Mary Anna Bader
Mary Anna Bader was born at three in the morning on 23 December 1825 at Wittelsheim, a village in the canton of Cernay in the Haut-Rhin. Her father, Joseph Bader, a twenty-five-year-old day laborer, brought her to the mayor that morning and named her Marie Anne. The record names her mother as Marie Anne Schott, his wife. The witnesses were Antoine Bader, twenty-one, a day laborer, and Joseph Birlinger, a farrier.
In November 1843 her father joined the colonists Henri Castro was sending to Texas. The ship Heinrich left Strasbourg on 22 November and Antwerp on 7 December, and its list carries Joseph Bader, 43, farmer, of Wittelsheim, with Marie Anne, 18, and Joseph, 10. They reached Galveston in April 1844. That September her father was among the settlers who founded Castroville on the Medina River.
On 29 November 1846 she married John Lamon at San Antonio, and the marriage was blessed at St. Louis Church in Castroville in 1849. Her husband was sheriff of the county from 1850 to 1852. They had three children: Joseph William in 1848, Mary Josephine in 1850 and Mary Ann in 1852. Her mother died in August 1852, and her father married again and had three more children.
John died in 1882. She died in 1901 and was buried in the St. Louis Cemetery at Castroville, where no stone for her has been found.
Parents
Marie Anne Schott (1802-1852)
Joseph Bader 1801-1873Children
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Cite: Heirology, "Mary Anna Bader (1825-1901)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/mary-anna-bader-1825-1901-5a0ae5.