Joseph Bader
Joseph Bader was born at Wittelsheim, in the canton of Cernay in the Haut-Rhin, on 21 January 1801, the son of Joseph Bader, a cultivator, and Elisabeth Misch. On 2 January 1823, a day laborer of twenty-one, he married Marie Anne Schott of the same village, with both fathers present and consenting. In December 1825, a twenty-five-year-old day laborer, he registered the birth of his daughter Marie Anne, whose mother was his wife, Marie Anne Schott. A son, Joseph, followed about 1831.
In November 1843 he signed on with Henri Castro, who held a grant from the Republic of Texas to settle Europeans west of San Antonio. The ship Heinrich left Strasbourg on 22 November 1843 and Antwerp on 7 December, and its list carries "Bader Joseph, 43, farmer," of Wittelsheim, with his daughter Marie Anne, 18, and son Joseph, 10. They landed at Galveston in April 1844. In September 1844 the colonists walked out from San Antonio to the Medina River and founded Castroville, and his memorial counts him among its founders.
His daughter married John Lamon at San Antonio in 1846. His first wife died in August 1852, and he married Theresa Burger. With her he had three more children: Theresa Mathilda in 1854, August in 1856 and Mary Rose in 1858, who became a nun. His son Joseph died in 1856, at about twenty-five.
Joseph died in Medina County on 30 November 1873, at seventy-two, and was buried in the St. Louis Catholic Cemetery at Castroville. An iron cross marks the grave, and a bronze plaque before it reads, in German and English, "Hier ruht in Gott, Herr Joseph Bader," born at Wittelsheim, "also citizen, Republic of Texas and co-founder of Castroville."
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Cite: Heirology, "Joseph Bader (1801-1873)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/joseph-bader-1801-1873-926889.