The Last Generations

Josef married Maria Carolina Klocker twenty years later in 1847. They were married in Dornbirn, where Maria Carolina was born in 1822, and in which town her maternal family called home for three hundred years, working as farmer's and shopkeepers. Josef and Maria had five children, two son's and three daughters. Their elder son and fourth child Franz Josef was born in 1856 and served from 1887 to 1895 at the imperial Court of Innsbruck. He died unmarried and childless in 1909. His brother August was born in 1867. He joined the mass migration between Vorarlberg and Tyrol to the United States, and lived in the States for awhile, returning by 1892, when he married Maria Probst of Mieming, Tyrol. Maria was a worker in a factory in Füssen, a small town in the Bavarian Alps on the Bavarian-Austrian border. This is how August got an overseers position in that same factory in 1893. August was certified as a notary public in 1897. Where August and Maria retired to is not known. They didn't have any children.^[70] Franz Josef and August were the last male descendants of timber merchant Giovanni Someda, whose son's were made Knights.

Josef and Maria's first three children were Maria Catharina, Maria Anna, and Maria Carolina. To prevent confusion, they went by their second names. Catharina was born in 1848, Anna in 1851, and Carolina in 1855. Carolina was a talented painter and married Carl Ratschiller in Innsbruck. They had one daughter, Maria. Carolina died in 1880 in Vienna after battling with typhus. It isn't known what happened to her husband and daughter. Carolina's sister Anna married Julius Karl Berghaus in 1875 in Innsbruck. Julius Berghaus was born in 1825, and at the time of the wedding was a well established attorney and medical doctor in Nice, France. They had two daughters, Eleonore and Martha. Eleonore married Leopold Ratschiller, brother of Carl Ratschiller, by whom she had Marianne.^[71] Nothing more is known about the Ratschiller family.

Maria Catharina von Someda married Karl Anton Schmid, an imperial court official to Innsbruck, in 1870. Karl Anton was born to Anton Schmid and Karolina Kohlegger in 1846 in the parish of Wilten in Innsbruck. Maria Catharina's only child Oscar Karl Maria Schmid was born on 13 February 1874 in Feldkirch. Oscar never really got to know his mother, because she died of emphysema, caused by air pollution from industrialization, on 22 December 1880,^[72] when he was not quite seven. But she did leave a lasting impression on him, which he wrote about in his unpublished memoir. Her physique was the very image of the noble class: elegant, excellent posture, fit, and tall, taller than her husband in fact. She was also a compassionate mother, having made the necessary arrangements for her son to live with his aunt Anna, the recently widowed Miss. Berghaus, in Innsbruck.^[73]