The story of Mrs. Strohacker's life, like those of most of the pioneer women of this part of Texas, is one replete with the usual hardships and privations-all bravely borne-which were the common lot of all who took part in the early struggle which wrested this portion of Texas from marauding Indians, and converted in into the fine and flourishing country it is today.
Indeed, some of the circumstances of Mrs. Strohacker's early life were of a more trying kind than those which fell to the average pioneer family of that period. Born in Udorf in Fuerstenthum, Waldeck, Germany, April 5, 1844, she came of a good family named Schladoer. In June, 1853, she was brought to America by her mother, who with a family of four children left Germany in that year to join her husband who had come to Texas a couple of years before.
When the mother and her little ones landed at Galveston, where she expected to meet her husband, no trace of him could be found, and it was finally assumed that he had been killed for the money which he was known to have carried on his person.
The slender funds which Mrs. Schladoer had brought with her soon became the spoils of designing persons, and the family finding itself without money, made its way with much hardship to Comfort where F. H. Schladoer, a brother of the missing man, gave them a home, but one without any of the comforts they had known in the old country.
In 1860 Christiane Schladoer was married to Louis Strohacker of Comfort and lived happily with him until her death-a period of more than 56 years. There were four children born of their marriage.
Indeed, some of the circumstances of Mrs. Strohacker's early life were of a more trying kind than those which fell to the average pioneer family of that period. Born in Udorf in Fuerstenthum, Waldeck, Germany, April 5, 1844, she came of a good family named Schladoer. In June, 1853, she was brought to America by her mother, who with a family of four children left Germany in that year to join her husband who had come to Texas a couple of years before.
When the mother and her little ones landed at Galveston, where she expected to meet her husband, no trace of him could be found, and it was finally assumed that he had been killed for the money which he was known to have carried on his person.
The slender funds which Mrs. Schladoer had brought with her soon became the spoils of designing persons, and the family finding itself without money, made its way with much hardship to Comfort where F. H. Schladoer, a brother of the missing man, gave them a home, but one without any of the comforts they had known in the old country.
In 1860 Christiane Schladoer was married to Louis Strohacker of Comfort and lived happily with him until her death-a period of more than 56 years. There were four children born of their marriage.
The story of Mrs. Strohacker's life, like those of most of the pioneer women of this part of Texas, is one replete with the usual hardships and privations-all bravely borne-which were the common lot of all who took part in the early struggle which wrested this portion of Texas from marauding Indians, and converted in into the fine and flourishing country it is today.
Indeed, some of the circumstances of Mrs. Strohacker's early life were of a more trying kind than those which fell to the average pioneer family of that period. Born in Udorf in Fuerstenthum, Waldeck, Germany, April 5, 1844, she came of a good family named Schladoer. In June, 1853, she was brought to America by her mother, who with a family of four children left Germany in that year to join her husband who had come to Texas a couple of years before.
When the mother and her little ones landed at Galveston, where she expected to meet her husband, no trace of him could be found, and it was finally assumed that he had been killed for the money which he was known to have carried on his person.
The slender funds which Mrs. Schladoer had brought with her soon became the spoils of designing persons, and the family finding itself without money, made its way with much hardship to Comfort where F. H. Schladoer, a brother of the missing man, gave them a home, but one without any of the comforts they had known in the old country.
In 1860 Christiane Schladoer was married to Louis Strohacker of Comfort and lived happily with him until her death-a period of more than 56 years. There were four children born of their marriage.
Indeed, some of the circumstances of Mrs. Strohacker's early life were of a more trying kind than those which fell to the average pioneer family of that period. Born in Udorf in Fuerstenthum, Waldeck, Germany, April 5, 1844, she came of a good family named Schladoer. In June, 1853, she was brought to America by her mother, who with a family of four children left Germany in that year to join her husband who had come to Texas a couple of years before.
When the mother and her little ones landed at Galveston, where she expected to meet her husband, no trace of him could be found, and it was finally assumed that he had been killed for the money which he was known to have carried on his person.
The slender funds which Mrs. Schladoer had brought with her soon became the spoils of designing persons, and the family finding itself without money, made its way with much hardship to Comfort where F. H. Schladoer, a brother of the missing man, gave them a home, but one without any of the comforts they had known in the old country.
In 1860 Christiane Schladoer was married to Louis Strohacker of Comfort and lived happily with him until her death-a period of more than 56 years. There were four children born of their marriage.
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