Repeat hurricane dooms Indianola<BR><BR>On this day in 1886, the town of Indianola suffered through the second day <BR>of a devastating two-day hurricane. The settlement, on Matagorda Bay in <BR>Calhoun County, was founded in August 1846 and named Indian Point. It was <BR>renamed in February 1849 and soon became the second busiest port in Texas <BR>(after Galveston). Indianola was the county seat of Calhoun County from 1852 <BR>to 1886. With a population of more than 5,000, the town was at the peak of <BR>its ...

The engineering report about the cracks in the roof of the Alamo is <BR>complete. The article also quotes Sarah Reveley who is a frequent <BR>contributor to this mailing list.<BR><BR>http://www.chro...x3C;BR&#x3E;

.Legendary frontier merchant dies<BR>.<BR>On this day in 1902, Charles Rath died in Los Angeles, California. Rath, <BR>born near Stuttgart, Württemberg, in 1836, came to the United States in <BR>1848. About 1853 Charles joined William Bent's Colorado trading empire, <BR>working as an independent freighter hauling supplies and trade goods across <BR>Kansas. In the early 1870s Rath brought Andrew Johnson into his employ. Rath <BR>was among the first to take advantage of the growing buffalo-hide trade, ...

this can help a great deal . some may look into the  'library of congress genealogy" , also .<BR><BR><BR>    herbs.<BR><BR>--- On Mon, 7/26/10, liz hicks <erootrot@usa.net> wrote:<BR><BR><BR>From: liz hicks <erootrot@usa.net><BR>Subject: Re: [GERMAN-TEXAN] 1875 census<BR>To: german-texan@rootsweb.com<BR>Date: Monday, July 26, 2010, 12:29 PM<BR><BR><BR>Robert,<BR>Thanks for posting.  ...

Robert,<BR>Thanks for posting. Liz Hicks<BR><BR>------ Original Message ------<BR>Received: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 08:50:04 PM EDT<BR>From: rsage <rsage@austin.rr.com><BR>To: <German-Texan@rootsweb.com><BR>Subject: [GERMAN-TEXAN] 1875 census<BR><BR>Would you put a notice that at<BR>http://www.aust...;BR&#x3E;The 1875 Austin census has been put up. It has all the members of the family<BR>listed with ages and country of birth. ...

Texas Day by Day.<BR>Sante Fe Expedition survivor dies<BR>.<BR>On this day in 1884, Cayton Erhard died in Bastrop. This veteran and<BR>prisoner of the Texan Santa Fe Expedition was a native of Munich,<BR>Germany. He immigrated to Texas in 1839 and joined the Santa Fe Expedition<BR>in 1841. He was taken prisoner by Mexican troops and spent two years<BR>in Mexican prisons. Afterward, he was active in organizing the government<BR>of Hays County, where he served as the first county clerk and ...

In my husband's family index is the following:<BR><BR>Torens Henrich Buescher bd 20 Jan 1810 Herford, Prussia dd 10 Oct 1882 New<BR>Ulm, Austin, TX I have no spouse for him, but his daughter was Louisa<BR>Fredricke/Louise Buescher bd Jul 1848 Colorado Co, TX dd April 1905<BR>Houston, Harris, TX. She was married to Walter August Bernhard Cornitius bd<BR>Aug 1841 dd abt 1904 Houston, Harris, TX Louisa and Walter were married<BR>on 17 May 1866 in Colorado Co, TX. Their daughter Gertrude ...

thank you for this historical information .<BR><BR><BR>    herbs.<BR><BR>--- On Tue, 7/20/10, Sarah Reveley <sarah_reveley@att.net> wrote:<BR><BR><BR>From: Sarah Reveley <sarah_reveley@att.net><BR>Subject: [GERMAN-TEXAN] July 20, 1847<BR>To: german-texan@rootsweb.com<BR>Date: Tuesday, July 20, 2010, 10:48 AM<BR><BR><BR>.<BR>Meusebach resigns as Adelsverein commissioner<BR>.<BR>On ...

.<BR>Meusebach resigns as Adelsverein commissioner<BR>.<BR>On this day in 1847, John O. Meusebach resigned as general commissioner of <BR>the Adelsverein, the society formed by German nobles to encourage the <BR>colonization of Texas. Meusebach, born Baron Ottfried Hans Freiherr von <BR>Meusebach in Dillenburg, Germany, in 1812, succeeded Prince Carl of <BR>Solms-Braunfels as commissioner and arrived in Texas in 1845. In just over <BR>two years, and despite facing numerous obstacles, including the ...

Would you put a notice that at<BR>http://www.aust...;BR&#x3E;The 1875 Austin census has been put up. It has all the members of the family<BR>listed with ages and country of birth. There are many Germans listed. You<BR>can also tell when they got to the US by looking at children's birth. If the<BR>child is born in Germany,it will say German but the children born in the US<BR>will say American.<BR>Robert Sage<BR><BR><BR>

Texas Day by Day.<BR>Angry soldiers burn Fredericksburg store, destroying early Gillespie County <BR>records<BR>.<BR>On this day in 1850, a mob of soldiers burned down the store of <BR>Fredericksburg merchant John M. Hunter, destroying all Gillespie County <BR>records up to that time. Hunter, the first Gillespie County clerk,<BR>had a violent temper and had clashed more than once with the soldiers at <BR>nearby Fort Martin Scott. On the night of June 30, Hunter had refused to <BR>sell whiskey to a ...

I am a direct descendant of the Wilhelm Heinrich Reider that is referred to <BR> in this post. He and his brother, Daniel, departed Antwerp on September <BR>1, 1846 and arrived in Galveston on October 24, 1846 on the ship Colchis. <BR>The origin was Lemscheid. William's record is Record #3184. In one of the <BR>books I saw, it had his brother's last name misspelled. The name has been <BR>spelled Reyder, Reiter, Rider, and Reider. According to family legend, <BR>after he arrived he was eager to be Americanized ...

Texas Day by Day.<BR>El Paso civic leader and cigar manufacturer born in Prussia<BR>.<BR>On this day in 1857, Ernst Kohlberg was born in Beverungen, Westphalia,<BR>at that time a province of Prussia. He left home in 1875 with Solomon<BR>C. Schutz, who had business interests in the El Paso area. Kohlberg<BR>agreed to work for Schutz without salary for six months to a year<BR>in order to defray the costs of his passage to Texas. The two reached<BR>Franklin, as El Paso was then called, by stagecoach. ...

German furniture artist arrives in Texas<BR>On this day in 1849, C. F. Carl (Charles) Steinhagen, early Texas <BR>cabinetmaker and German emigrant, arrived in Galveston from Bremen aboard <BR>the Galliott Flora. He was a wheelwright by trade who made furniture for his <BR>family as a hobby. Steinhagen settled in Anderson, where he died in 1893. <BR>Ima Hogg, who collected many of his fine pieces of household furniture for <BR>the University of Texas Winedale Properties at Roundtop, described <BR>Steinhagen as "one ...

if there is any one researching the HOFFMAN FAMILY  of north east Texas ,Illinois , Tennessee at this time  please give me a shout  on the " air mail e mail ] . i  am researching my ggf/ ggm joseph william hoffman and wife  augusta . he is spelled [ at times [ johann weilhem [ or weilhem  middle name    only ] hoffman <BR> <BR>    herbs.<BR><BR><BR>