Dorothea Dienger
Born in Bodenwerder
Hanover, Ger.
July 7, 1837
Died Sept 29, 1930
Karl Dienger
Born
in Hausen, Baden, Germany
Apr. 26, 1821
Died Apr. 27, 1899
Karl came to Texas with his two sisters, Kundingunda Bertha (married August Staffel) and Caroline. In 1856 he married Dorothea Boerner. For twenty years, Karl taught German and music in the Boerne School. He signed the 1859 petition to form Kendall County, was a founder of the Boerne Genangverein in 1860, and served in a company in the Third Frontier District in Kendall County during the Civil War. The couple had six children.
Karl Dienger was one of thirty-three inhabitants to purchase burial plots in the Boerne Cemetery in 1867.
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Boerne Cemetery (Boerne, Kendall County, Texas). Karl Dienger marker; personally read, November, 2020.
Gray, Edith A. Recollections of Boerne and Kendall County Family Histories. 1949.
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