Conrad's Stories

The life and times of the Conrad Adam family in Kendall County, Texas

Seventeen men, from Louisville, Kentucky, who were members of The Ancient Order of United Workman and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, formed the Knights of Honor on June 30, 1873. The Knights of Honor was a fraternal benefit organization. One of its main objectives was to “provide fraternal unity and benevolent assistance for white …

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Willie Adam WWI Willie E. Adam Private, 32 Co. 8 Bn. 165 Depot Brigade received an honorable discharged  from the United States Army on 24 March 1919. This was one day after his 26th birthday. He was 25 when he enlisted on 8 August 1918.  He had blue eyes, brown hair, fair complexion and was 5 feet 10 in …

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Emma Adam Herms in the youngest daughter of Conrad and Adalbertha Bergmann Adam. Emma Adam Herms Born: 11 September 1867 Died: 1 September 1931 married 12 January 1890 in Kendall County, Texas Christian Herms Born: 1 June 1862 Died: 7 January 1929 Boerne Cemetery (Boerne, Kendall County, Texas). Christian and Emma Adam Herms marker; personally read, 2011.

  I have just returned from a trip to Houston to visit my college buds, Sharen and Rhonda. We had a wonderful time catching up on all the news, attending the Houston International Quilt Show and Discovering the Civil War Exhibit at the Houston Museum of Natural Science and attending a one year old birthday …

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Carl Adam is Conrad’s brother. n 1854, they traveled together from Tiefenbach, Prussia to Boerne, Texas. Carl Adam born 20 November 1832 died 24 October 1879 Carl Adam was one of the thirty-three inhabitants  to purchase burial plots in the Boerne Cemetery in 1867. Boerne Cemetery (Boerne, Kendall County, Texas). Carl Adam marker; personally read, July, 1971.

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