I just visited the Nolan County, Texas website, and the Champion Cemetery listings.
I have additional information for you, if you should choose to add it.
First, the home-made markers for the FRIEBEL family members are markers that I made many years ago, as my mother always wanted to be sure they were marked, but passed away before she was able to do it. My mother was Frieda Dorothy Mae (FRIEBEL) HILLIS. Her parents were “Otto” & “Minna/Minnie” (NEUMANN/NEWMAN) FRIEBEL.
Otto’s full name was Friedrich Otto FRIEBEL, the son of Christian Gottfried Heinrich [“Henry”] FRIEBEL and Johanne Friederike [“Frieda”] DALICHOWE. Otto was born in Apollensdorf, Germany, and he left Germany in Dec 1910, arriving in America Jan 1911. He settled in Nolan County, TX [Champion].
Minna/Minnie’s given name was Wilhelmine NEUMANN, parents unknown at this time, but on the ship’s passenger list, she claimed to be born in Moriomsk, Russia. She & Otto met on the ship, and she first went to East Bernard, Texas to join/work for a DRACHENBERG family [also Russian]. She & Otto married 26 Dec 1912, license issued in Mitchell Co, TX.
My mother was born in Roscoe, Nolan Co, TX on May 30, 1914 and they lived out at Champion. One of the FRIEBEL infants was a little girl also named Otto FRIEBEL, born Nov 17, 1916 and died Jan 27, 1917. She was 2 months and 10 days old. The other 2 FRIEBEL infants was a set of stillborn twins, according to my mother. Her brother was Henry Paul FRIEBEL [Sep 18, 1918 – Aug 28,1934 ] who died of Typhoid Fever just short of his 16th birthday. He had a disability, and according to my Father, “never walked a day in his life”, and I remember my mother talking of pulling him around in a wagon. My mother was their only child to reach adulthood, and she passed at age 56 yrs. She is buried in Pasadena, Harris Co, TX. She married my father, Alvin Burton HILLIS, in Sweetwater, TX on Apr 30, 1932, the son of Cullom Lyhugh HILLIS who resided in Roscoe, Nolan Co, TX with his 2nd wife, Wreatha Lee WELLS. [My father’s mother was Gertrude Louisa WARD.]
Alvin & Frieda had 14 children, most of whom were born in and around Nolan Co, TX. I am their youngest child.
___Minnie HILLIS REAGOR