ROTZIEN, Mr. C., Beeville Bee, Friday, 7 Jun 1901:

Death of C. ROTZIEN
After an illness which has kept him confined to his home for the past two months, Mr. C. ROTZIEN, 
an old and highly esteemed citizen, passed away at half past 6 o'clock, Tuesday evening, June the 
4th inst., the funeral occurred at 4 o'clock Wednesday evening from the family home, religious 
services being conducted by Rev. Renfro of the Methodist Church. The interment took place in the 
new Protestant cemetery which Mr. Rotzien, himself had purchased and laid out only a few months 
before and by the caprice of fate, became one of its first occupants. The procession was one of the 
largest ever seen in Beeville, attesting the popularity of the deceased and the esteem in which he held. 

Mr. Rotzien was of the Lutheran faith and of German nativity, having been born near Berlin, Prussia, 
December 18, 1829. Shortly after attaining his majority, in 1851, he set sail for America and after a 
voyage of three months, landed in Indianola and proceeded to Seguin, then, as now, the nucleus of 
German immigration. 

He afterwards moved to Texans, where he met Miss Harriet PROBST, who in 1865 became his wife and 
who with one child, Mrs. J. A. HARLAN, survive him. 

On account of a permanent injury to his left hand he was not accepted for military service during the 
civil war though he volunteered when a call to arms was made. He was employed by the confederacy, 
however, in equally and arduous and dangerous duty as military service in driving the government 
stage from Gonzales to Brownsville. Just before the close of the war he resigned his position and went 
to the city of Mexico where he resided a year. 

Returning and marrying in 1865, he lived in Port Lavaca until 1870, when he moved to Victoria, where 
he remained a year before removing to Cuero, where he lived until 1889 when he moved to Beeville. 
With characteristic frugality and uprightness he went through life always able to meet his obligations 
and attained a competence for his family. His acts of charity were many and strictly scriptural in that 
they were without ostentation. In his death the town lost a good citizen, his intimates a sincere friend 
and his family a generous and kind husband and father.