Typed by: Theresa Carhart
Rudolf Adolf Abel
Surnames: ABEL, LOCKE, QUANDT, NIEMEYER, NEUMANN, POLSTER,
GRUBE, KOERTH, DREWS
Rudolf Afolf
Abel, b May 18, 1899 in Falls County, Texas, d 1964 and buried in St. Paul
Cemetery, Falls County, Texas -- was a son of William Herman and Augusta Amalie
(Locke) Abel. On February 20, 1924 in
the St. Paul Community a few miles north of Marlin, Texas, Rudolf married Hulda
Quandt b April 23, 1903 in Warrenton, Fayette County, Texas, d January 23, 1939
and buried in St. Paul Cemetery -- a daughter of William and Maria (Lemke)
Quandt who brought their family to Falls County in 1914.
Rudolf Adolf and
Hulda (Quandt) Abel were the parents of four children -- all born in Falls
County, Texas:
Elsie Marie
Abel, b January 12, 1925--married November 19,1947 in Marlin, Texas to John
Arthur Niemeyer, Jr., b June 4, 1925 in Wiemar, Texas -- a son of John Arthur
and Martha (Locke) Niemeyer. They were the parents of five children.
Lorene Abel, b April
9, 1927--married December 17, 1952 in Marlin, Texas to Theodore Daniel Rudolph
Emil Neumann, b January 30, 1918 in Falls County -- a son of Robert and Clara
(Drews) Neumann. They had four children.
Arthur Ruben
Abel, b December 10,1929 -- married June 5, 1955 in the St. Paul Evangelical and
Reformed Church in Falls County, Texas, to Margaret Dorothy Posster, b June 15,
1936 -- a daughter of Herman Emil and Rosella Sophie Annie (Grube) Polster. They
had one daughter.
Helen Abel,
b May 12, 1936 -- married December 27, 1957 in the St. Paul United Church of
Christ (formerly the Evangelical and Reformed Church) in Falls County, Texas to
William Charles Habel, b August 14, 1933 in Mooreville, Falls County, Texas -- a
son of Charles and Lillie (Koerth) Habel. They are the parents of two sons.
Rudolf and Hulda
were members of the St. Paul Evangelical and Reformed Church in the St. Paul
Community of Falls County.
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