Guadalupe County Texas Archives Biographies.....Doege, Hermann Karl Julius January 25, 1860 - March 3, 1931
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Hermann was born in the Town of Falkenburg, Germany on the Ober River on the 
25th of January 1860 to Johanna Karl Doege and Wilhelmina Rask.  He was 
baptized on the 7th of February 1860 in Falkenburg, Germany.
Hermann took Bertha Freitag of Brickholz, Germany, daughter of Samuel 
Ferdinand Freitag and Johanna Caroline Schwanz as his bride.  They were 
married on the 10th of September 1878 in Comal County, Texas by Pastor Oakar 
Samuns.  During this marriage they were blessed with three children: Augusta 
Erna Louisa, Heinrich Franz Reinhold and Emil Franz Heinrich.  There were 
several more children born to this couple but they died at an early age.  
Together in 1884, Hermann and Bertha bought 272 acres if land for $2400.50 
with a down payment of $900.50.  Later in 1886 they purchased an additional 
160 acres where the family of five lived until the death of Bertha.
After 2 1/2 years without a wife Hermann married Augusta Teresa Luise Muller 
on the 2nd of September 1890 in Guadalupe County, Texas.  There were two sons 
born of this marriage:  Wilhelm Franz Richard and Julius Hermann Otto.  
Augusta died on the 25th of August 1897.
On the 21st of July 1898 Hermann married Amelia Schmidt in Guadalupe County, 
Texas.  There were two adopted children:  Gustave C Koepp and Erna Adela 
Wilhelmine Koepp, and seven children from this marriage:  Albert Franz Herman, 
Bertha Augusta Emilyn, Franz Richard Kar, Fritz Walter, Linda Augusta 
Wilhelmine, Walter Heinrich Herman and Earnest Herman.  Hermann lived in 
Guadalupe County, Texas until his death on the 3rd of March, 1931.  He is 
buried in the Christ Lutheran of Elm Creek Cemetery.

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