Hermon LILIENSTERN

Sources:

Ohio Deaths, 1908-2002 (Ancestry.com), Living with daughter Blanche
Ancestry Family Trees
Alabama Marriage Collection, 1800-1969 (Ancestry.com)
Real Estate Record and Builder's Guide, Vol 45. (Google Books), Possible reference as mortgager.
Hamilton County, Ohio, Marriages (http://www.hcgsdata.org/grooms/Lee-Lis.shtml), Sarah Rosenthal. Vol 1880-84, Rec. FP5
New York Ship Passenger List (http://www.immigrantships.net/), Steamer America, Bremen to NYC, 11 Mar 1867
1880 US Federal Census Clayton, Barbour, Alabama
1900 US Federal Census Precinct 1, Titus, Texas
1910 US Federal Census Mt Pleasant, Titus, Texas

Notes:

                   NOTES:
    H. Lilienstern appears as a mortgager of $135 for household furniture to L. Lilienstern in NYC, between May 16 and 22, 1890. Likely Hermon and Lafayette Lilienstern, brothers
    Arrived in the US aboard the Steamer America, sailing from Bremen to NYC on 11 Mar 1867. 18 years old, listed as "merchant"
    1910 - Sold his store to his son in law Bird Old Sr. (Letter from Herman Old)
    1914 - Sold their store to Bird Old Sr. and moved to Cincinnati.
    1917 - Hermon died and was cremated.  Sara moved back to Mt Pleasant to live with daughter Ruth and husband Bird Old.

Daughter Ruth wrote to a kids section of the newspaper on 2 Feb 1896:
Ruth Lilienstern, Mt Pleasant, TX. - Mr Big Hat and cousins' I thought I would write you for the first time. I am 7 years old. I started to school in the summer. I am in the first reader. I have two sisters and two brothers. We had a big burn out one Sunday morning. Iona Caldwell has a little deer. Our next door neighbor has a little baby girl. My sister Fannie, has the mumps now. My sister, Blanche, won the medal. I got a pretty doll Christmas. Mota Rolstor got the prize in arithmatic for learning the multiplication table in a week.

Daughter Fannie wrote to a kids section of the newspaper on 10 Jan 1897:
Anna Belle Clement and Fannie Lilienstern, Mount Pleasant, Tex. - Mr Big Hat and Cousins; It has been a long time since we have written to you. Our town is building a new courthouse now, and it has a very pretty steeple, but it is too heavy for the foundation, and it will have to be torn down. The people of this town are going to put a clock in the steeple that can be heard two miles from town when it strikes. We are in fractions in our arithmatic. We all will be happy when merry Christmas is here. Our fathers take The News and we take the Cozy Corner from our brothers. One of our friends, Esther Badt, who is 13 years of age, has joined the Cozy Corner.

Elected Mt. Pleasant City Alderman on Apr 2 1907.