Adolph Meyer

Founder of Meyersville

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This photo (c1858) is a picture of Adolph Meyer and his wife Meta Friedrichs along with the first two of their 12 children, Adolphina and Adolph. Click on the photo for a larger view of the family.

Adolph was born in Hanover, Germany on April 13, 1813 to John George and Juliana Peters Meyer. He came to Texas with two sisters, Mariana and Juliana, arriving in Galveston on December 4, 1845. They lived in Indianola, Texas for 5 months and after Juliana died, Adolph and Mariana along with Friedrich (Fritz) Hausman and his wife traveled to the Coletto Creek area in DeWitt County, arriving there on May 28, 1846. Other settlers soon followed and the settlement was named "Meyersville" in Adolph's honor.

Adolph was the first postmaster of Meyersville, serving from 1851 until 1866, when his sister, Mariana took over and was postmistress until her death in 1872. Adolph married Meta Friedrichs who arrived in Indianola about May 14, 1852 after traveling from Aurick, Hanover, Germany with her parents, 2 brothers (Herman and Friedrich) and 2 sisters (Eliesa and Hannah). Meta's parents died about 3 weeks after their arrival in America and the children's court assigned the 5 children a guardian, who abandoned them in Meyersville. Pastor Sager of St. John Ev. Lutheran Church found homes for them and they grew up in Meyersville.

Adolph and Meta were apparently married within 2-3 years of her arrival in Meyersville because their first child, Adolph Jr., was born on March 1, 1856. Adolph and Meta had 12 children and moved to Weesatche, Texas (about 10 miles from Meyersville) in Goliad County in the early 1880's. They are buried in St. Andrew's Lutheran Cemetery at Weesatche.

To our knowledge, there are no direct descendants of Adolph Meyer living in Meyersville today although a number of them still live nearby in the Weesatche area. Descendants of Fritz Hausman, Meyersville's co-founder, do still live in the Meyersville area today as well as many direct descendants of other early settlers who arrived in the first 10 year's of Meyersville's existence.

As a tribute to Adolph Meyer and in celebration of the Sesquicentennial Year of Meyersville's founding, we have included a brief genealogy of the Meyer family at this site. Follow the links at the bottom of this page to learn more about the Meyer family.
The information at this site was taken from the DeWitt County and Goliad County History books. We welcome contributions for more data or corrections to this data.
You might also want to check out the web site of Marilyn Meyer Logan who is a great-granddaughter of Adolph Meyer.

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