Aalke Haass was born and reared in Hanover, Germany, a daughter of Harm Gerdes. The father emigrated with his family to the new world in 1851, at which time he settled in Medina county, where he was engaged in stock farming, and it was while he was looking after his stock that the Indians came upon him and massacred him, killing him by stabbing with a lance, he having twenty-five wounds, being dead when found. His widow remained on the ranch, where she carefully reared her children, and later when they all were settled in homes of their own she lived among them and died at a ripe old age. Her children were: Gerd, who freighted for the Confederacy during the war and is now a stock farmer and a preacher of the Methodist denomination in Guadalupe county; Hilka, the wife of F. Schulte: Volka, the wife of E. A. Bohlen; Aalke, who became Mrs. Haass; and Harm, who entered the Confederate army, from which he never returned, being last heard from in Louisiana. To Mr. and Mrs. Valentine Haass were born four children: Henry, a prominent merchant and county surveyor of Castroville: Herman E.; Ida M., the wife of W. Edgar, a commission merchant of San Antonio; and Louie, who died at the age of four years.
Contributor: Sherry (47010546)
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Aalke Haass was born and reared in Hanover, Germany, a daughter of Harm Gerdes. The father emigrated with his family to the new world in 1851, at which time he settled in Medina county, where he was engaged in stock farming, and it was while he was looking after his stock that the Indians came upon him and massacred him, killing him by stabbing with a lance, he having twenty-five wounds, being dead when found. His widow remained on the ranch, where she carefully reared her children, and later when they all were settled in homes of their own she lived among them and died at a ripe old age. Her children were: Gerd, who freighted for the Confederacy during the war and is now a stock farmer and a preacher of the Methodist denomination in Guadalupe county; Hilka, the wife of F. Schulte: Volka, the wife of E. A. Bohlen; Aalke, who became Mrs. Haass; and Harm, who entered the Confederate army, from which he never returned, being last heard from in Louisiana. To Mr. and Mrs. Valentine Haass were born four children: Henry, a prominent merchant and county surveyor of Castroville: Herman E.; Ida M., the wife of W. Edgar, a commission merchant of San Antonio; and Louie, who died at the age of four years.
Contributor: Sherry (47010546)
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