GUILLAUME ROBERT SY was born 30 Jul 1836 in Stettin. Guillaume married MARIE LOUISE HENRIETTE EVE HIEMKE, daughter of Frederic Hiemke and Wilhelmine Eichholz, on 6 Apr 1862 in Berlin. Marie was born 4 Feb 1839 in Berlin. She died 13 Sep 1878 in Berlin. Guillaume also married MARIE HOLL on 12 Dec 1880 in Berlin, Germany. Marie was born 30 Jan 1859 in Samter, Germany (Posen Prussia).

Guillaume started working behind a counter, later as a salesman, and finally became a merchant.

Guillaume lived in several address on Lienstrasse (Linestreet). Linienstrasse still exist under that name in the Berlin borough Mitte. It starts at Friedrichstrasse and ends at Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse. It is in walking distance to all major points of Berlin City center.

Guillaume may have lived in newly built buildings on Lienstrasse to save money in his early carrier. Due to the building techniques, the buildings were damp until they cured; therefore, the rent was less expensive.

RICHARD FRANCOIS GUSTAVE SY "Richard Franz Gustav Sy" was born 30 Jun 1868 in Berlin, Germany. He was the son of Gullaume Robert Sy and Marie Louise Henriette Eve Hiemke. He died 2 Aug 1942 in Dallas, Dallas Co., Texas and was buried 3 Aug 1942 in Oakland Cemetery, Dallas, TX. Richard married CATHERINE ANNA KAACK, daughter of Johann Christian Kaack and Sophia Magdalena Stolden, on 27 Sep 1896 in Nashua, Chickasaw Co., Iowa. Catherine was born 25 Sep 1872 in Bornhöved, Slezwig-Holstein, Germany. She died 8 May 1937 in Dallas, Dallas Co., Texas and was buried 11 May 1937 in Oakland Cemetery, Dallas, Texas.

Richard Franz Gustav Sy and Catherine Anna Kaack arrived in the United States from Germany on May 18,1896, settling in Nashua, IA. Richard and Catherine, along with Anna, Magdalena, Heinrich “Henry”, Marie and Elise Kaack came to America together.

Catherine and Richard were married September 27, 1896, in Bradford Township, Chickasaw County, IA. To this union two children, Clara and Robert were born in Nashua; four children, Gertrude, Hedwig, Marie and Paul were born in Davenport, IA.

While in Nashua, Richard started the first Sunday school in the Republic Area. He was a student of the Bible. Being a baker by trade, he also opened a bakery in Nashua. Sometime between 1897 and 1903, they moved to Davenport, IA.

After Herman and Magdelena (Kaack) Weiss were married, they moved to East Texas. They talked Catherine and Richard into moving to Texas also (about 1910). They settled in Dallas, TX, opening a bakery. Both of their sons were bakers, along with a son-in-law, Edgar DeMoss, Gertrude's husband. At one time or another all four of them worked at St. Paul Hospital's bakery in Dallas.

ROBERT JOHN OTTO SY was born 15 Dec 1897 in Nashua, Chickasaw Co., Iowa. He was the son of Richard Franz Gustav Sy and Catherine Anna Kaack. He died 28 Sep 1979 in Dallas, Dallas Co., Texas and was buried in Restland Memorial Cemetery, Dallas, Texas. Robert married GLADYS FISHER, daughter of John Wilson Fisher and Fannie Beasley "Nee Beasley", on 4 May 1918 in Dallas, Texas. Gladys was born 26 Mar 1898 in Neoga, IL. She died 23 Jul 1980 in Dallas, Texas and was buried in Restland Memorial Cemetery, Dallas, TX.

Gladys and her parents and their other two children moved to Texas from Taylorville, IL in a covered wagon in 1901. Their first children were triplets. Two died very soon after birth and buried in Taylorville, IL, and one died after arriving in Texas and is buried in East Texas. Bob was born in Bradford Township, IA, December 15, 1897. He lived in Nashua and Davenport before moving to Texas about 1910.

Bob and Gladys met through Bob's sister Clara. It seems that Clara and Gladys both worked at Sears Roebuck & Co.. Clara and Gladys were visiting each other at Clara's home when Bob met her. After they were married, they lived on a farm in East Texas for a while. They also lived in Phoenix, AZ for a short time. They moved to Dallas to stay in 1921, at least until 1942, when they moved to the farm at Lewisville, TX.

Bob was a baker by trade. They were in the pie business from 1932 until 1942. Their shop was known as "Sy's Pies". They baked the pies from about 4:00 o'clock in the morning till about 10:00, then Bob would make his deliveries to restaurants, making sure they arrived for the noon rush. During this time Bob decided to bake bread for the family. After they ate four loaves of bread and a pound of butter before the bread could cool, he decided that was a loosing proposition. The war put them out of business by cutting off their supply of gas and sugar.

When they first moved to the farm they raised black-eyed peas, cantaloupes, watermelons, corn and other produce that was sold in Denton, TX., later converting to a dairy.

Bob had always wanted to raise Black Angus beef cattle. The nearest he came to that was when they had a grade "A" dairy at Lewisville.

There were four children borne to this union.

PAUL EMIL ADOLPH Sy was born 4 Dec 1908 in Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa. He was the son of Richard Franz Gustav Sy and Catherine Anna Kaack. He died 14 Jan 1967 in Dallas, Dallas Co., Texas and was buried in Grove Hill Cemetery, Dallas, TX beside his wife Katherine and his daughter Shirley. Paul married KATHERINE ANNA DOOLEY, daughter of Linzzie Lee Dooley and Kate Rowen Benning, on 27 Aug 1928 in Dallas, TX. Katherine was born 8 May 1910 in Fort Worth, Tarrant Co., Texas. She died 25 Jul 1985 in Dallas, Dallas Co., Texas and was buried in Grove Hill Cemetery, Dallas, TX.

Paul moved to Dallas about 1910, then to Golden, Texas in about 1916. He moved back to Dallas in 1922, and lived there until he died. Paul operated the New Process Bakery in 1922 in Downtown Dallas. Afterward he was a baker at Hunts Grocery Store in Highland Village Shopping Center, then (by 1950) cook at St. Paul's Hospital. Later, after he retired, he taught baking classes at the Buckners Orphans Home in Dallas. He was denied entry to the armed services in WWII due to his having one leg shorter than the other...a result of having had polio as a child. Paul entered the Texas Guard instead, where he was stationed at Fair Park in Dallas. Naturally, he served as cook.