Reichenau Cemetery

REICHENAU CEMETERY
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Kay Reichenau Ponder
hkponder <[email protected]>

Located in Simonsville, Mason County, Texas. It is located in a cyclone wire fence about 250 yards from the county road, that runs between the original homesteads of Adolph Albert and Adolph Jacob Reichenau. It is about 100 feet from the road to Dayton Reichenau’s house. It is located on Dayton Reichenau’s property which was formerly the homestead of his grandfather Adolph Jacob Reichenau.

Hier Ruht Katherine Reichenau born May 11, 1830 - Feb. 13 1877
[This was the first grave in the cemetery. This in German. She has a tall tombstone that has been broken and repaired. Katherine was the first wife of Adolph Albert Reichenau. Katherine Arhelger Reichenau was born to Johann Jakob and Elizabeth Mueller Arhelger and was among the first German settlers in Fredericksburg in 1846.]

Mary Keller
Sept. 3, 1884
Aug. 18, 1887
[Mary was the child of Emma Reichenau and Adolph Keller. She was buried between her grandmother Katherine and grandfather Adolph Reichenau. ]

Johanna Henrietta Moldenhauer nee Warnke born Germany- Mother of Johanna Reichenau
[She was born Nov. 5, 1849 in Germany and died after 1882. Her grave was marked with a low concrete wall around it but had no stone. A marker was placed on her grave by her great-great granddaughter,Kay Reichenau Ponder and her husband, Norman on May 29, 2001. ]

Christina Reichenau in unmarked grave
[ Christina was born and died in 1880. She was the oldest child of Adolph and Johanna Moldenhauer Reichenau. This is an unmarked grave. Hugo Robert Reichenau her brother showed the spot to his granddaughter Kay and told her his sister was buried there. It is between the graves of Katherine Arhelger Reichenau and Johanna Henrietta Moldenhauer. ]

Baby May 30, 1901
[This is the infant son of Adolph Jacob and Anna Katherine Schmidt Reichenau. The grave is located next to Johanna Moldenhauer’s grave. ]

Double Tombstone with a low concrete wall around it
                    REICHENAU
Adolph A.                            Johanna
Nov. 16, 1824                Nov. 6, 1849
Dec. 24, 1906                 April 4, 1943
                              Rest in Peace

[His dates are wrong on the tombstone. He died in 1904 his birthdate that could be 1822, 1823, or 1824. Johanna Wilhelmina Christina Moldenhauer Reichenau was born in Bilderluhe, Hanover Germany to Christian Conrad and Johanna Henrietta Warnke Moldenhauer.]

Herman Adolf Reichenau Oct.9,1924
[This is the infant son of Benno Conrad and Lyndia Lange Reichenau. He is buried inside the concrete wall with his grandparents Adolph J. and Anna Katherine Schmidt Reichenau.]

Double marker with a low concrete wall around their graves and that of their grandson Herman’s grave.
                 REICHENAU
Adolf J.                   Anna Katherine
Nov. 17, 1850          Nov. 18, 1859
March 28, 1920        Jan 23, 1935
[Anna Katherine Schmidt was the oldest child of Frederick Johann George and Katherine Simon Schmidt.]

Double marker with a low concrete wall around it.
         REICHENAU
Benno                   Lyndia
March 1, 1893     Jan 1, 1900
Feb. 8, 1986         June 25, 1991
[Lyndia Lange Reichenau was the daughter of Herman and Anna Pope/Pape Lange.]

Low concrete wall around these three graves.
Bertha Reichenau
Dec. 1, 1893
Jan 20, 1924
[Bertha was the first wife of Willie Reichenau. Bertha Itz was the daughter of William and Anna Welgehausen Itz. ]

flower

     Reichenau
Willie                  Mary
Jan 30, 1886        Feb 20, 1892
Dec 9, 1959         Sept 18, 1976
[William Mathews “Willie” Reichenau and his second wife Mary nee Agricola McNabb. ]

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