Posted on: Austin County, Tx Query Forum Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tx/Austin?read=356 Surname: ENGELKING, VON ROEDER, KLEBERG ------------------------- I am looking for information about the ancestry of Sigismund ENGELKING, who was born on September 16, 1875 in Millheim, AUSTIN county, TX. He was married to Annie Laura JAMES. He died in 1956, and is buried in Comfort, Kendall County, TX. I don't know when the first Engelking ancestor came to Austin County, but three of the children of Lt. Ludwig Sigismund Anton Von Roeder of Prussia came to Cat Spring about 1836. Later, the famous Texas patriot Robert Justus Kleberg accompanied his wife Rosalie Von Roeder from Prussia to Texas, but they were shipwrecked on Galveston Island. Arriving at Cat Spring, they found Rosalie's brothers and sister in dire straits. Joachim and Valeska Von Roeder died of yellow fever. The Von Roeders and the Klebergs moved back and forth between Galveston and Cat Spring, and at one point, left their wives and children alone to fight in the Texas Revolution. Ferdinand F. Engelking, born around 1810, was one of the founders of Millheim, along with Johann Friedercke Ernst and Louis Kleberg. Ferdinand married Caroline L. Von Roeder on August 18, 1842. She seems to have been born about 1823. I can't tell whether Caroline was one of Lt. Sigismund Von Roeder's children or if she was one of the children of Louis Von Roeder, who survived the yellow fever episode, or of Albrecht Von Roeder, who married Louis' widow, Caroline Friedericke Wilhelmine Ernst. During the 1850 census, Ernst, Louis, Albert and "Faliska" "Clayberg" were living next to Ferdinand "Ingleking" and his family Caroline, "Segesmont," age 7, "Federick" age 4, and Charles, age 2. One of the three boys is probably the father of my subject, Sigismund Engelking, who was born in 1875. Although Ferdinand is listed as a "farmer", another Engelking had a section of adjacent land, and there was an Engelking general store in Millheim.