KFWW - Hermann T. Fuchs

Hermann & Caroline Fuchs c. 1868

Hermann & Caroline with foster children, 1874

Hermann T. Fuchs, hard-working rancher

Frieda Fuchs

Albano Fuchs, age 6

Johanna Fuchs, c. 1900

Oscar and Cora Fox

The Hermann T. Fuchs Family - Frieda, Marietta, Caroline, Johanna, Hermann, Walter, Albano, and Oscar

Tiger Mill goats, 1890

H. T. Fuchs business envelope

Johanna and her bicycle, c. 1995

Hermann T. Fuchs, c. 1890

Caroline Romberg Fuchs, c. 1907

The Krumm house, 2005

Fuchs Family Cemetery

Hermann Theodor Fuchs was born on January 7, 1842, the eighth child of Pastor Carl Adolf Friedrich Fuchs and Luise Johanna Rümker, whose first-born child died in infancy. Hermann was the youngest of the Fuchs children when the family left Mecklenburg and sailed to Texas on the ship Gerhard Hermann in 1845, arriving at Galveston in January 1846. After living on a farm in Cat Spring in Austin County, the family moved to a large tract of land overlooking the Colorado River in Burnet County. On July 10, 1868, Hermann married Caroline Romberg.

Caroline Julie Romberg, born January 30, 1846, was the daughter of Johannes Christlieb Nathanael Romberg (1808-1891) and Friederike Amalie Elise Bauch (1812-1883), who emigrated from Boizenburg, Mecklenburg, to Texas in 1847 with their eight children. A ninth child, Julius, was later born on their farm at Black Jack Springs in Fayette County, Texas.

They were the foster parents of a brother and sister, Walter and Marietta Anderson, and the parents of three children: Frieda Hermanna Fuchs (1875-1941), Albano Johannes Fuchs, and Johanna Luise Fuchs Schnelle (1885-1962). Hermann and Caroline also helped raise his niece Cora Louise Fuchs Struve (1878-1925) and nephew Oscar J. Fox (1879-1961), children of Hermann's youngest brother Benjamin (Benno) F. Fuchs (1848-1900), after the death of their mother Emma Kellersberger (1851-1880). Brother Benno was born in Texas after the family had settled at Cat Spring. His son Oscar became a very famous composer.

Hermann and Caroline built a large house on the Fuchs ranch overlooking the Colorado River, and it served as the Tiger Mill Post Office.

Hermann T. Fuchs was a very respected rancher and introduced Angora goats to Texas. He was known to thousands of readers of newspapers and farm journals in the United States and Germany as a pioneer farmer and stockman who bred Angora goats. Many of his published articles used pen names – the German Fox, Hiram Fox, Uncle Hermann, and The Old Goat Raiser.

Hermann died on July 29, 1907. Two years later, Caroline sold the ranch to the Krumm family. She then lived with her older daughter Frieda in Kendall County. Caroline died on October 9, 1942. They are buried in the Fuchs Family Cemetery in the Cottonwood Shores Division west of Marble Falls, overlooking the Colorado River.