Doris Elaine Jacobs

Doris married James Marvin Williams on 5 May 1949 in 1st Baptist Church, Victoria Tx. James (son of Joseph Clifton Williams, Jr and Vesta Elnora Gossett) was born on 31 Mar 1927 in Lyford, Willacy, TX; died on 29 May 2023 in Bedias, Grimes County, Texas; was buried on 5 Jun 2023 in Memory Gardens, Victoria Tx. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. M.S. Williams
2. J.N. Williams
3. J.W. Williams
4. S.M. Williams

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• Address: Address:
  Nelson Otto "Jake" Jacobs 1403 E Virginia Victoria, Tx 77901
• Name: Jake

Nelson married Mary Priscilla "Edith" Coffey on 12 Aug 1923 in San Antonio, Bexar, TX.. Mary (daughter of William Daniel "Will" Coffey and Mary Alice Wilcoxson) was born on 19 Jul 1903 in Farmersville, Collin County., TX.; died in 1998 in Victoria, Victoria, Texas, USA; was buried in 1998 in Colonial Gardens Cemetery, Victoria, Victoria, TX.. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Edith

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• Immigration: 1856 and was a naturalized citizen.

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Pantaleon married Justina Voelkel on 22 Nov 1880 in Yorktown, Dewitt, TX. Justina (daughter of George Wilhelm Voelkel and Maria Katharina Homrighausen) was born on 8 Oct 1860 in Erndtebruck, Wittenstein, Retiehungegirt, Arnsbert, Prussia; was christened on 16 Dec 1860; died on 12 Apr 1934 in San Antonio, Bexar, TX; was buried in St. Peter's Lutheran Cemetery, Ander, Goliad, TX. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Miscarriage: Twin Boys were stillborn, Buried On The North Side Of The Barn On The Homestead Where 2 Big Live Oak Trees Now Stand
• Emigration: 24 Dec 1868

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1880 Census:

Name: Gustena VOELKEL Age: 20 Estimated birth year: <1860> Birthplace: PRUSSIA Occupation: At Home Relationship to head-of-household: Daughter Home in 1880: Precinct 2, De Witt, Texas Race: White Gender: Female Father's name: George VOELKEL Father's birthplace: PRUSSIA Mother's name: Catherine VOELKEL Mother's birthplace: PRUSSIA

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• Category: Texas Pioneers
• Comment: came to Texas at the age of 19 with his brother Frank to start a grocery store.
• Name: Will

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WD Coffey came to Texas in 1879 at the age of 19 with his brother Frank to start a grocery store in Farmersville.

WD Coffey moved from Farmersville, TX to Victoria, TX in 1914. WD had been invited by the city business community to open a grocery store in Victoria. For the trip he rented a railroad car for most of their belongings while everyone else came in cars. When they got to Victoria, a welcoming committee greeted them and gave them a grand tour of the city. They visited places like the Welder Mansion, which use to be located across from the old sears building in downtown Victoria.

WD opened WD Coffey Cash Grocery in downtown Victoria on the 100 block Juan Linn just across from the now City Hall. Thaddeus worked with WD in the store. The girls and Mary Coffey would come to the store just to get foot and supplies.

There home was a 2-story house located on the corner of Main and Goodwin streets where the O’Connor Plaza now stands.

All the Coffey girls were excellent cooks and did all the cooking. Mary Coffey taught them well. Aunt True use to boast how she could take 1 chicken and make it last for 3 meals. WD Coffey is said to love raw oysters.

Mary Coffey was a seamstress and taught all the girls. Ruth Sergeant remembers her aunts Lottie, Kate and True and grandma Mary Coffey all sewing together making cloths for the kids. Ruth remembers them making a coat for her.

Mary Coffey and some of her family would visit her twin sister Martha Allie Elliston in Abilene Texas from time to time.

When uncle Thaddeus went into the service during WW I, Mary Coffey was very sad and cried a lot over it.

During Thanksgiving and Christmas, all the kids and family would get together at the Coffey home. Everybody would bring food and all those young boys (Jack, Slick, Chester, Hester,…) would get into some humdinger of some fights.

In the later years:

Ben Frank and Stella Skinner lived with WD and Mary Coffey and stayed in an upstairs room. WD would expect a card game or domino game after supper. Ben Frank and Stella and some of the kids and grandkids would always be there to play games with Wd and Mary.

WD Coffey would always carry a matchbox with him and he could be seen gently turning it in his hands.

Grandpa WD Coffey had bad problems with the circulation in his legs (hardening of the arteries). He was laid up at his house in bed for quite a while in extreme pain. The kids would all take turns sitting with him until he passed away.

William married Mary Alice Wilcoxson on 20 Aug 1882 in Farmersville, Collin, Texas. Mary (daughter of Coleman William "Tobe" Wilcoxson and Mary Ann Morrow) was born on 15 Jul 1865 in Farmersville, Collin, Texas; died on 3 Apr 1954 in Victoria, Victoria, Texas, USA; was buried on 5 Apr 1954 in Evergreen Cemetery, Victoria, TX.. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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See attached sources.

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• Category: Texas Pioneers
• Name: Henry Andrew Jacob

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In Jan. 1845 Henri Jacob, sawyer, asked for a passport for New York. Soon after that he sold a meadow and a house located in Kruth. Finally he left only at the end of 1853, via Le Havre and disembarked at New Orleans in Jan. 1854, five months before Panteleon was born.
He built a cabin on a spring fed branch of the Coleto. In December 1855, his wife Agathe and their 9 Undisclosed children left the valley for Texas. They arrived in good shape in the beginning of 1856.

Two other children were born in Texas: Reinholt in 1859 and Paulina in 1861.

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Henry married Agathe Sifferlin on 14 Jan 1837 in Kruth, Haut-Rhin, Alsace, France. Agathe (daughter of Andre Sifferlen and Anne Marie Arnold) was born on 16 Aug 1814; died on 4 Feb 1869 in Ander, Goliad, TX; was buried in St. Peter & Paul Cem, Meyersville, Dewitt, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Category: Texas Pioneers

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her surname is also spelled Schefferly

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• Category: Texas Pioneers

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Wilhelm came to America and sent for Katharina and the 2 children. The trip from Germany to Indinola, Tx. took eleven weeks (1868 or 1867). When they got there they learned the father and husband had been killed by Indians. Later Katharina married George Voelkel, a distant cousin to her first husband. They lived at Yorktown, Tx.

New Homes in a New Land - German Immigration to Texas 1847 - 1861
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Humrighausen, Louise - Ruppershaven to Yorktown; Peter, Marie, Wilhelm; Fortuna 1860

George married Maria Katharina Homrighausen on 11 Jul 1858 in Evangelisch, Feudingen, Siegen-Wittgenstein, Germany. Maria (daughter of Johann Kraft Homrighausen and Anne Catharina Henrich) was born on 4 Feb 1828 in Bad Laasphe-Rüppershausen, Siegen-Wittgenstein, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland; died on 13 Nov 1902 in Kilgore Community, Goliad, Texas, USA; was buried in Kilgore Community Cemetery - Goliad County, TX. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Category: Texas Pioneers
• Comment: After her husban George Wilhelm Voelkel died, she married his cousin George Voelkel.
• Emigration: 24 Dec 1863, Came To Texas After The 2 Heinrich, Wilhelmine And Her 1St Husban Died To Join Her Sisters And Brother.

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Notes from Edith Jacobs:
Came to Texas after the 2 Heinrichs, Wilhelmine and her 1st husban died to join her sisters and brother.
They arrived in Texas on Dec. 24, 1863. The journey had been prolonged by very bad weather and the ship having been hung up in the Gulf of Mexico on sand bars and no wind. Her brother, Peter, was to have met her in Indianola, but, on the way he was killed by Indians. Katherine and her 2 daughters finally made their way to Meyersville to join her sister Luiese (Louise in Texas). Later she joined another sister, Maria, in Yorktown.

Ships Passenger Lists - Galveston, Tx 1846-1871
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Cathe Volkel 40 F
Justine 8 F
Sophie 2 F

Parents?
Johann Kraft Homrighausen
Anna Catharina Henrich

Notes from Web:
George Wilhelm died in Erndtebrueck at about the same time that Justine Strohmann died in Texas.
Catherine decided to come to America to join with family members who had arrived earlier.
Catherine and her daughters arrived in Texas on Dec. 24, 1868. Their ship got stuck on a sand bar off the Texas coast for a few weeks. They finally landed at Powderhorn, or Indianola as it was called.
Catherine was to meet her brother Peter in Indianola. But on his way there, he was ambushed by Indians and killed. He is buried somewhere between Yorktown and Indianola.
Catherine and her sisters eventually made their way to Meyersville to join with her sisters Maria and Luiese.
Catherine and Daniel George Voelkel were married Nov. 11, 1869 at St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church in Meyersville. They lived on the Schmidt's (now Smith) Creek near Yorktown.

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• Killed: Tennessee; Murdered by Sanuel Morrow

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William married Priscilla Howard on 24 Dec 1850 in Columbia, Maury, Tennessee. Priscilla (daughter of Willoughby Howard and Frances Cockburn) was born in 1826 in Mt. Pleasant, Maury County, Tennessee; died on 17 Aug 1899 in Farmersville, Collin, Texas; was buried in thought to be buried in the IOOF cemetery in Farmersville. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Tobe

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Located in same section of cemetery is James R. Wilcoxson, 1875-1939; must belong to this family but cannot fit in. Wife Pearl L. 1880-1971; Julius Grady son of 22 Aug 1903--12 Nov 1904

Burial
Farmersville City Cemetery, Collin Co., Tx

Coleman married Mary Ann Morrow on 26 Mar 1851 in Maury County, Tennessee. Mary (daughter of John Leonard Morrow and Jane Gilbreath) was born on 3 Jun 1828 in Pulaski, Giles Co., Tenn; died on 20 Aug 1902 in Farmersville, Collin, Texas; was buried on 21 Aug 1902 in Odd Fellows Cemetery, Collin Co., TX. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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