Hier Ruhet Hier Ruhet
Marie Bauer Phillip Bauer
Geb. Den Geb. Den
20 Ten Aug. 1827 21Ten Juni 1820
Gest. Den Gest. Den
13 Ten Maerz 1905 5 Ten Jan 1902
77 yahr 7 monat 81 yahr 6 monat
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My second great-grandparents are buried in the Kreutzberg Cemetery which is located about six miles outside of Boerne and one mile from Kreutzberg, Texas.
Marie Peters traveled from Prussia to New Braunfels with her parents in the 1850s. I heard a story about Marie a number of years ago. She knew Philipp Bauer in Prussia. He must have lived in the same area as her family. Once she arrived in New Braunfels she wrote and told him to come to Texas. He took her advice and on 19 August 1855 they married in New Braunfels, Comal County, Texas. G. W. Eisenlohr a minister of the Gospel performed the ceremony.
Marie and Philipp had five children Bertha, Otto, Louise married Carl Wessley, Ernest married Rosa Bender, and Emma married Henry Schuetz.
She is buried in the Kreutzberg Cemetery in Kendall County. Her tombstone states,
Hier Rubet
Marie Bauer
Geb. Dien
20Ten Aug. 1827
Gest. Dien
13Ten Maerz 1905
77 yahr 7 monat
Comal County, Texas, marriage certificate No. 122 (1855), Bauer-Peters; Comal County Court House,New Braunfels.
In 1978 I found a voter registration receipt for my great-grandmother, Emma Bauer Schuetz. At the time, I made a copy for my files and then never really looked it again. As I was going through a folder today, I ran across the copy and read it and noticed the date was 5 July 1918. Whoa, I thought 1920 was the date women started voting. I immediately went to my go-to site about Texas, The Texas Handbook Online. I learned in March 1918 a bill was introduced that would allow women to vote in the Texas primaries. It passed in the House, the Senate and was signed by Governor William P. Hobby. Emma, a 50-year-old housewife from Kendalia, Texas and daughter of immigrant parents, stepped right up and registered to vote. She was in tune with her times. You go girl! The first Democratic primary was held on 26 July 1918. I wonder who she voted for…
Registration Receipt
State of Texas, County of Kendall No. 16
I, Emma Schuetz, of Kendall County, Texas, am 50 years of age; Color White, Race American Occupation Housewife
Residence no. Kendalia, Voting Precinct No. 3, P.O. Address Kendalia, Have lived at said place 9 years.
Signed Emma Schuetz
Sworn to and subscribed before me this day 5 day of July 1918
Joe Saunders, Tax Collector, Kendall County
I, Joe Saunders, Tax Collector aforesaid, hereby certify that the foregoing registrant personally signed and swore to the facts set out in the above receipt before me, showing her to be a qualified voter in primary election in said county, state and precinct for the year 1918.
Joe Saunders, Tax Collector, Kendall County
A. Elizabeth Taylor, “WOMAN SUFFRAGE,” Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/viw01), accessed March 05, 2014. Uploaded on August 31, 2010. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
“Emma Schuetz” Kendall County Texas Voter Registration Receipt. No. 16, 5 July 1918.
Henry and Emma Bauer Schuetz and son Alex
Henry is the son of Carl and Katharina Schuetz
Emma is the daughter of Philip and Marie Peters Bauer
Schuetz, Henry and Emma. Photograph of the original held by Jimmie Adam. Digital copy privately held by Kathryn Adam-Hurst. Boerne.
Lillie K. Willie E.
Sept. 8, 1895 Mar. 23, 1893
Mar. 16, 1975 July 10, 1955
Willie Eugene is the son of Julius and Ida Haufler Adam
Lillie Katherine is the daughter of Henry and Emma Bauer Schuetz
(Boerne, Kendall County, Texas). Willie E. and Lillie K. Adam marker; personally read 2011.
Philipp and Maria Peters Bauer
In 1859, Philipp Bauer petitioned the Comal County District Court to become a citizen of the United States. Henry Seele and John Schumacher provided affidavits saying that they had known him for the past five years and was a man of good moral character. He denounced all allegiance to the King of Prussia and was awarded a certificate of citizenship.
Philipp Bauer was born in Prussia on 21 June 1820 and married Maria Peters on 15 August 1855 in New Braunfels, Texas. G. W. Eisenlohr preformed the ceremony. A family story says he corresponded with Maria before he came to Texas. She lived in New Braunfels.
Philipp and Maria had five children: Bertha, Otto, Louise, Ernst, Emma.
Both are buried in the Kreutzberg Cemetery. Philipp died 5 January 1902 and Marie died 13 March 1905.
They are my great-great grandparents.
1864-1950
Emma Bauer Schuetz
1868-1927
My Great-Grandparents
Boerne Cemetery (Boerne, Kendall County, Texas). Henry and Emma Bauer Schuetz marker; personally read 2011.
