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From: "" <>
Subject: Re: [G-T] Re:Jacob Schmidt and his wife Elizabeth Reh
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 23:55:22 -0600
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In September, 1846, as a result of fund-raising efforts in Germany, John
Meusebach finally received a deposit of sixty thousand dollars from the
Verein council. He used a portion of the money to purchase seventy-eight
wagons, twenty-four thousand bushels of corn, a thousand cows and calves,
and fourteen-hundred sheep and goats. Meusebach kept the wagons moving back
and forth between Fredericksburg, New Braunfels, and Indian Point, and by
the end of September he was able to relocate all the immigrants inland (as
far as New Braunfels and Fredericksburg) except those who chose to remain at
Indian Point and begin building what would become, in 1849, the city of
Indianola.

Bob Schulz

----- Original Message -----
From: "James Autry" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2002 11:00 PM
Subject: Re: [G-T] Re:Jacob Schmidt and his wife Elizabeth Reh


> It seems that many of the land claims occurred in 1847-49 regardless of
when
> they arrived. If I understand the written history, I thought that most if
> not all those remaining in IndianPoint left by September of 46.
>
> James
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2002 7:26 PM
> Subject: Re: [G-T] Re:Jacob Schmidt and his wife Elizabeth Reh
>
>
> > My ancestors, Christian Siegfried Holzhauser and family, arrived
Galveston
> > Jan 1846. Story has it that they stayed in Indianola until the spring of
> 1847
> > and then my gggreat grandfather set out to New Braunsfels to claim his
> land.
> > He became ill and upon arrival, turned around and made for home just in
> time
> > to die of "typhoid pneumonia". I have not found his name in any
documents
> > showing land claims, church affiliation, etc between 1846-1850, where I
> found
> > a census entry that appears to be wife and part of the family. Would it
> take
> > up to a year to try to claim land? If so, would any other part of the
> family
> > be able to claim the land? I also read that all who claimed there parcel
> were
> > given land in New Braunsfels that they were required to farm for a
certain
> > amount of time before they would receive their land in the
Fischer-Miller
> > Grant and that many did not want to do this and settled elsewhere. Is
that
> > true? What church was located in Indianola/Indian Point area at that
time?
> > Thanks,
> > Deborah
> >
> >
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