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Frieda Ladusch

Daughter of Otto Paul Ladusch · born 1896

Frieda Ladusch

Confirmed

Daughter of Otto Paul Ladusch · born 1896

Born
August 1896
Parents
Otto Paul Ladusch & Emma Stein
Sources
13

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026 from a record that names the parents; entered in the family tree the same day.

Life in the order the records give it

Birth1896
Born August 1896, Texas; Frieda, 3, in 1900 and Freda, 13, at 1617 Willow Street, Austin, in 1910 S327S328
Record1896
🆕 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.
Census1932
🆕 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.
Death1892
🆕 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.
Census1900
🆕 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.

Family parents, marriages, children, siblings

Parents
Daughter of Otto Paul Ladusch and Emma Stein; elder sister of Hattie Elizabeth Ladusch
Marriage1916
🆕 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.
Parents1918
🆕 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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Frieda Ladusch · Sources

Citations

Sources cited on this card

13 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. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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).
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.

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