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, ...

Quite a few men by the name of Schmidt came to the Fredericksburg area in the second half of the 19th century.Since Schmidt is quite a commo...

There was a man by the name of James A. Gill, who was born in Virginia in 1826. Who his parents were and when the man came to Texas, is not ...

On 28 December 1896, in La Grange, TX, 25 local inhabitants of Czech and Slovak descent held a meeting. They were members of the Česko Slove...

The Llano County courthouse came into being in 1859. It was a wooden building - 21 years later it was destroyed by a fire. The second (tempo...

  Since we moved to the Hill Country, we have done a lot of walking. During the Covid time, when the reality was so depressing and life was ...

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...