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Blumberg-Ruff - Carl Blumberg and Katharine Ruff - Brief bio



Carl Blumberg was born on 12 September 1845. He signed a contract with the Verein Zum Schutz Deutcher Einwanderer to bring his family to Texas. Carl, his wife Katherine Ruff Blumberg, and his family, except for son August, sailed from Bremer Hafen on 7 or 8 October 1845 for Texas on the Neptune. They reached Galveston on November 25, 1845.

Carl and Katherine were the parents of seven children: Albertine Louisa, Julius Ferdinand, August, Henriette, Friedrich A., Ernst and Hulda. The family settled in Schummansville in Guadalupe County.
Carl Blumberg died 5 November 1853 of Yellow Fever. He is buried in the Schummansville Cemetery.

Passenger list from Geue, Chester W., and Ethel Hander Geue, compilers. A New Land Beckoned: German Immigration to Texas 1844-1847 (1966). 
Texas, Index Card Collections, 1800-1900, Schumannsville And the Schumannsville Cemetery by Walter F. Rudeloff 1985. 
1850 US census records, Guadalupe County, Texas, NARA M432, roll 910, Page 291B.
Blumberg, C. F. The Carl F. and Catherine Ruff Blumberg Klan Book. New Braunfels: New Braunfels Zeitung Print, 1938.

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