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Carl Bayer

9 Nov 1844 – 2 Oct 1935

Birth	9 Nov 1844
Death	2 Oct 1935
Cemetery	Elgin City Cemetery Elgin , Bastrop County , Texas , USA
Added by	Daniel Bode on 03 Sep 2018
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/147918619

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His birthplace on his death certificate is noted as Austria Moravia. That would indicate that Carl was born in Moravia, which was a crown land of Austria at the times of his birth and emigration, but became part of Czechoslovakia in 1918 at the end of WW1, and part of the Czech Republic in 1993. In census records he reported his birthplace as Austria. His death certificate states that he had been in the United States for 47 years at the time of his death, which would place his immigration in about 1888. The death certificate also states his year of birth as 1848, as compared to 1844 shown on the headstone, and 1847 reported in the 1900 census. The month of birth is consistent in all three. A passenger list shows him arriving on 5 August 1887 in New York from Austria with his family: wife Marie (died 1892), daughter Marie (also died 1892), sons Richard and Othmar, and a 2 year old shown as Franz on the passenger list but the 1900 census shows a daughter Anna born in Austria who would have been the same age at the time of arrival. A passenger list made at the departure point in Hamburg, Germany correctly identifies the two year old as Anna. It further notes that the previous place of residence for the family was Barnsdorf, Moravia. The modern Czech name of Barnsdorf is reported to be Bernatice, near the modern-day town of Novy Jicin (German Neutitschein) in the Moravian-Silesian region of the eastern Czech Republic. Following wife Marie's death in 1892, on 30 December 1893 Carl married the widow Clara (Kindler) Schneider, a German immigrant who had been living with her family in Austin (1880 census). Note: The marriage index shows Clara Schneider marrying a Kase Bayer in Bastrop County, Texas, but there is no indication of a Kase Bayer in any other record found in the time period. It is the right time period and place to be Carl and Clara, the right name for her and most of the right name for him. At the time of the 1900 census, he was a cemetery sexton living with second wife Clara, son Othmar, and daughter Anna from his previous marriage to Marie. He was listed as a farmer at the time of his death. The grave markers for Carl, his first wife Marie, his daughter Marie, and son Othmar are all very similar in design. Clara's marker is grouped with them but is different in design with a large inscription saying "our loving MOTHER" indicating that it was placed by her children from her earlier marriage. She apparently had no children, at least no children living as of 1900, with Carl. Note: To further complicate matters, there was another Carl Bayer, born in Nov. 1847, living in the area. He appears to have been counted twice in the 1910 census of Elgin, Texas, once as a single head of household who was renting a house and again a few days later, as a single boarder with another family. In both cases he was listed as a widowered traveling salesman. Clara Bayer was still alive at the time so it is unlikely to have been this Carl Bayer living without her. The other Carl Bayer died in 1937 in Taylor, Williamson County, Texas.

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