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, …