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Hondo, Tex., Dec 27. - Louis Graff Sr., aged 83 years, died at his farm home near Hondo, Medina County, Tex., Wednesday. He was born on April 9, 1826, in Neufreistadt, Bishofsheim, Baden, in Germany, on the Rhine, emigrated as a Castro colonist at the age of 18 years, and came to Texas and settled with ten Germans and thirty-eight Frenchmen, under Henry Castro, and settled at the town of Castroville, on the Medina River, in September, 1844. In 1845 he joined the Texas Rangers under Capt. John Conner, under Gen. Taylor, and went to Mexico. He was at Mier, Ceraboo, Catrigo and Monterey. He left Mexico and became a Texas Indian scout. In 1847 he was married to Miss Baraba Bartz, who with three sons, twenty-five grandchildren and fourteen great-grandchildren survive. He has made Medina County his home since 1844, and had seen the county grow from a wilderness to a densely settled country, and with the old pioneers had to undergo the many hardships of their early days. He was universally well liked and was known as a hospitable, honest, good man, respected by every one. A large number of people attended his funeral at the family graveyard, two miles east of Hondo. Rev. A. Falkenberg, pastor of the German Lutheran Church, conducting the services. [Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Texas, December 28, 1908]
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Hondo, Tex., Dec 27. - Louis Graff Sr., aged 83 years, died at his farm home near Hondo, Medina County, Tex., Wednesday. He was born on April 9, 1826, in Neufreistadt, Bishofsheim, Baden, in Germany, on the Rhine, emigrated as a Castro colonist at the age of 18 years, and came to Texas and settled with ten Germans and thirty-eight Frenchmen, under Henry Castro, and settled at the town of Castroville, on the Medina River, in September, 1844. In 1845 he joined the Texas Rangers under Capt. John Conner, under Gen. Taylor, and went to Mexico. He was at Mier, Ceraboo, Catrigo and Monterey. He left Mexico and became a Texas Indian scout. In 1847 he was married to Miss Baraba Bartz, who with three sons, twenty-five grandchildren and fourteen great-grandchildren survive. He has made Medina County his home since 1844, and had seen the county grow from a wilderness to a densely settled country, and with the old pioneers had to undergo the many hardships of their early days. He was universally well liked and was known as a hospitable, honest, good man, respected by every one. A large number of people attended his funeral at the family graveyard, two miles east of Hondo. Rev. A. Falkenberg, pastor of the German Lutheran Church, conducting the services. [Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Texas, December 28, 1908]
Contributor: Sherry (47010546)
MEXICAN WAR VETERAN AND CASTRO COLONIST
SPECIAL TO THE NEWS
Hondo, Tex., Dec 27. - Louis Graff Sr., aged 83 years, died at his farm home near Hondo, Medina County, Tex., Wednesday. He was born on April 9, 1826, in Neufreistadt, Bishofsheim, Baden, in Germany, on the Rhine, emigrated as a Castro colonist at the age of 18 years, and came to Texas and settled with ten Germans and thirty-eight Frenchmen, under Henry Castro, and settled at the town of Castroville, on the Medina River, in September, 1844. In 1845 he joined the Texas Rangers under Capt. John Conner, under Gen. Taylor, and went to Mexico. He was at Mier, Ceraboo, Catrigo and Monterey. He left Mexico and became a Texas Indian scout. In 1847 he was married to Miss Baraba Bartz, who with three sons, twenty-five grandchildren and fourteen great-grandchildren survive. He has made Medina County his home since 1844, and had seen the county grow from a wilderness to a densely settled country, and with the old pioneers had to undergo the many hardships of their early days. He was universally well liked and was known as a hospitable, honest, good man, respected by every one. A large number of people attended his funeral at the family graveyard, two miles east of Hondo. Rev. A. Falkenberg, pastor of the German Lutheran Church, conducting the services. [Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Texas, December 28, 1908]
Contributor: Sherry (47010546)
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Hondo, Tex., Dec 27. - Louis Graff Sr., aged 83 years, died at his farm home near Hondo, Medina County, Tex., Wednesday. He was born on April 9, 1826, in Neufreistadt, Bishofsheim, Baden, in Germany, on the Rhine, emigrated as a Castro colonist at the age of 18 years, and came to Texas and settled with ten Germans and thirty-eight Frenchmen, under Henry Castro, and settled at the town of Castroville, on the Medina River, in September, 1844. In 1845 he joined the Texas Rangers under Capt. John Conner, under Gen. Taylor, and went to Mexico. He was at Mier, Ceraboo, Catrigo and Monterey. He left Mexico and became a Texas Indian scout. In 1847 he was married to Miss Baraba Bartz, who with three sons, twenty-five grandchildren and fourteen great-grandchildren survive. He has made Medina County his home since 1844, and had seen the county grow from a wilderness to a densely settled country, and with the old pioneers had to undergo the many hardships of their early days. He was universally well liked and was known as a hospitable, honest, good man, respected by every one. A large number of people attended his funeral at the family graveyard, two miles east of Hondo. Rev. A. Falkenberg, pastor of the German Lutheran Church, conducting the services. [Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Texas, December 28, 1908]
Contributor: Sherry (47010546)
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