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Reunion 2018

For our July 26, 2018 reunion we had lunch in Shiner
at 317 North Avenue, Shiner, TX 77984
(361) 594-2928 -- at Werner's Steakhouse Photo above shows those that attended.

Reunion May 20, 2017

Family gathering May 20th at Robert's Steak house located on Hwy 95 and I-10 highway, just north Highway I-10at 11am. Tommy made reservations for a private room and the food and service was great.. We gathered for lunch at 11:00 am at Robert's Steak House and about 12:30 we headed to the old Flato house for the Official Texas Historic Marker dedication ceremony for Friedrich Wilhelm Flato. There we met any other descendants of the Flato family at the historical marker ceremony as described by Judy earlier:

"A Texas Historical Marker dedicated to F. W. Flato will be unveiled in Flatonia on Saturday, May 20th at 1pm. It will be in front of the home that once was the Flato family home at 830 Penn Street, Flatonia. The granddaughter of the people who now own the home applied for and got an official marker from the Texas Historical Commission. They would love to have some Flatos in attendance for the ceremony, so I am sending this out to you and hope that you will let other Flato descendants know about it. When I receive the official notification, I will forward that to you as well, but thought I would get this much out in case you want to mark your calendar."


A slide show of the event was created and distributed to those in the Amsler family that attended this event.
The following note was sent to Judy pate curator of Arni Museum where visitors can view the slide show of that event at the museum. Our note to Judy Pate is as follows:

June 10, 2017

Judy Pate:

Enclosed are three DVDs of slide show covering the Texas Historical Marker dedication ceremony for F. W, Flato on May 20, 2017. One DVD is for you and the museum. Please pass ones labeled “Ana Allcia Estrada” and “Estrada family” and relay our appreciation for their work and hospitality in supporting this event. The DVD for the Estrada family has a special caption at the end of the slide show expressing our appreciation for the family’s hospitality.

We thank you for informing and keeping us posted on this event. It was very enjoyable and time well spent. Within the slide show we tried to give credit to all who worked on making this event successful. The only person I was unable to identify was the lady to right of the Mayor and Ana during the Mayor’s part in the program.

We thank you also for all the time and effort that you invested in this project and we always enjoy our visits to your museum. We are very impressed with Ana Alicia Estrada, who worked many hours to have this event come to fruition. We are also thankful for the Estrada family and the demonstration of their hospitality as we expressed in the Estrada family’s copy of the DVD.

For the Amsler family,
/s/Sammy Amsler

Reunion June 2016
Notes on Family Gathering for 2016:
2016 family gathering estimated at 11:30 June 6th located at 317 North Avenue, Shiner, TX 77984
(361) 594-2928 -- at Werner's Steakhouse.

Tommy, and his daughter and grandson, Lori and Tanner Amsler and Eric's family were those who attended. We had fun with Tommy’s iphone video selfie that we produced a slide show with him as the primary character.


Reunion June 2015

Notes on Family Gathering for 2015:

2015 Extended family gathering reservation at 11:30 June 6th at 317 North Avenue, Shiner, TX 77984

(361) 594-2928 -- at Werner's Steakhouse

Werner's has worked out well in past years, reservation had to be changed from second to first Saturday as Werners had no record of request for second Saturday. Last year we had a fantastic presentation on family genealogy. Hopefully we will have a dozen or so attending as we stated we would have 15.


We would like to hear from you if you plan to be there.
We generally drop by Flatonia on return trip home and this year the Lord willing we will take photos of the old Flato home which is just a few blocks from the museum
on 101 E. North Main.

Many of you are aware that my grandfather, W. T. Amsler Sr and his wife Cora are buried on same plot as my grandfather's parents (my great grandfather and grandmother.)


Amslers.com presents a description which reads:
"William Tell, second son of Louis Philip and Sophia (Flato) Amsler, was born 1 July 1880 and died 31 March 1952 in Lavaca County, Texas. He was buried in Flatonia Cemetery. Tell married Cora Elizabeth West, born 25 April 1882; died 1 May 1952 in Lavaca County.)

Their son Phil says that William Tell Amsler was a cattle man and worked in Oklahoma Territory as a youth for Charles Flato who at that time had thousands of head of cattle on open range..."

Reunion June 2014

Notes on Family Gathering for 2014:

June 14, 2014 Family gathering for Lunch in Shiner at Werners Restrauant John Guittard presented a Power Point slide show illustrating extended family DNA .

Attending annual family gathering at Werner's restrauant on June 14, 2014:

Mary Voegtle
Charles Guittard
Debbie Altherton
Gayle Minear
Eric Amsler
Tom Amsler
Larie Amsler
Sammy Amsler
Kathryn Amsler
Robert Amsler
Sherry Amsler Shaw
Felisha Amsler Clack (Robert's daughter
Jeannine Hammon

and others.

Charles Guittard presented slide show on Ancestry DNA from Sammy's tests and Sammy later enrolled in family name module of Ancestry.com showing links in Europe.

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Amslers.com web site provides links to family gatherings as far back as 1965 where we had a picnic near San Antonio Zoo. Check here >>review images 1965 and you will see four photos at a 1965 picnic taken shortly after Larie and I married.

We also show album of photos from a picnic in 1996, which was at a pavillion in Shiner.

Over the last ten years we have used shutterfly, picassa, and others to upload photos for sharing with our extended family and now we are in process of providing all of those photos in one place using smugmug.com site which also allows sharing of photos. As you may be aware one of my hobbies is photography and I belong to a Lightroom club that meets monthly examining methods to polish up photos or some phrase it "photoshop" images. I have been tinkering with traffic videos and upload an album called "Traffic Journal" that you might find amusing...

In addition to building web sites such as our church web site fvcofc.com (and studying how to create better web pages) and photography, my other hobby is golf as some of you may be aware. So we keep busy in retirement.

Thanks,

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Reunion June 21, 2013

Notes on Family Gathering for 2013 on June 21, 2013:

Due to sickness we were unable to attend family gathering in Shiner at Werners Restrauant. We understand that John Guittard presented a Power Point slide slow that we hope to be able to include images linked within this page.

We anticipate that this page will be updated with photos and comments from those who attended that gathering.

Amslers.com web site provides links to family gatherings as far back as 1965 where we had a picnic near San Antonio Zoo. Check here >>review images 1965 and you will see four photos at a 1965 picnic taken shortly after Larie and I married.

We also show album of photos from a picnic in 1996, which was at a pavillion in Shiner.

Over the last ten years we have used shutterfly, picassa, and others to upload photos for sharing with our extended family and now we are in process of providing all of those photos in one place using smugmug.com site which also allows sharing of photos. As you may notice one of my hobbies is photography and I belong to a Lightroom club that meets monthly examining methods to polish up photos or some phrase it "photoshop" images. I have been tinkering with traffic videos and upload an album called "Traffic Journal" that you might find amusing...

In addition to building web sites such as our church web site fvcofc.com (and studying how to create better web pages) and photography, my other hobby is golf as some of you may be aware. So we keep busy in retirement.

Thanks,

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Reunion 2012

Family Gathering for 2012:

On Thanksgiving day 2011 Tommy and I visited and discussed the date of June 16, 2012 (Third Saturday in June) for 2012 family gathering in Shiner at Weiner's restaurant.

Werner's cafe Shiner 06/16/12.  (I vote this one the best from Olympus camera, but we have yet to see the group photos taken with other cameras.. If you have image to add to this album, please let me post same with this group!)This group image is linked with other photos that you can browse from Smugmug web site.  

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In the family gathering photo in front row we have Reilley(Eric's daughter) Lisa Hamman and her duaghter, Sammy Amsler, Debbie Amsler Atherton, Mary Guittart Voegtle (John Guittard's sister), and Sherrie Amsler Shaw. In the back row from left to right is Eric Amsler, Tommy Amsler Jeannne Hamman, Jeanne's duaghter, Bob Amsler, Gale Mnear, John Guittard, and David Atherton. (If you recognize anyone we have missed or not tagged with correct name, please let us know)

Everyone met at Werner's Restaurant. and enjoyed themselves. Gayle Minear had several displays showing photos of her trip to Switzerland in mid May of this year.

We arranged for a visit to the museum in Flatonia with a lady by the name of Judy at 2 pm so we ordered lunnch order lunch about 11:40. Sherrie, Bob and Debbie's family, The Minears, and Sammy and Larie visited the museum and afterward all but the Minear family visited the gravesite where W. T. Amsler/Cora Amsler are burried along with W.T. Amsler's parents, Louis Philip Amsler and Sophia Flato Amsler, our great grandparents.

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CORA WEST AMSLER 4/25/82 - May 1, 1952 AND WILLIAM TELL AMSLER 7/1/80 TO 3/31/52

 

Gravesite in Shiner of parents of W.T. Amsler (Photo 6/16/12)

SOPHIA FLATO AMSLER AND LOUIS PHILIP

I was three years old when Sophia Flato Amsler passed on. A card mailed in 1910 is shown on amslers web site I believe that from within extracts of the book on Sophia Flato Amsler page, that Sophia Flato Amsler on page 59 of Amslers of Austin's Colony is the same person as the photo on the picture postcard (Mother of Papa (W. T. Amsler). Sophia Flato Amsler's husband, as the book relates, was L. P. Amsler who was my grandfather's father. Compare the photo on the postcard with the Flato's 50th Anniversary photo, which shows Sophia Flato Amsler in both photos. My best recollection is that Dad, (David West Amsler) mentioned "dadamoma" referring to his dad's mother. If you have any thoughts on the comparison, please let me know. My email address is at bottom of home page for http://amslers.com .

On the way to Flatonia we will passed through Moulton where Sophia Amsler was visited in 1910 by Mama (Cora Amsler), Phil, West and Aunt Tee, then a newborn, as shown in picture postcard from Moulton

Lately we recognize that the photos published in "Amslers of Austin's Colony" represent a treasure trove of photos provided by many families. In today's generations we are able to scan those images and post on the web which preserves and enables succeeding generations to look back on photos of our ancestors which in fact a family album on a web site, smugmug. If you have any old photos that you are willing to loan please bring them with you. We are able to scan same and post to the web site or upload them to Smugmug photo sharing web site for your family to viewYour photos will be returned as soon as they are scanned.

In some family gatherings we are inspired to add to amslers.com site. This time it was from two books loaned by Debbie Atherton, daughter of Henry Amsler, who was one of my cousins.These books were "The Cat Spring Story" and Century of Agricultural Progres 1856-1956. Both of these books were published by Cat Spring Agricultural Society. In addition we decided to attempt a chronological account of my grandfather's (W. T. Amsler) Father (Louis Philip Amsler) and mother (Sophia Flato Amsler). With that in mind, the following box illustrates additions to amslers.com web site in 2011.

  1. [Alamo Memorial]Charles Conrad Amsler 0
  2. [The Cat Spring Story] Extracts from Cat Spring Agricultural Society The Cat Spring Story and Century of Agricultural Progress 1856-1956
  3. [Sophia Flato Amsler] link to a chronological page of Sophia Flato Amsler images using sequence of 4 photos extracted from the book.
  4. [Sophia Flato Amsler photos] Images from Flato Family (1898);Some Descendants of Charles Conrad and Mary Amsler (1907); picture postcard (1910); and Sophia pg 59 in "Amslers of Austin's Colony," date unknown. But our guess is that in the photo on pg 59 she was in her late 80's. As Sophia was born in 1852, and our guess is that the photo was taken in Robstown between 1930 and 1933 when she passed on. According to the book it appears Sophia Flato Amsler lived with my uncle, L P. Amsler II when she passed on (I was three years old at the time.) The book states, “Sophia was living with her grandson Louis Philip II (son of William Tell) in Robstown when she died.”
  5. Louis Philip Amsler. chronological sequence in the life of Louis Philip Amsler. At bottom of the page is paragraph describing places where Louis Philip Amsler and Sophia Flato Amsler lived. We have charted places and likely dates and will post when we can create the web page format to do so.

If you have time to view the "photos to movie album,"
Following link for high speed access takes about two or three minutes to load:

[AmazingGraceAmslerAlbum] (family album 30's through 70's)

The following will take longer: [AmazingGraceAmslerAlbum] (Larger larger version family album 30's through 70's)

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Reunion 2011

Amsler family reunion for 2011
attended by 12 adults and granddaughter of Jeannine
on Saturday June 11th. at
Werner's Steakhouse 317 N Avenue E. Shiner, Texas 77984

Back Row:
Debra's husband Paul, Debra's son David , Debra (Amsler) Atherton,
Kathryn, Dean and Gayle Minear

Front Row:
Sherry Shaw, Bob, Sammy, Larie, Debra's daughter Christina,
Jeannine Hamman and granddaughter.

We are working on further editing of the following notes, but have decided to post these drafted notes of family gathering June 11, 2011 and return later for editing.

Notes: Larie and I departed from Austin at 8:46 and arrived in Shiner about 10:40 and met Bob right off. Then Tom and Kathryn, and the rest of the family including Gayle Minear and her son Dean. Dean had visited the original town were Carl Conrad Amsler left to immigrate to the United States and eventually settled in Cat Spring in Austin's Colony in 1834. Dean Minear displayed most interesting large prints of his trip to home town of Carl Conrad Amsler in Switzerland. Debra (Amsler)Atheron loaned two books of interest that she found on an internet site, The Cat Spring Story, Cat Spring Agricultural Society and Century of Agricultural Progress 1856-1956.. I have on loan from Debra, Cat Spring Agricultural Society book, to gather additional material for the amslers.com web site. Werniers steakhouse was most accommodating and one of the waitresses took a range of family photos. The meal and service was fantastic. We arranged for special group tour of Shiner Museum and we found a Shiner history book describing Charlie Amsler, druggist in Shiner in years past. Virginia Helweb, Assistant Curator of Edwin Wolters Memorial Museum opened the graciously opened the museum for our family gathering and we found many interesting artifacts of times past, including a book, Shiner - The First Hundred Years 1887-1987 where we managed to obtain copy of story related to Charles Amsler who had a drug store in Shiner.

The following article commenting on Charles Conrad Amsler was scanned from document received when visiting the museum in Shiner:

From the Museum, Larie and I had to return to Austin, leaving Shiner about 2:30 and by 4:30 after 8 miles on the toll road 130 we turned west on Palmer lane on the last leg home. Larie and I immensely enjoyed the family gathering in Shiner. In a check off list of names from last year's gathering we asked about the week preferred for next year and comments were 2nd or 3rd weekend. Since 3rd Weekend is on Father's day it appears most are in agreement on the second Saturday in June, which is the date we are planning for 2012. We appear to be in agreement to meet in Flatonia for 2012 Debra has an interest in considering Cat Spring for 2013. So, Lord Willing, maybe we can plan on Cat Spring for 2013. A few years back we met in Columbus and drove to Cat Spring as Columbus restaurant offered a section of the dining room for us. Debra mentioned Carols, but in checking their web site it appears that Carols serve only evening meals. I remember when our group drove to Cat Spring from Columbus that Carols was closed in early afternoon. If anyone can find a nearby place to meet near Cat Spring, let us know. Hempstead is 25 miles from Cat Spring and Columbus is 38 miles. Sealy is only 12 miles. Tony's Family Restaurant looks interesting and prices are reasonable. Looks like a great place to eat when viewing its web site, that is if you are not on a diet.. : ) We surveyed numerous places on the web and there are a many choices in Sealy. May when the time comes we can find a restaurant that will furnish a separate room for us. However that may be difficult with only a dozen people.

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We were offered special showing of the Museum in Flatonia earlier and we will contact the Flatonia museum again for a 2012 special family showing (a lot of history regarding the Flatos) We will contact with the representative of E. A Arbun Archives and Museum at PO Box 401 W North Main St, Flatonia Texas 78941 (from envelope dated 17 June 2009) in which the museum provided a copy of The La Grange Journal dated Jan 20, 1989. Hopefully we will be able to make special arrangements for another group showing at the museum in Flatonia. Some may be interested in visiting Amsler/Cora Amsler's grave site (My grandparents)

while we are in Flatonia. I am not sure who else is buried there, but I suspect that some of the Flato family graves may be found there.

No one at the gathering requested copy of digitized "Amsler's of Austin's Colony. There was a request for list of those attending, which we will acknowledge by transmitting the list by email. At least three cameras were used for taking photos of immediate family groups before photos were taken of the whole group. When you read this let us know if you are willing to share images. If so, please contact Sammy (address/phone number on list attending that will be distributed to everyone who attended by email or by "snail mail" : )

A Look at books loaned by Debra

"The Cat Spring Story" (1956 out of print) on loan to Sammy by Debra has some content on the Amslers, especially in "The Roll Call" page 21, which I have scanned for posting to web site as well as make copies for distribution in 2011. Material was also found on the Amslers in a book at the Shiner museum which will be copied and displayed on this page. We will research the Library of Congress to seek out this book availability there. Of special interest on page 21 of this book is section on amslers..showing Sam Amsler married Merle Culpepper, moved to McGreggor, Texas, and operated a lumber yard. That explains our family relationships to Amslers in McGreggor. Has anyone heard of Culpepper Land and Cattle Company? One of the names listed indicates roots in Hempstead texas. Note scanned page below:

The Cat Spring Story..Cat Spring Agricultural Society .. "The Roll Call, page 21-22 with information I did not recognized from Amsler's of Austin's Colony. But I will compare and see how the account of Amsler family is similar or different fro the book, Amslers of Austin's Colony.... I thought I would google the book and found The Cat Spring Story..; Seaalynews.com ; Description of these books are shown http://discover.hsp.org/Author/Home?author=Cat%20Spring%20Agricultural%20Society.Historical Society of Pennsylvania>

Also we are working on scanning extracts from:

CATSPRINGAGRICULTURALSOCIETY
CENTURY OF AGRICULTURAL PROGRESS 1856 TO 1956
CAT SPRINGS AGRICULURAL SOCIETY.

In examining this book we find original charter member names June 7, 1857
included Chas Amsler, M. Amsler, Fritz Amsler. As I scanned the meeting notes, in Meeting, May 23, 1858
there is mention of Charles Amsler... Meeting notes of Aug 22, 1858 names in "distribution of seed":
C Amsler, C Amsler jr, M Amsler, F. amsler. I believe that to be Fitz Amsler. "M" could be Marcus?

In scanning remainder of the book, it seems as time passes fewer references to
any Amsler.

March 4, 1860 is "nomination of Mr. Welhausen, Jr. for membership was objected to because it was
not in accordance with the constitution. Mr Chas Amsler, Jr.made application for membership in
the Society

Meeting of April 1, 1860 C. Welhausen, Jr. and Ch Amsler, jr., wee accepted as members in the
Society.

Examining the meeting notes beyond 1861 (start of civil war) failed to reflect any additional
notations of Amslers in the minutes. The first occasion in the notes is on page 30 General
Assembly July 6 1862.. ..These were the objectives of the German speaking pioneer settlers in
the Stephen F Austin colony and of the 40 founders of this Society. Some of the members were
also veterans of the wars for Texas Independence and for Freedom from Oppression.

As result of reading portions of Century of Agricultural Progress 1856-1956 and the Cat
Spring Story, we have decided to create a page focusing on Cat Spring and include links to
and from other mentions of Cat Spring on the web site and in the book, Amslers of Austin's
Colony and the Cat Springs Story

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Reunion 2010

Amsler family reunion for 2010 attended by about 18 on Saturday June 26th.

at Chilis, 5004 N.Navarro, Victoria, Texas.

Several maps and links are shown below:

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When you view this image send me a note if I have left anyone out of the listed names below

 

Let's see, on the first row, left to right are Sammy Amsler, Courtney and Reilly Amsler, Eric's wife and daughter, Debra (Henry's daughter), Lori Amsler then Debra,. behind Debra is her daughter, then Kathryn Amsler and Bob Amsler, Sherry Amsler, and her daughter, Rebecca Shaw and extreme right is Philip Guittard.
The remainder of the back row is Eric Amsler (holding Lori's son), Tommy Amsler and his daughter Mindi and son of Debra Atherton

Another view:

 

 

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The above photo and other images will be uploaded to Shutterfly.com should you like to order extra prints

(This photo also included Debra's husband immediately behind her) .

Note: We are preparing to ship the Amsler book off for digitizing as on PDF document that will enable quick searches within the book itself. Another advantage of having the book in PDF format is that it enables printing of any page or pages. We understand we do not have a copyright problem unless we were selling the dvds. So, family members can also duplicate the DVD to pass on to other family members.

"The Amslers of Austin's Colony" book is out of print, but can still be found in Library of Congress,

Houston Library and one or two other libraries. I (Sammy) contacted the Library of Congress to ask if the book had been digitized as Google is working on digitizing out of print books. But, since the response was that this had not yet been done, I found a company that scans and digitizes books. When the DVD's are done I will send one to each one who signed the sign in sheet at Chilies. If you did not sign the sheet, send me e-mail at on the amslers.com home page. This page's link is at bottom of this page.

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Amsler Family Reunion for 2009 took place at 12:00 noon in Port Lavaca's Johnny Carinos Restaurant 4904 N. Navarro, Victoria Texas

About eleven folks, including two young ones gathered in Victoria:

Back row from left to right is Tommy Amsler and his daughter and son.
Front row from left to right is Buddy and Gayle Minear, Kathryn Amsler, Sammy and Larie Amsler, Courtney and Reilly Amsler, Eric's wife and daughter.

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2009 Reunion at Johnny Carinos Restaurant in Port Lavaca

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2008 Reunion at Schobels' Restaurant in Columbus, Texas

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2007 Reunion Werner's Steak House, Shiner, Texas

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