EARLY SETTLERS OF KLEBERG
COUNTY, TEXAS
U thru Z
THE LIST BELOW IS A COMPILATION OF SOME FACTS EXTRACTED
FROM THE FAMILY NARRATIVES PUBLISHED IN THE FOLLOWING
BOOK:
theKleberg County, Texas: a Collection of Historical
Sketches
and Family Histories American Revolution Bicentennial
Heritage Project - 1976; Kleberg County
Historical Commission, 1979.
NAME
DATE ARRIVED
CAME FROM
1ST OCCUPATION
Ignacious Loyola Underbrink
1913
Ohio
Land Promotor, Koch Land Co. Don Guadalupe Valdez
1905, Ricardo
NA
NA
Don Raymon Vela
1902, Ricardo
NA
NA
Robert Fleming Watt
1903
Rusk County, Tx
Chief Clerk, Gulf Coast Lines
R. E. Welhausen
1916
Webb County,Tx
Cattleman
Stanley C. Wentworth
1917
San Antonio, Tx
Railroad machinest/electrician
Ernest A. & Selma Richter Wernecke Family
1927
Belton County, Tx
Farmed land purchased by August Richter
A.M. White Family
1914
Bell County, Tx
Health
William Lane Wilkinson
1925
Iowa; Jackson County, Tx
Agri.-County Agent
A.P. Williams
1908, Ricardo
Indiana
Farmed
Ben F. Wilson and Alice Warnock Wilson
1906
Port Lavaca, Tx
Railroad work
O.M. Wilson Family
1907
Moline, Illinois
Farming
J.B. Womack Family
1907
Windsor, Tx
Post Master; Grocer
Dale O. Woods
1908
Norton, KS
Orphaned child to live with grandmother
Ira A. Wright
1913
Bastrop County, Tx
Farming
Don Yirinio Ybarra
1908, Ricardo
NA
NA
Vere Yeargan
1923
Corpus Christi, Tx
Railroad Auditor's Office
Yeary Family
1905
Karnes County, Tx
Mercantile Store
John Cy Yeary
1923
Karnes County, Tx
King Ranch Bookkeeper
William Henry Young
Abt 1904
Burlington, Iowa
Surveyor for Railroad & King Ranch
Don Julian Zapata
1908, Ricardo
NA
NA
SOURCE: Kleberg County Historical Commission, Kleberg County, Texas (Austin: Hart Graphics, 1979).
Note: NA means Not Available