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community removed the remains of their fellow citizens several
years later from Edwards County to their present site."
What eventually happened to the other brothers and sisters?
Gustave Adolph, Jr.,7 soon moved to California to make a
fortune in gold mining. He suffered misfortune, however, and
lost his wealth, only to make another fortune and lose it also.
He eventually came to Kerrville to manage one of Captain
Schreiner's ranches. But he was on the move again after six
or seven years of the quiet ranch life of Western Texas.
Shortly after 1900 he was reported as having died in Central
America. The cause of his death has remained a mystery to
this day. Captain Schreiner once sent his son Charles to Central
America to investigate the circumstances surrounding Gustave
Adolph's death. But Charles had too good a time in New Orleans
and unfortunately spent all of his money before embarking.
Consequently, he returned home none the wiser as far as his
uncle's death was concerned.
Captain Schreiner's other brother, Fritz, died in San Antonio
in 1898, and his sister, Emile, lived until after 1920. She married
Casper Real in 1853 and raised a family of eight children.
Real was one of the foremost men of his time in Southwest
Texas. It was he who brought the first flock of sheep to Kerr-
ville; he eventually became a very wealthy man before his
death in 1893.
Charles Schreiner was the fourth of the five children. He
had been born on February 22, 1838, in the family ancestral
Castle of Reichestein and was only fourteen years of age at
the time of his father's death in San Antonio. Much of the
family responsibility soon rested upon his shoulders.
Two years after the death of his father, he joined a company
of Texas Rangers, while still a mere boy in terms of years. His
formal education, which had begun in France before coming to
America, was terminated therefore in San Antonio at the age
of sixteen. With the famous frontier organization Charles
Schreiner served with distinction from 1854 to 1857. It was
while he was in Ranger service that he first became acquainted
6This story was told to Gene Hollon, February 4, 1944, by Mr. Gus
Schreiner, son of the late Captain Charles Schreiner.
tAs far as it is able to be ascertained there was not a single generation
of Schreiners from the seventeenth to the twentieth century in which one
member did not bear the name "Gustave Adolph."
8Kerr County: The History Compiled by Students of Franklin Junior
High School (Kerrville, 1931).148
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