This post relates both to My Polish and My Texas Alphabet s. A few days before Christmas, we were invited to the Christmas song concert wh...

  Thanks to the help of my Facebook page reader, I managed to decipher correctly the surname of Robert's (written on his tombstone). It ...

  The building of Vereins-Kirche (Society Church) is the unofficial symbol of the town. It was the very first local church, built in 1847 b...

The research related to creating this post took me quite a lot of time. As usual, I first tried to find as many sources of information on th...

Johann Leyendecker (Leiendecker) was born in the community of Kadenbach (Duchy of Nassau, Prussia), on 17 October 1794. His parents were Fr...

Pastor Weiss was mentioned in the previous post. Here is a bit more about the man. Karl Richard Weiss was born on May 10, 1840, in Bavaria, ...

Raymond Walter Weber was born to Dina Burns and her husband Henry J. Durst, on March 13, 1917, in Gillespie, TX (1).  Raymond was a descenda...

A few words about another baptism certificate that was displayed at the exhibition "History of the Lutheran Church.   Viola Minna Stein...

The local library is a place we enjoy visiting. Friendly and helpful staff, good book and DVD collections, and computers when needed. Beside...

Alfred Henke was the son of Heinrich Henke and Dorothea Weirich. He was born on 8 March 1874 in Gillespie, TX. In 1880, Alfred, his parents...

Some time ago, I wrote a post about the Kordzik family - Henry, Augusta , and their children, including Alfred. Today, more about him.  Alfr...

I am not going to write about the history and early beginnings of Fredericksburg here or what you can see in the town. I did that quite a fe...