These histories were written by members of the Fayette County Historical Commission. They first appeared in the weekly column, "Footprints of Fayette," which is published in the Fayette County Record, Banner Press, Flatonia Argus, Schulenburg Sticker, and Weimar Mercury newspapers. A new article will appear weekly.The articles are arranged below by topic, surname, or community. To search for a particular Footprints of Fayette article go to the site search engine and enter Footprints AND searchword. The word AND must be capitalized. Click here for more search tips. When more than one publication date is listed, the article was published in two or more parts. Please note that the publication dates for some newspapers may vary slightly from the dates shown below.
TITLE AUTHOR PUBLICATION DATELancelot Abbotts Fayette Heritage Archives Staff September 3, 2001 Abbotts' Grove School Carolyn Heinsohn October 10, 2016 Abolition and Fayette County Marie Watts June 18, 2019 [Melvin Adamek] At Home in Schulenburg–Vet Still Wonders How He made Parade Detail
submitted by Edward J. Janecka January 7, 2014 Adolph and the Boys George Koudelka August 19, 2001 How Did My African-American Ancestors Get Here? David L. Colllins, Sr. December 18 & 25, 2012 & Mar 5, 2019 African Americans Help Save La Grange Marie W. Watts March 30, 2010 Relationships Between Whites and African Americans After the Civil War Marie W. Watts May 24, 2016 The "Airdome"A Unique Theatre Carolyn Heinsohn March 17, 2009 The Abraham Alexander Family of La Grange Carolyn Heinsohn Nov 27 & Dec 4, 2018 The Seelig Alexander Family of La Grange Carolyn Heinsohn November 20, 2018 Taking a Train Ride for Piano Lessons in 1940s Gesine Koether and Al Cordes September 17, 2019 Ammannsville, Texas Carolyn Heinsohn September 22 & 29, 2011 The Old Ammannsville Drug Store by David Knape submitted by Carolyn Heinsohn April 19 & 26, 2016 FYI Hints When Searching for Your Ancestors Gesine Tschiedel Koether March 3, 2020 William A. Anders — Apollo Astronaut Who Once Lived in La Grange Carolyn Heinsohn December 27, 2016 Texas Governor From La Grange? [Reddin Andrews] Katie Kulhanek June 9, 2010 Early Archaeology in Fayette County Gary McKee March 11, 2001 Armstrong Colony — A Freedmen's Settlement Carolyn Heinsohn June 19 & 26, 2012 The Arnim Brothers Donna Green April 7, 2002 Compulsory Auto Insurance Marie Watts May 8, 2018 The Baca Family Band Helen Mikus & Linda Dennis October 12, 19 & 26, 2010; May 2, 2019 An Early Fayette County Band Judy Matejowsky March 21, 2017; Apr 20, 2019 Bethlehem African Methodist Episcopal Church—An Historic Landmark Bobbie Houston August 1, 2017 What Links St. Peter’s Lutheran to Bethlehem Lutheran [Carl Siegismund Bauer] Gesine Koether May 2, 2015 Charles Bauer Connie F. Sneed May 4, 2010 Judge R. E. B. Baylor Billye Beth Baker May 17, 2011 Robert E. B. Baylor Katie Kulhanek ca 2009 Bermuda Valley Racetrack Donna Green May 12, 2002 Bethlehem Lutheran Church – Round Top, Texas Gesine Tschiedel Koether April 1, 2014 Biegel, Texas Gary E. McKee June 8 & 15, 2003 Annie Webb Blanton Cathy Chaloupka April 8, 2001 Annie Webb Blanton Connie F. Sneed February 12, 2008 A Bloody Month in 1888 Marie W. Watts February 14, 2017 Blizzard of 1888 Kathy Carter January 25, 2009 Old Blue Lillie Mae Brightwell May 17, 2016 Blume's Orchestra—"The Big Band" of Fayette County Carolyn Heinsohn Dec 29, 2015 & Jan 5, 2016; May 12 & 19, 2019 The Bluff Community Carolyn Heinsohn July 29, 2008 The Bluff Schuetzen Verein Carolyn Heinsohn February 5, 2013 Life in the Bluff Community Carolyn Heinsohn April 9, 16 & 23, 2013 Jesus Maria y Joseph Buena Vista [The Bluff] Charles Hebert May 16, 2017 Bones Back to La Grange Richard Tinsley June 10, 2008 Bonnie and Clyde near Roznov in 1934 Gesine Koether and Al Cordes June 25, 2019 Theodore Sylvester Boone Connie F. Sneed September 7, 2010 David W. Breeding Kathy Carter February 14, 2012 What’s In A Name? [The Breeding Family] Sylvia Hebert March 16, 2021 Texas' First Brewery Michael Bates April 13, 2010 The Bridge Valley Settlement Carolyn Heinsohn April 29, 2008 The Murder of Dr. B. W. Bristow Judy Pate August 6, 2019 William Brookfield Kathy Carter April 17, 2012 William Oscar Brown Judy Pate November 20, 2012 Robert Tecumtha Browne Connie F. Sneed Sep 1, 2009 Roy Bucek Edward F. Janecka June 9, 2002 Aylett C. "Strap" Buckner Annette Ruckert Sept 30 & Oct 7, 2001 He Should Not Be Forgotten! [Aylett "Strap" Buckner] Allen G. Hatley May 18, 2003 Aylett C. "Strap" Buckner Kathy Carter March 20, 2012 Jesse Burnam Katie Kulhanek November 8 & 15, 2011 Jesse Burnam Kathy Carter February 28, 2012 A Letter from Burnham's Crossing Gary E. McKee August 5, 2008 One Branch on Jesse Burnam's Family Tree Carolyn Heinsohn March 5, 12, & 19, 2013 Bygone Byways and Towns Dennis Geesaman September 4, 2012 Elijah Campbell - Rural Route Postman David L. Collins, Sr. July 2, 2013 The Day 24 Educated Canaries Came to Town Marie Watts July 31, 2012 John Caragee Donna Green November 17, 2009 John Wesley Carhart Marie Watts Jan 25 & Feb 1 & 8, 2011 The Civil War Letters of Duncan Carmichael Carolyn Heinsohn Feb 23 & Mar 2, 2010 Carmine Bank Robberies Sandra Briones January 5 & 12, 2003 [Carmine] Bank Worker Shoots Robber Connie F. Sneed May 29, 2012 Carmine Dramatic Club Connie F. Sneed May 12, 2009 Sylvanus Castleman Kathy Carter April 3, 2012 The First Catholic Church in Fayette County Carolyn Heinsohn December 30, 2008 The Catley Family of Fayette County, Texas David L. Collins, Sr. October 18 & 25, 2016 Cattle Dipping Andrea Weishuhn November 24, 2009 Unique Cemetery Art Lillie Mae Brightwell January 6, 2009 Aromatic Plants and Herbs in Old Cemeteries Gesine Tschiedel Koether June 23, 2015 Fayette County Cemeteries Gesine Tschiedel Koether August 9, 2016 Census of Fayette County in 1887 Edward F. Janecka March 18, 2008 C.S.P.S.Cesko-Slovanska Podporijici Spolecnost Lillie Mae Brightwell March 2, 2003 William ChandlerCitizen of the Old Town of Lyons Norman C. Krischke March 30, 2003 Chapel Cars Donna Green November 3, 2002 The Wonderful Chicken Lilie Mae Brightwell July 13, 2010 Hugo Chotek—An Early Czech Journalist submitted by Carolyn Heinsohn August 19 & 26, 2014 Reverend Joseph Chromcik, the First Czech Priest in Texas Helen Trnovsky Mikus July 7, 2009 A Christmas Morning Surprise [Rev. Joseph Chromcik] Lillie Mae Brightwell December 22, 2015 Cistern: A Town of Many Names Katie Kulhanek May 3, 2011 The Cistern Public Cemetery Donna Day Cockrell & Gayle Clemons Newkirk July 4, 2017 Civil War Letter [from Anton Hoelscher, Jr.] Carolyn Heinsohn December 2, 2008 La Grange After the Civil War Marie Watts March 22, 2016 I. E. Clark, II Carolyn Heinsohn January 3, 2017 Clay: Fayette County’s White Gold Judy Pate September 2 & 9, 2014 The Charles Clemons Story—If a Tree Could Talk David L. Collins, Sr. November 4 & 11, 2014 Whales Clemons, African American Pioneer David L. Collins, Sr. Feb 25, Mar 4 & 11, 2014 The Cockrills of Cistern, Texas submitted by Donna Cockrell & Gayle Clemons Newkirk March 29 & April 5, 2016 Joel Alexander Cole Terry Cole Nov 18 & 25 & Dec 2, 2014 William Coltrin Donna Green May 26, 2009 Commencement Day 1858 Connie F. Sneed March 31, 2009 Extracts From the Fayette County Commissioner Court Minutes in the Republic of Texas Gary McKee May 6, 2008 From Unknown to Well-Known: How Our Communities Received their Names Katie Kulhanek July 3, 17 & 24, 2012 The Concord Missionary Baptist Church, Round Top, Texas David L. Collins, Sr. February 16, 2016 Confession Letter Exonerates Man Who Served Prison Term In Texas Connie F. Sneed January 13, 2008 William H. Ledbetter's Link to the Connersville Primitive Baptist Church and Cemetery David L. Collins, Sr. January 16, 2018 Connersville Primitive Baptist Church African American Museum David L. Collins, Sr. January 8, 15 & 22, 2013 The Life and Times of Dr. Lafayette DeWitt Cook Carolyn Heinsohn March 10, 2020 Corn and Survival Lillie Mae Brightwell June 16 & 23, 2020 Spidermen and the Cotton Compress Larry K. Ripper October 4, 2011 Cottonseed Flour Schulenburg Oil Mill Connie F. Sneed May 5, 2009 The Journey of a School The County Line Schoolhouse Helen Mikus November 25, 2008 The Temples of Justice of Fayette County [Courthouses] Katie Kulhanek March 22, 2011 If Only Walls Could Talk—Fayette County's Second Courthouse Charles Hebert June 20 & 27, 2017 Thomas Washington Cox Connie F. Sneed April 12, 2011 Cozy Corner—The Second Freedom Colony in Fayette County Carolyn Heinsohn February 20, 2018 Crayon Portraits Rox Ann Johnson April 12, 2016 Kesiah Crier (Cryer) Kathy Carter May 22, 2012 Keziah Cryer Norman Krischke June 28, 2002 & July 7, 2015 Crime & Punishment Kathy Carter Nov 25, 2001 & Sep 29, 2015 Crimes in Fayette County in 1877 Ed Janecka June 29, 2016 William Vannoy Criswell Stacy N. Sneed October 14, 2008 The First Czech Sermon of St. John the Baptist Catholic Church [Fayettevillle] Sandra Briones May 11, 2003 Czech Weddings of Yesteryear Carolyn Heinsohn March 18, 2004 From Cow to Customer Carolyn Heinsohn May 29, 2018 John Dancy Donna Green March 25, 2001 John Winfield Scott Dancy Kathy Carter January 17, 2012 Bettie Branch Davis Connie F. Sneed December 29, 2009 Nicholas Mosby Dawson Stacy N. Sneed February 17, 2009 Nicholas Mosby Dawson Kathy Carter January 3, 2012 The Aftermath of the Dawson Massacre FHMA staff May 25 & June 2, 2010 Government Destroys Private Enterprise [Delco-Light plants] Marie Watts January 29, 2019 Missed Warning Signs [of the Great Depression] Marie Watts May 30, 2017 Did you know that . . . ? Carolyn Heinsohn October 15, 22 & 29, 2013 J. Frank Dobie's Link to Fayette County Carolyn Heinsohn January 14, 21, & 28, 2014 Donkey Baseball FHMA files February 23, 2003 Draft Resistance in Fayette County Gary E. McKee April 28 & May 5, 2002 Early Driving in Texas and Fayette County Edward F. Janecka May 23, 2017 A Grand Party at Joe Peter’s in Dubina Edward F. Janecka May 10, 2011 Major Benjamin F. Dunn Connie F. Sneed November 9, 2010 William Mosby Eastland Connie F. Sneed February 10, 2009 William Mosby Eastland Kathy Carter January 10, 2012 Eblin's League As a Competitor for the State Capitol Edward F. Janecka March 2, 2001 Hugo EhlersSorrowSoldier is Lost Sherie Knape January 13, 2002 El Camino Real de Tejas Gets National Attention Gary E. McKee May 13, 2008 Ellinger Post Office Lillie Mae Brightwell January 27, 2002 A Dangerous Situation in Ellinger, Texas Norman Wied April 17, 2018 Entertainment in Days Gone By Carolyn Heinsohn April 12, 2015 Come to the FairBe a Blue Ribbon "Champion" There Billye Beth Baker April 8, 2008 Jimmie's Bad [Inaccuracies perpetuated by James R. Faison] Marie Watts June 14, 2011 Maria Faison Marie Watts April 21 & 28, 2009 Nathaniel W. Faison L. J. Calley April 14, 2009 Nathaniel Wright Faison Kathy Carter December 13, 2011 Nathaniel W. Faison and Perote Prison Marie Watts November 7 & 14, 2017 Peter Faison Marie Watts March 24 & 31, 2015 Louisiana Brown Faison and Reconstruction Marie Watts February 26, 2019 The "Fate of Fayette"—A Tribute to Our State's 150th Anniversary
Helen Muras October 14 & 21, 2014 How Fayette County Came To Be Larry K. Ripper Aug 5, 2001 & Sep 17, 2013 Notable Facts and Firsts in Fayette County Carolyn Heinsohn November 2, 2010 The First Year of Fayette County Commissioners Court In the Republic of Texas Gary E. McKee February 19, 2008 Fayette County in 1840 Maria Rocha December 18 & 25, 2018 Fayette County in the 1850s Ed Janecka February 26, 2013 Fayette County, A Century Ago Ann Lamer September 14, 2003 A Sketch of Fayette County Officials in 1902 Katie Kulhanek December 7, 2010 The Fayette County Historical Commission Bobbie Nash January 9, 2018 The Fayette County History Walk Kathy Carter, Carolyn Heinsohn, Rox Ann Johnson Nov 24 - Dec 29, 2020 Fayette County Jury Derails Civil Rights Activist Marie Watts Feb 22, 2022 Fayette County's Precinct Courthouses Rox Ann Johnson November 10 & 17, 2015 Fayette Electric Cooperative Celebrates 75 Years of Service Elaine Thomas July 10, 2012 One of These Things is Not Like the Other [Fayette Power Plant Cemetery Relocation] Katie Janda January 19, 2021 History of Fayetteville as of 1938 Irene Polansky August 10, 2003 The Old Fayetteville to Brenham Road Lillie Mae Brightwell & Carolyn Heinsohn Mar 27 & Apr 3, 2018 Circus Day at Fayetteville Kathy Carter Feb 2, 2003 & Jul 21, 2015 Cotton Gins in Fayetteville Irene Polansky October 7, 2008 Fayetteville Courthouse Cases, Late 19th Century Lillie Mae Brightwell April 1, 2008 Double Curbs in Fayetteville, Texas Lillie Mae Brightwell October 13 & 20, 2015 Federal Agents Invade Fayetteville in 1918 Lillie Mae Brightwell January 20, 2009 [Fayetteville] Mayor Pleads Not Guilty Connie F. Sneed July 14, 2009 Fayetteville Fire Irene Polansky March 23, 2003 Medicine Women and Men to Doctors of Fayetteville, Texas Lillie Mae Brightwell July 2 & 9, 2014 Memories of Fayetteville, Texas Lillie Mae Brightwell March 15, 2011 Fayetteville Post Office Lillie Mae Brightwell March 31 & April 7, 2002 Fayetteville's Water Tower Linda J. Dennis October 13, 2009 [Fayetteville] Bits and Pieces Lillie Mae Brightwell July 5 & 12, 2016 Fayetteville Basketball and the Dance Hall Gesine Tschiedel Koether May 9, 2017 The Fayetteville Brick Company Lillie Mae Brightwell April 24, 2018 The Body at Kreische's Ferry Gregory Walker November 28, 2017 Leopold Fink, Killed in the Mexican War Sherie Knape November 3, 2009 First "Trains" Ever in Texas Stacy N. Sneed March 24, 2009 Unraveling the Mystery of Flatonia’s Elephant Judy Pate November 22,2011 An Electric and Ice Plant for Flatonia Connie F. Sneed September 22, 2009 The Flatonia Fair, 1913 - 1936 Judy Pate December 9, 2008 Old Flatonia Judy Pate May 31, 2016 The [Flatonia] Train Robbery Eugenia Reeves June 17, 2008 Flatonia Train Robbery of 1887 County Judge's staff July 6, 2010 The Great Train Heist at Flatonia in 1887 Brendan Steinhauser March 8 & 15, 2022 Mai Fest at Flatonia in 1877 Judy Pate May 2, 2017 A Texas-Montana Romance [for one of the Flatonia Train Robbers] Connie F. Sneed March 10, 2009 Flatonia Switcher W. O. Wood July 17, 2018 Flood of ‘33, 1833 That Is Gary E. McKee September 19, 2017 The Flood in Texas [1869] Connie F. Sneed January 27, 2009 Flood of 1913 Edward F. Janecka Jul 28, 2002 & Jul 14, 2015 The 1913 Flood – Judge Roberts' Railroad Odyssey Gregory Walker July 10, 2018 The 1913 Flood — Relief and Recovery Gregory Walker August 28 & Sep 4, 2018 Sonja Fojtek Helen T. Mikus September 9, 2001 Caleb Forshey Gary McKee Apr 22, 2001 & Jul 20, 2010 [Caleb Forshey's] Texian Pride in 1861 Gary McKee October 11, 2011 Walter P. Freytag, Fayette County Historian Josephine White Oct 27 & Nov 3, 2015 Gustav Froelich, Early Round Top Photographer Rox Ann Johnson January 13, 2015 Funeral Practices and Traditions of the Past Carolyn Heinsohn May 6 & !3, 2014 Furniture Making in Fayette County Arnold Romberg October 6, 2002 Ondrej Gallia's Store, Mulberry, Texas —1870s Carolyn Heinsohn December 15, 2015 German Draft Resistance in 1860's Central Texas Gary McKee September 11, 18 & 25, 2012 German Festival Planned Connie F. Sneed October 6, 2009 German Settlers in Fayette County Bob Heinsohn March 9 & 16, 2003 Robert Addison Gillespie Eva Gillespie August 7, 2012 The Granville Family of La Grange Carolyn Heinsohn August 9, 16, & 23, 2011 Fredrich W. Grasmeyer Larry K. Ripper April 29, 2001 Frederick William Grasmeyer Kathy Carter May 1, 2012 Thomas Green Katie Kulhanek March 3, 2009 My Name is Joe Griffin Gary McKee Feb 24, 2002, Oct 5, 2010 William GuehrsConfederate Hero of Waldeck Harvey Meiners May 20 & 27, 2001 Daniel J. Gully, Buried at Sea Sherie Knape October 20, 2009 Judge Augustine Haidusek Sandra Briones Jul 27, 2003 & Sep 15, 2015 Carolyn Heinsohn Sep 18, 2018 Seven [Hajovsky] Brothers in World War II Edward F. Janecka March 9, 2010 Andrew Jackson Hamilton Stacy N. Sneed April 22, 2008 Halloween Special: Fayette County Folk Lore Katie Kulhanek October 25, 2011 Halsted, Texas Carolyn Heinsohn May 20, 2008 Hang'n Sandra Briones October 27, 2009 A History of Harms School, Common School District #78, by Vastine Mueller submitted by Karen Wendler Sept 24 & October 1 & 8, 2013 Hank Hausmann—A Man of Many Talents Carolyn Heinsohn December 17 & 25, 2013 Heading West—1933 Gary E. McKee August 12, 2014 Heintze MuseumLa Grange, Texas Carolyn Meiners Apr 15, 2001 & Oct 6, 2015 William F. Heller Elva Meiners June 21, 2011 The Frederick August Helmecke Family of Round Top Cynthia A. Thornton December 13 & 20, 2016 Edward Henkel of Round Top Cynthia A. Thornton May 20 & 27, 2014 History of Hermes Drug Store - La Grange, Texas Elva Keilers April 8 & 15, 2014 Heroes of Fayette County Bobbie Nash November 29, 2016 HigheasterjetThe Millionaire from La Grange Katie Kulhanek October 21, 2008 Celebrations at St. Mary’s Catholic Church, High Hill, Texas Carolyn Heinsohn & Delores Guenther Vacek August 31, 2010 The Origins of the German Moravians of High Hill, Texas Carolyn Heinsohn September 14, 21, & 28, 2010 The Old High Hill Cemetery Darlene Graf Quiring May 17, 2022 Benjamin F. HighsmithAlamo Courier and Texas Ranger Connie F. Sneed December 15, 2009 Highway Beautification Annette Ruckert September 28, 2003 Asa Hill Family Kathy Carter January 31, 2012 John Christopher Columbus Hill Gary McKee Dec 2, 9, & 16, 2001 Reinhard Hillebrand Katie Kulhanek June 29, 2010 Hilltop Grocery – La Grange, Texas Gesine Tschiedel Koether April 22, 2014 How the Old Historic Oak Received Its Scars Rox Ann Johnson August 4, 2020 Hay and The Old Historic Oak Rox Ann Johnson August 11, 2020 Some Historical Markers in Fayette County Lillie Mae Brightwell October 19, 2003 The Hobo Norman C. Krischke July 21, 2002 The Old Hoelscher Service Station — A New Beginning Carolyn Heinsohn July 19, 2016 The Life of a Wood-Burning Stove [Hoelscher] Carolyn Heinsohn January 23, 2018 [Hog] Butchering Holds Memories Gesine Koether August 5, 2014 The Fat on Hog Butchering Gesine Koether February 10, 2015 Holman, TexasLooking Back Carolyn Heinsohn February 9 & 16, 2010 John Thompson Holman Connie F. Sneed August 24, 2010 Memoirs of Jan Horak of Fayette County, Texas submitted by Carolyn Heinsohn November 5 & 12, 2013 [Hostyn] Texas Grotto Reproduces French Shrine of Miracles Connie F. Sneed September 29, 2009 Celebrations in Hostyn, Texas Lillie Mae Brightwell September 20 & 27, 2016 Sam Houston Did Not Sleep Here Marie Watts July 5, 2011 Edward Louis Hruska Lillie Mae Brightwell January 26, 2003 Ox Wagons Haul Cotton to Mexico [George Huebner] Paul Schenck June 22, 2010 Robert Hancock Hunter Mike Steinhauser July 22, 2008 Hurricane Carla Leaves Her Mark on La Grange Annette Ruckert April 27 & May 4, 2003 Fayette County Immigration Society Donna Green September 7, 2003 Discovered in Passenger Ship Diary Gesine Tschiedel Koether September 3, 2019 Why Our Women Ancestors Came To Texas Gesine Tschiedel Koether October 30, 2018 The Green Lantern Cafe Carolyn Heinsohn July 21, 2009 Indian Depredations Near La Grange Gary E. McKee October 28, 2008 Indian Raid! Judge Edward Janecka Jun 10, 2001 & Aug 4, 2015 Fayette County, Texas, and the Spanish Influenza of 1918 Marie Watts July 7, 2020 Interesting Tidbits of Fayette County History Carolyn Heinsohn November 8, 2016 Jacob’s Café and Service Station Carolyn Heinsohn March 20, 2018 The Old Fayette County Jail Bob Heinsohn April 15, 2008 The Jailhouses of Fayette County Katie Kulhanek Feb 22 & Mar 1, 2011 Famous Czech Composer, Leos Janacek, Has Fayette County Connection Carolyn Heinsohn September 13, 2011 Jews Prominent in Fayette County History L. David Vogel August 12, 2008 First Lady [Lady Bird Johnson] Tours Historical Sites Connie F. Sneed June 9, 2009 John Rice Jones, Jr. Ann Daves March 25, 2008 Journey to a Better Life in Texas Gesine Tschiedel Koether November 15 & 22, 2016 July 5th Celebrations Draw Largest Crowds in Years ------------ October 9, 2012 Rev. Jindrich Juren Carolyn Heinsohn November 1, 2016 Dr. Charles J. Kaderka Helen Mikus July 8, 2001 Josef Kalus Ed Janecka April 19, 2011 The Story of Tabitha and Ira Killough Sherie Knape June 17, 2001 Fayette County: Its Link with a World-Famous Ranch [King Ranch] Sylvia Hebert June 19, 2018 Prim/Kirtley, Texas on the MK&T RR submitted by Carolyn Heinsohn October 7, 2014 Kreische's Bluff Beer, Brewed with Pure Mountain Spring Water Gregory Walker March 14, 2017 Kreische's Quick Lime Charles Hebert April 25, 2017 Norman Krischke Gary E. McKee December 16 & 23, 2014 Fighting Yellow JackCaptain T. H. Kroll Connie F. Sneed August 2. 2011 Kroll Pickle Factory Sherie Knape August 25, 2002 Tragic Death of Joseph Kocurek Ed Janecka August 30, 2011 Ladies' Cemetery Association Sherie Knape February 16, 2003 (La) Fayette Gary E. McKee January 15 & 22, 2008 Our Most Famous Foreigner L. J. Calley November 7, 2003 Jacob Laffere – a Gold Rush Participant Carolyn Heinsohn January 31, 2017 The Original La Grange Bruce D. Collins January 29, 2008 Early Life in La Grange in the 1830s Gary E. McKee August 17, 2010 La Grange in 1839 Rox Ann Johnson July 24 & 31, 2018 La Grange in 1840 Rox Ann Johnson September 11, 2018 A Few Ordinances of La Grange, Texas: Enacted the 9th Day of July, 1880 Katie Kulhanek July 28, 2010 On the [La Grange] Square in 1885 Larry K. Ripper May 22, 2013 155 North Main Street, La Grange Shirley Schaeffer March 28 & April 4, 2017 103 North Main Street, La Grange Victoria Collins September 23, 2008 114 South Main Street, La Grange Victoria Collins September 16, 2008 La Grange Base Ball Report, June 13, 1895 Gary E. McKee July 23, 2013 Old La Grange City Library Carolyn Meiners May 26, 2002 & Sep 22, 2015 That Building with the Tall Red Chimney Just Off the Square [La Grange] Jon Todd Koenig February 2 & 9, 2021 La Grange Gold Rush Company Fayette Heritage Archives Staff January 20, 2002 From La Grange Collegiate Institute to Ewing College Connie F. Sneed July 12, 2011 La Grange's First Hospital Patient Rox Ann Johnson September 29, 2020 La Grange Jewish Cemetery Donna Green July 13, 2003 Vandalism at the Old La Grange City Cemetery Carolyn Heinsohn February 13, 2018 La Grange Live Oaks Carolyn Heinsohn May 27, 2008 La Grange Matress Factory Lillie Mae Brightwell November 11, 2008 La Grange Postal Masters Lillie Mae Brightwell October 13, 2002 Early Schools in La Grange Founded by Masons Carolyn Heinsohn May 13, 2008 Town of La Grange Was Proud of Its Efficient School System Carolyn Heinsohn May 22, 2018 La Grange Public Schools Are Integrated Carolyn Heinsohn August 21, 2018 La Grange, R.F.D. (The First Texas Rural Mail Route) Annette Ruckert July 20 & 27, 2003 The History of a Vacant Lot [in La Grange] Carolyn Heinsohn April 7, 2009 Queen City of the Colorado Valley [La Grange] Connie F. Sneed September 8, 2009 Do You Remember . . . [La Grange] Carolyn Heinsohn Feb 23 & Mar 1, 2016 More Memories [La Grange] Carolyn Heinsohn July 26, 2016 Jonathan Lane Connie F. Sneed November 19, 2013 The Latins & the Prairie Blume Society Donna Green March 3, 2002 Recollections of Early-Day Laundry and Ironing Practices Carolyn Heinsohn April 28, 2015 Lawlessness in Fayette County, 1867 Stacy N. Sneed November 18, 2008 First Lawman on the Colorado Allen G. Hatley February 17, 2002 Captain William H. Ledbetter Connie Sneed January 11, 2011 The Tom Lee Story Ed Janecka April 20, 2010 James S. Lester Kathy Carter 2012 Joseph Lev Donna Green May 11, 2010 Blue and GreyJoseph & John Lidiak Judge Ed Janecka December 30, 2001 Life in Early Fayette County Carolyn Heinsohn February 2, 2010 Livingston Lindsay Katie Kulhanek August 10, 2010 David Collins, Sr. July 9 & 16, 2013 Faith Healer: Henry Charles Loehr Gary E. McKee Dec 2002 & Jul 28, 2015 An Embarrassing Moment for Sheriff Will Loessin Rox Ann Johnson June 16, 2015 Lyons, Texas Norman C. Krischke Aug 12, 2001 * Aug 25, 2015 James and Warren Lyons Kathy Carter March 6, 2012 The Machac BrothersSix Brothers Serve in WWII Carolyn Heinsohn March 16, 2010 A Machine Gun for Fayette County Fayette Heritage Museum Archives January 19, 2003 Nellie Mann's Final Resting Place Rox Ann Johnson July 11, 2017 Edward Manton Kathy Carter December 20, 2011 Edward T. Manton Connie F. Sneed May 24, 2011 An Early Fayette County Marriage Gary E. McKee August 19, 2008 The Mauer Brothers — Acclaimed Architects Carolyn Heinsohn April 7 & 14, 2015 Meat Clubs Edward F. Janecka October 3, 2017 Fayette County Medical Society Sherie Knape August 24, 2003 Advertised Medical Products and Services in 1928 Carolyn Heinsohn September 16, 2014 Medicinal Home Remedies Used in the Past Carolyn Heinsohn April 18, 2017 Medicine Men of Fayette County Sandra K. Briones October 5, 2003 Medicine Shows, Drive-Ins and Movie Theaters Lillie Mae Brightwell December 16, 2008 Rosa Meinecke—Not Your Usual English Teacher! Elva Keilers November 24, 2015 J. C. Melcher Connie F. Sneed November 4, 2008 Menefee County Edward F. Janecka October 12, 2003 Fayette County Meteorites and Tektites Carolyn Heinsohn July 1, 2008 Who Found the 1939 Round Top Meteorite Gesine Tschiedel Koether June 17, 2014 The Meyenberg House in La Grange Maria Rocha October 31, 2017 Mississippi Brown Larry Ripper June 2, 2015 Making Molasses Carolyn Heinsohn July 26, 2011 Monument Hill Gary E. McKee September 2 & 9, 2008 Black Beans of Death submitted by Carolyn Heinsohn June 3 & 10, 2014 The Tomb of Texas Heroes Charles Hebert February 27, 2018 Kreische and the Tomb Charles Hebert March 6 & 13, 2018 Texas, Our Texas Sylvia Hebert September 24, 2019 John Henry Moore Kathy Carter April 17, 2012 Moore's Fort Carolyn Meiners May 12, 2002 Fountain Is Tribute To Miss Lyttie Moore, Teacher For 40 Years Carolyn Heinsohn May 1, 2018 Where in the World is Mount Maria Spring? Gregory Walker January 10 & 17, 2017 Citizens of Mulberry Take Action Carolyn Heinsohn September 30, 2008 Father Michael Muldoon Ann Lamer April 6 & 13, 2003 Where, Oh Where Did the [Muldoon] Depot Go? Carolyn Heinsohn January 5 & 12, 2010 Memories of Mullins Prairie and Cozy Corner in Fayette County David Collins, Sr. August 7 & 14, 2018 Multiculturalism in Fayette County Marie W. Watts Jun 12, 2012 Captain John Murchison Kayla Peters July 22 & 29, 2014 Fayette County Music Societies/La Grange Handel Club Sherie Knape September 21, 2003 & May 29, 2019 Celebrating a Natural Resource Donna Green September 16, 2001 Royston H. Nave Pat Johnson February 2 & 9, 2016 Nechanitz – The ONLY one in the World! Judy Matejowsky February 21, 2015 The New Farmers of America in La Grange Marie Watts February 25, 2020 Fayette's First Newspaper and Its Offspring Annette Ruckert July 22 & 29, 2001 The Nicholson Cemetery, Fayetteville, Texas Lillie Mae Brightwell January 19 & 26, 2016 Notable Persons with Fayette County Connections Carolyn Heinsohn April 5, 2011 The Murder of Constable Charles Hendrickson Null Allen G. Hatley June 16 & 23, 2002 Pre-Austin Chalk and Eagle Ford Shale Oil in Fayette County Gary E. McKee June 9, 2015 Fayette County Oil and Gas Production Norman Wied October 2, 2018 Oral History: What It Is and Why It Matters Alice Rudersdorf June 5 & 12, 2018 Riding Into the Unknown: Orphan Trains Come to Fayette County Katie Kulhanek June 23 & 30, 2009 Henry P. OverbayFirst Doctor in Southern Fayette County Norman C. Krischke May 25, 2003 Rachel Ross Gregory Parsons' Gravestone - A Mystery Solved Samantha Holub September 6, 2016 Party Like It's 1984 Gary E. McKee March 24, 2019 Fayette County and the State Penitentiary Gesine Tschiedel Koether May 13, 2014 The Peter Family of Dubina, Texas Carolyn Heinsohn May 28, June 4 & 11, 2013 Identifying Capt. R. H. Phelps Rox Ann Johnson July 16, 2019 Piano Bridge Ed Janecka March 27, 2012 The Piwetz Bottling Co. in Fayetteville, Texas Lillie Mae Brightwell May 19 & 26, 2015 The Pliska Aeroplane Carolyn Heinsohn March 4, 2008 Plum in 1893 Rox Ann Johnson November 6, 2018 Political Rivals Come to Flatonia Katie Kulhanek November 16 & 23, 2010 Fayette County Poor House Donna Green April 20, 2003 Poor Farms Revisited Lilliemae Brightwell October 16, 23, & 30, 2012; Mar 31 & Apr 7, 2019 United States Post Office Murals Audrey Huenefeld February 15, 2011 Praha Norman C. Krischke November 10, 2002 The Nine Boys of Praha Connie F. Sneed April 6, 2010 Praha Happenings Gary E. McKee August 13, 2013 Praha Picnic 1937 Gary E. McKee Aug 20, 2013 & Aug 11, 2015 Celia of Primm, Texas David L. Collins, Sr. May 3 & 10, 2016 Dr. William Primm, an Early Fayette County Plantation Owner Carolyn Heinsohn January 20 & 27, 2015 The Primms, The Richards and An Infamous Outlaw Carolyn Heinsohn March 10 & 17, 2015 Prohibition Kathy Carter August 27, 2001 Bootleggers and Stills in Fayette County Norman Wied December 11, 2018 Prolific Progenitors Carolyn Heinsohn February 5, 2008 The Pytlovany House Carolyn Heinsohn May 19, 2009 Mary Crownover Rabb Donna Green June 3, 2001 Life in a Wild Land [exerpts from Mary Crownover Rabb's Memoirs] Katie Kulhanek December 14 & 21, 2010
& Jan 4, 2011William Rabb Kathy Carter May 8, 2012 William Rabb Children Kathy Carter May 15, 2012 Rabbs Prairie Floods in the 1930s Carolyn Heinsohn June 25, 2013 The Killing of Robert Ragsdale Norman C. Krischke October 18 & 25, 2002 W. O. Wood April 11, 2017 Happy New YearRailroad Donna Green March 17, 2002 [Railroad] Car Crashes into House Connie F. Sneed July 19, 2011 W. O. Wood August 15 & 22, 2017 Recollections of a Fayette County Locomotive Engineer W. O. Wood December 12 & 19, 2017 Randolph School Kathy Carter August 11, 2002 John T. Rankin: Sheriff, U.S. Marshal, Fayette County Clerk and Accused Murderer Ed Janecka July 28, Aug 4 & 11, 2009 The Unpredictable Mr. Ratigan Charles Hebert Jan 30 & Feb 6, 2018 The Recknagels of Round Top Cynthia A. Thornton September 30, 2014 The Crowbar Kid [Edwin Reiss] Rox Ann Johnson November 21, 2017 David Rivers David L. Collins, Sr. August 16 & 23, 2016 Richard Tinsley February 25, 2008 Joel Walter Robison Connie Sneed July 15, 2008 Joel Walter Robison Kathy Carter February 7, 2012 Conrad Caspar Rohrdorf Neale Rabensburg February 7, 2017 Johannes Romberg, German Poet of Texas Arnold Romberg February 12 & 19, 2013 James J. Ross Kathy Carter February 21, 2012 The Panorama of "Round Top in Texas" Neale Rabensburg December 3, 2019 The Era of the Colored School in Round Top, Texas David L. Collins, Sr. April 21, 2015 Round Top (Fayette County), Texas, African American Pioneers David L. Collins, Sr. May 11 & 18, 2021 The Weikel Family and Roznov Lillie Mae Brightwell October 14 & 21, 2001 Flight of Fear 1836The Runaway Scrape Kathy Carter Nov 18, 2001 & Sep 1, 2015 Runaway Slave Sold for Expenses Katie Kulhanek June 22, 2010 Running the Rings Donna Green November 11, 2001 Martin Ruter Connie F. Sneed June 2, 2009 Military Life in Rutersville Gary McKee March 8, 2011 Texas’ First College in Rutersville, Texas Charles Hebert Aug 29 & Sep 5, 2017 Rutersville in Rhyme Karen Wendler March 25, 2014 St. John’s Lutheran Church 100th Anniversary Karen Wendler February 17, 2015 St. John Schools Gary E. McKee April 2, 2013 St. Paul's AME Church Donna Green August 18, 2002 The History of Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic Church in Plum Katie Kulhanek August 21 & 28, 2012 Saloons on the La Grange Square Charles Hebert July 18 & 25, 2017 Fayette County's Presence at the Battle of San Jacinto Ed Janecka June 7 & 14, 2016 Santa Anna Vest Finally Found Gesine Tschiedel Koether June 21, 2016 Stephen Scallorn, M. D. Josephine White February 3, 2015 H. P. Schaefer Memorial Observatory Florence Farek September 15, 2009 Bernard Scherrer Connie F. Sneed April 27, 2010 The Charles Henry Schiege, Sr. Family of Round Top, Texas Cynthia Thornton August 27 & September 3, 2013 Schiege Cigar Factory Donna Green August 31, 2003 Two Brothers Thrown and Killed by Same Horse [Henry & Wilhelm Schmidt] Gesine Tschiedel Koether January 26, 2021 Early Schools in Fayette County Gesine Tschiedel Koether February 28, 2017 School Days in Earlier Times Carolyn Heinsohn September 10, 2013 Emil Schuhmann—A Renaissance Man Carolyn Heinsohn February 21, 2017 Birth of Schulenburg Norman C. Krischke April 1, 2001 125 Year Old NewsSchulenburg Norman C. Krischke August 4, 2002 Schulenburg in 1877 Norman C. Krischke & Gary McKee September 23, 2001 Schulenburg at the Age of Twenty-Four Gary E. McKee January 15 & 22, 2019 Early Baseball in Schulenburg Norman C. Krischke May 13, 2001 Schulenburg Fire Department Florence Farek September 22 & 29, 2002 The La Grange Journal Visits Schulenburg in 1892 Gary E. McKee September 1 & 8, 2002 Schulenburg Throws a Party on July 4, 1895 Marie W. Watts October 24, 2017 Worms, Dropsy, and Daisy Fly Killers—Schulenburg Sticker Advertising From One Hundred Years Ago
Gary E. McKee January 12, 2016 1931 Brings Changes to Schulenburg, Texas Carolyn Heinsohn September 12, 2017 Beginning of the Dairy Business in Schulenburg Florence Farek October 2, 2012 The Schulenburg Library Noreen Stavinoha & Bettye Allen October 31, 2003 History of the Schulenburg Literary Club, 1927-2017 Ona Marak June 26 & July 3, 2018 Schulenburg Attacked! Gary E. McKee December 1, 2015 Jap Submarine Targets Schulenburg Gary E. McKee April 10, 2018 Sears Catalog Homes Barbara Arambula September 2008 Sengelmann Brothers Connie F. Sneed June 28, 2011 Recollections of Charles Sengelmann, Sr. Carolyn Heinsohn May 15, 2018 Services, Trades and Occupations of By-Gone Days Carolyn Heinsohn October 28, 2014 Enterprising Settlers - John & Michael Short L. J. Calley Mar 10, 2002 & Jun 30, 2015 Side-wheelers on the Colorado Larry K. Ripper Mar 18, 2001 & Aug 18, 2015 Julia Lee Sinks Annette Ruckert February 3 & 10, 2002 Sky-Hi in La Grange Charles Hebert May 14, 2024 Sally Skull Sherie Knape October 28 & Nov 4, 2001 Mollie E. Hodge-Smith and J. Frank Smith David Collins, Sr. December 9, 2014 Christian Ernst Soergel Neale Rabensburg January 24, 2017 The Solomon Family Photos Rox Ann Johnson October 9 & 16, 2018 Rudolph B. SpacekFayetteville Solid Citizen Irene Polansky July 14, 2002 George Washington Speir Josephine White June 24, 2014 Memories of a Founding Member of the SPJST submitted by Carolyn Heinsohn Nov 26 & Dec 10, 2013 Frank Stanzel, Jr. and Rosina StanzelPioneer Benefactors Eugenia Reeves October 18, 2011 The Streithoff Home—Soon to Be Gone Carolyn Heinsohn December 5, 2017 The Studemann-Duncan House Carolyn Heinsohn January 19, 2010 The Stuermer Store - Ledbetter (Fayette County), Texas David L. Collins, Sr. April 30 & May 7 & 14, 2013 Swiss Alp Church Sherie Knape July 15, 2001 Swiss Alp Dance Hall Edward F. Janecka November 17 & 24, 2002 Swiss Alp Town Is A “Mystery” Stacy N. Sneed February 24, 2009 Joseph Sykora – 106-Year Old Resident of Fayette County Carolyn Heinsohn September 13, 2016 Waldine Tauch, Sculptress Donna Green April 21, 2002 The Will Taylor Family History David L. Collins, Sr. August 2, 2016 Memories of "Teenville" Carolyn Heinsohn December 8, 2009 The Wandering Shul: Temple Israel Sandra Cernota Briones December 4, 2012 L. David Vogel December 11, 2012 Tenant Farming: On the Halves, Thirds and Fourths Harvey Meiners July 7, 2002 Memories of Tent Shows and the Circus in La Grange Carolyn Heinsohn July 29, 2013 Tickanwa-tic Gary E. McKee March 23, 2010 Barnard Timmons—A Civil War Commander Carolyn Heinsohn August 14, 2012 Pinky Plinked It! Marie W. Watts February 4, 2014 The Tonkawa Gary E. McKee December 22, 2002 The Two Brothers Saloon Eugenia Reeves June 24, 2008 Two Strange Women Gary E. McKee November 10, 2009 Unfeminine Behavior Kathy Carter December 1, 2009 The Old Union Church, La Grange, Texas Carolyn Heinsohn August 30, 2016 Joseph Vasut Importer and Jobber Carolyn Heinsohn May 31 & Jun 7, 2011 The Vavra Chevrolet Company of Fayetteville, Texas Lillie Mae Brightwell December 6, 2016 The Volunteer Aid Society Donna Green December 22, 2009 Peter Carl Johann Von RosenbergVeteran of Waterloo to Fayette County Pioneer Sherie Knape July 6, 2003 Waldeck, Texas Connie F. Sneed April 26, 2011 Bigfoot Wallace Norman C. Krischke September 15, 2002 1860s Photographers [Wallace & Hooben] Rox Ann Johnson October 10 & 17, 2017 Warda Post Office Lillie Mae Brightwell December 8 & 15, 2002 Digging a Water Well Edward F. Janecka October 4, 2016 Christian Wertzner Kathy Carter March 13, 2012 West Point, Texas Gary McKee November 1, 2011 The Wild Adventure of a Man Named Shirley [Wilkins] Rox Ann Johnson May 5 & 19, 2020 Clara Belle Drisdale Williams Rox Ann Johnson April 27, 2021 Willow Springs, a Community Known by Many Names Rox Ann Johnson February 3, 2009 Catastrophic Hail at Willow Springs Rox Ann Johnson January 29, 2013 1930s Girls Team from Willow Springs School Gesine Koether January 12, 2021 Winchester, Texas Gary McKee November 1, 2011 From Plantation Community to Boom Town and Bust—The African American Presence in Winchester, Texas
David L. Collins, Sr. June 6 & 13, 2017 Wolff Case Tractor & Implement Company Lilliemae Brightwell August 3, 2010 The Arrival of Women's Suffrage in Fayette County Rox Ann Johnson August 25, 2020 Women's Suffrage Sherie Knape April 14, 2002 Zadock Woods Kathy Carter January 24, 2012 Woods Prairie Cemetery Josephine White October 24, 2003 Woods Prairie Cemetery Marker: M-K-T Katy Railroad Monument submitted by Carolyn Heinsohn September 23, 2014 Century-Old Letter Reveals Concerns About WWI Annette Citzler September 26, 2018 Celebration - War is Won Sherie Knape January 6, 2002 Dare We Forget WWI and the Service of our Fayette County Men Gesine Tschiedel Koether March 8 & 15, 2016 The Price Fayette County Paid to End World War I Rox Ann Johnson November 13, 2018 World War II - On the Home Front Noreen Stavinoha June 24 & July 1, 2001 The Collection of Scrap Iron During WW II Carolyn Heinsohn August 8, 2017 Three Cadets Killed in Plane Crash Near Ellinger Norman Wied October 23, 2018 Jan Stephan Wrba submitted by Carolyn Heinsohn July 15, 2014 Wright's Park Robert Moore and Gary E. McKee June 16, 2009 & June 18, 2013 Where in the World Was Wursten? Carolyn Heinsohn July 8, 2008 Yankees in La Grange Gary E. McKee Jun 2, 2002 & Sep 8, 2015 Yellow Fever Sherie Knape May 6, 2001 Letter on the Devastating Yellow Fever Epidemic in La Grange Connie F. Sneed August 18, 2009 Young Family Stories Josephine White August 17, 2003 Willie D. Zapalac's First Mail Route Automobile Carolyn Heinsohn September 25, 2018 Antonia Wecheta Zelesky—Midwife and Healer Helen Trnovsky Mikus November 6, 2012 Zwiener & Rabensburg Saddlery and Buggy Shop Rox Ann Johnson Jan 1 & 8, 2019