THE INSTALLATEUR NOTDIENST 1230 WIEN DIARIES

the massive inflow of German immigrants to Texas inside the mid-1800s stimulated land income in south-central Texas. Johann Theodor Gerfers, his wife Maria, and their 4 kids arrived in Texas in 1848. Gerfers acquired the primary land (160 acres) in the Timberwood region and commenced cattle and sheep ranching. in the early 1850s throughout the 1880