Family Histories

The Batots, Wipffs & other members of the Castro Colony who emigrated from Alsace to Texas in 1846.        Further remembrances of Joe Batot about early days in D'Hanis & Eagle Pass & thereabouts. (in PDF format)

Letters from civil war battlefields by the two Schadt brothers to their sister back in Texas. Only one brother survived. Shortly after arriving in Galveston from Germany the parents and one child died of disease. In the end only 2 of that family survived.

Letter from Tom Frazier to his wife Ella, 1935, and photo of Tom Frazier, hog farmer before becoming a broker.

Ancestral Houses

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