Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas Page: 634 of 894

                                
INDIAN WARS AND PIONEERS OF TEXAS.

537

landed at Galveston and proceeded thence to
Indianola and New Braunfels. He was united in
marriage to Miss Mary Schalfer of Boerne, in 1859.
She was born in Germany in 1835. They have ten
children: Winnie, now Mrs. John Knepper, of
Kendalia; Herman, a citizen of Kendalia; Henry,

who lives at the head of the Little Blanco, four
miles from Kendalia; Christian, Jr., living at
Kendalia; Martin, Mary, Theresa, Emma and
William, who are single and live at Kendalia, and
Adolf, who is married and lives near the old home.
Five children are deceased.

ROMANUS TALBOT,
CALVERT,

Familiarly known as Roe Talbot. a well-to-do
planter of Robertson County, was born in Pike
County, Ala., in 1833.   He accompanied his
parents, James and Hannah Talbot, to Texas, in
1852, and the following year settled on the farm
where he has continuously lived for the past fortytwo
yrars. In 1858 he married Miss Nannie Wood,
daughter of Aaron Wood, who emigrated to Texas
from Aberdeen, Miss., where Mrs. Talbot was
born, and settled in Robertson County in 1851. In
January, 1862, Mr. Talbot entered the Confederate
army, enlisting in Capt. Johnson's Spy Company,
which was organized for service in Gen. Ben McCulloch's
command and which for two years was
engaged in scouting and outpost duty in Arkansas.
At the time of the investment of Arkansas Post by
the Federals, Mr. Talbot was sent with fifteen others
to occupy outlying points and report the movements
of the enemy. He continued at this work, returning
messengers until only himself and one comrade
were left, when the final fall of the post occurred,
news of which reaching him, he made good his
escape and returned to Texas. Here he raised a
company of which he was elected First Lieutenant
and again entered the service, accompanying his

command to the forces then massing along the
Louisiana and Arkansas line to resist the invasion
of the Federal army under General Banks. He
took part in the series of engagements incident
to Banks' Red River campaign, commanding his
company most of the time, and surrendered at the
general armistice in May, 1865, having been in
active service foi three years without being captured
or wounded.
After the war Mr. Talbot took up farming and,
though pursuing it under many disadvantages,
made good progress from year to year, and is today
one of the wealthy planters of Robertson
County, having in cultivation over 800 acres in the
Brazos Valley.
He represented Roberston County in the Twenty-third
Legislature, discharging acceptably the
duties imposed on him, and refused the position
a second time. He and his good wife have
raised four sons, all of whom were given educational
advantages, and three of whom, Frank L,
Aaron and James R., are now living and occupy
positions of usefulness. Their second son, Joseph
W., was accidentally killed on the railroad in June,
1894.

HENRY VOGES, SR.,
BULVERDE,

One of the most prominent pioneers of the Comal
County mountain district and the worthy founder
of one of the most highly esteemed families in Central.Texas,
was born in the town of Pina, near the

city of Brunswick, Germany, May 27, 1811. He
came from Bremen, Germany, to Galveston, in 1845,
bringing with him two sons and one daughter.
The latter is deceased. The two sons are Frederick