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17th Regiment of the Texas Irfantry during the Civil War, married Catherin
4endel at Mentz, Texas on 28 august 1866, and died 6 December 1924 at
Parcliay, Falls County, Texas44)
Peter Pieper began selling portions of his headright lands as early
1837. His first sales were to his German friends and neighbors such as Ja
>Jctlters, William Frels, John Grunder, George Damkin, Renke Stoltze, Bernar
Beumer, Carl Giesecke, Bernard Schneider and others. Most of these families
:amped with Friedrich Ernst during the "Runaway Scrape".
Peter Pieper and his wife, Elizabeth Kotter Simon Pieper, gave two
nortionns of land in the Pieper headright to Bishop John M. Odin of the
"atholic Diocese of Galveston in order to build a church in Frelsburg. Aft
the Casper Simon headright was patented in 1846, they sold portions of it
recentt immigrants from Germany. Land sales by him and his wife show some 6
Eeparate portions of land. These sales may have been a major source of the
total income.
Recent research in the early Catholic records of Galveston and Housto
indicate that difficulties were encountered by the early missionary priest
Father John Timon, rector of the Vincentian Seminary of St. Mary of the
Barrens, Missouri brought Father Nicholas Stehle to Texas to work among th
Catholics settled along the Brazos and Colorado Rivers. Father Stehle was
sent out on his missions on 22 December 1840. On 18 Jan. 1841 the Texas
Congress confirmed the use, occupation and enjoyment of the existing
churches, church lots and mission churches to the Roman Catholic
Congregations; living in or near the vicinity of the same. Father Stehle
found frontier life too strenuous and was returned to Missouri on 13 July
1841. Father John Odin, appointed Vicar Apostolic to Texas, was one of th
early missionaries in Texas who was later consecrated Bishop of Texas at N
Orleans on 6 March 1842. He returned to Galveston on 13 May 184245) Bishc
Odin dedicated St. Vincent de Paul Church in Houston on 17 July 1842. In t
spring of 1843 Bishop Odin began to keep what is now called "The Saddle Ba
Records" because it was carried in the saddle bags of the early priests. O
of these priests, Father F. P. Oge' made a trip to Colorado County in
November 1843 to a location he names Westmunster, Colloretto County which
probably in or near Frelsburg. He performed marriages and baptized children
af families who had not seen a Priest for several years:
5 Nov 1843 baptized:
El izabeth Pieper, age 6, daughter of Peter Pieper and Elizabeth KottE
Julia Pieper, age 3 1/2 daughter of Peter Pieper and Elizabeth KotterLouis Beimer, age 5 1/2, son of the deceased Bernhard Beimer and his
wife Elizabeth.
William Casper Beimer, born 17 Feb 1839, son of the deceased Bernharc
Beimer and his wife Elizabeth.
Elizabeth Beimer, born 13 May 1840, daughter of the deceased Bernharc
Beimer and his wife Elizabeth.
Bernadine Schneider, age 2 10/12, daughter of Bernard Schneider and
Clara Peular.
John Heinrich Schneider, age 10/12, son of Bernard Schneider and Clar
Peul ar.
Elizabeth Heiman, age 2, daughter of Casper Heiman and Barbara Wetzel
11 November 1843 in Westmunster, Coloretto County.
Performed Marriages of
Peter Pieper and Elizabeth Kotter.
Bernard Schneider and Clara Peular.e
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