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 1797 - 1877 (79 years)
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| Name |
Josef Arnost Bergmann |
| Born |
13 Aug 1797 |
Zapudov #5, Bosen, Mlada Boleslav, Stedocesky, Czech Republic  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Ordained |
1830 |
| Migration |
4 Mar 1850 |
Czech Republic |
| Immigration |
4 Mar 1850 |
PORT, Galveston, Galveston County, Texas, USA [1] |
- Ancestry.com
Atlantic Ports, Gulf Coasts and Great Lakes Passenger Lists, Roll 3: Galveston Texas 1856 - 1871
Name: Ernst Bergman
Date: 4 Mar 1850
Age: 51
Sex: M (Male)
Port of Arrival: Galveston, Texas
Country of Origin: Prussia
Occupation: Preacher
Ship: Bark Alexander
Port of Embarkation: Hamburg, Germany
Destination: Texas
Master: Hinrichsen
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| 1850 US Census |
23 Oct 1850 |
Austin County, Texas, USA [2] |
- Source Citation: Year: 1850; Census Place: Austin, Texas; Roll: M432_908; Page: 121A; Image: 123
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Ernst Bergman
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| 1860 US Census |
1860 |
Cat Springs New Ulm and Industry, Austin County, Texas, USA [3] |
- Source Citation: Year: 1860; Census Place: Cat Springs, New Ulm, and Industry, Austin, Texas; Roll: M653_1287; Page: 201; Image: 410; Family History Library Film: 805287
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E Bergmann
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| 1870 US Census |
1870 |
Cat Spring, Austin County, Texas, USA [4] |
- Source Citation: Year: 1870; Census Place: Cat Spring, Austin, Texas; Roll: M593_1574; Page: 343A; Image: 269; Family History Library Film: 553073
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Ernest Bergmann
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| Notes |
- https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fbe82
Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
BERGMANN, JOSEF ARNOST (1797 - 1877). Josef Arnost Bergmann, Czech pioneer, was born on August 13, 1797, in the village of Zápudov near Mladá Boleslav (Jungbunzlau) in what is now the Czech Republic, the son of Josef and Katerina (Sindelar) Bergmann. He dropped the name Josef early, perhaps to avoid conflict with his father, and used the name Arnost or Ernst for the remainder of his life. Bergmann began training for the Catholic priesthood at Litomysl, but he left the Catholic Church to study in the Protestant theological department at Breslau, Prussia, and was ordained a minister in 1830. His first assignment was at Strouzny (today Pstrazna) in the Glatz district in Poland (then called Silesia).
Bergmann married Marie Berndt on December 15, 1830, and their first six children were born at Strouzny. On October 2, 1849, he preached his last sermon there and announced his plan to move to Texas. The family embarked on the Alexander at Hamburg on December 20, 1849, and arrived at Galveston on March 2, 1850. They went by coastal and river steamers to San Felipe and then by oxcart to Cat Spring. The German colonists hired Bergmann as their schoolteacher and preacher. He preached their Easter service in March 1850 at Cat Spring. Bergmann bought the tract of land currently called Kollattschny Cemetery, and there preached and taught school in a small log building. A fifth Bergmann daughter was born and died in 1853, and two daughters died of yellow fever in 1855 or 1856.
Bergmann wrote a long letter back to Strouzny soon after his arrival in 1850. This letter told of the freedom to be found in Texas, the large amount of land available at cheap prices, and how he had already acquired many chickens, hogs, cows, and a horse. His letter was eventually published in the Moravské Noviny (Moravian News), and people in Moravia began to discuss plans for following the Bergmann family to the great free state of Texas. Groups of Czech families came in 1852, 1853, and 1854, and this started the waves of migration of Czech and Moravian people to Texas. Bergmann, credited by many Czech immigrants and their descendants as their reason for immigrating to Texas, was the father of the Czechs in Texas.
Bergmann preached and taught school at Cat Spring until 1871, when he moved to Corsicana to be nearer his daughters, who had married German men and moved there with the railroad. In the evening of April 6, 1877, he told his wife that he was going to die and asked her to bring his Bible, gather the family, and light the lamp. He died quietly at midnight and was buried at the Oakwood Cemetery, Corsicana. His wife died in Hempstead on September 14, 1888, and was buried alongside her husband.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Dorothy Klumpp and Albert J. Blaha, Sr., The Saga of Ernst Bergmann (Houston, 1981). Clinton Machann and James W. Mendl, Krásná Amerika: A Study of the Texas Czechs, 1851–1939 (Austin: Eakin Press, 1983).
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| Name |
Ernst Bergman |
| Occupation |
Minister |
| Buried |
1877 |
CEMETERY Oakwood Cemetery, Corsicana, Navarro County, Texas, USA [5] |
- http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=BERG&GSpartial=1&GSbyrel=all&GSst=46&GScntry=4&GSsr=1881&GRid=33760625&
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R. I. P.
AT REST
REV. E. BERGMANN
BORN
AUG.17, 1798
DIED
APR. 6, 1877
Blessed are the pure
in heart for they
shall see God.
Section "O" row 6
Birth: Aug. 13, 1797, Czech Republic
Death: Apr. 6, 1877
Bergmann was ordained a minister in 1830. Deciding to move to Texas,
he arrived in Galveston on March 2, 1850. His family taught school and preached in
the German community of Cat Spring, Soon after his arrival in 1850, he wrote a
letter home telling of the freedom and opportunity he had found in Texas. His
letter was published in a Czech newspaper and began the immigration of Czech
families to Texas. He has been called the Father of the Czechs in Texas.
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| Died |
6 Apr 1877 |
| Person ID |
I21212 |
Czech |
| Last Modified |
18 Sep 2015 |
| Family |
Maria Berndt, b. 23 Feb 1808, Czech Republic , d. 14 Sep 1888 (Age 80 years) |
| Married |
15 Dec 1830 |
| Children |
| | 1. Julia Bergmann, b. 18 Jun 1838, Pstrazna, Poland , d. 31 Dec 1917 (Age 79 years) |
| | 2. Gustav Bergmann, b. 19 Jun 1841, Pstrazna, Poland , d. 23 Dec 1843, Pstrazna, Poland (Age 2 years) |
| | 3. Mathilda Bergmann, b. 16 Mar 1843, Pstrazna, Poland , d. 30 Aug 1855, Cat Spring, Austin County, Texas, USA (Age 12 years) |
| | 4. Otilie Bergmann, b. 1846, Pstrazna, Poland |
| | 5. Agnes Bergmann, b. 23 Sep 1846, Pstrazna, Poland , d. 19 Aug 1855, Cat Spring, Austin County, Texas, USA (Age 8 years) |
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| Last Modified |
18 Sep 2015 |
| Family ID |
F7735 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Sources |
- [S175] PORT IMMIGRATION Galveston, Texas, USA.
- [S432] CENSUS USA 1850.
- [S370] CENSUS USA 1860.
- [S352] CENSUS USA 1870.
- [S1222] CEMETERY Oakwood Cemetery, Corsicana, Navarro County, Texas, USA.
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