Husband: Carl Richard SCHMALTZ
Birthdate: Dec. 29, 1846
Birthplace: Shemnitz, Germany
Death date: May 31, 1896
Place of death: Cleburne, Johnson Co., Texas
Father:
Mother:

Marriage date: Dec. 7, 1879
Marriage place: Waco, McLennan Co., Texas

Wife: Caroline Johanna Elisabeth BLANKENSTEIN
aka: "Lina" BLANKENSTEIN
Birthdate: May 2, 1859
Birthplace: Barby, Germany
Death date: January 23, 1941
Place of death: Waco, McLennan Co., Texas
Father: Gottfried Conrad BLANKENSTEIN
Mother: Dorothea Sophia Friedericke HERBST

CHILDREN

Child No. 1: Dora Louise SCHMALTZ
Sex: F
Birthdate: April 15, 1881
Birthplace: Cleburne, Johnson Co., Texas
Death date: March 10, 1964
Place of death: Houston, Harris Co., Texas
Marriage date: January 18, 1905
Marriage place: Waco, McLennan Co., Texas
Spouse's name: William BRETSCHNEIDER

Child No. 2: Carl Richard SCHMALTZ, Jr.
Sex: M
Birthdate: February 25, 1883
Birthplace: Cleburne, Johnson Co., Texas
Death date: December 18, 1922
Place of death: Waco, McLennan Co., Texas
Marriage date: February 25, 1909
Marriage place: McLennan Co., Texas
Spouse's name: Dora ITSCHNER

Child No. 3: Oscar Gottfried SCHMALTZ
Sex: M
Birthdate: January 25, 1885
Birthplace: Cleburne, Johnson Co., Texas
Death date: April 21, 1971
Place of death: Leroy, McLennan Co., Texas
Marriage date: October 25, 1911
Marriage place: McLennan Co., Texas
Spouse's name: Johanna Justine MEINSCHER

Child No. 4: Gertrude Lina SCHMALTZ
Sex: F
Birthdate: November 15, 1887
Birthplace: Cleburne, Johnson Co., Texas
Death date: January 14, 1971
Place of death: Hillsboro, Hill Co., Texas
Marriage date:
Marriage place:
Spouse's name: None
 
 
Documentation:
* Dianne Blankenstein,
* Roze Marie Forkel Edrington,
* Mildred Bretschneider Organ,
* William Schmaltz.

Notes:
* After her husband's death in 1896, Lina moved her four children from Cleburne to Waco, Texas. Lina ran a boarding house in Waco. Lina married John Henry SCHROEDER on July 18, 1900, in Waco. Mr. Schroeder was born April 25, 1850, in Amsterdam, Holland, and he died Sept. 21, 1925, in Waco, Tx.
* Lina and her two husbands were originally buried in Cleburne, Texas, but Lina's daughter, Gertrude, later had the remains of all three Lina and her two husbands moved to the Oakwood Cemetery in Waco, Texas.