EARLY SETTLERS OF KLEBERG COUNTY, TEXAS
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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

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