Lucy Roscher

Lucy Roscher
Born - 1856
Died - 1890

Photo Credit: Rosa G. Gonzales

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Biography

Lucy was the daughter of George and Hannah Gould/Gold whose parents came to south Texas from what was then Prussia.  They are listed as early as the 1850 census of Nueces County (page 137) where George reports his work as that of a watchmaker.  George usually listed himself as from Germany or Bavaria.  Lucy first appears in the 1860 census (p. 283B) where she is reported as a 4 year old girl under the name of "Lathia".  In the 1870 census she is listed under the name of "Louisa" (p. 156).  She married under the name "Louisa Gould" to Ernest Roscher on 23 November 1874 (Nueces County Marriage Records, volume D page 128).  Ernest was a young native of Saxony in Prussia and was a cabinet maker and artisan.  In the 1880 census records of Nueces County, his wife is now listed as "Lucy", a native Texan whose parents are from "Bavaria" (p. 17A).  Already she has two children—Lillie and Matilda.  By the time of her death in 1890, Lucy Roscher had had seven children: Matilda (Mrs. D. A. Darby), Hanna Caroline, Lillie, Edgar, Herman, Lucy E., and little Charles (her first-born who died the same year he was born—in 1875).  Lucy was laid to rest in Old Bayview Cemetery next to her infant son Charles when she died in 1890, and sixteen years later her husband Ernest was interred by her side.  Other children of Lucy were also buried in Old Bayview: Matilda Roscher-Darby died in 1911), Hannah C. (died 1907), Lucy E. (died in 1940), and Lillie (died in 1920).  Their descendents are still to be found in the Corpus Christi area.

Research and transcription: Michael A. Howell