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a. Note:   Trinity Lutheran Church,
 Frelsburg, Colorado County, Texas,
 Marriage Records, 1896-1963
 Pages 486-487; License: Bellville 255; Entry No.: 278; Groom: Edmund Ashorn; Birthplace of Groom: New Ulm; Bride: Emma Findeisen; Birthplace of Bride: New Bremen; Date of Marriage: 9 Februray 1909; Residence of Couple: New Wehdem; Witnesses: H. Findeisen Dora Mahlmann E. Schiller Ella Findeisen E. Buechmann Rosa Ashorn; Pastor: G. Szillat
  Edmund Ashorn was the husband of Emma Findeisen and son of Edward Ashorn. Though he had a temper and might curse at the cows and mules, he was not harsh with his five children. His daughter Gloria Ashorn Garrett says she never got a whipping from him, but when he spoke firmly, "I thought I better behave." Eloise McGinnis remembers her grandpa as tall, straight and stern, saying "Eat that food. Don't you know I worked hard to raise that food so you can eat it? Eat up and be grateful to the Lord Almighty." He made sure his grandchildren had straw hats to wear when they worked in the cotton fields each summer. Though his children might have to walk two hours to school over muddy, black lanes, he might pick them up after school in the wagon if it started raining. Edmund liked eggs and sausage for breakfast, if he could get it, or fat slabs of German-style bacon. For lunch he liked vegetables: tomatoes, lettuce, turnips. In the winter the family ate a lot of sweet potatoes. The Ashorn family didn't have a lot of books, even though all their children except Herbert were educated past high school. They did have dictionaries, however, in German, French and Spanish.
  They did not attend church every Sunday, but nevertheless the children were taught not to lean on their own understanding. At Christmas they would sing some of the old German songs. Gloria remembers to her delight being given a corncob doll , and her father dressing up with a Santa Claus mask, testing the children to see if they had learned their prayers. (Grandma Franzeska made sure they had). In his bedtime prayers, Edmund would confess his sins of the day to God, including losing his temper.
  Edmund was a very hard worker. After the cotton harvest, perhaps 200 pounds might be left on the plants. Edmund wouldn't leave a boll. One year he had some of his nephews working barefoot at Christmastime until all the remaining cotton was gathered. It was cold! When the crops failed one year, Edmund had to borrow money, even for shoes. Because he couldn't pay his debts, he lost part of the land to Billy Tillemann, the man who sold it to him. "Let it go, let it go!" Edmund said. But the next year, when he harvested 23 bales of cotton, he was able to buy it back. His eldest daughter Gloria enjoyed
 going with him to Brenham, when he would hitch up the wagon and two mules to sell cotton seed or corn. They would often buy cheese and crackers at Schmitz Market to eat on the way home.
  Edmund never had a tractor, though he bought a Model A (which is still stored in the buggy house at his farm). Like E.M. McGinnis, he commanded "Whoa" to try to stop his first car. Crop sharers lived in the little rent house and farmed part of land, giving Edmund one-fourth of the harvest (E.M. McGinnis took half from his tenant farmers). He continued to farm with mules into the 1960's. When he was 77, he fell off the hay wagon and died in the hospital several weeks later.



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