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Ancestors and descendants of Joachim Friederich Schawe (1817-1888), a second child of Friederich and Dorothea Blume Schawe from Laaslich, Province of Brandenburg in Prussia, Germany. He married Dorothea Henrietta Krüger (b. 1813) in 1842 in Havelberg, Prussia. She was a daughter of Christian David and Elisabeth Lindemann Krüger. This couple emigrated from the Germany port of Hamburg aboard the ship Washington in 1852. They arrived first in Galveston...

Arranged alphabetically, this work lists the names and counties of residence of approximately 18,000 Texas taxpayers. (A "poll" tax of one dollar was levied on every white male resident over the age of twenty-one and on women who were heads of household.) By 1846, when Texas became the thirty-sixth state in the Union, there were sixty-seven county governments already organized as functioning units of the state, yet no authorized census of the state...

The stories of men and women who contributed to the destiny of Texas including those who seem obscure and have had no recognition.

This revision includes some 1100 corrections in name spellings or pension information.