The cemetery is incorrectly shown on the county map published by the Texas Highway Dept. It is shown on the wrong (east) side of the dry creekbed, in a location where a Weidner Cemetery is located, and is labeled with a slight misspelling on the map (Schlater). The actual Schlather Cemetery is located on the west side of the dry creekbed, a little further north than the Weidner Cemetery.
CONTENTS: The cemetery seems to hold just a few graves belonging to the (Johann) Adam Schlather family and descendants, along with other earlier residents (Krueger, Luehlfing).
GRAVESTONE INFORMATION: an attempt has been made to duplicate the
lettering, spelling, and punctuation found on the stones, but this cannot
be reproduced exactly. Some symbols are described with notes in parentheses.
______________________________ _______________________________________Note: (Johann) Adam Schlather was born in Jebenhausen, Oberamt (county) Göppingen, Württemburg (as were many of his siblings, some of which emigrated to Texas). A small district by this name still exists just south of the modern city of Göppingen in the German province of Baden-Württemburg. His parents moved the family in 1831 to Lorch (where additional siblings were born) and then again in 1837 to Brainkofen, which are small villages in the adjacent former Oberamt Gmünd (villages with these names still exist today near the modern city of Schwäbisch Gmünd just northeast of Göppingen). Kleinbottwar (of former Oberamt Marbach) is another small village some distance northwest of Schwäbisch Gmünd on the other side of the modern city of Backnang, just north of Marbach. Johann Adam and family emigrated in 1854, and their son (John Adam) below seems to have been born prior to this emigration.
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| Auf Wiedersehen | | Hier Ruht |
| (clasping hands) | | (clasping hands) |
| ADAM SCHLATHER | | ANNA MARIE |
| Geboren | | SCHLATHER |
| Feb. 28, 1827 | | Geb. SCHIDDENHEM |
| in lebenhaussen | | Geb. 14.Oct, 1823 |
| Oberamt Goeppingen, | | in KLEINBOTTWAR KREIS |
| Koenigreich Wuertemburg | | MARBACH KOENIGREICH |
| Gestorben | | WUERTEMBURG |
| Maerz 10, 1887 | | Gest. 9.Jan 1911. |
| | | Ruhe sanft in frieden |
| --- | | Schlaf sanft wer wie Du |
| | | Im Leben gingst des rechtes Foechrte |
| Sanft ruhe in Frieden | | Den flieht im Grabe nicht die Ruh |
| | | Schwer lastet nicht auf Ihin Die Erde |
| | | Vergessen sollst Du, niemals sein |
|______________________________| |_______________________________________|
_____________________________ _________________Note: Mrs. Anna Krueger was the daughter of Gustav & Karolina Schmidt, who lived near the area known today as Specht's Store. Anna's mother and some siblings are buried in St. Paulus Evangelical Lutheran (aka Serold) Cemetery on the south bank of Cibolo Creek southwest of Bulverde (which places it in extreme northern Bexar Co.).
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| HIER RUHET | | HIER RUHET |
| SOPHIE | | JOHN ADAM |
| SCHLATHER | | SCHLATHER |
| Geb. EICKMANN | | GEB. |
| GEB. | | DEC. 4, 1853 |
| MAERZ 8, 1854 | | In Deutschland |
| Zu Wettmar, | | GEST. |
| Hanover, | | DEC. 22, 1941 |
| In Deutschland | | ----- |
| GEST. | | |
| JAN. 15, 1900 | | |
| ----- | | |
| Auf Wiedersehen | | |
| | | |
| Ruhe Sanft nach schweren | | |
| Leiden, Hier in dieser Erde | | |
| aus, Bis auf unbestimmte | | |
| Zeiten Gott dich ruft | | |
| ins Vaterhaus | | |
|_____________________________| |_________________|
_____________________________________ ____________________________________________
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| SCHLATHER | | F. PAULINE SCHLATHER |
| MOTHER FATHER | | SEPT. 16, 1880 |
| Amanda Edwin | | JAN. 14, 1962 |
| Jan 17, 1885 July 7, 1882 | | daughter of Mr. & Mrs. John A. Schlather |
| May 29, 1946 Aug. 2, 1934 | | |
|_____________________________________| |____________________________________________|
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| |
| MIRIAM |
| SCHLATHER |
| GEB.& GEST. |
| OKT. 10, 1924 |
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|_________________|
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| Hier Ruht Hier Ruht |
| CAROLINA HEINRICH F. |
| LUEHLFING LUEHLFING |
| GEB. WOEHLER GEB. |
| GEB. SEPT. 17, 1844 |
| JULI 27, 1846 in Bissendorf, Hanover |
| In Scherenbostel, Hanover GEST. |
| GEST. SEPT. 23, 1919 |
| SEPT. 9, 1894 |
| ---------- ----------- |
| Das stille Grab, erschrecht Selig sind die todten |
| den Frommen nicht die in den Herrn sterben |
| Er hofft auf Gott und Denn Ihre werke |
| fuerchtet Kein Gericht folgen inhen nach |
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| MUTTER VATER |
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|___________________________________________________________|
________________________________________ _____________________________________
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| KRUEGER | | (KRUEGER) |
| ANNA WILLIAM | | GERTRUDE BERTHOLD |
| JAN 13, 1872 DEC. 29, 1861 | | Geb. Geb. |
| FEB. 9, 1963 FEB. 18, 1926 | | Mai 27, 1908 Mai 27, 1908 |
| | | Gest. Gest. |
| | | Aug. 28, 1912 Sept. 1, 1912 |
|________________________________________| |_____________________________________|
Documented by Christian D. Kneupper.