Johana  Schlick

Johana Schlick was born in 1836 in Hanover which was then an independent kingdom whose monarch also was one and same as William IV of England.   At this time I can not find my father's notes that should give her family name and other details.  By 1857 when her first Daughter, Emma, was born  she had immigrated to the United States and was in New York, married to an August Schlick who was also a recent German immigrant.  Three years later they were in Texas. 

 I remember back about 1975 I was handling some legal work that require research in the County Clerks Office in Brenham Texas.  My father asked me to look up the recording of the US Citizenship papers of the husband, August Schlick.  He gave me the citation details, and sure enough it was there.  

This was the days before the creation of the I.N.S.  Immigrants became citizens by appearing before the county Clerk where they resided and taking an oath denouncing loyalty to their former country and swearing  loyalty to the United States. The oath involved several hundred words.  August Schlick appeared on a day early in 1860 just before the succession of  Texas from the Union.  He was one of some twenty German immigrant males.  Each in turn took the oath which was attested to by two citizens.    The poor clerk that day had his work cut out for him.  He had the task of hand writing into the record the 200 word oath of each of the new citizens.   His hand and spirit must have been quite sore by the time that task was completed.

August and Johana lived in Central Texas near Waco during the 1860's and early 70's.  Lula Schlick Arnold, his daughter, spoke of her father as a gunsmith by trade and she indicated that he practiced this trade in Texas during the war years.  The Schlicks were the parents of four girls.  In addition to the Emma Schlick born in New York about 1857 there were three more born in Texas, Sophia (Sophie) Schlick (born about 1864), Anna Schlick (about 1868) and Louise (Lula) Schlick (1873).  

August Schlick died about 1875 the apparent victim of an acute appendicitis attack against which 1870's Texas medicine had no power to respond.  Johana then moved her brood to San Antonio.  The eldest daughter married a Stone carver named Odo (Otto) Zirkel, an immigrant from Saxony.  At the time of the 1880 census Johana and her three younger girls, Sophia, Anna, and Lula were living with Odo and Emma (Schlick) Zirkel and their year old daughter, Estella (Stella) in San Antonio.    Sophie married a man named Schneider and the couple had several children and lived in San Antonio for the remainder of their lives.  Lula, the youngest daughter, married Edward Arnold to whom readers have already been introduced.

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Both pictures were taken during a 1913 family vacation at     Corpus Christi, Texas. This vacation will be featured in detail in a later section.  

What the first picture of Grandma Schlick lost in facial details is more than compensated for by the almost perfect composition framed by the photographer probably Edward Arnold in whose album  the picture was found.  The second picture was cropped and enlarged from a 20 person group picture which will appear in its  entirety in a later chapter.

August and Julia Arnold about 1912

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This Burnet Street House about 1966 before it was torn down.

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Tomb Stone of Julia and August Arnold

august AND JULIA

ARNOLD

The Edward Arnold who you met in the last section was a son of August and Juliana (Julia) Gemmecker Arnold.    August was born on April 20, 1834 in the German Rhineland state of Baden coming to America as a young man of 19.  He first settled in the New Albany, Indiana area..  Juliana, apparently called Julia in her later life  was born in "Germany" November 27, 1837 coming to America with her parents 8 years later. In the new world, her parents farmed about 20 miles from New Albany.  The couple married in 1858.  

In the late 1850's August Arnold  became a Methodist Minister.  Before the Civil war began he and his wife had moved South to Louisana.  The couples' first son, William Arnold was born at Carrollton La July 27, 1859.  Arnold was the minister at a church there.  When the war began in the spring of 1861 the couple had moved to New Orleans where Arnold served a church a few blocks from the river front.   Julia went up river to Louisville, Kentucky  where one of her sisters lived.  A daughter, Mary was born there on Oct 3, 1861.    August  followed  to Louisville in 1862.

By 1864 when another daughter, Mary was born on Oct, 16th the couple had again relocated back to New Albany Indiana.  August apparently served Methodist Churches in that area and the couple's last four children were born there.  These included  Lydia (Oct 29, 1864), Charles August Arnold (June 17, 1868). Edward (July 23, 1870), and Amelia Margaret (Dec 11, 1873)

In 1874 the Family moved to Texas.  August administered to several churches in Central Texas in the Waco and  Industry area, and by 1877 moved further South where he was Minister at a Methodist Church at San Geronimo near Seguin which is about 40 miles east of  San Antonio.  

By 1879 August Arnold seems to have given up the active ministry.  The family moved to San Antonio where they lived in a house on Cherry Street.  In 1880 the August Arnold family was one of six families who became charter members of First Evangelical Association church in San Antonio.  August became a merchant of a sort packaging and selling products like yeast, cotton seed oil, and horse radish  (see copies of Advertisements for August Arnold products below).  

In the early 1880's August acquired a lot at 215 Burnet Street and built a small frame house where they lived from 1883 for the remainder of their lives.   Julia died February 27, 1916.  August Arnold died June 26, 1918.  Both are buried in an old family plot in City Cemetery #4 on Commerce Street a few blocks from their Burnet Street home.  

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The above biographical sketch on Juliana and August Arnold is from recollections of  Charles A. Arnold in the Notes of Harold Henry Arnold. 

The advertising,  tomb stone, and Burnet St. house pictures  are from files of Harold Henry Arnold, separate from the Edward Arnold Photo album.  Other Links to August Arnold:

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