The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 48, July 1944 - April, 1945 Page: 147
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Captain Charles Schreiner
former Charlotte Bippert, and five children, Gustave Adolph,
Jr., Fritz, Aime, Charles, and Emile, to make a new start in
life. The daughter, Emile, wrote the following many years
later relative to that trip: "We traveled to Strasbourg and then to
Paris, visited our relatives and took in the sights, then went
on over to Havre, where we had to wait for weeks for our
ship, which took us to New Orleans, from there per steamer
to Galveston and finally to Indianola, from there we had to
go in a mule team to San Antonio, where we arrived on the
23rd. day of September, 1852, after many hardships."5
What happened to the Schreiner family after making its
way across almost half the world to Texas? First, tragedy
overtook the group soon after settling in San Antonio, when
in exactly eighteen days after first reaching his final destina-
tion, Dr. Schreiner died. The trip had been too much for
him, and like his father, he died in the prime of life at the
age of fifty-two. He left his widow with five children, which
was quite a responsibility for a stranger in a foreign land.
But the opportunities in this new land were numerous for
those who could take advantage of them. In 1857 another
shadow fell across the family threshold when the mother died
at the age of forty-eight.
After the death of their mother the five children went their
separate ways. Each of them lived to a ripe old age, with the
exception of Aime. He met death at the hands of vigilantes
in 1862 while trying to make his way to Mexico with a party
of seventy-five or eighty men in the expectation of eventually
joining forces with the North in the War Between the States.
The party was ambushed on the Nueces River somewhere in
Edwards County in 1862. These men were sympathetic with
the Northern cause and consequently found themselves in dis-
agreement with a majority of their neighbors. Had they not
delayed so long they could have easily reached the border
before their enemies could have overtaken them. There were
several loyal Texans in those days who were not sympathetic
to secession, and no less a person than Sam Houston "resigned"
from the governorship in protest to the actions of the State
Secession Convention. Today a monument near Comfort, Texas,
marks the graves of those men who were ambushed. As most
of them were from the area near Comfort, the people of that
5Letter to Aime Schreiner from Mrs. Emile Real, August 24, 1914.147
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