Bell Co. TX - Obit for Augusta C. Prinzing

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From the Friday May 20, 1932 The Bartlett ? and News:

"MRS. PRINZING GONE TO HER REWARD
Funeral services for Mrs. Augusta C. Prinzing, 89, pioneer resident, who died 
at her home, Tuesday afternoon, after a long illness, were held at the First 
Methodist church Wednesday afternoon by Rev. J. M. Bond, assisted by Rev. A.
Lehmberg of Cameron.  Interment was made in the Bartlett cemetery.

Pall-bearers were:  Monroe Leifeste.  Max Gross.  Chas. Saage.  Otto and 
Albert Hempel and Ed Koonsen of Holland.

Mrs. Augusta Christine Prinzing was born in Hoof, Hessen Castle, Germany, June
7, 1842 and died at her home in Bartlett, May 17, 1932.  She together with her 
family, came to America when she was a child in 1852, landing at Galveston, 
Texas.  The family made their home at Pinoak. Bastrop county, Texas, where she 
grew to young womanhood.  She was converted to the Christian faith and united 
with the Methodist church at the age of fourteen.  In 1859, she was married to 
Rev. John Prinzing, and became the mother of seven children, only two of whom 
survive her, two sons George Prinzing of Miles and Herman Prinzing of Bartlett.  
She also leaves two brothers, Henry Hempel and Christine (sic Christian) Hempel, 
Bartlett, one sister, Mrs. Joe Kunkel of Bastrop county, a son-in-law, 18 
grandchildren and 14 great grandchildren, besides a large number of nieces, 
nephews and cousins.

There have gone on before her to the Great Beyond, her parents long ago, her 
preacher husband who died in 1902, five children, one brother, two sisters, six 
grandchildren and others who were awaiting her on the other side.  She and her 
husband traveled together in the Methodist itinerancy, serving various charges 
in the German Methodist church for a period of 26 years.  She removed to Bartlett 
in  where she has since lived and loved and been loved by a great company of 
friends.  

The pastor paid a most beautiful tribute to her life when he said:  
"Her character is known to (sic) well for me to undertake to depict it in your 
hearing.  Her life was one of service.  No one can estimate but God how many 
lives have been blessed by this good woman's life, nor how many souls have been 
saved.  She was gentle and kind, unobtrusive,  never wanting to be any trouble.  
The bright sunshine of Heaven played on her countenance and her heart belonged 
to Heaven and Christ long before she went away.  I would not feel that this 
unworthy tribute was complete unless I made mention of the devotion which has 
been shown her in her last years.  Some of her dear ones have been with her 
constantly and their kind hands have ministered to her very tenderly and 
beautifully.  God will surely reward them for their faithfulness."