John Heinsohn, Jr. (1854 - 1894)

Information and photo provided by Rox Ann Johnson.

John Heinsohn, Jr. was the son of German immigrants, Johann (John) Heinsohn and Anna Meyer. Though his tombstone states he was born in 1850, he was actually born March 22, 1854 near New Ulm in Austin County. (His surname is also misspelled on his tombstone.) John married a neighbor, Maria "Louisa" Brune, in 1886 and they had two small children before moving to a farm in the Osage community around 1888. Three more children were born to the couple and his widowed father also lived with them at Osage.

John was only 39 when he was caught in a rainstorm while riding horseback to Richmond. He contracted pneumonia and died on February 6, 1894. Louisa married Wilhelm Rinn later that year and moved her family back to Austin County.