This article by David McLemore first appeared in the Dallas Morning News, Sunday, October 16, 1983. Note: A handful (35) of Wends migrated to Texas in 1853. -0- SERBIN. Texas – Laverne Gersch doesn’t have to search for her ancestral roots. They’re all around her. As she drives along dusty Lee County back roads near […]
This article by Victor Vogel was printed in an unknown newspaper date unknown. The article by Sigman Byrd, Advance Man in Wendenland, for the Houston Chronicle on 9 Sep 1960 is remarkably similar. Vogel’s article states “122 years ago” which would have made the date of publication 1976. -0- Knecht Ruprecht, the anti-Santa Claus, is
This article by L. S. Imm, Ph.D. was written in 1974 for an unkown publication which may have been something similar to The Lutheran Digest. Note: The 35 Prussian Wends of 1853 did not settle in East Texas but in Central Texas in Austin, and Fayette counties. Note: The Wends arrived in Galveston in December 1854, and while they
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