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One year later we moved to Boerne where Cliff was broker
and associate for two years with Edwin Houston, Sr.
We built our new home west of School Street, on acreage
that was part of the Dr. Nooe property on Frederick's Creek.
Terry Marie was 13, Anita 11, Treila 9 and Dale 5. Now all the
children are grown and still live here. Terry married Frank
Roberts from Cleveland, Ohio. They are adopting an 8 year
old daughter named Connie. Anita married Joe Asher from
Leon Springs. His parents are Susie Wilson and Robert
Asher. Joe and Anita have five children. Treila maried Gary
Whiting, fourth child of Dorothy Ertel and Russell Whiting.
They have five sons and live on Dodge Road near Balcones
Creek. Dale married Bea Sill, fourth daughter of Harold Sill
of Welfare and Juanita Moore of Bethesda, Ohio. Dale and
Bea have two children.
Cliff started Boerne Ranch Realty in March, 1962, with
ranches his specialty. He has been in land development and
home building. He is talking of retiring and has turned the
real estate over to Dale and the building to Joe Asher.
Aaron Clifford Lewis (Cliff) was born in Gore, Oklahoma,
September 21, 1921 and moved to Wharton, Texas, when he
was ten years old. He was the youngest of seven children.
Cliff's parents were Malinda Hopkins and Charles Lewis.
Grandad was a diabetic and had lost one leg below the knee
years ago but it never slowed him down. He died in 1949.
Grannie died in Boerne in 1975.
I was born Jewel Cordelia Canon (Judy) in Goose Creek,
Texas, July 9, 1924. My Irish mother was Berneice Kilough.
She moved to Texas as a child and lived in Waller County and
Lufkin. My father was Seab Canon from Polk and Chambers
Counties. He worked in production for Humble for 36 years
until his death in 1956. We moved a lot with the oil field. I went
to 14 schools to get through high school, mostly in New
London and Dayton, Texas. I have a brother, Marshall Canon
of Lufkin and one sister, Wanda, of San Antonio.
Cliff and I were married on March 30, 1945, in San
Francisco, California, in the Methodist Church. We are
travelling quite a bit now but between trips Cliff works as
hard as ever. I can't imagine living any place but the Hill
Country. Jewel C. Lewis
LICH FAMILY
The Lich family in Texas began with an immigrant couple
whose lives reflect the growth and progress of this region.
Balthasar Lich and his wife, Elisabethe Scholl had nine
children and 24 grandchildren.
Balthasar Lich Elisabethe Lich
Today the family is in its sixth generation and it numbers
over a hundred living descendants - including farmers and
ranchers, business people, military and local government
leaders, a leader in hill country conservation, an artist and a
writer.
As a young man, Balthasar Lich landed in Indianola, Texas
from Germany in 1857 and travelled two hundred miles into
the interior to Fredericksburg. On the banks of the
Guadalupe River, large sawmills were located. One of these
mills had been built by Christian Dietert on Cypress Creek
near Comfort but it was abandoned because of inadequatewater supply and he moved to Fredericksburg where he
erected another mill. It was there that he met Balthasar and
when he decided to move to Kerrville to build even a larger
mill, he invited Balthasar to join him. Balthasar lived for
almost three years with the Christian Dietert family.
Dietert added a grist mill, enlarged his operation and
Balthasar was in charge of freighting. He also worked at the
mill as a carpenter and a wheelwright.
It was during this time that he met Elisabeth Scholl who
was born in Oberrossbach, Germany in 1842. Her father,
Johann Daniel, was a burgher of the town and a farmer.
Though of comfortable means, he and his wife Elisabethe
(Hof) chose to immigrate with their three children under the
auspices of the Adelsverein. The family landed in Indianola in
December 1845. During that winter, four thousand settlers
landed in Indianola but were unable to travel inland because
it was during the Mexican-American War and the Army
needed all of the wagons, oxen and horses that were
available. Epidemics caused over one thousand deaths and
Elisabethe with her Aunt Anna Maria were the only survivors
of the six Scholl family members. Only after Elisabethe's
identity was legally established in 1849 was she able to
secure full title to her family's promised tract of land.
Balthasar and Elisabethe were married in 1861 and their
first home was in Kerrville where they lived for seven years
where Balthasar became an independent freighter. Ger-
mans dominated the teamster industry and because of the
Civil War, their work became more significant. In 1862,
Confederate military regulations required all German citi-
zens to obtain a permit to move about. In August 1862,
Balthasar received his permit which allowed him to travel
through the Hill Country and to San Antonio; so he did well
in the freighting business during the war years.
In 1868 he was in a position to acquire land. He purchased
one hundred-sixty acres on Cypress Creek from Heinrich
Steves, built a home and became a rancher. In 1870,
Balthasar applied to become a citizen of the United States
and then became an active member of the local militia to
protect Cypress Creek community. By 1880, they owned
1,768 acres on the Cypress Creek and also purchased
retirement town lots from Herman Altgelt on the most
prominent hilltop of Comfort.
Balthasar died before he could retire to Comfort but his
wife had a large home built on the hill and she and a daughter
lived there. Once Elisabethe moved to town she sold her land
holdings to her children and lived quietly the remainder of
her years in Comfort. To the people in town she was simply
known as "die reiche alte Frau Lich auf dem Berg"... the rich,
old Mrs. Lich on the hill. She died in 1921 and is buried in
Comfort Cemetery with her husband.
Balthasar and Elisabethe had nine children: Ida, William,
Henry, Emma, Emilie, Otto, Louis, Ernst and Elizabeth.
Professor Glen E. Lich
SUSAN LICH
Born on St. Patrick's Day in 1927 and named Thelma Olive
Woolfley, I can yet hear the sounds of our house; buggy days
fading away as we entered our outer space age.
Art has been a vital part of my life always. At the age of five,
I discovered my first artist's paints in a trash can, along with
a little glass bowl that reflected all the colors of the rainbow.
Mama passed away before my 8th birthday. I was pastured
out to live in the homes of others. Papa introduced me to our
fantastic educational library heritage, and my art studies and
book adventures made time pass faster. I blazed a trail of art
work through my school note books, even during my high
school years at Boerne High.
When I married Ernst Perry Lich, in 1945, life had well
prepared us to start from scratch. Our pioneering start
thrilled me and was a fantastic adventure to live on a farm at
last, that I later named the Sturdy Oak Farm.
Our four room concrete bungalow had served as a hunting
lodge and weekend house. My conservation studies and
work began via water conservation and creating furniture153
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