Robert Leutbacher

 

Thanks to the help of my Facebook page reader, I managed to decipher correctly the surname of Robert's (written on his tombstone). It made the further research possible, regarding the man.

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Robert Leutbacher, born on 12 March 1857, emigrated to the United States with his 17-year-old* brother Wilhelm. They came to New Orleans, Louisiana on 12 October 1872. The two boys were born in Saxony, Prussia, and their parents names were Karl and Elizabeth.

Robert and Wilhelm traveled from Bremenhaven - sea port of Bremen. They were, among many others, the passengers of the 🚢 SS Hanover steerage deck-house (1).

The brothers, listed as farmers, did not give any specific place in the US as their destination. They must have come to Texas at least by ♦ 17 March 1876. Wilhelm got married in Gillespie County then. His bride was 9-year-younger Anna Eleonora Agathe Seiter (2). She was born on 11 May 1862 in Fredericksburg, TX, to Georg Seiter and Henrietta Kirchner.

👉 14/15 June 1880 - Robert (recorded as hired laborer) lived with the family of Henry Kordzik. At the same time, Wilhelm, his wife and two baby girls, Emma and Ida, lived in Justice Precinct #4, Gillespie, TX. Wilhelm rendered a farm (3).

Two weeks after the Census, on ♦ 29 June 1880, Robert passed.

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* As given in the ship manifest. Wilhelm's date of birth given on findagrave was 27 November 1853.
 

Sources:

findagrave.com,

familysearch.org
1. "Louisiana, New Orleans Passenger Lists, 1820-1945", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKNP-2BQC : Sat Mar 09 04:14:15 UTC 2024), Entry for Robert Leutbacher, 1872.
2. "Texas Marriages, 1837-1973", , FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FX3B-Y5C : 22 January 2020), Achade Seither in entry for Wilhelm Leutbecher, 1876.
3. "United States Census, 1880", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFN8-Y5L : Fri Jul 12 18:30:15 UTC 2024), Entry for Wilhm Leudbecher and Achada Leudbecher, 1880.