Since I first started gathering information about Conrad Adam, my great-great-grandfather, I have continually looked in books and later on the Internet for him. I never expect to find him and am always surprised when I do. Today was not any different. I typed his name into the Bexar County Deed search box. Lo and …
I’m not sure how old I am in this photo, but I can tell you several things about it. I still like purses, the two trees you see are still there, the road directly behind me is now gravel, my mother always had a hat on my head because it took a long time for …
This can be a tasty dish for a cold winter day. Jimmie used this recipe when participating in the Fall Festival in Fredericksburg and at the St. John Lutheran Church’s Wild Game Dinner. He loved preparing this recipe and everyone enjoyed eating it.
We decorated with Christmas flowers earlier this month. Daddy loved Christmas and for the past two years we decorated the tree too. Last year someone stole all the ornaments, so we decided to skip the tree this year.
When my maternal grandmother, Ame Richardson, moved to Hosack Street, we were happy to learn Santa showed up every Christmas Eve on Evergreen Street. It was the next street over and it was easy to get there. (I later learned we were cutting through Santa’s yard! haha) This street had lots of Christmas decorations. Every …
Five of the six grandsons of Julius and Ida Adam served in the military during World War II. They are the great grandsons of Conrad and Adalbertha Bergmann Adam. Chester Will Adam enlisted in the Ordnance Air Corps and served in North Africa, Sicily, and Italy. He attained the rank of sergeant. He is Willie …
This photo of Sally was taken by her sister, Betty Jean Asher, at her home on Spring Creek Road. I’m not sure of the occasion, maybe Easter. It looks like it was taken in the early 1960s when we all tried to master the hula hoop. It has been fifteen years since she passed away. …
This summer was a hot, dry one, but it did not stop us from going to the Boerne Cemetery and visiting Conrad and Adalbertha’s graves. These two kiddos are visiting their fourth great grandparents. It is amazing to me because it has been a struggle for me to locate any of my fourth great grandparents, …
Ida Haufler Adam‘s birthday is today! She was born on 25 September 1871 in Kendall County. When family and friends talked about her, they always had wonderful things to say. While researching at the Comfort Heritage Foundation Archives in Comfort, Texas, this summer, I discovered she was mentioned in the Boerne portion of …
November 11, 1925 – January 23, 2018 Jimmie Charles Adam, 92, went to his Lord on Tuesday, January 23 at the Isle at Watercrest Dominion in Leon Springs. Jimmie was born on November 11, 1925 to Willie Eugene and Lillie Katherine Schuetz Adam at their home in the Balcones Community, located 4 miles south of Boerne …
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