| Birth: | 25 Apr 1832 in Lengefeld, Erzebirge, Saxony, Germany |
| Death: | 16 Nov 1918 in Austin County, TX |
| Sex: | M |
| Father: | Carl Christoph Findeisen, Sr. b. 12 Feb 1799 in Lengefeld, Erzebirge, Saxony, Germany |
| Mother: | Johanna Dorothea Hetzel b. 20 Nov 1805 in Lengefeld, Erzebirge, Saxony, Germany |
| Spouses & Children |
| Franziska Marek (Wife) b. 12 Oct 1846 in Rothwasser, Bohemia | |
| Marriage: | 18 Dec 1871 in Texas |
| Children: | |
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| Notes |
may be from Carl Gottlob or Johan Carl Friedrich
1850-1866 - not on ship's logs from Germany to America
1860-1880 - not listed in TX Census
28 Apr 1808 - a Carl Christov F. b. Waldkirchen, Sachs, p Johann Gotthold/Hanna
Carl Christoph Findeisen, Jr. was a stout, quiet man with a goatee, according to his granddaughter Gloria Ashorn Garrett.
He came to Texas from Lengefeld, Saxony at age 22 with the rest of his family and applied for U.S. citizenship on April 26,
1858. After the Civil War, he farmed at Kirkendahl, near New Ulm, until they moved in with Edmund and Emma Ashorn. He
died November 16, 1914 not long after they moved. Willie Findeisen took over the farm, and later moved to Sealy. His
granddaughter Gloria Ashorn Garrett, who was three years old when he died, remembers him as a very affectionate man who
called her "meine kleine Kindchen, meine kleine Elva" (my dear little child, my little Elva) or "my loving bundle," as he bounced
her on his knee.
Serving as an Confederate soldier along with his brother August in Waul's Legion Company D, Carl Christoph was captured at
the battle of Vicksburg, MS. One of the last two remaining Confederate strongholds on the Mississippi River, Vicksburg fell to
General Ulysses S. Grant on July 4, 1863 after a six-week siege. Over 30,000 Confederate prisoners were captured and
immediately paroled back to their homes. But Carl remained a Union prisoner of war for eighteen months before finally
accepting parole just before the end of the war.
!BIRTH: Findeisen Genealogy, Texas State Library, Austin TX, researched by
Jeannette Kriegel Schaeffer, Austin TX
!DEATH: buried in New Ulm Cemetery Texas Death Record says 11-28-18.
Someone
else (Oscar Findeisen?) says Nov. 16.
!MARRIAGE:or 12-26-1871