Does anyone know what "Suaz" or "Sauz" would mean? I have seen three references to it in conjunction with where someone lived/died in the LaCoste, TX area.

There was also the St. Mary's School across N. St. Mary's Street from St. Mary's Catholic Church downtown that was opened in the early 1900s and just closed last year. It was opened almost 95 years when it closed. Ron Hesdorff

Jeri: I am glad you were able to use one of the new taglines I have set up for the Bexar County mailing list. As list administrator, RootsWeb allows me to set up a maximum of 10 taglines which are rotated and automatically attached to all messages sent to the "L" list. I can periodically change those taglines as I see the need to do so. As mentioned in my earlier posting at the following site, I am also in the process of attempting to "Gateway" messages from the RootsWeb Bexar County, TX, Message Board to this list: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/TXBEXAR/2005-07/1120570545 The administrator of the message board has agreed to do this, but we are awaiting action from RootsWeb staff before this change can actually take place. Susan Cearlock Tilleman List Administrator http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/t/i/l/Susan-E-Tilleman/?Welcome=1 046272098 ----- Original Message ----- From: "George & Jeri Bawden" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 11:12 PM Subject: Re: [TXBEXAR] SAN ANTONIO /MAIN HIGH SCHOOL > Hi, I am sorry I don't have the information you are looking for but I had to > thank you! I saw the obits.mysanantonio.com on the bottom of your message > and thought I would check it out. I always check out my family names with, > usually, no luck. Tonight I found my cousin Victor Alessandro's son, I > think, mentioned in the first obituary as the son in law of the man who > died. Then found mention of a book that may have been written by a member > of my Grier family. Sometimes it is unknown that we help people on their > family journey, tonight I wanted you to know you did and I appreciate it. > Blessings!!!! Jeri Alessandro Bawden > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2005 11:12 PM > Subject: [TXBEXAR] SAN ANTONIO /MAIN HIGH SCHOOL > > > > > > DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY INFOR, YEARBOOKS, ETC?? > > MY MOTHER, INEZ FISHER, GRADUATED ABOUT 1918/9, BUT CAN FIND NO INFO > > ABOUT HER. ONLY 1 UNDATED CLASS CARD WITH TEACHERS NAME ON IT. SHE > > LIVED WITH HER GRANDPARENTS, ROBERT & BETTIE COCKS-FLEMING WHO OWNED A > > MOM & POP GROCERY STORE. > > > > I HAVE HER PHOTO ALBUMS FROM C.I.A. (COLLEGE OF IND ARTS) DENTON TX., BUT > > WITH FADED INK AND NAMES & DATES NOT SHOWN, THEY ARE JUST UNIDENTIFIED > > 'SNAPSHOTS' THAT WILL EVENTUALLY BE DESTROYED. > > > > MARGARET BRADLEY N. HYWD., CA... > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> > > > > > > ==== TXBEXAR Mailing List ==== > > Obituaries from the "San Antonio Express-News," Apr. 2001 to present, are > > available on-line through the following site: > > http://obits.mysanantonio.com/ > > Selected articles from the "San Antonio Light," 1989 - Jan. 1993, and the > > "San Antonio Express-News," 1992 to present, are also available through > > the following site: > > http://www2.mysanantonio.com/aboutus/expressnews/archive/

Hello "Cuz" Yes, I do have Lorraine Braun in my data base. She is a descendant of the Ludwig "Louis" Moegelin line, many of whom lived along Moegelin Road. The information that I have gathered tells me that Ludwig and Auguste (Haas) Moegelin, along with a stillborn grandchild, were buried in a family cemetery on their farm, one-half mile North of San Antonio. In 1959 their daughter, Alvina Remling, arranged to have them re-interred in Roselawn Cemetery. The bodies weren't actually moved until 1975 when their property, known as the Leila E. Stephens tract became new city block 11682 of the City of San Antonio. Another extended family member, Julius Franz Haas, once owned and farmed the land that is now occupied by Northcross Mall. Ludwig, along with his parents, three brothers and three sisters emigrated from Prussia to Comal County in 1854. All four of the sons participated in the Civil War, two on each side. I currently have a researcher looking for additional information in the former Prussian province where the family lived before they immigrated to Texas. My late wife, who passed away just over three years ago, was a descendant of one of the brothers of Ludwig Moegelin. Her name was Mae Moegelin and she graduated from Harlandale High School in 1962, at which time the whole family moved to Waco. I am so glad to hear from you. I would like for us to stay in touch. Please contact me privately. Carroll Warschak Waco, Texas

I look forward to the answer to this one. I believe the King William district was named Kaiser Wilhelm before the change. Also, One of my aunts was Lorraine Moegelin Braun. Do you have her ancestry in your research material? Fred ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 3:29 AM Subject: [TXBEXAR] Calling all San Antonio historians > I am searching for someone who has knowledge of actions taken by Bexar > County and/or the City of San Antonio which changed the German names of various > landmarks, roads, etc. due to the anti German sentiments aroung the beginning > of World War I. (For instance, West Avenue was once known as Moegelin Road > because of the Moegelin family members who lived and farmed in that vicinity.) > I have been researching the Moegelin family name for many years in > anticipation of eventually publishing my findings in a family history book. I have > accumulated a vast amount of information about this family but this is one of > the things on which I would still like to do more research. > How would one go about finding the proclamation (or whatever is would be > called) which ordered the changing of Moegelin Road to West Avenue. > > > ==== TXBEXAR Mailing List ==== > Posting of non-genealogical-current events, polital opinions, prayers, virus warnings, non-approved solicitations, chain letters, jokes, poems, non-genealogical stories, missing children notices, and flames are not allowed on this list and may be grounds for immediate removal and exclusion from the list. Questions or comments about this policy may be directed to your list administrator, Susan Cearlock Tilleman, at the following address: > [email protected] . > > ============================== > Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. > New content added every business day. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx >

Ida: Pages 144 to 145 of the book "San Antonio Uncovered," by Mark Louis RYBCZYK, published by Wordware Publishing, Inc., of Plano, TX, 1992, includes a section titled "La Mansion Hotel - Formerly St. Mary's College." That section reads as follows: "St. Mary's University on the city's northwest side had its modest beginnings in 1852 on the banks of the San Antonio River. Four Marianists Brothers from the Society of Mary came to San Antonio and opened St. Mary's Institute on August 25, 1852, above a livery shop on the southwest corner of Military Plaza. A permanent home, which is now part of La Mansion Hotel, was begun on March 1, 1853. It was once the largest building complex in the city. The school originally was for boys only and did not become completely coed until 1963. The school grew quickly and expanded out to its present site in Woodlawn Hills in 1894, offering instruction in grades five through fourteen. The Woodlawn campus was known as St. Louis College and was located far outside the reaches of the city. Students had to take a bus to the corner of Woodlawn and Cincinnati and walk 'the longest mile in Texas' to reach the school. The downtown facility was known as St. Mary's Academy (a high school for boys, which moved in 1932 to North Main and became Central Catholic High School) and St. Mary's College. The building housed St. Mary's Law School from 1934 to 1966, before they left downtown for the suburban location. The school is the only local college to serve the community for over 115 consecutive years and has educated eight San Antonio mayors. In 1968 the River Hotel Company opened a hotel in the old school just in time to house Hemisfair visitors. It was one of only two major hotels to be built in downtown in the last fifty years. The building retained the style of the old college. If you walk into the courtyard, you can easily identify the old schoolhouse. La Mansion Del Rio has been designated a Texas historic site and has received a San Antonio Conservation Society award. The main dining room in the hotel is named Las Canarias after the original Canary Islanders who founded the city." Sue Tilleman ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2005 3:00 PM Subject: [TXBEXAR] St. Marys school in the early 1900 > I have 2 photos of students of St. Mary's school in San Antonio, in the > early 1900 more like 1907 or so, Can some kind person tell me something about it? > > The photos have only boys, my father among them, but he did not gave the > date. > > Ida F. Hall > Burbank,CA.

Margaret: Page 229 of the book "San Antonio Uncovered," by Mark Louis RYBCZYK, published 1992 by Wordware Publishing, Inc., of Plano, TX, under a section titled "San Antonio Firsts," says, " First Public Secondary School -- Main Avenue High School opened in 1879 as the city's first public high school. It was razed in 1917. Fox Technical High School now sits at the site." Sue Tilleman ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 1:12 AM Subject: [TXBEXAR] SAN ANTONIO /MAIN HIGH SCHOOL > > DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY INFOR, YEARBOOKS, ETC?? > MY MOTHER, INEZ FISHER, GRADUATED ABOUT 1918/9, BUT CAN FIND NO INFO > ABOUT HER. ONLY 1 UNDATED CLASS CARD WITH TEACHERS NAME ON IT. SHE > LIVED WITH HER GRANDPARENTS, ROBERT & BETTIE COCKS-FLEMING WHO OWNED A > MOM & POP GROCERY STORE. > > I HAVE HER PHOTO ALBUMS FROM C.I.A. (COLLEGE OF IND ARTS) DENTON TX., BUT > WITH FADED INK AND NAMES & DATES NOT SHOWN, THEY ARE JUST UNIDENTIFIED > 'SNAPSHOTS' THAT WILL EVENTUALLY BE DESTROYED. > > MARGARET BRADLEY N. HYWD., CA... > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

I am searching for someone who has knowledge of actions taken by Bexar County and/or the City of San Antonio which changed the German names of various landmarks, roads, etc. due to the anti German sentiments aroung the beginning of World War I. (For instance, West Avenue was once known as Moegelin Road because of the Moegelin family members who lived and farmed in that vicinity.) I have been researching the Moegelin family name for many years in anticipation of eventually publishing my findings in a family history book. I have accumulated a vast amount of information about this family but this is one of the things on which I would still like to do more research. How would one go about finding the proclamation (or whatever is would be called) which ordered the changing of Moegelin Road to West Avenue.

I know I have asked the list before on the history of the area of San Antonio that was called Long Lake, but is there anyone that knows more about this area? I think it was in the area of Fredericksburg Rd and Woodlawn. Was Long Lake the creek that now runs along the old Knowlton's Creamery(now Oakwell Farms)? Ron Hesdorff [email protected] San Antonio, TX

If anyone has any pictures to share I would love to see them. My dad and his siblings went to Main High School. Unless there was another Main School, he said that he remembers it being located where there is now a car lot at the Corner of Main Street and Cypress. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 23:12:07 -0700 Subject: [TXBEXAR] SAN ANTONIO /MAIN HIGH SCHOOL DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY INFOR, YEARBOOKS, ETC?? MY MOTHER, INEZ FISHER, GRADUATED ABOUT 1918/9, BUT CAN FIND NO INFO ABOUT HER. ONLY 1 UNDATED CLASS CARD WITH TEACHERS NAME ON IT. SHE LIVED WITH HER GRANDPARENTS, ROBERT & BETTIE COCKS-FLEMING WHO OWNED A MOM & POP GROCERY STORE. I HAVE HER PHOTO ALBUMS FROM C.I.A. (COLLEGE OF IND ARTS) DENTON TX., BUT WITH FADED INK AND NAMES & DATES NOT SHOWN, THEY ARE JUST UNIDENTIFIED 'SNAPSHOTS' THAT WILL EVENTUALLY BE DESTROYED. MARGARET BRADLEY N. HYWD., CA... >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ==== TXBEXAR Mailing List ==== Obituaries from the "San Antonio Express-News," Apr. 2001 to present, are available on-line through the following site: http://obits.mysanantonio.com/ Selected articles from the "San Antonio Light," 1989 - Jan. 1993, and the "San Antonio Express-News," 1992 to present, are also available through the following site: http://www2.mysanantonio.com/aboutus/expressnews/archive/ ============================== New! Family Tree Maker 2005. Build your tree and search for your ancestors at the same time. Share your tree with family and friends. Learn more: http://landing.ancestry.com/familytreemaker/2005/tour.aspx?sourceid=14599&targetid=5429

Hi, I am sorry I don't have the information you are looking for but I had to thank you! I saw the obits.mysanantonio.com on the bottom of your message and thought I would check it out. I always check out my family names with, usually, no luck. Tonight I found my cousin Victor Alessandro's son, I think, mentioned in the first obituary as the son in law of the man who died. Then found mention of a book that may have been written by a member of my Grier family. Sometimes it is unknown that we help people on their family journey, tonight I wanted you to know you did and I appreciate it. Blessings!!!! Jeri Alessandro Bawden ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2005 11:12 PM Subject: [TXBEXAR] SAN ANTONIO /MAIN HIGH SCHOOL > > DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY INFOR, YEARBOOKS, ETC?? > MY MOTHER, INEZ FISHER, GRADUATED ABOUT 1918/9, BUT CAN FIND NO INFO > ABOUT HER. ONLY 1 UNDATED CLASS CARD WITH TEACHERS NAME ON IT. SHE > LIVED WITH HER GRANDPARENTS, ROBERT & BETTIE COCKS-FLEMING WHO OWNED A > MOM & POP GROCERY STORE. > > I HAVE HER PHOTO ALBUMS FROM C.I.A. (COLLEGE OF IND ARTS) DENTON TX., BUT > WITH FADED INK AND NAMES & DATES NOT SHOWN, THEY ARE JUST UNIDENTIFIED > 'SNAPSHOTS' THAT WILL EVENTUALLY BE DESTROYED. > > MARGARET BRADLEY N. HYWD., CA... >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> > > > ==== TXBEXAR Mailing List ==== > Obituaries from the "San Antonio Express-News," Apr. 2001 to present, are > available on-line through the following site: > http://obits.mysanantonio.com/ > Selected articles from the "San Antonio Light," 1989 - Jan. 1993, and the > "San Antonio Express-News," 1992 to present, are also available through > the following site: > http://www2.mysanantonio.com/aboutus/expressnews/archive/ > > ============================== > New! Family Tree Maker 2005. Build your tree and search for your ancestors > at the same time. Share your tree with family and friends. Learn more: > http://landing.ancestry.com/familytreemaker/2005/tour.aspx?sourceid=14599&targetid=5429 > > >

Old Main Avenue High School (DRT Library) Historical plaque at front entrance of Fox Tech High School Another high school that has literary connections–at least indirect ones–is Fox Tech High School. It is located on Main Avenue just north of downtown in the vicinity of the new public library and the Southwest School of Art and Craft (the old Ursuline Academy), which Sydney Lanier visited and described. However, the literary connection with Fox Tech concerns William Butler Yeats, the celebrated Irish poet, who visited San Antonio on a lecture tour in 1920 and spoke at the Main Avenue High School on Wednesday, April 14, according to that day's edition of the San Antonio Express. The headline read, "THEATRE OF THE PEOPLE THEME OF YEATS' LECTURE/ FAMED IRISH POET AT THE MAIN AVENUE HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM TONIGHT." In subsequent years Main Avenue High School was enlarged and eventually replaced by the present high school, Fox Tech, but the latter structure boasts a plaque near the main entrance which attests to the site's historical significance.

The old Main High School is now Fox Tech High School.

Did you get an answer concerning Main High School in San Antonio ca 1918? It is possible that Los Angeles Public Library (5th & Flower) in its history/genealogy department has city directories for San Antonio (possibly for all of Bexar Co., TX) for the years you are interested in. (A city directory is NOT a telephone directory. It lists, in general, all the employed folks in a city with their addresses, and their occupations. Then in the backs of some of the later ones, is a reverse directory. This part of the directory will frequently list the address of the residence (perhaps of a business, I do not recall) and then it may list ALL the adults at that residence!!! I found a widowed mother living with her employed son by using the reverse directory.) Such a directory will be full of ads for all kinds of businesses. Incidentally, in the *old* San Antonio Public Library (on the River) there were many city directories for San Antonio, and I spotted my great-grandfather, who had been a blacksmith for many years in San Antonio prior to World War I. The college to which you refer in Denton (College of Industrial Arts) I believe became what is now called Texas Woman's University (formerly Texas State College for Women). I imagine TWU has a website these days. Then you might ask about Archives or a reference librarian or a historian. (An acquaintance of mine was doing some research on a long-ago relative who attended Notre Dame U. in Indiana. She wrote to the Archivist and got some valuable info--who paid his tuition, etc.) Since TWU, unlike Notre Dame, is a public institution and may not have all the papers one might think they should have, you may have to do a LOT of inquiring!!! While helping a lady with Denton relatives, I found out that there is a Denton [county?] Genealogical Society. As for Main High School, I believe later it may have been called Breckenridge High School [perhaps with an a instead of an e] High school. It is possible that the Texana desk at the San Antonio Public Library (the big one on Soledad Street) may be able to tell you about that. I must say, if your remale relative went to college at that time period, she was one of the privileged females in Texas!!! When I was caught in a blue norther in Texas one spring several years ago, I ducked into the Daughters of the Republic of Texas library (on the grounds of the Alamo) and had a ball going through their card catalog (long before personal computers were so prevalent and online catalogs were only at well-endowed Universities). I glanced over at one of the bookshelves and noted that they had a collection of school yearbooks. I did not examine them. I imagine they had been donated by members of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas. I doubt that TWU was represented in those yearbooks. However, perhaps TWU library has some old yearbooks. E.W.Wallace a Texas native long in California

Margaret: A search of the United States Geological Survey (USGS) Geographical Database at the following site shows no Fisher or Fleming Cemeteries located in Bexar County: http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=105:1:17186532518404582367::NO:: : The site does show Fisher Cemeteries located in Chambers, Fisher, and Mills Counties, but no Fleming Cemetery located in Texas. Furthermore, conducting a query at the same site by just filling in the variables of State or Territory "Texas," County "Bexar," and Feature "Cemetery," will generate a complete list of Bexar County Cemeteries listed in the USGS database. A list of Bexar County cemeteries can also be found at the following site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~txbexar2/cemeteries.html The above-mentioned USGS Geographical Database site is one of several useful sites listed in the "Related Links" section of my home page. Susan Cearlock Tilleman http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/t/i/l/Susan-E-Tilleman/?Welcome=1 046272098 ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 1:07 AM Subject: [TXBEXAR] FISHER OR FLEMING CEMETERY > I HEARD THAT THERE IS A FISHER CEMETERY, WOULD ANYBODY KNOW OF ITS > WHEREABOUTS? > > PERHAPS A FLEMING CEMETERY ALSO...... > > MARGARET - CA. > > > ==== TXBEXAR Mailing List ==== > This list is archived! > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/TXBEXAR/

DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY INFOR, YEARBOOKS, ETC?? MY MOTHER, INEZ FISHER, GRADUATED ABOUT 1918/9, BUT CAN FIND NO INFO ABOUT HER. ONLY 1 UNDATED CLASS CARD WITH TEACHERS NAME ON IT. SHE LIVED WITH HER GRANDPARENTS, ROBERT & BETTIE COCKS-FLEMING WHO OWNED A MOM & POP GROCERY STORE. I HAVE HER PHOTO ALBUMS FROM C.I.A. (COLLEGE OF IND ARTS) DENTON TX., BUT WITH FADED INK AND NAMES & DATES NOT SHOWN, THEY ARE JUST UNIDENTIFIED 'SNAPSHOTS' THAT WILL EVENTUALLY BE DESTROYED. MARGARET BRADLEY N. HYWD., CA... >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

I HEARD THAT THERE IS A FISHER CEMETERY, WOULD ANYBODY KNOW OF ITS WHEREABOUTS? PERHAPS A FLEMING CEMETERY ALSO...... MARGARET - CA.

What kind of information were you looking for? Ron Hesdorff San Antonio, TX

I have 2 photos of students of St. Mary's school in San Antonio, in the early 1900 more like 1907 or so, Can some kind person tell me something about it? The photos have only boys, my father among them, but he did not gave the date. Ida F. Hall Burbank,CA.

I am the new list administrator for the Bexar County list. If you subscribe to the "L" list, you may have already noticed informative taglines attached to each new posting. I am also in the process of trying to get the Bexar Co., TX, RootsWeb Message Board "Gatewayed" to this list so that postings to that message board will also automatically post to this list. Please feel free to contact me privately at [email protected] is you have any questions or comments about this list. Susan Cearlock Tilleman Live Oak, TX http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/t/i/l/Susan-E-Tilleman/