Joseph Rugeley Fitze

b. 1 June 1868, d. 30 May 1940
  • Joseph Rugeley Fitze was born on 1 June 1868 in Coldspring, San Jacinto County, Texas.
  • Carl Gustav Fitze and Sarah Caroline Baldwin appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1870 in Livingston PO, Polk County, Texas. Other members of the household included Joseph Rugeley Fitze, William Elmore Fitze, Clara Olivia Fitze, Edwin Hunt Fitze, Charles Baldwin Fitze and George Shelby Fitze. Also in the household were two domestic servants.
  • Carl Gustav Fitze and Sarah Caroline Baldwin appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1880 in Polk County, Texas. Other members of the household included Joseph Rugeley Fitze, Charles Baldwin Fitze, George Shelby Fitze, Mary A. Fitze, Cornelia Goodrich Fitze, Hortense Irene Fitze, Owen Kirk Fitze, Sarah Fitze, Pedigo Fitze and Horace Fitze.
  • The following appeared on 12 August 1897 in The Galveston Daily News: (Houston, Aug. 11) A telegram was received here to-day bringing the news of the death of Mrs. C. G. Fitze at Pueblo, Mexico. She was the wife of Mr. C. G. Fitze, at one time treasurer of the Houston East and West Texas narrow gauge road, and of [sic] Judge Charles B. Fitze. At the time of her death she was there on a visit to Joseph B. Fitze, one of her sons, for pleasure and health, though she was usually in excellent health. She leaves several children to mourn her death, among them being Mrs. Mamie Jones, wife of an ex-sheriff of Wharton county; Mrs. Gus Cook, Mrs. Wm. P. Arnold, Justice Chas Fitze, and several younger children.
         The news was a shock to the family and their large circle of friends in this part of the state. Mrs. Fitze was a sister of Wm. Baldwin of this city. She is from one of the old Alabama families and was a native of that state.
    :TAB: The remains will be interred in Pueblo, for the present at least.
  • Joseph Rugeley Fitze died on 30 May 1940 at age 71 in Houston, Harris County, Texas.
  • He was interred.
  • Last Edited: 26 Feb 2013