Lillie Annie Schlabach doesn’t remember being
born, but she was and on the third day
of November in 1892 in the small farming community of Shelby, Texas,
in Austin County. 1A
Lillie’s father, William Schlabach, was born in Oldenburg,
Germany, and immigrated to Texas with his
parents at the age of 11. 2A
It was in Shelby that William met
Augusta Rudloff, also the daughter of a German immigrant, Christian
Rudloff. 2B William and
Augusta were married about 1880, and began to raise
their family of eight children. Seven of their children were born
in the German settlement of Shelby, but in 1895, William moved his family
to Nordheim in De Witt County. However, a few years later William moved
again to a new farm near Runge in Karnes
County. 2C |
