CategoryGillespie County

Gillespie County, Texas February 22, 1870, A. Walker and D.E. Moore, who lived in Legion Valley in Llano County, started to Fredericksburg with a load of bacon. When they had driven their oxen about six or seven miles and were about four or five...

Gillespie County, Texas Henry Meier and his son, Henry Jr., who lived on the line of Gillespie and Kendall county, and who were driving a heavily loaded wagon drawn by five yoke of oxen, started to the home of Hen. Heiligmann, who lived on the...

Gillespie County, Texas Ammie and Ennie Metzger, daughters of Peter Metzger, who lived about three miles north of Fredericksburg, were returning to their home. Ennie, about thirteen years of age, had been staying with her uncle, John Metzger, in...

Gillespie County, Texas Mrs. Eli McDonald, whose husband was killed in the edge of the present town of Harper, and who, herself, was carried into captivity by the Indians, finally was returned and married Peter Hazzlewood. During 1873, when the...

Gillespie County, Texas During the early days of Gillespie County, Mr. Ferg lived on South Grape Creek, about ten miles south of Fredericksburg. Tom Neil lived on the Pedernales. One morning in 1854, Mr. Ferg was out a short distance from his home...

Gillespie County, Texas Rudolph Fischer and Peter Webber had been to the home of Ludwig Kneese, a blacksmith, who lived about five miles southwest of Fredericksburg. When they were returning home and within one mile of their residence, Indians...