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Submitted: 10/21/22 • Approved: 10/21/22 • Last Updated: 10/24/22 • R542910-G0-S3
Born October 15, 1815
Martinsthal, Hessen, Germany
Died February 16, 1901 (aged 85)
Comal County, Texas
From the Cypress Spring POA website, courtesy of Rod Young:
https://www.cypresssprings.org/
"A significant portion of Spring Branch (known today as the Cypress Springs development) that borders the Guadalupe River was first settled by German native Adam Becker (1815-1901). Becker journeyed to Texas in 1845 to join Prince Carl of Solms-Braunfels in establishing a colony on behalf of the Adelsverien, also knows as the German Emigration Company. Becker contributed to the building of Fredericksburg, Texas, and assisted with other aspects of the colony. He married Elizabeth Monken and by 1852 had established his homestead on what is now Phantom Rider Trail in Spring Branch. On his homestead he raised cattle. The house he built for his family, which was privately restored in the first decade of the 21st century, was constructed of locally quarried stone and hand-hewn cypress from the banks of the nearby Guadalupe River. Adam Becker became a United States Citizen in 1860 and upon his death in 1901 was buried in the cemetery on his homestead. The headstone is located on the back end of the original property, not at the family cemetery."
*Photo and information courtesy of Chris Kneupper
Contributed on 10/21/22
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Record #: 542910