Signers of Petition to Create
Gillespie County
Decenber 15, 1847
This was taken from the June 1997 issue of the "Gillespian".
Pat Klein
and Wilbur Crenwelge
presented the March program (1997) on Petitioners who presented the request
for the establishment of Gillespie County. The petition to create
Gillespie County was presented in December of 1847 and was established out
of Bexar County by an act of the Texas Legislature in 1848.
With the County's sesquicentennial
coming up (1998), the project brought before the members was to develop
information on the descendants of these petitioners. Petitioners on which
little information was available in the census or tax records of that ere
are marked with an "*". It was asked in the June 1997 issue that anyone
who has any information about these surnames or families with these surnames,
to please come forward and let them know.
* Phillip Acker, Conrad Ahrens, Jacob Arhelger,
Heinrich Arhelger, Danniel Arhelger,* Adam Baldus, Heinrich Basse,
* Richard Baugh, * Conrad Becker, Wilhelm Becker, * Adam Bedig, * Adam Belser,
Ludwig Bene, Edward Benner, *Kasper Bermann, Johann Bermann, * Andrew
Bilo, Wolfgang Braeutigam, * Johann G. Braun, Christophal Brinkrolf,
Peter Burg, *J. M. Caldwell, * J. M. Campbell, * Jesus Castillo, *
R. W. Cecil,
* Charles Chambers, Kasper Danz, J. Heinrich Dietz, J. George Dietz,
Johann, Dietz, * A. Elfeld, * A. Erimeier (Erlenmeyer) , * Phillip
Eschelbech (Eschelbach), Faehrenhorts, Wilhelm Feller, Alex Ferguson,
* James Ferguson, * Robert Fraenkel, Ph. Fritz, Goerg Fritze, * Arnold Fuchs,
* Christian Gaerdner, J. Heinrich Goebel, * Frd. Griegmann,
* Franz Gross, H. Habenicht, Cr. Hahn, * John Hamilton, * Otto Heins,
* A. Henkel,
* Henry Hesler, * H. Hitzfeldt (Hitzfeld), G. F. Holekamp,
J. M. Hunter * J. Hutzfeld, Nicholas Jacoby,
* J. W. Jamison, Heinrich Jordan, Heinrich Jung, Jacob, Jung, Ludwig
Jung, Wilhelm Keidel, Peter Keller, Friedrich Kiehne, * Ernst Kiesenwetter,
* Fr. Kroetzel, Kolemiere, * Friedrich Krause, * C. Kreissen,
* E. Kriewicz, * Karl Kuehn, Johann Peter Kuhlmann, * Wm.
Lielich (Leilich), Franz Joseph Leyendecker, John Leyendecker
II, John Leyendecker I, * Albert Lincke, Friedrich Lochte, Jacob Luckenbach,
* Edward Luscher, Louis Martin, * Johann Masil, * Karl Meier, * Andrew Meyer,
* H. Mintzel, Nicholas Mosel, Heinrich Mueller Sr., Henrich Mueller Jr.
, * Ysidro Munos, * Dr. Mylius, Jacob Neffendorf, *Dr. August Nette, Carl
H. Nimitz, * Rafael Orsina, Friedrich Pape,
* Antonio Pena, Johannes Poetsch (Petsch), Peter Poetsch (Petsch), * Ludwig
Pooch (Poock), * B. L. Posey, Johann Ludwig Ransleben, Aug. Rehmen,
* Gehard Remein (Rehmen) , * August Rudolph, Heinrich Sauer, P. Schandua,
* L. Schaeper, Herrmann Scheele, Adolph Schildkneckt, Johann Nicholas Schmidt,
August Schmidt, Lorenz Schmidt, Ludwig Schmidt, Mathias Schmidt, J. Schmidtzinsky,
* Wilhelm Schnautz, Adam Schuessler, * C. F. Schulz, * Herman Scheele,
* Rudoph Scheverin (Schwerin) , M. M. Shelley, Theodore Specht * Aug. Spilker,
* Georg Stammel, * G. M. Stebbins, H. Thiele, * Thomas Thom, * F. Tolle,
*G. W. Vandergrift, Emil Wahrmund, W. Wahrmund, August Walch, Johan Joseph
Walch, Peter Walch, Peter Walter, * Peter Weller, * Jul. Wamel, Johann
Georg Weber, C. Wehmeyer, Daniel Weiershausen, Heinrich Weiershausen, Anton
Weinheimer, George Weinheimer, C. Wissemann, * Conrad Witterlin, Heinrich
Witterlin, * Jacob Wurzbach, Francis Wurzbach, Nic. Zink.
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