Commissioner Court Minutes for a county can give tidbits of information about the people who lived there. For example, I read in the January 1867 Kendall County Commissioner Court Minutes that Conrad Adam was an overseer for the upkeep of Road 1 in Kendall County. Who knew? Since there wasn’t a TXDOT in 1867 the men …
On 1 February 1864 John Haufler enlisted in the First Regiment of the Texas Cavalry. John lived in Kendall County and was a Union sympathizer in a Confederate state. His muster and descriptive roll dated 22 July 1864 in Brownsville states he was born in Wurttemberg, Germany and was 38 years old and a farmer. According to …
On the 1860 census of Comal County, Texas, Louise Magers Haufler stated she was born in Hanover and was 24 years old. Living with her and her husband, Gottfried otherwise known as John, she has two children, one-year-old Emma and four-month-old Marie (Anna). Also residing with the Haufler family is Charlotte Magers age 8. Louise …
Johann Gottfried Haufler Louise Magers Haufler 5 September 1830 24 September 1835 15 May 1886 29 December 1899 Parents of Ida Haufler Adam (Waring, Kendall County, Texas). Johann and Louise Haufler marker; personally read 1971.
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