charles Asbeck of Edna and Mrs. Mueller of Uvalde County.
Funeral services were held Thursday from the residence of Mrs. W. E. Reichardt, Rev. E. A. Sagebiel of the Brenham Lutheran Church officiating. The following gentlemen acted as pallbearers: honorary - B. Eldridge, H. F. Hohlt, D. C. Giddings, F. W. Schuerenberg, W. W. Searcy and A. H. Grug; active - Henry Mueller, William Lusk, August Lindermann, R. E. Pennington, Otto Baumgart and Robert Jahnke.
She was born in Wittenberge, Prignitz, Brandenburg, Germany.
I have not been able to find her actual arrival into Texas, she did NOT come with the rest of her family. The rest of her family, parents and siblings and grandfather, arrived in Galveston, Texas on October 12, 1850 and went to Cat Springs in Austin County Texas to live.
Fredericka was married in Austin County, on December 24th, 1856 at the age of 17.
After marriage they lived in Serbin, which at that time was in Bastrop County, but later was transferred to Lee County.
By 1876 they had moved to Brenham where her husband first ran a general store and then founded a bank.
Shortly after the death of her husband, the family money was lost, so she left Brenham with two unmarried sons, living first in San Antonio in an apartment next to a married daughter, and then Saint Louis.
She did return to Brenham before her death.
The children that I know of are:
Charles A. 1857 -
Elisabeth Phillipine 1860-1906
Herman Otto 1864 -
Selma 1865 - 1935
Josephine Henrietta 1869 - 1955
Rosa 1871 - 1874
Lillian Lidia 1873 -
Infant 1876 - 1876
Bruno Edmund 1877 - 1880
Edgar Edmund 1880 -
Temple Daily Telegram (Temple, Tex.), vol. 9, no. 40, ed. 1, Sunday, 26 December 1915, page 2
Texas Woman Pioneer Dies
Brenham, Tex., Dec. 24 - The sad death of Mrs. Sophie Engelke occurred Wednesday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. W. E. Reichardt, in Brenham. With her passes away one of the pioneers of Texas, she having been a resident of this part of the state since 1847.
Deceased was born January 12, 1839 in the town of Wittenberg, in Saxony, Germany. She came to Texas with her parents in 1847, settling in Austin County, where she later married F. A. Engelke. They came to Brenham in 1870. Mr. Engelke died in 1890. Mr. Engelke organized and was the first president of the First National Bank of Brenham. Mrs. Engelke is survived by August Engelke of Pittsburg, PA; Otto and Edgar Engelke of Philadelphia; Mrs. Theodore Vinke of San Antonio, and Mesdames Arthur Wangemann and Wm. E. Reichardt of Brenham. Also one brother, August Heineke of Aransas Pass, and two sisters, Mrs. Charles Asbeck of Edna and Mrs. Mueller of Uvalde County.
Funeral services were held Thursday from the residence of Mrs. W. E. Reichardt, Rev. E. A. Sagebiel of the Brenham Lutheran Church officiating. The following gentlemen acted as pallbearers: honorary - B. Eldridge, H. F. Hohlt, D. C. Giddings, F. W. Schuerenberg, W. W. Searcy and A. H. Grug; active - Henry Mueller, William Lusk, August Lindermann, R. E. Pennington, Otto Baumgart and Robert Jahnke.
I have not been able to find her actual arrival into Texas, she did NOT come with the rest of her family. The rest of her family, parents and siblings and grandfather, arrived in Galveston, Texas on October 12, 1850 and went to Cat Springs in Austin County Texas to live.
Fredericka was married in Austin County, on December 24th, 1856 at the age of 17.
After marriage they lived in Serbin, which at that time was in Bastrop County, but later was transferred to Lee County.
By 1876 they had moved to Brenham where her husband first ran a general store and then founded a bank.
Shortly after the death of her husband, the family money was lost, so she left Brenham with two unmarried sons, living first in San Antonio in an apartment next to a married daughter, and then Saint Louis.
She did return to Brenham before her death.
The children that I know of are:
Charles A. 1857 -
Elisabeth Phillipine 1860-1906
Herman Otto 1864 -
Selma 1865 - 1935
Josephine Henrietta 1869 - 1955
Rosa 1871 - 1874
Lillian Lidia 1873 -
Infant 1876 - 1876
Bruno Edmund 1877 - 1880
Edgar Edmund 1880 -
Temple Daily Telegram (Temple, Tex.), vol. 9, no. 40, ed. 1, Sunday, 26 December 1915, page 2
Texas Woman Pioneer Dies
Brenham, Tex., Dec. 24 - The sad death of Mrs. Sophie Engelke occurred Wednesday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. W. E. Reichardt, in Brenham. With her passes away one of the pioneers of Texas, she having been a resident of this part of the state since 1847.
Deceased was born January 12, 1839 in the town of Wittenberg, in Saxony, Germany. She came to Texas with her parents in 1847, settling in Austin County, where she later married F. A. Engelke. They came to Brenham in 1870. Mr. Engelke died in 1890. Mr. Engelke organized and was the first president of the First National Bank of Brenham. Mrs. Engelke is survived by August Engelke of Pittsburg, PA; Otto and Edgar Engelke of Philadelphia; Mrs. Theodore Vinke of San Antonio, and Mesdames Arthur Wangemann and Wm. E. Reichardt of Brenham. Also one brother, August Heineke of Aransas Pass, and two sisters, Mrs. Charles Asbeck of Edna and Mrs. Mueller of Uvalde County.
Funeral services were held Thursday from the residence of Mrs. W. E. Reichardt, Rev. E. A. Sagebiel of the Brenham Lutheran Church officiating. The following gentlemen acted as pallbearers: honorary - B. Eldridge, H. F. Hohlt, D. C. Giddings, F. W. Schuerenberg, W. W. Searcy and A. H. Grug; active - Henry Mueller, William Lusk, August Lindermann, R. E. Pennington, Otto Baumgart and Robert Jahnke.
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