Galveston County, Texas, Queries A new message, "Geldmacher," was posted by Winnie Howard on Mon, 05 Apr 1999 --- NAME: Winnie Howard EMAIL: mchoward@hotmail.com SURNAMES: Schulze, Geldmacher DATE: Apr 05 1999 QRYTEXT: Wilhelm Geldmacher b 1837 Adorf, Waldeck (now Hesse) Germany arrived Galveston 1859 married Marie Luise Schulze b 1842 in Annaburg, Germany. They lived in Galveston from about 1865/66 to 1878. Four of their 13 children died there including William who at age 10 on 23/June/1877 drowned at Ave L and the end of the railway tracks. Anna Christine, a twin infant whose first name began with W. (a boy) b 1875 and another boy. They were buried in Potter's Field. Is Potter's Field now part of the cemetery on Broadway? Wilhelm, Sr. was a ship's machinist. They were Lutheran. Where would baptismal records be? Any recorded in the 1870's? Wilhelm, Sr. served in the 1st TX Heavy Artillery at the Battle of Galveston. Family moved to Williamson Co. about 1878 after young William drowned. Whilhelm, Sr. returned to Galveston in 1899 to work. He died at St. Mary's Infirmary in 1900. Could he have been Catholic since he went to St. Mary's or was that the only hospital at the time? He is buried at Lakeview Cemetery..