The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 2, July 1898 - April, 1899 Page: 214
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214 Texas Historical Association Quarterly.
no longer occupied Texas soil, and their subsequent hostilities were
perpetrated only on incursions into our country.
Mr. Sterne at different times filled the civil offices of justice of
the peace, county commissioner, post master, and state senator. He
also held a commission (yet in possession of his family) signed by
Sam Houston, President of the Republic of Texas, appointing him
on the presidential staff, with the rank of major. He was an
original member of the Grand Lodge of Texas, A. F. & A. M. He
helped to organize it, on December 20th, 1837, and was then elected
deputy grand master.5
As to Mr. Sterne's religion, he was identified with the Roman
Catholic Church, his mother and his wife both being devoted mem-
bers thereof.
My father, Abraham Zuber, became acquainted with Adolphus
Sterne in 1827, and was ever afterward his warm personal friend.
I myself never saw him; but I have gathered the substance of the
following description of his character from what I have heard my
father and other friends say of him.
In address and conversation, he was courteous, social, cheerful,
and refined. In temper, he was mild; in principle, pure; in pur-
pose, firm; in patriotism, devoted; in statement, candid; in business,
honorable; in friendship, faithful. Of course, he was beloved and
honored by those who were so fortunate as to know him personally.
Captain Sterne died in New Orleans, in March, 1852, at the age
of fifty-two years, and about two months. In April of the same
year, his remains were removed to his home at Nacogdoches, and
there buried.
Captain Sterne was blessed with a model wife. Mrs. Eva Cathe-
rine Rosine Sterne, nde Ruff, was born at Eslenger, kingdom of Wur-
temberg, Germany, July 23d, 1809. Of the date of her immigration
to America, I have no account. Her marriage to Adolphus Sterne
occurred at Natchitoches, Louisiana, June 2d, 1828, when she was
not quite nineteen years old. Thenceforth her home was in Nacog-
doches, till 1859. Mrs. Sterne was a Christian lady, a devoted
Catholic, and distinguished for her plainness, sociability, consci-
entiousness, discretion, and firmness; for devotion to her husband
and children, and to their friends; also for her hospitality, charity,
5 See Sayles' Masonic Jurisprudence of Texas, 4th Ed. pp. 218-19.
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