Charley/Carl is listed as age 10 on the census day of June 1, 1880, and age 1 on the 1870 Census (taken July 25) so he was probably born between June 1 and July 24, 1869.
An entry for the Maass Family on pages 106-107 of Pioneer History of Bandera County: Seventy-Five Years of Intrepid History, written by J. Marvin Hunter in 1922, states that William Maass Sr. and family moved to Bandera from San Antonio in 1874, "and located on Middle Verde Creek, on the place now occupied by W. W. Whitley." Whitley was the original owner of the Dixie Dude Ranch.
Interestingly, the book entry doesn't list Charley as one of William Sr.'s sons, but it does list a Reinhardt, with no other information. Perhaps Charley and Reinhardt are one and the same?
I could not find any information about a range war in Bandera County. According to a July 26, 2012 article in the Bandera County Courier about the Dixie Dude, Charley was killed by a cattleman wanting to drive his herd across the Maass property. Fence cutting was common in this part of Texas in the 1880s, and it often resulted in murders.
ETA 19 Sep 2021: Thanks to a finding by FindAGrave member Sherry, it appears Charley was murdered in March 1886 - see the newspaper articles in the photos. Charley is variously listed as seventeen or eighteen at the time of his death. He was killed by Samuel "Sam" Houston Davenport, who went on to live in San Antonio, marry, have two children, and die at the age of 87.
An entry for the Maass Family on pages 106-107 of Pioneer History of Bandera County: Seventy-Five Years of Intrepid History, written by J. Marvin Hunter in 1922, states that William Maass Sr. and family moved to Bandera from San Antonio in 1874, "and located on Middle Verde Creek, on the place now occupied by W. W. Whitley." Whitley was the original owner of the Dixie Dude Ranch.
Interestingly, the book entry doesn't list Charley as one of William Sr.'s sons, but it does list a Reinhardt, with no other information. Perhaps Charley and Reinhardt are one and the same?
I could not find any information about a range war in Bandera County. According to a July 26, 2012 article in the Bandera County Courier about the Dixie Dude, Charley was killed by a cattleman wanting to drive his herd across the Maass property. Fence cutting was common in this part of Texas in the 1880s, and it often resulted in murders.
ETA 19 Sep 2021: Thanks to a finding by FindAGrave member Sherry, it appears Charley was murdered in March 1886 - see the newspaper articles in the photos. Charley is variously listed as seventeen or eighteen at the time of his death. He was killed by Samuel "Sam" Houston Davenport, who went on to live in San Antonio, marry, have two children, and die at the age of 87.
Charley/Carl is listed as age 10 on the census day of June 1, 1880, and age 1 on the 1870 Census (taken July 25) so he was probably born between June 1 and July 24, 1869.
An entry for the Maass Family on pages 106-107 of Pioneer History of Bandera County: Seventy-Five Years of Intrepid History, written by J. Marvin Hunter in 1922, states that William Maass Sr. and family moved to Bandera from San Antonio in 1874, "and located on Middle Verde Creek, on the place now occupied by W. W. Whitley." Whitley was the original owner of the Dixie Dude Ranch.
Interestingly, the book entry doesn't list Charley as one of William Sr.'s sons, but it does list a Reinhardt, with no other information. Perhaps Charley and Reinhardt are one and the same?
I could not find any information about a range war in Bandera County. According to a July 26, 2012 article in the Bandera County Courier about the Dixie Dude, Charley was killed by a cattleman wanting to drive his herd across the Maass property. Fence cutting was common in this part of Texas in the 1880s, and it often resulted in murders.
ETA 19 Sep 2021: Thanks to a finding by FindAGrave member Sherry, it appears Charley was murdered in March 1886 - see the newspaper articles in the photos. Charley is variously listed as seventeen or eighteen at the time of his death. He was killed by Samuel "Sam" Houston Davenport, who went on to live in San Antonio, marry, have two children, and die at the age of 87.
An entry for the Maass Family on pages 106-107 of Pioneer History of Bandera County: Seventy-Five Years of Intrepid History, written by J. Marvin Hunter in 1922, states that William Maass Sr. and family moved to Bandera from San Antonio in 1874, "and located on Middle Verde Creek, on the place now occupied by W. W. Whitley." Whitley was the original owner of the Dixie Dude Ranch.
Interestingly, the book entry doesn't list Charley as one of William Sr.'s sons, but it does list a Reinhardt, with no other information. Perhaps Charley and Reinhardt are one and the same?
I could not find any information about a range war in Bandera County. According to a July 26, 2012 article in the Bandera County Courier about the Dixie Dude, Charley was killed by a cattleman wanting to drive his herd across the Maass property. Fence cutting was common in this part of Texas in the 1880s, and it often resulted in murders.
ETA 19 Sep 2021: Thanks to a finding by FindAGrave member Sherry, it appears Charley was murdered in March 1886 - see the newspaper articles in the photos. Charley is variously listed as seventeen or eighteen at the time of his death. He was killed by Samuel "Sam" Houston Davenport, who went on to live in San Antonio, marry, have two children, and die at the age of 87.
Inscription
Here lie the remains of our great-grandfather, Wm. J. Maass, buried here in 1893 - and his son Charles, killed in a range war in 188?. Erected with our various Maass relatives Oct. 1985.
Charles Toudouze
Mitchell Anderwald
Gravesite Details
Charles Aloysius Toudouze Sr. (1923-2009) and Alexander "Andy" Mitchell Anderwald (1920-2010) were grandsons of William Julius Maass Jr., Charley's older brother
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