Kommentar: | I don't speak or write German, but I am interested in finding out more about my great-grandparents who came to the United States in the 1800's. He was Emil Conitz, who came to the U.S. from Poznan as a "young man". I'm not sure where he entered the U.S., but he first went to Chicago to stay with relatives. He didn't like it there, so he left and came back in through Galveston, Texas. He met his wife, Louisa Meier, who was coming to the US through Galveston, with her family. She was from Berlin. Her family was going to Marlin, Texas where relatives were already established. Emil joined them and married Louisa on the trip at Hempstead, Texas. The couple stopped at a thriving town on the Brazos River named Sterling. When the railroad came through east of there, the whole town moved to the railhead which connected Houston and Dallas. The town of Sterling no longer exists, but there are some graves there. The owners put a fence around their own family members, but cattle destroyed the rest of the tombstones. My great-grandfather was a bootmaker and businessman. After he became established, he brought his mother, who was a Sitz, to this country. Apparently his father, who was a furniture maker had died. His daughter, who died back in the 70s at the age of 94, did write to, she said, relatives back in Germany, after WWII. They were in German,and I didn't understand any of it. I was young too. However the letters stopped when the Berlin Wall was put up. I have a lot of information about the family after they came to the U.S. and very little about before they immigrated, family who didn't immigrate, ancestors, etc. I would appreciate any information that anyone might have on this family. |