Two years after arriving in Texas, Ludwig and Marie Margarethe Schütz’s daughter Theodore “Dora” was born on 24 July 1847 in New Braunfels. Her oldest brother, Carl, was 8 years old. At the age of nineteen, she married August Casper Pfannstiel on 31 March 1867. They had nine children: Emma, Alwina, Augusta, Thekla, Alwin, Ida, Otto, Ferdinand, and Elfrieda. Dora died in Guadalupe County, Texas on 13 March 1935. Her husband August preceded her in death on 30 September 1915. Dora and August are buried in the Marion Cemetery in Marion, Texas.
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