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My Father's Family - "Von JUNCK" (Griesenbeck)

written by: Mrs. Ida Clara (Junck) Robinson around 1971.

My Father's Family - "Von JUNCK" (Griesenbeck)
written by: Mrs. Ida Clara (Junck) Robinson around 1971.

Mrs. Griesenbeck was a widow at twenty years of age, with four small children to care for. She was a very refined young matron, and in due time was married to Baron Gustav Von Junck. His family provided money to rebuild her spacious home and rear her children. In 1850, when they sailed for America, they had four more children of their own. Mathilda, Adolph, Edward Albert and Bertha. The four older children were Griesenbeck, Louisa, Carl, Emil, Julius. Baron Von Junck died at sea from a fever and the mother with her children came to America and settled on a farm at New Braunfels, so as to be close to her older children who already had families of their own:

(1) Carl Griesenbeck WAS MARRIED TO Minnie ------, sister of Czarina of Prussia and they lived at 1135 So. Alamo, San Antonio, Texas. (later the St. Vincent de Paul Hospital was built there on South Alamo.) Their children were: Emily, Bertha, Walso, Hugo, Eugene, and Theodore.

(2) Emil Griesenbeck WAS MARRIED TO Katharine Elsner and they lived, owned and operated the Griesenbeck Hotel in Lockhart, Texas. They were parents of seven children: Eugene, Ernest, Clara, Mamie, Annie, Lizzie, Katey, Cordelia and Littmore. All are buried in Lockhart. 

(3) Julius Griesenbeck and wife, Amelia, settled in Bastrop, Texas and had eight children: Theodore, Eugene, Otto, Rufus, Hattie (Assman), Lena (Ivy) and Herman -- all buried in Bastrop.

Mathilda Junck, married Dr. Rhodius. He practiced in Castroville, TX., and San Antonio, TX. He died and was buried in Castroville (the first person to be buried in the large cemetery).

Grandmother (Griesenbeck) Junck died 1863, when Edward, my father was fourteen years and he and his brother, Adolph, went to live with their oldest brother, Carl Griesenbeck.  Mathilda took Bertha back to Germany where Mathilda died during World War I (1918). Bertha was educated by the rich old spinster Aunts and became GOVERNESS to England's Charles VI children in London. These aunts owned and operated a boarding school for girls, and they lived in that school until they died. Caroline, Christine, and Constance. All silver and linens were marked "C.J." and my father, inherited half silver. Agnes Junck's father, Adolph, received the other half. 

Louisa was married to Edward Rische (He owned and operated the first soda water factory in San Antonio.) They were parents of eight children, Uhlrich, Ernest, Edward and Charley, Alma, Lizzie, Clara & Johannsh. 

Bertha died at age of eighty, a spinster, in Germany (Cleve), December, 1926. 

Adolph Junck married Hedwig Schutze (the blacksmiths daughter), and they had two girls and one boy. These children never married, so there were no grandchildren. The family is buried in the city cemetery in San Antonio, TX.

Edward Albert Junck, my father, was married to Anna Charlotte Wilke and they had six children (five girls and one boy). The rest you know as I do: Bertha, Edward Jr., Ida, Annie and Julia.

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