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Ida Schmidt Letz

30 May 1872 – 29 Nov 1955

Birth	30 May 1872
Death	29 Nov 1955
Cemetery	Old Glory Cemetery Old Glory , Stonewall County , Texas , USA
Added by	Lester Welch on 06 Dec 2012
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/31844262

Bio

Ida was born May 30, 1872 near Paint Creek in Bastrop County, Texas to Heinrich Carl Schmidt and Karoline Korf. She was the 6th of eight children. About 1890 she married her cousin, August Brachwitz (b. abt. 1865), son of Christian Gottlieb Brachwitz, Sr. and Fredericke Johanna Schmidt. August died on April 2, 1890 when he fell from a horse riding to get help for Friedrich Ihlo, the husband of another cousin, Friedericke Goerlitz. He was buried in the Paint Creek Cemetery (about 7.5 miles north of Paige, Texas). Ida was pregnant with their first child, who she named Maria, born January 14, 1891. Ida remarried to August Letz, a farmer with 100 acres, on August 5, 1891. Ida and August had at least 6 children at Paint Creek before moving to Wimberley in Hays County (1900 U. S. Census of Hays County, Texas ED 15-54, House/Household 21; 1902 tax assessment of Hays County, Texas, 151 acres Abs. 217, R. B. Gregory Survey). By 1910 Ida had given birth to 7 more children with another on the way and were living in Old Glory, Stonewall Co., Texas when they were enumerated in the census on April 23 (ED 206, Sht. 5A). By the 1920 census, August and Ida had divorced. She and her family were still living in Old Glory and August was living alone in San Antonio, unemployed.

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Family

Parents

• Heinrich "Henry" Schmidt Sr 1833–1917 FaG
• Karoline Korf Schmidt 1845–1930 FaG

Spouse

• Friedrich August Letz 1859–1940
• August Brachwitz 1865–1890 FaG

Siblings

• Karoline Schmidt Voigt 1868–1918 FaG

Children

• Willie Letz 1892–1894
• Herman Letz 1893–1991
• Matthias Martin Letz 1894–1979
• Matthias Letz 1894–1979
• Emma Letz Welch 1895–1987
• Charlie Letz 1898–1974
• Bernhard Letz 1900–1983
• John Letz 1902–1986
• Alfred "Doc" Letz 1904–1999
• Tony Letz 1906–1999
• Minnie Letz Korff 1908–1990
• Adolph Letz 1909–2001
• Lena Letz Weaver 1910–2004
• Marvin Letz 1917–2008

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