He received a wagon train of immigrants from West Prussia a few months later and agreed to sell them strips of land near the Guadalupe River.

In those days, the residents found it a difficult trip fording the river to get to the county seat in Seguin, Texas.

Their request was denied and they remained a part of Guadalupe County and made the trek to file for deed of their lands in September, 1850.

Entrepreneurial individuals from Schumansville ventured to the east side of the Guadalupe river and established the town of Geronimo, Texas in 1860.

The rectangular shaped cemetery contains 2.75 acres of land and is the final resting place of at least 31 of the old German immigrants from Prussia.

[4] Hilda Blumberg Weinert, the first woman vice chairman of the Texas State Democratic Committee and national committeewoman from 1944 to 1957 (after Clara Driscoll's sixteen years), was born on April 19, 1889, in the Schumansville community (daughter of Emma Henrietta (Meyer) and Henry J.