The Proeger Family · Line 6 of 13 · Kristin's side

Ladusch & Stein

Brandenburg and Saxe-Weimar → New Ulm, Austin County, Texas · reaches generation 7

Ladusch & Stein

Brandenburg and Saxe-Weimar → New Ulm, Austin County, Texas · reaches generation 7

Brandenburg and Saxe-WeimarNew Ulm, Austin County, Texas
  1. G6 · 4th-great-grandparents Dietrich Stein  ⚭  Anna Barbara 🆕 Dietrich is now confirmed as Henry Stein's father: the 1880 census of Austin County, read from the image, lists Dietrick Stein, 68, widowed, born Saxe-Weimar, as the father of the head, Henry Stein S919. Born about 1812–1820 in Saxe-Weimar; alive in June 1880. The family account's death about 1885 at New Ulm is on no record read. His wife is family testimony only: “Anna Barbara”, c.1820 Germany – before 1870, is a given name sitting in a surname field, almost certainly a lost maiden name, and no record read names her. Confirmed
  2. G5 · 3rd-great-grandparents Traugott Ladusch  ⚭  Johanna Selle 7 Jun 1835 Brandenburg – 7 Jul 1906 La Grange, Fayette Co., Texas · she c.1835 Germany – c.1899 Texas. Alongside them: Henry Stein (23 Mar 1846 Saxe-Weimar – 13 Nov 1909 Austin County) ⚭ Mary Emmett (29 Aug 1846 England – 30 May 1889). An 1871 New Ulm baptism register, written at the time, names them Heinrich Stein, from the Eisenach district, and Maria geb. Emmert S633. 🆕 The 1880 census lists Emma, 5, as the daughter of Henry Stein, which confirms him as her father S919. Family testimony
  3. G4 · 2nd-great-grandparents Otto Paul Ladusch  ⚭  Emma Stein 30 Mar 1873 Germany – 26 Dec 1958 Austin · she 21 Mar 1875 New Ulm, Austin Co. – 30 Mar 1952 Austin. Confirmed
  4. G3 · great-grandmother Hattie Elizabeth "Liessi" Ladusch 1898 New Ulm – 1990 Wimberley. Her Social Security record and her grave marker carry the same nickname. Confirmed

Two details here are checkable and therefore worth stating. Traugott Ladusch died at La Grange, Fayette County, Texas in 1906, which is a county death record waiting to be pulled; and the New Ulm and La Grange German Lutheran church registers should hold this whole family.

Ladusch & Stein · Kristin's side

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9 of the people on this chain have a card of their own. The summary here is the card's opening; the full record, portrait, photographs and documents are on the person's page.

Hattie Elizabeth "Liessi" Ladusch

TexasConfirmed

1898–1990 · the German-Texan line

  • Born 28 March 1898, New Ulm, Austin County, Texas — a German settlement in the Texas-German belt S34
  • Died 3 March 1990, Hays County, Texas; buried Austin Memorial Park, plot 1-566-9 S34
  • 🆕 Her son Raymond Will Kretschmar, born 7 October 1929, died on 9 July 1980 at St. Elizabeth Hospital, Beaumont, Texas, aged 50. He lived at Nederland, was a veteran and an installer for Western Electric, and his death certificate (Texas state file no. 55851) names his parents as Will Kretschmar and “Leissi Ladusch” Confirmed S968S436. It records his removal to Oak Bluff Memorial Park, Port Neches. added 29 September 2026
More · 2 further facts
Kretschmar, Ladusch, Landrock, Stein — four German surnames in one grandparent's ancestry, out of New Ulm in Austin County. This is the real Texas-German line in the family, and it is on Kristin's side.

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Otto Paul Ladusch

Confirmed

Kristin's 2nd great-grandfather · 1873–1958

  • Born 30 March 1873, Germany; came to the United States in 1883, aged about ten S325S327
  • Married Emma Stein on 5 November 1895, Austin S329; see Emma Stein Ladusch
  • In 1900, Austin Ward 10: Otto 26, married five years, with Emma and daughters Frieda, 3 and Elizabeth, 2 S327; in 1910 at 1617 Willow Street, Austin, with Freda 13 and “Liccie” 11 S328
  • Father of Hattie Elizabeth “Liessi” Ladusch, mother of Lucille Lorine Kretschmar S327S328S264
  • Died 26 December 1958 at Seton Hospital, Austin, Travis County, Texas; buried Oakwood Cemetery, Austin S325
  • His death certificate gives his parents as “no record” S325, and he is not listed among Traugott Ladusch's children on Find a Grave S336
  • 🆕 His father: probably Traugott Ladusch Probable confirm or correct →. His own Social Security application, as indexed twice, names his father as Traugott Ladusch and gives his birth as 30 March 1873, the same day as his death certificate S851S325. What is weak: it is an index of one document, with no image read, and it conflicts with the certificate's “no record” and the Find a Grave child list above. added 28 September 2026.
  • 🆕 His mother: probably Johanna Sille (Selle) Probable confirm or correct →, named as Traugott Ladusek's wife on the 1945 death certificate of Pauline Wenzel, born in Germany in 1866 S850. What is weak: no document names Otto's mother; the Social Security index leaves her as “?” S851. added 28 September 2026.
  • 🆕 The Texas death index for 1958 lists him as Otto Ladusch, Travis County, 26 December, state file 72008 Confirmed S1005. added 29 September 2026

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Emma Stein Ladusch

Confirmed

Kristin's 2nd great-grandmother · 1875–1952

  • Born 21 March 1875, Texas; her father Henry Stein S326
  • Married Otto Paul Ladusch on 5 November 1895, Austin S329
  • In 1900 she had borne two children, both living: Frieda, 3 and Elizabeth, 2 S327; in 1910 at 1617 Willow Street, Austin, with Freda 13 and “Liccie” 11 S328
  • Mother of Hattie Elizabeth “Liessi” Ladusch S327S328
  • Died 30 March 1952, Austin; buried Oakwood Cemetery. Her husband Otto was the informant S326
  • 🆕 In June 1880, aged 5, she was at home in Austin County as the daughter of Henry Stein, with her grandfather Dietrick Stein, 68, born Saxe-Weimar Confirmed S919. added 28 September 2026.

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Frieda Ladusch

Confirmed

Daughter of Otto Paul Ladusch · born 1896

  • Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026 from a record that names the parents; entered in the family tree the same day.
  • Daughter of Otto Paul Ladusch and Emma Stein; elder sister of Hattie Elizabeth Ladusch
  • Born August 1896, Texas; Frieda, 3, in 1900 and Freda, 13, at 1617 Willow Street, Austin, in 1910 S327S328
  • 🆕 Her full name was Freda Bertha Ladusch. She married Otto C. Herber, a piano tuner, at Austin on 26 August 1916, by Pastor Gideon Olson of Gethsemane Lutheran S470S471. Their son was Roy Otto Herber S469, and in 1930 they owned 907 W. 29th Street, Austin S472. She later married a Mr. Wesson, and died as Freda Herber Wesson on 18 July 1973 at Comfort, Kendall County; she is buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Austin S468. Her own 1942 statement gives her birthplace as New Ulm, Austin County (probable); her death certificate says Austin S469S468. added 25 September 2026.
  • 🆕 The Frelsburg baptism register gives her full name, Frieda Bertha Caroline, and her birth at New Ulm on 3 August 1896 S551. added 25 September 2026.
  • 🆕 The 1932–33 Austin directory has Otto C. and Frieda Herber at 201 West 39th, the home of Ernst and Mary Herber, farmer S578. added 25 September 2026.
  • 🆕 Otto Carl Herber was born at Creedmoor, Texas, on 22 November 1892 or 1893. In 1917 he lived at 1904 Canterbury Street, Austin, in the piano business S680. He died at Austin on 23 October 1935 and was buried at Oakwood; the certificate names his parents as E. W. Herber, born in Germany, and Marie Ceska, and gives 1893, while the draft card's year is overwritten and its age points to 1892 S679. added 26 September 2026.
  • 🆕 In 1900 Otto, born November 1892, was one of six sons of Ernst Herber, a German-born farmer in Travis County, and his wife Mattie S687. This supports 1892 over the death certificate's 1893. added 26 September 2026.
  • 🆕 The 1918 Texas birth index lists an unnamed “infant of Otto Herber”, born in Travis County on 17 April 1918, certificate 21667 Probable confirm or correct → S800. Evidence: the father's name, the county, and a date twenty months after the 1916 marriage. What is weak: the index names neither the child nor the mother; it is probably Roy Otto Herber, and the certificate would settle it. added 27 September 2026

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Henry Stein

Confirmed

Father of Emma Stein Ladusch · born Saxe-Weimar

  • Research status: CONFIRMED as Emma Stein Ladusch's father — confirmed 28 September 2026. The 1880 census of Austin County, which states relationships and was read from the image, lists Emma, 5, as the daughter of Henry Stein, 32, a farmer born Saxe-Weimar S919, and her own death certificate names her father Henry Stein. Added 24 September 2026 as Probable; Emma Stein Ladusch's Texas death certificate no. 20521 (30 March 1952, Austin) S326, read from the image, her husband Otto Ladusch informant, names her father as Henry Stein, born Germany, and her mother as Amanda “Emmerd” (the reading is uncertain), born England. The 1900 census gives both her parents' birthplace as Germany, so the mother's birthplace is unsettled and no surname is entered for her
  • Son of Dietrich Stein. Father of Emma Stein Ladusch, born 21 March 1875, Texas; husband of Amanda
  • Born in Germany. The family account on the Ladusch–Stein line gives 23 March 1846, Saxe-Weimar – 13 November 1909, Austin County. The death date and county are now confirmed by a county report of death S613; the birth date is not yet confirmed
  • 🆕 The Austin County report of death records a Henry Stein, German-born, 62, who died near New Ulm on 13 November 1909 S613. The date and county match the family account. The report names no wife or children, so it confirms the death and does not prove that he was Emma's father. added 26 September 2026.
  • 🆕 A Lutheran baptism register at New Ulm records a son, Johann Wilhelm Dietrich, born 8 October 1871, to Heinrich Stein, from the district of Eisenach, and Maria geb. Emmert, of New Ulm S633. Eisenach lay in Saxe-Weimar, where the family account says Henry was born, and Emmert is the name behind the family account's “Emmett” and the 1952 certificate's “Emmerd”. The register was written at the time. It is about a different child, though, so it still does not prove that he was Emma's father. added 26 September 2026.
  • 🆕 A candidate household: the 1900 census of Austin County, Precinct 5, has a Henry Stein, born March 1848, a farmer, with a second wife, Pauline, married 8 years, and Adolf, Bertha, Hedwig, Nora and Ottilie S771 Probable confirm or correct →. A Bertha and a Heinrich Stein stood sponsor together at Frieda Ladusch's 1896 baptism. What is weak: this census gives his birthplace as Texas, not Germany, and does not name Emma, who had married by then. The 1880 Austin County census has now been read: it confirms him as Emma's father, and its Adolph, 2, and Bertha, 7 months, fit the Adolf and Bertha of this 1900 household S919; the Texas birthplace is still the weak point. added 26 September 2026.
  • 🆕 On 23 June 1880 the census found him in Justice Precinct 5, Austin County: Henry Stein, 32, farmer, born Saxe-Weimar; Mary, his wife, 35, born Texas; William, 8; Anna, 6; Emma, 5; Adolph, 2; Bertha, 7 months; and his widowed father Dietrick Stein, 68, born Saxe-Weimar Confirmed S919. William, 8, is the Johann Wilhelm Dietrich baptised in 1871 S633. This is the test his card was waiting for, and it confirms him as Emma's father. His wife here, Mary, born Texas, fits the register's Maria geb. Emmert of New Ulm better than the certificate's Amanda, born England. added 28 September 2026.

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Amanda Stein

Probable

Evidence: Emma Stein Ladusch's 1952 Texas death certificate, her husband the informant; an 1871 New Ulm baptism register names Henry Stein's wife as Maria née Emmert. Weak or missing: The register calls her Maria, not Amanda, and no record yet joins the two names; the 1952 certificate says she was born in England, the 1900 census Germany, and the 1880 census has Henry's wife as Mary, born Texas, without saying she was Emma's mother. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Probable mother of Emma Stein Ladusch · born England

  • Research status: PROBABLE — added 24 September 2026 and entered in the family tree the same day, labelled probable there too; Emma Stein Ladusch's Texas death certificate no. 20521 (30 March 1952, Austin) S326, read from the image, her husband Otto Ladusch informant, names her father as Henry Stein, born Germany, and her mother as Amanda “Emmerd” (the reading is uncertain), born England. The 1900 census gives both her parents' birthplace as Germany, so the mother's birthplace is unsettled and no surname is entered for her
  • Probable mother of Emma Stein Ladusch; wife of Henry Stein
  • Born in England, by her daughter's death certificate. Her maiden name is uncertain: the certificate's “Emmerd” may be the Emmett that the family account on the Ladusch–Stein line gives for Henry Stein's wife. An 1871 New Ulm baptism register names Henry Stein's wife as Maria née Emmert S633, so the surname is probably Emmert; that Maria and Amanda were the same woman is not yet proven
  • 🆕 In 1871 the New Ulm Lutheran baptism register calls Henry Stein's wife Maria geb. Emmert (“born Emmert”), at the baptism of their son Johann Wilhelm Dietrich, born 8 October 1871 S633. It was written at the time, and the surname is clear. Probable confirm or correct → The register calls her Maria, not Amanda. She is probably the same woman, but no record yet joins the two names, and her birthplace, England or Germany, is still open. added 26 September 2026.
  • 🆕 In the 1880 census, read from the image, Henry Stein's wife is Mary, 35, keeping house, born Texas, with Emma, 5, among the children S919. That is a third birthplace for Emma's mother, after England on the 1952 certificate and Germany in 1900, and it fits the register's Maria geb. Emmert, of New Ulm. The census does not say that Mary was Emma's mother. added 28 September 2026.

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Traugott Ladusch

Probable

Evidence: Otto's own Social Security application, indexed by both the SSACI and the Numident, names his father as Traugott Ladusch and gives the same birth date as Otto's death certificate. Weak or missing: It is an index only, with no image read; Otto's death certificate says 'no record' for his parents, and Traugott's Find a Grave child list omits Otto. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Probable father of Otto Paul Ladusch

  • Research status: PROBABLE — accepted by Earl 28 September 2026 pending more evidence. Otto's own Social Security application, as indexed by both the Social Security Applications and Claims Index and the Numident, names his father as Traugott Ladusch, and its birth date, 30 March 1873, matches Otto's death certificate exactly S851S325. The 1945 death certificate of Pauline Wenzel, born in Germany in 1866, names her father as Traugott Ladusek and her mother as Johanna Sille S850, which fits a Ladusch family with children in Germany from 1866. What is weak: the application has been seen only as an index, with no image read; Otto's death certificate gives his parents as “no record” S325; and his Find a Grave memorial lists his children as Pauline Alise Wenzel, Annamarie Ehmling, Bertha Nonnenmacher and Reinhold Gustav Ladusch, without Otto S336 Probable confirm or correct →
  • Probable father of Otto Paul Ladusch; husband of Johanna Sille (Selle) S850. A member tree also places him as Otto's father S57
  • Dates differ between sources: 1831–1899 on FamilySearch S12, 1835–1906 in a member tree S57. His birth on 7 June 1835 in Brandenburg comes from Find a Grave only, and no record read gives his death; a 1900 census entry for an “Aaugot Ladusek”, born January 1846, may be another man
  • He is not the father of Hattie “Liessi” Ladusch; her father is Otto S327
  • Brandenburg → New Ulm, Austin County, Texas S12
  • 🆕 The Texas death index gives his death as 7 July 1906 in Fayette County, certificate 29481 Confirmed S1035. added 29 September 2026

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Johanna Sille (Selle)

Probable

Evidence: Pauline Wenzel's 1945 death certificate, read from the image, names her parents as Traugott Ladusek and Johanna Sille; Traugott is Otto's probable father by his Social Security application. Weak or missing: No document names Otto's mother: his Social Security index leaves her '?' and his death certificate says 'no record'; a second wife cannot be ruled out. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Probable mother of Otto Paul Ladusch

  • Research status: PROBABLE — accepted by Earl 28 September 2026 pending more evidence. The 1945 death certificate of Pauline Wenzel, born in Germany in 1866, read from the image, names her father as Traugott Ladusek and her mother's maiden name as Johanna Sille, born Germany S850. If Traugott Ladusch is Otto's father, as his Social Security application says S851, Johanna is his likely mother. What is weak: no document names Otto's mother — his Social Security application leaves her as “?” S851 and his death certificate says “no record” S325 — and a second wife cannot be ruled out Probable confirm or correct →
  • Probable mother of Otto Paul Ladusch; wife of Traugott Ladusch, and mother of Pauline Wenzel S850
  • Find a Grave gives her as Johanna Selle, 1835–1899 S336; no record read gives her dates, and the one document read spells her name Sille S850

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Dietrich Stein

Confirmed

Father of Henry Stein · born about 1812–1820, Saxe-Weimar

  • Research status: CONFIRMED as Henry Stein's father — the 1880 census of Justice Precinct 5, Austin County, Texas, which states relationships and was read from the image, lists Dietrick Stein, 68, widowed, born Saxe-Weimar, as the father of the head, Henry Stein, 32, a farmer born Saxe-Weimar S919. The household is the family's Henry: it includes Emma, 5, and William, 8, the Johann Wilhelm Dietrich baptised at New Ulm in 1871 to Heinrich Stein and Maria geb. Emmert, with a Dietrich Stein among the sponsors S633. Confirmed 28 September 2026
  • Father of Henry Stein, and so grandfather of Emma Stein Ladusch. See the Ladusch & Stein line
  • In 1870 FamilySearch's census index has a Dietrich Stein, about 50, born Saxe-Weimar, in Justice Precinct 5, Austin County, with Justin, Bertha, Henry and Caroline Stein, and a Texas voter register has Dedrick Stein, born Germany, registering at New Ulm on 7 August 1867 S920. These are index entries; the 1870 census states no relationships
  • Born about 1812–1820 in Saxe-Weimar: the censuses disagree, 68 in 1880 and about 50 in 1870. He was a widower by June 1880 and alive then. The family account's birth on 23 November 1820, his death about 1885 at New Ulm and a wife named Anna Barbara are on no record read, and none of them is published here as fact
  • 🆕 Probably him in 1860: D Stein, 45, a farmer born Germany, in the Cat Spring, New Ulm and Industry precinct of Austin County, with Anna, his wife, 50, born Germany, and children Willie 18, Houston 15, Henry 13 and Phil 11, born Germany, and a girl Paul[ine], 3, born Texas Probable confirm or correct → S1016. Evidence: Henry, 13, fits Henry Stein, 32 in 1880, whose father Dietrick lived with him in Austin County S919, and an age of 45 falls inside his 1812–1820 birth range. Weak: the census gives only the initial D, and names his wife only as Anna. Know more? Use “Add to this record”. added 29 September 2026
  • 🆕 The 1870 census has now been read from the image. On 17 September 1870, in Precinct 5 of Austin County (P.O. Industry), Dietrich Stein, 50, a farmer born Saxe-Weimar, headed a household of Justin, 25, Bertha, 19, Henry, 22, all born Saxe-Weimar, and Caroline, 13, born Texas. There was no wife in the household Confirmed S1059. The enumerator, Max Meissner, is the one who in 1880 listed him as Henry’s father. His age could also be read as 51. added 29 September 2026

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Ladusch & Stein · Kristin's side

Unfinished business

Open questions on this line

The open questions from the record's list that name a surname on this chain.

What is left on the Portal to Texas History

The Portal sweep of 13 September 2026 is finished and its pages are written up in the Documents section. Portal search is behind an ALTCHA human-attestation check-box again; ocr.txt and metadata.untl.xml still answer. Ticking the box asserts that a person is present, so it is not automated around: it needs one click by a person.

Earl's side. Whether Robert W. Coffman got the Pasadena acting-superintendent job: in August 1961 he was one of two deputy superintendents named as candidates S78; a Pasadena or Houston paper from the first two weeks of September 1961 settles it.

Kristin's side. Narrower Kretschmar queries — Willie Frank Kretschmar, Hattie "Liessi" Ladusch (her gravestone reads Elizabeth), Lucille Lorine Kretschmar. The bare surname returns 842 results, and the 62 pages already captured are an unrelated New Ulm, Sealy and Bellville family.

Ladusch & Stein · Sources

Citations

Sources cited on this line

35 of the record's sources are cited here. The numbering is the record's own; the full list, with where else each is cited, is at Sources.

  1. S12FamilySearch Tree public pages, no login required for deceased persons — William Harry Proeger KC1N-799, Aileane Marie Silva L9GZ-NDP, William Leonard Proeger L7GK-VBK, Queen Anne Proeger LHQW-W1L — ancestors.familysearch.org. User-contributed; event lists are treated as PROBABLE unless separately sourced.
  2. S33US Social Security NUMIDENT / Death Master File / VA-BIRLS, and the Texas Marriage and Divorce indexes — Caffey entries, republished verbatim at SortedByName.com. Government records. Supplies T.W. Caffey Jr's birth at "Salado Bell, Texas" and his parents Thomas W Caffey and Medie Stobaugh; Lucille's birth at "Austin Travi, Texas" and her parents Will Kretschmar and Liessi Ladusch; his Marine Corps service 1941–45; the shared Wimberley retirement ZIP; and the 1969 Caffey–Walker marriage and its 1980 dissolution. The Caffey pages 403'd on a second attempt the same day.
  3. S34FindAGrave memorials, Caffey / Kretschmar / Ladusch — Thomas Alan Caffey 274110930, Thomas Walton Caffey Jr 39163436, Lucille Lorene Kretschmar Caffey 39163435, Thomas Walton Caffey Sr 62147776, Medie Caffey Stobaugh 62147759, Willie Frank Kretschmar 41405071, Hattie "Liessi" Ladusch Kretschmar 41405070. Grave inscriptions, plot numbers and dates are transcriptions of stones. Family links on FindAGrave are contributor-asserted, not records — they corroborate here and are never the basis. Memorial 62147776 additionally quotes Texas death certificate #16496, which is a record.
  4. S57Ancestry public member tree 119936132 ("Helm/Caffey Family Tree"), owned by a relative by marriage. Sixty-eight person pages were opened read-only on 14 September 2026 and their Relationships → Parents panels transcribed. NOT A RECORD. It is the source of every pre-1873 Caffey name, every pre-1890 Walker name, the whole Selland/Lone line, the Peters line above 1882, the Ladusch/Stein line above 1898 and the Landrock maiden name — and across its thirteen best-sourced ancestors, "Ancestry Family Trees" is cited on eleven of them, which is other users' trees, not documents. Everything drawn from it carries Family testimony and nothing is promoted. Nothing in it was edited; the role held is Guest, no paywall or CAPTCHA was bypassed, and the raw output is held in the private research directory. ⚠ Parent names were matched to person-IDs by link text, which resolved to the wrong person once where two people share a name — the names are reliable, any raw person-ID is not.
  5. S264Texas, U.S., Birth Certificates, 1903-1932 — Lucile Kretschmar. Ancestry record 1079872. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Texas birth certificate: Lucile Kretschmar, b. 25 Aug 1925, 3905 Ave. B, Austin; father Willie F. Kretschmar 34, carpenter, b. Travis Co.; mother Liessi Ladusch 27, b. New Ulm, Texas.
  6. S325Texas death certificate no. 72008 — Otto Ladusch, 1958. Texas, U.S., Death Certificates, 1903–1982 (Ancestry collection 2272, record 23561925). Read from the image. Born 30 March 1873, Germany; died 26 December 1958, Seton Hospital, Austin, Travis County; parents “no record”; buried Oakwood Cemetery.
  7. S326Texas death certificate no. 20521 — Emma Stein Ladusch, 1952. Texas, U.S., Death Certificates, 1903–1982 (Ancestry collection 2272, record 21537089). Read from the image. Born 21 March 1875, Texas; died 30 March 1952, Austin; father Henry Stein; informant Otto Ladusch, husband; buried Oakwood Cemetery.
  8. S3271900 U.S. Federal Census — Otto Ladusch household, Austin Ward 10, Travis County, Texas. Ancestry collection 7602, record 44319545. Read from the image. Otto 26, born Germany, immigrated 1883, married 5 years; wife Emma, born March 1875, Texas, 2 children both living; daughters Frieda 3 and Elizabeth 2.
  9. S3281910 U.S. Federal Census — Otto Ladusch household, 1617 Willow Street, Austin. Ancestry collection 7884, record 28679316. Read from the image. Otto 36, Emma, Freda 13, “Liccie” 11.
  10. S329Travis County, Texas marriage index — Otto Ladusch and Emma Stein, 5 November 1895, Austin. Ancestry collection 60183, record 12803. Index entry; the register image has not been read.
  11. S336Find a Grave memorial 259939327 — Traugott Ladusch. Read 22–23 September 2026. Wife Johanna Selle (1835–1899); children Pauline Alise Wenzel, Annamarie Ehmling, Bertha Nonnenmacher and Reinhold Gustav Ladusch. Otto is not listed.
  12. S436Texas Birth Index, 1929, p. 1031 — Raymond Willie Kretschmar, Travis County. Ancestry record 152366261. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed “KRETSCHMAR, RAYMOND WILLIE — county 227 [Travis] — Oct 07 — M — mother LADUSCH, LIESSI — father KRETSCHMAR, WILLIE F.” A state index, not the certificate itself. It gives Liessi's maiden name as Ladusch; the 1923 marriage licence calls her Mrs. Liessi Wolter.
  13. S468Texas, U.S., Death Certificates — Freda Herber Wesson, Comfort, Kendall County, 1973 (no. 54660). Ancestry record 1563803. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Freda Herber Wesson, died 18 July 1973 at Comfort, Kendall County; born 3 August 1896, Austin, Texas; father Otto Ladusch, mother Emma Stein; informant Mrs. Liessi Kretschmar; buried Oakwood Cemetery, Austin. Her own 1942 statement (S469) gives her birthplace as New Ulm, Austin County; “Austin” here may be the county read as the city.
  14. S469Texas, U.S., Birth Certificates (corrected 1942) — Roy Otto Herber, Austin, 17 April 1918 (no. 21667). Ancestry record 123242981. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Roy Otto Herber, born 17 April 1918 at Seton Infirmary, Austin; father Otto Carl Herber, 25, piano tuner; mother Freda Bertha Ladusch, 22, born New Ulm, Austin County, stenographer. The correction affidavit was sworn by Freda herself.
  15. S470Texas, U.S., County Marriage Records — Travis County, vol. 20, p. 633, licence 1040: Otto C. Herber and Frieda B. Ladusch, 26 August 1916. Ancestry record 130800425. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Licence issued and marriage performed 26 August 1916 at Austin: Otto C. Herber and Miss Frieda B. Ladusch, by Gideon Olson.
  16. S471Texas, U.S., Lutheran Church Records — Gethsemane Lutheran Church, Austin, marriages p. 89, 26 August 1916. Ancestry record 153392936. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Otto Herber, 23, and Freida “Lodusch”, 20, married 26 August 1916 by Pastor G. C. Olson. The church register agrees with the county licence (S470).
  17. S4721930 U.S. Federal Census — Otto Herber household, Austin, Travis County, Texas (ED 227-15). Ancestry record 60719765. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed 907 W. 29th Street, owned, $3,000: Otto “Heber”, 37, piano tuner; Freda, 33, first married at 20; Roy, 12.
  18. S551Trinity Lutheran Church, Frelsburg, Texas — baptism register 1896, no. 368. Ancestry record 387868. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Frieda Bertha Caroline, born at New Ulm, 3 August 1896, baptised at New Ulm 13 December 1896; parents Otto Ladusch and Emma, born Stein; sponsors Bertha Stein, Wilhelm Ehmling, Caroline Ladusch and Heinrich Stein.
  19. S578Austin city directory, 1932–33, p. 249. Ancestry record 1123531674. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Herber Otto C (Frieda), home 201 West 39th; Herber Ernst (Mary), farmer, at the same address.
  20. S613Austin County, Texas, Report of Death to the County Clerk, no. 495 — Henry Stein, 13 November 1909. Ancestry record 24029368. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Henry Stein, white, male, 62, nativity German, a citizen; died 13 November 1909 about 6 p.m. near New Ulm, where he lived; cause emaciation, with hemorrhage of the stomach for 1 month 3 days; signed R. J. Schmid, physician, New Ulm, 17 November 1909. No parents or wife are named. The Ancestry index reads “Austin” as the city; the form is the county's. The age is one year off the family account's 23 March 1846.
  21. S633Evangelical Lutheran baptism register, New Ulm, Austin County, Texas, 1871, entry 74. Ancestry record 150386361. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Johann Wilhelm Dietrich, born at New Ulm 8 October 1871, baptised 10 December 1871; parents Heinrich Stein, from Sege(?), district of Eisenach, and Maria geb. Emmert, of New Ulm, Texas; sponsors Dietrich Stein, Johann Michael Fodor(?) and Maria Bader(?). The home village is hard to read; Eisenach and Emmert are clear. The register calls the mother Maria, not Amanda.
  22. S679Texas death certificate, 1935, Travis County, state file 48961. Ancestry record 21442360. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Otto Carl Herber, husband of Mrs. Frieda Herber, of Austin, in the musical-instrument business; born 22 November 1893, Texas; died 23 October 1935, Austin; parents E. W. Herber (born in Germany) and Marie Ceska; buried at Oakwood.
  23. S680U.S. World War I draft registration card, 1917, Austin. Ancestry record 17812684. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Otto Carl Herber, 1904 Canterbury Street, Austin; born 22 November 1892 or 1893 (the year is overwritten; his stated age, 24, gives 1892), Creedmoor, Texas; in the piano business; married.
  24. S6871900 U.S. census, Justice Precinct 6, Travis County, Texas, sheet 24A. Ancestry record 44342032. Image examined, read 26 September 2026. Confirmed The household of Ernst Herber (indexed “Herbert”), born in Germany in August 1858, a farmer who came in 1886, with his wife Mattie, born in Germany, and six sons, among them Otto, born November 1892. The 1935 certificate names his mother Marie Ceska; the census calls her Mattie.
  25. S7711900 United States Federal Census, Austin County, Texas, Precinct 5, ED 9, sheet 14A: household of Henry Stein. Ancestry record 70135763. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, September 2026. Probable Henry Stein, born March 1848, Texas, farmer; his wife Pauline, married 8 years, no children; Adolf, Bertha, Hedwig, Nora and Ottilie Stein. A candidate household only. A Bertha Stein and a Heinrich Stein stood sponsor together at Frieda Ladusch's 1896 baptism, and Pauline is a second wife, which fits Emma having a different mother. But this census gives his birthplace as Texas, where the 1952 certificate and the death report say Germany, and it does not name Emma, who had married by 1900.
  26. S800Texas birth index, 1918, p. 510: infant of Otto Herber, Travis County. Ancestry record 151439818. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 27 September 2026. Probable “Herber, Otto, Inf. of”, born Travis County, 17 April 1918, certificate 21667. Otto is the father; the child is unnamed. Probably Roy Otto Herber (S469), the son of Otto and Freda. Collection: Texas, U.S., Birth Index, 1903–1997.
  27. S850Texas death certificate, registered no. 9604, Floresville, Wilson County — Pauline Wenzel, 1945. Texas, U.S., Death Certificates, 1903–1982 (Ancestry collection 2272, record 23333461, image 40394_b062269-02225). Image examined, read 28 September 2026. Probable Pauline Wenzel, widowed housewife, died 12 February 1945; born 24 February 1866, Germany; father Traugott Ladusek, born Germany; mother's maiden name Johanna Sille, born Germany; informant Max Wenzel, Floresville. A probable sister's certificate, not Otto Ladusch's; cited for the names of Traugott's wife and family.
  28. S851Social Security application of Otto Paul Ladusch — two indexes. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index (Ancestry record 613670605) and FamilySearch 1:1:6K7G-NCPT (United States Social Security Numerical Identification Files). Index entry only — no image was examined, read 28 September 2026. Probable Otto Paul Ladusch, born 30 March 1873, “Gruny”, West Germany; father Traugott Ladusch; mother “?”. Both index the same application; the SS-5 image has not been read. The birth date matches Otto's 1958 death certificate (S325), whose parents are “no record”.
  29. S9191880 U.S. census, Justice Precinct 5, Austin County, Texas, SD 5, ED 7, p. 50, dwelling 413, family 417: Henry Stein household. Ancestry record 40319705. Image examined, read 28 September 2026. Confirmed Enumerated 23 June 1880: Henry Stein, 32, farmer, born Saxe-Weimar; Mary, wife, 35, keeping house, born Texas; William, son, 8; Anna, daughter, 6; Emma, daughter, 5; Adolph, son, 2; Bertha, daughter, 7 months; John, 13, working on the farm (his relationship is overwritten); Dietrick, father, 68, widowed, born Saxe-Weimar. The census states relationships. Emma, 5, fits Emma Stein Ladusch, born 21 March 1875; William, 8, fits the Johann Wilhelm Dietrich baptised at New Ulm in 1871 (S633). Collection: 1880 United States Federal Census.
  30. S920FamilySearch index entries for Dietrich Stein: the 1870 census of Austin County, Texas, and a Texas voter register, 1867. FamilySearch ark:/61903/1:1:MXGN-B3S and W1C4-MNMM, checked 28 September 2026. Probable 1870: Dietrich Stein, born about 1820, Saxe-Weimar, Justice Precinct 5, Austin County, with Justin, Bertha, Henry and Caroline Stein. 1867: Dedrick Stein, New Ulm, registered 7 August 1867, born Germany. Index entries; the images were not examined here. The 1870 census states no relationships.
  31. S968Texas Certificate of Death, state file no. 55851 (Jefferson County) — Raymond Will Kretschmar, died 9 July 1980. Ancestry record 751473946. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 24 September 2026. Confirmed Raymond Will Kretschmar, white male, born 7 October 1929 in Texas, age 50; died 9 July 1980 at St. Elizabeth Hospital, Beaumont, Jefferson County; married; a veteran of the armed forces; an installer for Western Electric; residence Nederland, Jefferson County. Father Will Kretschmar; mother's maiden name “Leissi Ladusch”. Removal 12 July 1980 to Oak Bluff Memorial Park, Port Neches (Davis Funeral Homes). Ancestry hinted this record to his mother through the mother field; he is the man on the certificate. The birth date matches the 1929 state birth index (S436). “Leissi” is a variant spelling of her nickname Liessi, given by an informant in 1980; the site keeps Liessi. The informant was his wife, who is not named here because she may be living. The cause of death and his Social Security number are on the image and are not transcribed. Collection: Texas, U.S., Death Certificates, 1903–1982 (db 2272, image 33154_b063081-02973).
  32. S1005Texas death index, 1958, p. 736. Ancestry record 6830106. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 29 September 2026. Confirmed LADUSCH OTTO, Travis County, 26 December, file 72008. The index adds the state file number of his death certificate.
  33. S10161860 United States Federal Census — Cat Spring, New Ulm and Industry precinct, Austin County, Texas, page 152 (27 July 1860), dwelling 1159. Ancestry record 34953807. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 29 September 2026. Probable D Stein, 45, farmer, born Germany; Anna, wife, 50; children Willie 18, Houston 15, Henry 13 and Phil 11, all born Germany, and Paul[ine], 3, a girl, born Texas. The index makes the youngest a son “Paul”; the image marks the child female.
  34. S1035Texas Death Index, 1903–1940, page 14850. Ancestry record 5502807. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 29 September 2026. Confirmed Ladusch, Traugott, Fayette County, died 7 July 1906, certificate 29481. The only Traugott Ladusch in the index.
  35. S10591870 United States Federal Census — Precinct No. 5, Austin County, Texas, P.O. Industry, page 75, dwelling 518. Ancestry record 5026331. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 29 September 2026. Confirmed 17 September 1870, enumerator Max Meissner: Dietrich Stein, 50, farmer, real estate $1,500, personal estate $1,000, born Saxe-Weimar, a citizen; Justin, 25, farm labourer, born Saxe-Weimar; Bertha, 19, keeping house, born Saxe-Weimar; Henry, 22, farm labourer, born Saxe-Weimar; Caroline, 13, born Texas, at school. No wife in the household. Dietrich’s age has a stroke through the second digit and could be 51. The census states no relationships. This is the image behind the index entry at S920.

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