When Ernst Lich was 35 and Tony Hoerner was 25, they decided to marry.  His mother, however, opposed the union.  The couple accepted her decision, waited until she died nine years later, observed the obligatory year of mourning, and then married on 17 September 1922.  They still had four children.
	Ernst Lich was the youngest child in his family.  He was a splendid marksman and loved to sing, call square dances, and tell campfire stories.
	Tony Hoerner supported herself as a seamstress during the ten years she waited to marry.  She also did exquisite embroidery, stump work, tatting, crocheting, and knitting in traditional folkways from her Hessian and Thuringian family.  Tony Hoerner's second avocation was the history of Comfort, Texas, and she owned the second best photograph collection of it.  Her pictures are now preserved in the Institute of Texan Cultures and other American and German archives.  She voted "wrong" in her first Presidential election, so she never voted again; she learned to drive, and did so through two fences and a field, so she never drove again (although she kept a car).  She lived until only a week before her ninetieth birthday.
	Ernst and Tony Lich had four children and thirteen grandchildren.  Ernst and Tony Lich's biography appears in Family Stories, collected and written by Glen and Lera Lich.

	16  BALTHASAR LICH, Rancher on the Cypress Creek in the Hill Country of Texas (* Londorf on the Lumda, Grand Duchy of Hesse 4.x.1834, ƒ Fredericksburg, Gillespie County, Texas 19.viii.1861 to Elisabethe Scholl, İ Cypress Creek 7.i.1888, × first at Cypress Creek, then moved to the Comfort Cemetery): Born in the ninth generation of a family of millers in the upper Hessian hill country between Giessen, Lich, Grünberg, and Marburg, Balthasar Lich grew to adulthood in the village of Londorf in the Rabenau; emigrated in 1857 to America; and established himself in Texas as a millwright, teamster, and rancher.  He and his wife lived first on Water Street in Kerrville, Texas, then moved in 186x to the confluence of the upper and lower Cypress Creeks in eastern Kerr County.  Balthasar and Elisabethe Lich had nine children and owned land in three counties in the Hill Country and in Concho County in west Texas.  Their biography has been published in Texana ; in Mitteilungen des oberhessischen Geschichtsvereins  ; and in Geschichte der Familie Lich aus der Rabenau by Heinz Henkel et al. (Giessen: Lenz, 1989).  Children: 
	Ida (1861-1919), married Emil Arhelger.
	William (1863-1946) (married Alwine Schellhase)
	Henry (1865-1935) (married 1. Hulda Schmidt  2. Ida Sachtleben)
	Emma (1867-1960) (married Charles Klemstein)
	Emilie (1869-1957) (married William Reeh)
	Otto (1873-1941) (marries Julia Seidensticker)
	Louis (1876-1964) (married Sophie Schellhase)
	Ernst (1878-1955) (married Tony Hoerner)
	Elizabeth (1886-1939) (married Emil Spenrath)