Mary & Albert Zoeller, another perspective

From my cousin Valentine Kneip (Val):

Mary and Albert were wed in Mexico City and settled down there to start their family near her parents. They took at least one trip to Boerne Texas so she could meet his mother. While in Mexico, Albert fathered 5 children: Harley Francis, Joseph Alberto, and Alberto Jorge (later called George Albert; he was the 2nd child to bear his father's name, but his Dad called him 'Georgie' as a baby) and Frederick Louis (called Fred), Maria Theresa (called Molly). When the depression struck the US, it also devastated Mexico's economy, thus Albert lost all his savings and their home and country club membership. The family of seven crossed the border and became residents of Laredo for a time, then later moved to San Antonio. The 6th child, Edward Daniel (called Ned), and 7th Margaret Pauline, (called Maggie) were born in Laredo. The 8th and 9th children were born in San Antonio, Henry Bernard (later called Hank) and my mother, Alice Mae (born 1933).

In 1953, Alice Mae (then 19 yrs old) married her high school sweetheart, Jerre Graham Kneip, of German/Scottish descent, (son to Roy Eugene Kneip and Lillie Belle McGall). By the time Alice was 29 she was the mother of 6 children: Mary Valentine, Alexander McGall, Eugene Henry, Hugh Graham, James Zoeller, & Kathryn Lillie. Then the most resent generation started in 1979 when, Alice & Jerre’s eldest daughter, Mary Valentine (named after her grandmother, Mary) gave birth to Craig Alexander. She & her husband, Donald Craig Gosch (of German descent) had one other son 4 yrs later, Erich James. However, no girls were born of Alice’s children until in 2000, when Alice’s youngest daughter, Kathryn had a daughter and named her Erin Kate (in memory of her Irish ancestry). Ironically, her last name is Bradley (same as her great-great-grandmother).