Leo Decker

Other Events:

• Occupation: 1900, Menard, TX, USA; Butcher

Leo married Mattie Crowell on 21 Jan 1903 in Menard, TX, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
Menard County RootsWeb site, Marriage Book 2
http://www.rootsweb.com/~txmenard/marry/marbk-2.htm

Groom: Decker, Leo
Bride: Crowell, Mattie
Marriage Date: January 21, 1903
Bk: 2
Pg: 96

Other Events:

• Occupation: Menard, TX, USA
• Possessions: 24 Jul 1872, Mason, TX, USA
• Possessions: 08 Jun 1881, Mason, TX, USA
• Possessions: 08 Jun 1881, McCulloch, TX, USA
• Possessions: 12 Jun 1882, Menard, TX, USA

Notes:

Jim Wheat's POSTMASTERS & POST OFFICES OF TEXAS, 1846 - 1930
Deeker, Ludwig (Menard)

Occupation:
Menard County RootsWeb site
Past Office Holders
http://www.rootsweb.com/~txmenard/govt/officials.htm

Continues Prec's 3 & 4 Tax Assessors and Justices of the Peace, Prec 1
Decker, L. J. -pg. 16

Buried:
Posted on Menard County RootsWeb site:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~txmenard/cem/cleo/pxcleoludkr.htm

Headstone Reads:
Ludwig J. Decker
Born: Sept. 22, 1836.
Died: June 29, 1898.
Aged: 62 Yrs, 9 Mos, 2 Days.

Ludwig married Wilhelmina Wartenbach. Wilhelmina (daughter of Wilhelm Wartenbach and Caroline) was born in Oct 1842 in Prussia, Germany; was buried in Cleo Highway Cemetery, Menard, Menard, TX, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

i. 1846 with father, mother, sibling
d. ?

(age 8) 1850 Census - Texas Gillespe Co, Fredericksburg


Buried:
Menard County RootsWeb website
http://www.rootsweb.com/~txmenard/cem/cleo/cemcleo.htm

Alicia Brown indicates on the above webpage:
"This cemetery is in sad disrepair. I walked it about 1998 and while a few headstones were still readable, there are MANY burials that are unmarked or the markers are unreadable. Another gentleman transcribed this cemetery in 1989 and stated there were around 79 unmarked graves and 3 illegible.

The difference between this 1989 transcript and my transcript 10 years later are:

1. Wilheminia (Wartenbach) Decker burial, location unknown. I found nothing to prove this. "

Notes:

Early 1900's Map of Downtown
Menardville, Menard, TX, USA
http://www.rootsweb.com/~txmenard/business/1900townmap.htm
#11. Decker Hotel
#12. Meat Market - Louie Decker

1904 Business Directory
Mrs. Louis Decker, groceries

Other Events:

• Immigration: 1846, Galveston, Galveston, TX, USA
• Possessions: 1847, Fredericksburg, Gillespie, TX, USA
• Naturalization: 29 Apr 1852, Gillespie, TX, USA
• Naturalization: 11 Oct 1854, Gillespie, TX, USA
• Possessions: 29 Sep 1873, Gillespie, TX, USA
• Possessions: 26 Mar 1875, Gillespie, TX, USA

Notes:

German Pioneers In Texas
Don H. Biggers
Library of Congress Card No 8 3-81231
Copyright@1983
by Fredericksburg Publishing Co., Inc.

Wartenbach - page 200

Possessions:
Gillespie County RootsWeb site:

1847 TOWN LOT OWNERS OF FREDERICKSBURG , TEXAS

Source: Pioneers in God's Hills Vol 1 pg 259-266
Copywrite@1960
Gillespie County Historical Society
Library of Congress Catalogue No. 83-082580

Name: +Wardenbach, Wilhelm (Wartenbach)
Lot: 542

Possessions:
GILLESPIE County Land Surveys

Survey: WILHELM WARTENBACH
Grantee: W. WARTENBACH
Section: 794
Abs: 723

Survey: WILHELM WARTENBACH
Grantee: W. WARTENBACH
Section: 374
Abs: 724

Wilhelm married Caroline. Caroline was born in 1817 in Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

b. ca 1817 Germany
i. 1846 w/ William and family

(age 33) 1850 Census - Texas Gillespie Co, Fredericksburg

Immigrated:
* JFM TODO Add Source:

http://www.rootsweb.com/~txgilles/s-jame.html

Ship James Edward
Captain Webster
September 17, 1846
Source: Pioneers in God's Hills Vol 1 pg 255
Copyright@1960
Gillespie County Historical Society
Library of Congress Catalogue Card Num. 83-082580

Name: Wartenbach, Wilhelm
City?: Furthen

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by Wanda Qualls