'''Caroline Ernst''' (February 13, 1819 – May 12, 1902) was an American settler. She was born on February 13, 1819, in Germany. Her parents, Louise Ernst and Johann Friedrich Ernst or Diercks moved to Texas, then a part of Mexico, in 1831. The family settled in Austin County, Texas and established the first permanent German colony in Texas. Ernst published her account ''Life of German Pioneers in Early Texas'' in 1899. She married Louis von Roeder, and the couple had three children before Louis died in the Texas Cart War. Ernst died in 1902.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fhi61|title=HINUEBER, CAROLINE ERNST VON|last=MIRIAM|first=YORK|date=2010-06-15|website=tshaonline.org|access-date=2018-02-09}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/earlysettelesan00sowegoog|page=[https://archive.org/details/earlysettelesan00sowegoog/page/n870 834]|quote=Caroline Ernst settler.|title=Early Settlers and Indian Fighters of Southwest Texas|last=Sowell|first=Andrew Jackson|date=1900|publisher=B.C. Jones & Company, printers}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZotKAgAAQBAJ&q=Caroline+Ernst+settler&pg=PA21|title=Fritz and Annie Lippe Family: German Cotton Farmers in Early 1900S Texas--Washington, Mills, Hamilton, and Tom Green Counties|last=Cook|first=Donna Gholson|date=2009-07-23|publisher=Author House|isbn=9781449008505}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ve4Ffv-0u-AC&q=Caroline+Ernst+settler&pg=PA19|title=From Can See to Can't: Texas Cotton Farmers on the Southern Prairies|last1=Sitton|first1=Thad|last2=Utley|first2=Dan K.|date=1997|publisher=University of Texas Press|isbn=9780292777217}}</ref>
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