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[NI2859] Daniel had a lead mine and also did som farming. An interesting incident has Daniel and Melissa going West on a wagon train. The train was in Kansas and Melissa took ill. Daniel pulled his wagon out and a short while later the train was attacked by indians in what is now called "The Mountain Meadow Massacre". [Leroy Hinderliter]

[NI2916] John Steeb was John Conrad Speidel's uncle. He sponsored his immigration to the U.S. John Conrad Speidel inherited John Steeb's farm outside Sterling, Illinois. - Glenn Mervyn Schutt interview.

John's nephew, John Schrum, age 16 from Bavaria is listed as a farm laborer in the 1880 census. (Schrum, John - M - 16 - S - Ne - Fl - Bv - Bv - Bv)

[NI3750] Michael Costley, soldier and Texas Ranger, was born in 1809. Though he may have moved to Texas as early as 1827, his arrival was more likely in the spring of 1832. He settled first in the San Augustine area and then in Nacogdoches. He served in the Texas army from June 22 to September 22, 1836, and, under Hugh McLeod, patrolled the Bexar Road between the Angelina and Neches rivers in the summer of 1836. Costley recruited a company of mounted rangers called the First Company of Texas Rangers and served as its captain from September 11 to December 11, 1936, when Sam Houston discharged him and his company for refusing to obey orders. In 1836 or 1837 he founded the town of Douglass in Nacogdoches County. Costley had married Mahalah Mussett, daughter of William Mussett, by bond (i.e., by written agreement in the absence of a priest) on January 18, 1827, probably in Missouri, and they had a son. Without obtaining a divorce, Costley married Elizabeth Reed, daughter of Jacob Reed, in September 1837 in Nacogdoches County, and they had two sons. Costley's bigamy set the stage for years of litigation among his heir. He died of a pistol wound inflicted by W. R. D. Speight, the first district clerk of Nacogdoches County, on November 16, 1837. At the time of Costley's death he and Joseph S. Able were operating a store, Costley and Able, in Douglass.

Bibliography: Robert Bruce Blake Research Collection, Steen Library, Stephen F. Austin State University; Barker Texas History Center, University of Texas at Austin; Texas State Archives, Austin; Houston Public Library, Houston. Carolyn Reeves Ericson, Nacogdoches, Gatway to Texas: A Biographical Directory (2 vols., Fort Worth: Arrow-Curtis Printing, 1974, 1987). Thomas L. Miller, Bounty and Donation Land Grants of Texas, 1835-1888 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1967). Amelia W. Williams and Eugene C. Barker, eds., The Writings of Sam Houston, 1813-1863 (8 vols., Austin: University of Texas Press, 1938-43; rpt., Austin and New York: Pemberton Press, 1970)

- The New Handbook of Texas in Six Volumes, Volume 2, p. 348

[NF0047] The 1910 U.S. Census lists Conrad, Minna, four daughters, and a hiredman living in Jordan Township, Whiteside County, Illinois.

[NF0107] Costley farm was where Bergstrom Air Force Base was. In 1999 being opened as an airport. - David Costley Carson interview.

Military grounds were on the Costley farm about six miles southeast of Austin, and another was on Onlon Creek, where the soldiers drilled. - History of Travis County [Texas], p. 86.

[NF0252] According to Mary Grace Longabaugh, there were 9 children of George Longabaugh's father's [Samuel Longabaugh] second marriage, including George, and 13 children of his first marriage. (John L. Longabaugh Letters)

[NF0744] Heinrich married Barbara Bastrus, who came from the Bastrus family that was an important steel producer in early Revolutionary times. They had three sons and four daughters. Of these, three sons and one daughter eventually migrated to Illinois. (The Howerter Family)

[NF0820] Married at: Christ (Mertz) Church, Rockland Twp., Berks County, PA

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Marriage information is located in Thalfang Church records
According to JOe & Betty Helwig 1983 the only Brobach they found was located on the Rhine River.. They haven't research the Brobach Church
records

[NF1085] According to Mary Grace Longabaugh, George Longabaugh's father's first marriage produced 13 children. (John L. Longabaugh Letters)

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Geneseo, Illinois 61254
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[NS015723] Baughman-Brock Cemetery, Cass Township, Fulton County, Illinois

[NS022451] Customer pedigree. Tree 1963 submitted by:
ANDREW F HINDERLITER
11709 ENCHANTED SUNSET
SAN ANTONIO, TX 78253

[NS021381] 532 East Locust Street
Geneseo, Illinois 61254
309-944-4987
paw@netexpress.nett

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[NS015791] copy from Samuel Curtis Huffman