Bosque County: Land and People (A History of Bosque County, Texas) Page: 123
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(John), Karl Johan, Corneal Joseph, and
Gina (Mollie) Amalia. They are all buried in
Norse Cemetery, except Annie Nystel, who is
buried at Seventh-Day Adventist Cemetery
nearby.
by Mrs. Orin L. (Tessie Seedig) Lund
ANZ, CHARLIE A. FAMILY
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Charlie A. Anz Family: (L-R): Franklin, Charlie
Anz (seated), J.C., Alice Anz (seated) with grand-
son, Dennis O'dell Dahl on lap, Dorothy; Back
Row-NoraDell, Delbert, Rosa Lee (Dahl).
Charlie A. Anz (1897-1973) was a life-long
resident of Bosque County. He was a son of
Edward Anz (1851-1925) and Annie Groff
(1851-1930), pioneers from Switzerland.
When his parents came to the United States
they settled in the China Springs area. His
father was a sheepherder and his mother was
a cook for Mr. and Mrs. Sanger. The Sanger
Brothers owned a sewing factory in Waco.
They lived there several years before moving
to St. Louis, Missouri, about 1881 or 1882.
Staying there only a short while, they moved
to Bosque County to the Womack commu-
nity. Edward and Annie Anz had ten chil-
dren: Oscar, Joe, Henry, Ernest, Minnie,
Walter, Robert, Ida, Charlie and Ted. All
were born in Bosque County except Oscar. He
was born in St. Louis, Missouri. Edward and
Annie Anz were now farming and at one time
owned several hundred acres of land in the
Womack area.
Charlie Anz was born, baptized, and grew
up in the Womack community. He spent few
years in school because the children then had
to help with farm work from the time they
were very young.
In 1917, when he was twenty years old, he
married Alice Lena Meinkowsky. Alice was
born in 1898, in Washington County, halfway
between Brenham and Burton. She was a
daughter of Joseph Meinkowsky (1859-1938)
and Anna Caroline Sydow (1858-1915), set-
tlers from Germany. Charlie and Alice were
married in the parsonage at Womack by Rev.
Theodore Pfundt.
The first year of marriage they lived on the
Ernest Johle farm east of Clifton, now owned
by Ruth Arnold. They then moved to Wo-
mack to live on a farm owned by his father.
This farm had three houses on it. Two of
Charlie's brothers lived there also and they
all farmed the land. Charlie would get up
about one o'clock in the morning, every other
day, to haul water with a wagon and team of
horses from the Greenwade Ranch, to water
the stock on the farm, before he went to work
in the fields. Work was hard and peopleworked from sun-up to sun-down in the fields
to provide a living. Most of the time the
women worked with their husbands in the
fields, taking their small children with them.
When they took the small children to the
fields, they would often pull one on their
cotton sack when picking cotton or when
hoeing corn, they would be pulling one along
behind them in a little wagon tied to a rope
around their waist.
While they were living on his father's farm,
the four oldest children were born: Rosa Lee
(1919), Delbert (1920), NoraDell (1922-
1956), and Harold (1924). In 1925 they moved
to a farm in the Mosheim area. The next year
they moved to the Elif Moore farm about four
miles east of Clifton. The oldest children
attended Pleasant Hill School, near the farm
where they lived. While living on this farm,
the last four children were born: Clarence
(1927), J.C. (1931), Dorothy (1933), and
Franklin (1935). Several of the younger
children went to Womack School and later to
Clifton School. They lived on the Elif Moore
farm about twenty-one years. For the next
twenty odd years they lived on several
different farms in Bosque County.
Years after Charlie and his brothers were
grown and married they would talk and laugh
about the time they asked their father for
money. He took his pocketbook from his
pocket, showed them there was no money in
it, threw it into Childress Creek and let it
float down the creek.
Mr. and Mrs. Anz were blessed with
twenty-two grandchildren (three deceased),
twenty great-grandchildren, and five step-
grandchildren (one deceased).
Due to Mr. Anz's failing health, they
moved into Clifton in 1972. He lived only a
short while after moving, and died in 1973.
Mrs. Anz still resides in Clifton.
by Dorothy Anz HumphriesANZ, HAROLD B. FAMILY
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Harold B. Anz was born October 9. 1924 in
the Womack area. Harold is the son of
Charlie A. Anz (1897-1973) and Alice Lena
Meinkowsky (1898). He grew up in the
Bosque County area on a farm near Clifton
and attended Pleasant Hill School, located
four miles east of Clifton. It was a country
school with only eight grades. He helped his
father on the farm east of Clifton, until he
entered military service in 1943. He served in
the European Theater, spending most of his
military time in Germany and France. Harold
returned to the United States and was
discharged in December, 1945.
On June 16, 1946, Harold Anz married
Margie Nell Erickson, daughter of Bernt L.
Erickson and Alice Olena Lund, of the
Harmony community. Margie grew up on her
parents farm at Harmony. She attended
school at Harmony the first four grades, then
went to Clifton School, graduating in 1945.
She also attended Clifton College for one
year.
After marriage Harold farmed for a few
years, then began work at General Tire and
Rubber Company in Waco. He has worked
there the past twenty-nine years.
Harold and Margie have four children: two
sons and two daughters. Sandra, the oldestMargie and Harold Anz, 1946.
daughter, was born May 8, 1947. Gary, the
second child and oldest son was born January
15, 1950. Marsha, the third child, was born
December 15, 1954, and Roger, the youngest
child, was born November 18, 1959. There are
also three grandchildren in the family: Ange-
la Walker, born August 8, 1964; Tracey
Walker, born September 11, 1969. Both are
daughters of Sandra Walker of Clifton.
Adriane Anz, born May 27, 1980, is the
daughter of Gary and Roby Anz, also of
Clifton.
Harold and Margie reside on their farm, on
Route One, three miles east of Clifton.
by Margie Erickson Anz
ANZ-KIND FAMILIES
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Joe Anz Family Back: Andrew, Emilie Ida, Flora,
Chris (Buddy) Front: Jesse L., Joe Anz (father),
Mary Anz (mother), Victoria
In the year of 1879, my great-grandfather,
Edward Anz and great grandmother, Anna
Maria Graf Anz, came from Germany to the
United States, settling first in the state of
Missouri. In 1881, the first of six sons, Oscar,
was born in Missouri. Some time between
1881 and 1883 they moved to Texas, settling
in the Chase community east of Clifton. In
April of 1883 their second son, Henry. was
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