Posted on: Austin County, Tx Query Forum Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tx/Austin?read=283 Surname: Miner, Tannehill, Lambert, Koock, Conn, Faulk ------------------------- Would like to contact descendants of Joel Miner and Jesse C. Tannehill, early settlers (1820s and 1830s) of Travis County. I am particularly interested in the children of Ashford T. Miner and his wife, Medora Jones.

Fran, Industry has always been in Austin County, the Colonial Capital of Texas. Industry is also the first permanent German settlement in Texas. Perhaps your relatives lived on the border (near Willow Springs) of Fayette and Austin Cos. and found it easier to retrieve mail from Industry. There are Andreas families in Nelsonville and Cat Spring. Sharing. It's What It's All About! Rick Garza http://www.garza-zattler.homepage.com/ NameSearch: GARZA, ZATTLER, REYNA, FOSTER, SCHACHTNER, STOPFER, HOLLMAIER, VOGEL, VOGL, WEINZIERL, FINK http://www.egroups.com/database/texasczechs On Sat, 15 Apr 2000 06:25:39 -0700 Fran Wise <franwise@lvcm.com> writes: > Re the roll call: > > Can anyone tell me if Industry has always been in Austin County, or > is/was > part of it ever in Fayette County? All my information (see below) is > that > my family came to Austin County in 1859. However, I have a Soc. Sec. > application which indicates that an uncle was born in Industry, > Fayette > County and I have been unable to find the family in Austin County > census > records. Is it possible that Industry was used as a mailing address > for > some families that actually lived in Fayette County? > > Re the Roll Call request: > > I am researching the BREIHAN family: Heinrich Breihan (my > ggrandfather), b. > June 15 1807 in Hannover, d. January 13, 1897; wife, Christine > BUNSE, b. > March 26, 1819 in Germany, d. February 19, 1868. Children: H. A. > (Henry > Andreas), b. July 21, 1856, d. May 19, 1927; Mari, b. June 6, 1853, > d. > November 11, 1930; August E., b. May 29, 1863, d. May 17, 1936; > Wilhelm H., > b. June 10, 1859, d. March 25, 1939. H. A. (my grandfather) is > buried in > Bartlett -- all the others are buried in Industry. > > New Homes in New Lands indicates that the family sailed on the > Adolphine in > late 1859 and settled in Austin County. Have been unable to find any > information on the Adolphine and the ship is not listed in any > immigration > or passenger lists I have found. > > Thanks much for any information. > > > Fran Wise (Frances BREIHAN Wise) > franwise@lvcm.com > > > > ==== TXAUSTIN Mailing List ==== > Visit USGENWEB for links and archives for all states. > http://www.usgenweb.com > > ============================== > The RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: > Tens of millions of individuals... and counting. > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/ > ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.

Re the roll call: Can anyone tell me if Industry has always been in Austin County, or is/was part of it ever in Fayette County? All my information (see below) is that my family came to Austin County in 1859. However, I have a Soc. Sec. application which indicates that an uncle was born in Industry, Fayette County and I have been unable to find the family in Austin County census records. Is it possible that Industry was used as a mailing address for some families that actually lived in Fayette County? Re the Roll Call request: I am researching the BREIHAN family: Heinrich Breihan (my ggrandfather), b. June 15 1807 in Hannover, d. January 13, 1897; wife, Christine BUNSE, b. March 26, 1819 in Germany, d. February 19, 1868. Children: H. A. (Henry Andreas), b. July 21, 1856, d. May 19, 1927; Mari, b. June 6, 1853, d. November 11, 1930; August E., b. May 29, 1863, d. May 17, 1936; Wilhelm H., b. June 10, 1859, d. March 25, 1939. H. A. (my grandfather) is buried in Bartlett -- all the others are buried in Industry. New Homes in New Lands indicates that the family sailed on the Adolphine in late 1859 and settled in Austin County. Have been unable to find any information on the Adolphine and the ship is not listed in any immigration or passenger lists I have found. Thanks much for any information. Fran Wise (Frances BREIHAN Wise) franwise@lvcm.com

Dear Whoever, Raimershofer (not sure of spelling) was important in the history of Galveston also. Bohemia and Moravia have not changed borders other than the gain of part of Silesia to the Czech lands nearest Moravia, NE Bohemia and loss of most of Silesia to Poland. You say your are looking for Krejcas. Have you tried the texasczechs@egroups.com or moravia@rootsweb.com? Both are dedicated to Texas Czechs, 85% of whom came from Moravia. http://www.czechheritage.org Sharing. It's What It's All About! Rick Garza http://www.garza-zattler.homepage.com/ NameSearch: GARZA, ZATTLER, REYNA, FOSTER, SCHACHTNER, STOPFER, HOLLMAIER, VOGEL, VOGL, WEINZIERL, FINK Bavarian Towns: Koetzting, Kötzting, Beckendorf b. Kötzting, Muenchen, Oberreit b. Vilshofen, Schönerting b. Vilshofen, Munich, Germany On Mon, 10 Apr 2000 17:25:26 EDT JKK358@aol.com writes: > Tomas apparently came from Moravia to Cat Spring in 1855. He > supposedly was > enticed by some glowing accounts of Texas written by a businessman > named > Raimershofer. At one time, the birthplace of my gp in Southern > Bohemia was > part of Moravia and my surname is the same as that of Tomas. Eager > to connect > with descendants of Tomas. > > > ==== TXAUSTIN Mailing List ==== > For questions or comments about the Austin Co. Texas Mailing List, > please contact: Peggy Tebbetts tcf@genealogist.net > > ============================== > Search ALL of RootsWeb's mailing lists in real time. > RootsWeb's Personalized Mailing Lists: > http://pml.rootsweb.com/ > ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.

Tomas apparently came from Moravia to Cat Spring in 1855. He supposedly was enticed by some glowing accounts of Texas written by a businessman named Raimershofer. At one time, the birthplace of my gp in Southern Bohemia was part of Moravia and my surname is the same as that of Tomas. Eager to connect with descendants of Tomas.

some of my austin co. kinfolk are: dickehut, boecker,bader,butler,fischer and many distant kin. hasta la vista baby!

<< >From: Joy N <joyn@industryinet.com> >Researching the families of Charles William Fordtran 1801-1900 Industry and >Neil Carmichael 1826-1894 Schoenau. Will be glad to do look-ups in the >Austin County cemetery book, early marriage records, naturalization records >and other records since I live in Bellville and have access to these >records. Joy Neely joyn@industryinet.com >> Joy, we may possibly be shirttail kin. My aunt was Mamie Fordtran Prouty, she was married to my uncle, D.L. Prouty of Bellville. I remember the old theatre, The Alamo, closed about 1955, was run by Della Fordtran. I have a problem I have been unable to solve. One of Uncle Dee's grandfather's was Nathaniel Reed, San Jacinto Veteran, who died January 1887, near Hempstead. That is the only notation I have of his death. N. Reed was on 1840-188O Census for Austin Co. His wife died in 1882 so he is probably near her. I have been unable to locate their graves in either county, Austin or Waller. Since their last child died in 1946, the trail is very cold. I have searched extensively but perhaps you have some new sources. I would like to get Nathaniel's grave marked as a TX veteran if it can be found. A Bellville newspaper would probably have an obit but haven't found those from this era. Did not find in Brenham Banner Press and Hempstead newspapers are problematic. He doesn't appear in Oak Knoll or the Austin County cemetary book. Thanks for reading. Tom in El Paso

I am forwarding this to the list from Joy, can anyone make a connection? >From: Joy N <joyn@industryinet.com> >To: "'tcf@genealogist.net'" <tcf@genealogist.net> >Subject: Re: Austin Co., TX >Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 09:38:54 -0600 >X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet E-mail/MAPI - 8.0.0.4211 >Encoding: 5 TEXT > >Researching the families of Charles William Fordtran 1801-1900 Industry and >Neil Carmichael 1826-1894 Schoenau. Will be glad to do look-ups in the >Austin County cemetery book, early marriage records, naturalization records >and other records since I live in Bellville and have access to these >records. Joy Neely joyn@industryinet.com

I am forwarding this to the list for the roll call.... >From: Lempeg@aol.com >Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 22:35:25 EST >Subject: Re: [TXAUSTIN] Roll Call >To: tcf@genealogist.net >X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows 95 sub 41 > >I have the Vierus family and von Bieberstein families in Austin Co. and would >apreciate exchanging infomation.

One of my biggest road blocks in the family tree is in Austin Co. James M.Hinson, and his wife Elizabeth J.Hudson, came to Austin Co. about 1882-85,from NC. They had three daughters: Eva Samantha,Dell, and Minnie Violette Hinson. They probably leased a farm there. I suspect that Eva Hinson met her future husband,Duncan Campbell there. Duncan's sister married Dr.A.B. Gardner in Austin Co. At any rate, the Hinson women moved to Leon Co.by 1896. I find no trace of James M.Hinson anywhere. I have not even found a document to prove that he was in Texas. There is a family story that James M. Hinson shot a man that was insulting women who dipped snuff. His wife Elizabeth dipped. James is then said to have removed from the area and become very nervous at any loud sound that could be mistaken for a gunshot. He eventually left his family. You know how reliable these family stories are! Yet that is all I have to work with for now. If anyone runs across the snuff shooting incident or sees any Hinsons, I would appreciate the info. Karen Kerr

Hi Listers, The list has been very quiet, so, I would like to call for a Roll Call. I would like everyone to let the list know who your Austin Co. ancestors are. My Austin Co. family is Joseph Wier, b. 1831 in Monongalia (W)Va d. 1900 in Hempstead, and wife Henrietta Abell Wier b. 1833, d. 1900. They married in Trumbull Co. in 1854 and came to TX from Trumbull Co. OH in 1857. Their children are: Clarence Henry Wier b 1855 m. Mary J. Wood in 1880, d. 1930 in Hempstead,Waller, TX Warren A, Wier b 1857, m. Irene McNeil, d. 1881 in Hempstead Flora Ann Wier b . 1861, m. John Francis Houx abt 1880, d. 1916 Clara A. Wier b. 1863 m. Charles D. Robinson , d. 1924 James S. Wier b. 1865 d. 1870 in Austin Co. Alice Wier b. 1869, m. Thomas Lee Rankin, d. 1927 Charles B. Wier b. 1872 , m. Margaret Hamilton Clarke , d. 1960 The Wier's lived in the area of Hempstead, which was at the time a part of Austin Co. until 1873. In 1873, Waller Co. was formed from Austin and Grimes Co's. Descendants of the Wier families still live in and around the area. Anyone related? Peggy Tebbetts List Admin.

Good day, Austin County. A native son, born Bellville, 1943, seeks final resting place of Nathaniel Reed, Veteran of San Jacinto, Austin County resident who died near Hempstead in January 1887. N. Reed was my g2gf. It seems he dropped off the face of the earth. Any help appreciated. Tom in El Paso.

This posting just came through and I am forwarding this in case anyone is interested in attending. It was through the letters of Arnost (Ernst) Bergman (Bergmann), living in the Cat Spring area, to his compatriots in the Czech Republic that began the large migration of Czechs to Texas. Rick Garza --------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Karel Kysilka" <zlimpkk@iqnet.cz> To: MORAVIA-L@rootsweb.com Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 08:36:37 +0100 Subject: [MORAVIA] EMIGRATION TO THE USA FROM MLADA BOLESLAV (JUNGBUNZLAU) DISTRICT Message-ID: <000301bf8744$1dca8240$129d47d4@impuls> Announcement to all, whose ancestors may have emigrated from this area: DISTRICT MUSEUM in MLADA BOLESLAV ( 50 miles NE of Prague) is going to organize AN EXHIBITION: HISTORY OF EMIGRATION FROM THE DISTRICT OF MLADA BOLESLAV (the cities of Mlada Boleslav, Mnichovo Hradiste, Bela pod Bezdezem, Benatky n. Jizerou etc). Reverend Bergman who was among first Czech settlers in Texas, hailed from Mlada Boleslav. The exhibition will be completed by a symposium and a meeting of compatriots from all over the world. June 23, 2000 - symposium Jund 24, 2000 - October 15, 2000 The exhibition June 24, 2000 - Meeting of compatriots from The USA, Argentina, Australia, New Zealand, Croatia etc.... Information obtainable: Okresni muzeum Mlada Boleslav Mr. Jaromir Jermar phone: +420 - 326 25616 fax: + 420 - 326 225 42 Karel Kysilka ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.

Morning Austin County Researchers, I have joined your list to be sure you know about a wonderful new resource. It is a project called "Migrations" and I am the coordinator of the Texas site at http://homepages.go.com/~lc123/migrations/index.html I have an Austin County link from the Texas site but as of this date the only thing I have is a request for someone to host that county. If you can do that, please let me know. There is only one entry to the Austin County data so I hope you all will post yours and make a strong showing for your county. Visit the MIGRATIONS homepage at http://www.migrations.org/ for more details about just how this project works. I hope to hear from each of you. Tell me what you think of this project and if you have any suggestions, I'm listening! -- LColey Tarrant Co Texas A list of genealogy and history related sites I maintain can be found here: http://homepages.go.com/~lc123/lc123.html

Texas Czech History - Arnost Bergmann - It Began in Austin County BERGMANN, Josef Arnošt (1797-1877). Josef Arnost Bergmann, Czech pioneer, was born on August 13, 1797, in the village of Zápudov near Mladá Boleslav (Jungbunzlau) in what is now the Czech Republic, the son of Josef and Katerina (Sindelar) Bergmann. He dropped the name Josef early, perhaps to avoid conflict with his father, and used the name Arnost or Ernst for the remainder of his life. Bergmann began training for the Catholic priesthood at Litomysl, but he left the Catholic Church to study in the Protestant theological department at Breslau, Prussia, and was ordained a minister in 1830. His first assignment was at Strou_n_ (today Pstra_na) in the Glatz district in Poland (then called Silesia). Bergmann married Marie Berndt on December 15, 1830, and their first six children were born at Strou_n_. On October 2, 1849, he preached his last sermon there and announced his plan to move to Texas. The family embarked on the Alexander at Hamburg on December 20, 1849, and arrived at Galveston on March 2, 1850. They went by coastal and river steamers to San Felipe and then by oxcart to Cat Spring. The German colonists hired Bergmann as their schoolteacher and preacher. He preached their Easter service in March 1850 at Cat Spring. Bergmann bought the tract of land currently called Kollattschny Cemetery, and there preached and taught school in a small log building. A fifth Bergmann daughter was born and died in 1853, and two daughters died of yellow fever in 1855 or 1856. Bergmann wrote a long letter back to Strou_n_ soon after his arrival in 1850. This letter told of the freedom to be found in Texas, the large amount of land available at cheap prices, and how he had already acquired many chickens, hogs, cows, and a horse. His letter was eventually published in the Moravské Noviny (Moravian News), and people in Moravia began to discuss plans for following the Bergmann family to the great free state of Texas. Groups of Czech families came in 1852, 1853, and 1854, and this started the waves of migration of Czech and Moravian people to Texas. Bergmann, credited by many Czech immigrants and their descendants as their reason for immigrating to Texas, was the father of the Czechsqv in Texas. Bergmann preached and taught school at Cat Spring until 1871, when he moved to Corsicana to be nearer his daughters, who had married German men and moved there with the railroad. In the evening of April 6, 1877, he told his wife that he was going to die and asked her to bring his Bible, gather the family, and light the lamp. He died quietly at midnight and was buried at the Oakwood Cemetery, Corsicana. His wife died in Hempstead on September 14, 1888, and was buried alongside her husband. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Dorothy Klumpp and Albert J. Blaha, Sr., The Saga of Ernst Bergmann (Houston, 1981). Clinton Machann and James W. Mendl, Krásná Amerika: A Study of the Texas Czechs, 1851-1939 (Austin: Eakin Press, 1983). Albert J. Blaha, Sr. "BERGMANN, JOSEF ARNOST." The Handbook of Texas Online. <http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/BB/fbe82.html> [Accessed Mon Feb 28 19:47:13 2000 ]. Sharing. It's What It's All About! Rick Garza http://www.garza-zattler.homepage.com/" NameSearch: GARZA, ZATTLER, REYNA, FOSTER, SCHACHTNER, STOPFER, HOLLMAIER, VOGEL, VOGL, WEINZIERL, FINK Bavarian Towns: Koetzting, Kötzting, Beckendorf b. Kötzting, Muenchen, Oberreit b. Vilshofen, Schönerting b. Vilshofen, Munich, Germany "BERGMANN, JOSEF ARNOST." The Handbook of Texas Online. <http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/BB/fbe82.html> [Accessed Mon Feb 28 19:47:13 2000 ]. ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.

Texas Czech History - Josef Lidumil Lesikar LESIKAR, JOSEF LIDUMIL (1806-1887). Josef Lidumil Lešikar, a politician, farmer, and journalist best remembered for his contribution to the settlement of Czechsqv in America, was born on May 16, 1806, at Herboritice, in what is now the Czech Republic, to Josef and Rozalie (Prokop) Lešikar. On February 18, 1828, he married Terezie Šilar; the couple eventually had four sons. As a young man Lešikar settled in the village of Nepomuky and worked chiefly as a tailor and farmer. He engaged in politics to obtain more freedom for his fellow Czechs from the dominance of Austria. He was elected representative to the Czech parliament in Prague but did not serve because of the revolution in 1848. Shortly after the revolution he was instrumental in organizing two groups of about 160 Czechs to immigrate to Texas, in 1851 and 1853. Although about half of the first group died, Lesikar, his wife, and their four sons reached Galveston with the second group on board the Suwa in late December 1853. The family bought farmland in New Bremen, Austin County. The men felled trees and built a log house that still stands, with a Texas historical marker before it. Lesikar wrote articles for periodicals published in various parts of the United States as well as in his native land, and his writings encouraged many Czechs to come to America. As one of the founders of Národní hoviny, a Czech newspaper published in St. Louis, he helped to lay the foundation for Czech journalism in America. In his writing he opposed secession.qv He died on October 21, 1887, near New Ulm and is buried in the New Ulm Cemetery. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Clinton Machann, ed., The Czechs in Texas (College Station: Texas A&M University Department of English, 1979). Clinton Machann and James W. Mendl, Krásná Amerika: A Study of the Texas Czechs, 1851-1939 (Austin: Eakin Press, 1983). John T. Kroulik LESIKAR, JOSEF LIDUMIL." The Handbook of Texas Online. http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/LL/fle59.html [Accessed Mon Feb 28 19:52:46 2000 ]. Sharing. It's What It's All About! Rick Garza http://www.garza-zattler.homepage.com/" NameSearch: GARZA, ZATTLER, REYNA, FOSTER, SCHACHTNER, STOPFER, HOLLMAIER, VOGEL, VOGL, WEINZIERL, FINK Bavarian Towns: Koetzting, Kötzting, Beckendorf b. Kötzting, Muenchen, Oberreit b. Vilshofen, Schönerting b. Vilshofen, Munich, Germany ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.

Texas Czech History CZECHS. Czechs are a Slavic people from Bohemia, Moravia, and parts of Silesia. Among the first Czechs to arrive in Texas were the writer Carl Postlqv (Charles Sealsfield), who may have visited the Texas-Louisiana borderland as early as 1823; Frederick Lemsky,qv who arrived in 1836 and played the fife in the Texas band at the battle of San Jacinto; Bohumir Menzl, a Catholic priest who moved to New Braunfels in 1840; and Anthony M. Dignowity.qv Rev. Josef Arnost Bergmann,qv however, can best be described as the "father" of Czech immigration to Texas. Soon after arriving at the Austin County community of Cat Spring, Bergman began writing to his friends in Europe about the opportunities that awaited future immigrants. His letters stimulated Bohemian and Moravian immigration. The first immigrants were chiefly poor laborers from the area around Nepomuky and Cermna in northeastern Bohemia. On August 19, 1851, headed by Josef S(Š)ilar, they began the long, circuitous journey that took them to Hamburg, Liverpool, New Orleans, and eventually Galveston. Dangerous and unhealthful traveling conditions reduced the group's numbers by half. Two years later, a second group of immigrants from the same geographical area came to Texas. Their leader, Josef L. Le_ikar,qv who had been influenced by Bergman's letters, had helped organize the first group. In the following years many groups of immigrants came from Moravia, particularly the eastern part of that province. The transatlantic voyage grew less dangerous, and Galveston became established as the preferred port of entry. Cat Spring continued to be the point of dispersal for the immigrants. The Central Texas counties of Austin, Fayette, Lavaca, and Washington had early Czech settlements, and Fayette County in particular became established as the center of Czech population in Texas. About 700 Czechs had established themselves in Texas by the time of the Civil War.qv By 1900 the number of foreign-born Czechs in the state had climbed to 9,204, and by 1910 to 15,074. After this time, however, Czech immigration decreased; foreign-born Czechs numbered 14,781 in 1920, 14,093 in 1930, and 7,700 in 1940, although the number of Czech "foreign white stock" (defined by the United States Bureau of the Census as those who spoke Czech at home during childhood) had climbed to 62,680 by that year. During the years of greatest immigration before World War I,qv the abundance of good, relatively inexpensive farmland in Texas undoubtedly provided the chief motivation for the immigrants, most of whom had been small landowners who saw little chance for economic achievement at home. Political and religious oppression and military conscription in the Austrian Empire also encouraged emigration. By the twentieth century approximately 250 Czech communities had been settled in Texas, especially in Blackland Prairie areas where farming looked promising. The greatest concentration was found in Lavaca and Fayette counties, though Czech settlement extended into Washington, Burleson, and Brazos counties. North of this strip was a larger belt of Blackland Prairie, where more scattered Czech communities were located in an area running northeast from Williamson County through Bell County and into McLennan County, with smaller offshoots to the north in Hill, Ellis, and Kaufman counties. Most of the other Czech communities were in the Coastal Prairie, with concentrations in Wharton, Fort Bend, Victoria, and a few South Texas counties. Two basic characteristics of the Czechs in Texas lie at the heart of their social structure: the extremely close-knit family unit and the attitude toward land. The typical Czech farm family was a largely self-contained economic and social unit whose main purpose was to cultivate the land. Farming was a way of life not clearly separated from other life goals and not seen merely as a way of making money. The rural Czech settlements were characterized by such cooperative institutions as the beef club, designed to provide each member family with a supply of fresh beef weekly during the spring and summer. Settlements also often had an egalitarian social structure, a characteristic that helps to explain the Czechs' pronounced enthusiasm for American democratic ideals. Communities became established, and social clubs and organizations began to proliferate, first on a local, then on a state, level. The result was the establishment of fraternal organizations such as the SPJST (Slovanská podporující jednota statu Texas, known in English as the Slavic Benevolent Order of the State of Texas) in 1897; and the KJT (Katolická jednota texaská) in 1888 and the KJZT (Cesko-Rimská katolická podporující jednota Zen texaskych) in 1897, Czech Catholic organizations for men and women, respectively. Each of these organizations grew out of a national Czech fraternal order but split away to become a Texas institution. Perhaps as many as 90 percent of the Czech immigrants were Catholics in their homeland, and the majority of these maintained an allegiance to the Catholic Churchqv in Texas. Their first church, a small log structure, was built at Ross Prairie in 1859. The most important pioneer Czech priest in Texas was Rev. Josef Chromcík, who arrived in Fayetteville in 1872. A significant minority of the immigrants were Protestants, however. Several independent congregations (the first had been established at Wesley in 1864) were organized into the denomination known as the Unity of the Brethren in 1903, chiefly through the efforts of Rev. Adolf Chlumsky. Members of this group considered it to be a continuation of the traditional Czech religious movement of the same name, which had been suppressed by the Austrians in the seventeenth century. The Czechs in Texas also included freethinkers, who openly challenged all religious authority, but in general the freethinking movement among the Czechs was much less significant in Texas than it was in other parts of the United States, especially in the Midwest, where it often dominated Czech-American culture. Organized education in the Czech language began early in Texas. Bergman was conducting lessons in both Czech and German at Cat Spring as early as 1855. In 1859 Josef Ma_ík became perhaps the first formal Czech teacher in the United States when he opened his school at Wesley. The Catholic school he built in 1868 in Bluff (later Hostyn), with Terezie Kubálová as the first teacher, may have been the first of its kind in the United States. Czechs were also especially active in establishing schools in Lavaca County late in the nineteenth century. The first school to offer instruction in both Czech and English was established at Praha in 1870. Although instruction in Czech in the public schools declined rapidly in the late nineteenth century, Czech-American clubs and organizations continued to advocate study of the language, particularly at the college and university level. The continued promotion of such study in the late twentieth century is significant, for language is the most important indicator of Czech ethnic identity. Because the majority of Texas immigrants came from Moravia, the Czech spoken in Texas is largely characterized by Moravian dialects, which vary to some extent from the Bohemian dialects spoken by most Czech-Americans. Czech-language journalism has been very active in the state over the years. Thirty-three newspapers and periodicals have been published. As of 1993 one weekly newspaper, Na_inec, published at Granger, and one monthly, Hospodá_, published at West, were still being published entirely in Czech. Other periodicals such as Vestnik and the Brethren Journal contained sections printed in Czech. A wealth of oral literature has also been preserved in Texas, including stories, proverbs, and especially folk songs. Singing and dancing were the most popular forms of folk art maintained in Texas, but other forms, such as certain games and elaborate wedding rituals, have been preserved. In addition, certain ethnic foods, such as the pastry kolác, have become well known to virtually all Texans. In spite of the development of such ethnic institutions as the fraternal organizations and the ethnocentric Brethren Church and efforts to preserve the Czech language and folklore, Czech-American leaders have generally argued for full participation in the political and economic life of the state and nation. Community leader Augustin Haidu_ek,qv in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, articulated assimilationist ideals most prominently and influentially. Friction between Czechs and Anglo-Americans was most pronounced during the Civil War. Many recent immigrants did not fully understand the conflict between North and South, and at the same time they were suspect as foreigners. Most significantly, virtually none of them had any allegiance to the institution of slavery,qv not only for moral reasons, but also because the concept of slavery was alien to their system of intensive family farming. Ethnic pride among Czechs in Texas perhaps reached its height during World War I and immediately afterwards, for it was spurred by popular enthusiasm for the newly founded free state of Czechoslovakia. Such groups as the Czech National Alliance, which identified with the Czech cause in Europe, found support among the Czechs in Texas. As measured by the widespread use of Czech in churches, fraternal organizations, journalism, and books, as well as the preservation of ethnic music and other folk arts, Czech ethnicity remained strong in the state until World War II.qv Beginning in the 1960s, as part of a national interest in ethnic awareness, Czech ethnic festivals and celebrations became increasingly popular, although the use of the language continued to decline. In the mid-1980s a Czech society, Texana Ceskeho Puvodu (Texans of Czech Ancestry), was formed to organize a celebration of the Texas Sesquicentennial and the role of Czechs in Texas history. Related projects included compiling community histories, pioneer registries, family histories and information on Czech cemeteries, schools, and churches. In the early 1990s the SPJSP had more than 140 lodges statewide and maintained the Czech Heritage Museum in Temple. The Fayetteville Museum also contained many items on Czech history and culture. The Czech Heritage Society had at least twelve chapters in Texas. A number of Czech festivals were held in the state annually, including Czech Fest in Rosenberg, Czhilispiel in Flatonia, Westfest in West, and the National Polka Festival in Ennis. Several radio stations in Central Texas regularly played Czech music. As of the 1990 census, 168,023 people in Texas were of at least partial Czech descent. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Christian Sisters Union Study Committee, Unity of the Brethren in Texas, 1855-1966 (Taylor, Texas: Unity of the Brethren, 1970). William Philip Hewitt, The Czechs in Texas: A Study of the Immigration and Development of Czech Ethnicity, 1850-1920 (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Texas at Austin, 1978). Estelle Hudson and Henry R. Maresh, Czech Pioneers of the Southwest (Dallas: South-West, 1934). Clinton Machann, ed., The Czechs in Texas (College Station: Texas A&M University Department of English, 1979). Clinton Machann and James W. Mendl, Krásná Amerika: A Study of the Texas Czechs, 1851-1939 (Austin: Eakin Press, 1983). Clinton Machann "CZECHS." The Handbook of Texas Online. http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/CC/plc2.html [Accessed Mon Feb 28 19:58:23 2000 ]. Sharing. It's What It's All About! Rick Garza http://www.garza-zattler.homepage.com/" NameSearch: GARZA, ZATTLER, REYNA, FOSTER, SCHACHTNER, STOPFER, HOLLMAIER, VOGEL, VOGL, WEINZIERL, FINK Bavarian Towns: Koetzting, Kötzting, Beckendorf b. Kötzting, Muenchen, Oberreit b. Vilshofen, Schönerting b. 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I can't tell you if these people are related to you but I have a Sealy telephone book. With the name Verm in it. Donald Verm Clement Verm Harvey Verm Would any of these names help. Let me know and I will e-mail you in private with address and phone numbers. Steve ----- Original Message ----- From: "alesha" <alesha@glade.net> To: <TXAUSTIN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2000 2:10 PM Subject: [TXAUSTIN] VERM FAMILY > VERM OBITUARIES IF ANYONE KNOW'S ANY OF THE PEOPLE IN THESE OBITUARIES PLEASE LET ME KNOW, I'AM LOOKING FOR KIN AND BEEN HAVE A VERY HARD TIME AT IT... > > ZENITH CARL VERM, 81, of Sealy,Texas died June 14, 1998, in Houston,Texas. He retired from Exxon in in 1975.He is preceded in death by his wife Esther Zachas Verm and his brother Ed (Buddy) Verm. He is survived by his children, Carol Verm Lummus and her husband Bob, and a son Ray Alan Verm. MD. and his wife Jane Leonard. His grand-children Scott Carlton Lummus, Alan Murray Verm, MD. and and his wife Leigh, Justin Carl Verm and Craig William Verm; his sister Ada Mae Dasson; sister-in-law Teresa Verm; nieces and nephews. Services held at Knesak Funernal Home in Sealy, Texas on Wed. June 17,1998 . > > I ALSO HAVE A ESTHER MAE VERM 77, died on Monday Feb.5,1996 in Houston,Texas ...from my understanding she was Zenith Carl Verm wife and is buried in Sealy City Cemetery > > ALESHA PENNY VERM > alesha@glade.net > > > ==== TXAUSTIN Mailing List ==== > To see what resources are available for Austin Co. TX, please visit: http://resources.rootsweb.com/USA/TX/Austin > > ============================== > Personalized Mailing Lists: never miss a connection again. > http://pml.rootsweb.com/ > Brought to you by RootsWeb.com.

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