Albano John (Johannes) Fuchs was born on the Fuchs Ranch at Tiger Mill in Burnet County, Texas, on March 1, 1877, the son of Hermann Theodor Fuchs (1842-1907) and Caroline Julie Romberg (1846 - 1942). His grandfather Pastor Carl Adolf Friedrich Fuchs brought the family to Texas from Mecklenburg, Germany, in 1845-46. Albano inherited his grandfather's musical talent and played the violin. He was also a skilled piano tuner. Along with his cousin Oscar Fox, his name is listed on the roll of male students at Marble Falls College for 1905-06. In later life, he was a very respected sheep rancher in Lea County, New Mexico. In 1946 he and his wife Gini moved to Lincoln County, New Mexico, where they lived on a small farm near present-day Ruidosos Downs, and for a time in Ruidoso during the 1950s. He died on February 9, 1960.
Georginia (Gini, or Georgia) Anna Fuchs was born near Cypress Mill in Blanco County, Texas, on December 21, 1880, the seventh child of Friedrich "Fritz" Fuchs (1842 - 1933) and Theodora Hoppe (1848 - 1936). "Fritz" Fuchs' father, Adolf Friedrich "Fritz" Fuchs, the older, half-brother of Carl Adolf Friedrich Fuchs, brought his family from Mecklenburg to Texas in 1850. The nickname "Gini" was pronounced with a hard "G": "Gee-knee" somewhat like the term "guinea hen."
Albano and Gini were married on May 1, 1901. They were the parents of ten children:
