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Note: From "A History of Texas and Texans" by Frank W. Johnson, Published in 1916, pages 1528 and 1529:
Adolph Buenger - The second generation of the Buenger family to maintain the farming and stockraising prestige of Austin County, and to contribute also to the large wealth and promise of the locality of Industry, is ably represented by Adolph Buenger, the owner of ninety acres of good land located in the Pettes and Dotries leagues. Mr. Buenger was born August 14, 1864, on the old Buenger homestead place, now the property of his brother, William A. Buenger, a sketch of whose career will be found elsewhere in this work.
Andrew Buenger, the father of Adolph Buenger, was born April 15, 1824, in Prussia, received a good education and learned the trades of millwright and wagonmaker, and in 1846 came to the United States with the Bock family, some of whose descendants are still residing in the vicinity of Weimar, Texas.
The boyhood and youth of Adolph Buenger were passed at the place of his birth, in which vicinity he was given his education in the public schools. He was reared as a farmer, and remained with his parents until the time of is marriage, November 10, 1889, at which time he moved to his first permanent home, located near Skull Creek, at Shelby. He was there engaged in farming on the property of his father-in-law, Charles Schulze, for four years, following which he came to his present home in the Pettes and Dotries leagues, this being the old Max Meisnerr farm, where Mr. Buenger has ninety acres. This property was once the scene of activity as a cotton gin, the plant (the shell of which is still standing) being erected by C. C. Koch. It went next into the hands of Robert Vogt, who was succeeded as owner by Mr. Buenger, who conducted it with a fair measure of success for a period of twenty years, then disposing of the machinery, when the plant became silent. It is one of the evidences of the old-time industry and is now a silent witness of the things of the past.
As a farmer, Mr. Buenger is a corn and cotton grower, and aside from this, is interested with his son, Jesse, in the well-drilling business. the latter enterprise has been in operation since 1911, and seventy-three wells located about over this locality of their manufacture are supplying the agriculturists with water. Their experience in drilling developed, in one instance, strong signs of oil, and after the water had been used for some time, from this well oil showed so strongly as to compel its adandonment. In poliitical matters Mr. Buenger is a Democrat, but not a politician. His faternal connection is with the Woodmen of the World.
Mr. Buenger married Miss Johanna Schulze, the only daughter and youngest child of Charles and Louia (Weige) Schulze, and to this union (the Buengers), there have been born two children: Jesse and Wanita.
From "Scissortails Still Return to Schoenau" by Geraldine Mittanck Luetge, Copyright 1985, pages 11 and 12:
Adolph Buenger and his brothers and sisters grew up in this area. Adolph served in the Civil War, and married Johanna Schulze who came to Texas with her parents in 1866 after the Civil War. They moved to Schoenau to farm, and their son Jesse was born on what is now the Ullrich place on the Skull Creek-Schoenau border, on December 18, 1890. The family later moved two miles east of Industry, bought a cotton gin, farm, saw mill and grist mill. Jesse and his sister, Wanita, went to school at Star Hill. Besides a school, there was a dance hall, and the children would sometimes go to the hall at recess to play. The Buengers lived about a mile from the school.
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