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SOME OF THE HISTORY OF THE FORMER ROESLER FARM HOUSE
The farm house and farm land of 61 acre tract, now owned by Mr.
and Mrs. C. L. Jenkins of 2215 Sunset Blvd., Houston, Texas 77005
is located on Highway #159, between Houston, Texas and Austin, Texas.
It is situated on top of a hill, two miles west of the historical
marker, which includes the family name, Roesler, at Nelsonville, Texas
Frederick August Roesler was the original owner of this house and
this farm.
The house is located 5 miles from Industry, Texas, where the first
permanent German settlement, led by Frederich Ernst, occurred in Texas
in 1831. The house and land is in Austin County, one of the original
counties in Texas, created in 1836; organized the next year; and named
for Stephen F. Austin, "The Father of Texas."
Frederick August Roesler, an early German immigrant, bought this farm
land on which he originally owned this farm house from his father,
Johann Roesler, on December 11, 1873.
He lived in the house and farmed the land successfully for many years
with his wife, Ida (machemehl) Roesler, a native of Bellville, Texas.
They had four children, three daughters and one son who were all born
here. The three daughters were Emilie (later Mrs. F. A. Goldapp),
Martha, and Clara, and their young son, Robert Gustav Roesler.
The immediate family of Frederick August Roesler affectionately
called him just August.
August Roesler's father, Johann Roesler, bought the land from Anna
C. Steck by deed hearing the date, December 4, 1865 recorded at
Bellville, Texas, June 11, 1866, in Book L of deeds records of Austin
County, pages 678 and 679 and No. 586, being a part of lot No. 6 of
four leagues orginally granted to S. F. Austin situated on the east
side of the west fork of the Mill qreek.
W. F. Mueller was the administrator for the above land sale.
After the death of August Roesler on July 20, 1933, three of his four
living children; Emilie (Roesler) Goldapp, Clara Roesler, and Robert
Gustav Roesler owned the house and the 61 acre tract that they
inherited from their father. Their mother, Ida (Machemehl) Roesler
had passed away long before their father's death, and their sister,
Martha, had also died previously.
Later in a partition deed in 1942 when the estates of August Roesler
were divided, the eight Goldapp heirs, children of Emilie (Roesler)