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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.

you will see Sammy and Larie shortly after they married, as the fourth and fifth persons from the left top row. Lula,Charlie's wife is the last person standing on the top row. Since Charlie was not in the photo he was most likely the one taking the photo. Most of the families at the time were present at th is1965 family gathering picnic. W.T. and Cora Amsler passed away i the 50's.

In addition to building web sites such as our church web site fvcofc.com (and studying how to create better web pages) along with photography/slide shows, my other hobby is golf as some of you may be aware.

Thanks,

<<end of notes for April 21, 2013>>

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.

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.

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

SOPHIA FLATO AMSLER AND LOUIS PHILIP

Sammy Amsler 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.

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.