Bosque County: Land and People (A History of Bosque County, Texas) Page: 452
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KRUEGER, JULIUS C.
Nancy Jane Krueger
Jessie Harvey Krueger
about a year before we decided to get
married. This was in 1954.
We farmed on the Krueger place for several
years. We lost our first baby, a little boy.
When our second child was born, a little girl,
Doris Merle, she was afflicted with cerebral
palsy. A specialist confirmed this, telling us
she would never talk, walk, or go to school.
Heartbroken, my life was changed from
that moment on. I swore we would train
Doris. I determined to try to educate the
public about what I had learned in my
studies. I wrote the late Amon G. Carter, Sr.
of Ft. Worth. He was so kind and gave me
backing with his paper, the Ft. Worth Star
Telegram.
I had two more little girls, Nancy Jane and
Mary Ann, and I had to divide my time
452among all of them.
I was persuaded to open a home for
handicapped children, and they were brought
to me from everywhere, including one from
Honduras.
I made speaking engagements all over
Texas, and I also pressured a bill through the
Legislature to create a state home for the
handicapped.
In the meantime, August had built himself
a large shop and was doing iron works. He
joined Nationwide Trailer Company and
built Nationwide trailers all over the United
States, repairing them and renting them
everywhere.
Nancy Jane married Paul Hancock and
Mary Ann married Ronald Chatfield. They
are both registered nurses. Doris takes care
of me, since I'm stricken with arthritis.
August died from an aneurism of the brain.
I have six grandchildren, and I feel trulyF690
Julius C. and Emilie A. Werner Krueger, 1900.
Julius C. Krueger (1852-1917) was born in
Berlin, Germany. Julius and his mother came
to the United States in 1873 on one of the first
steamships to cross the Atlantic. They enter-
ed Texas at Galveston and made their way to
Washington County, where they settled down
to a life of farming.
In 1875 Julius Krueger married Emmilie
Amelia Werner. They lived in Washington
County for seventeen years. In 1892 they
moved to Central Texas living first at Hurst
Springs in Coryell County. After a short
periodthey moved to Bosque County where
they purchased a farm on the banks of the
Bosque River near Clifton.
Emilie Amelia Werner Krueger was born
in 1851 in Posen, Prussia (Germany). She
came to America in 1873 via sailboat. A
frequently told family story is that Grandpa's
steamship overtook and passed Grandma's
sailboat in the mid-Atlantic. Little did either
of them realize that they would meet in later*AA
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Bosque County History Book Committee. Bosque County: Land and People (A History of Bosque County, Texas), book, 1985; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth91038/m1/468/?q=campbell: accessed May 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Denton Public Library.