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1 NAME Kenneth Gene /Lanterman/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 31 Dec 1956
2 PLAC Charleston, S.C.
1 BURI
2 PLAC B.A., B.J. University of Texas -- Austin
1 BAPM
2 PLAC None
1 CONF
2 PLAC Newspaper reporter, editor
1 FCOM
2 PLAC None
1 OCCU Agnostic
1 FAMS @F001@
1 FAMC @F111@
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1 NAME Ralph Lewis /Lanterman/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 31 Jan 1900
2 PLAC Morristown, N.J.
1 DEAT
2 DATE 17 Mar 1958
2 PLAC Sarasota, Fla.
1 CHR
2 PLAC Cremated by Robarts F Home
1 BAPM
2 PLAC Lions Club, Morristown VFD
1 CONF
2 PLAC Movie theater operator, drummer
1 OCCU Baptist
1 FAMS @F216@
1 FAMC @F227@
1 NOTE Ralph Lanterman, according to his children and close 
2 CONT family friends, say he was a man who always was working. 
1 NOTE Raising a family during The Great Depression, that was not 
2 CONT always an easy thing to do. Some of the jobs he was said to have include, 
2 CONT grocery store manager, drummer and movie house manager. 
1 NOTE According to Marion "Maydie" Watson, friend of Ralph's wife, 
2 CONT Ralph was a drummer for the Billy Burrell Band, a band her 
2 CONT brother Henry "Hen" Clarke also played for. 
1 NOTE She says though the band never made the big time in New York, it did 
2 CONT rather 
2 CONT well in the Morristown area. In fact they would play regularly 
2 CONT on the local radio.
1 NOTE From the obituary of Ralph Lewis Lanterman: 
1 NOTE R. LANTERMAN, FORMER MOVIE MANAGER HERE 
2 CONT SARASOTA, Fla --- Ralph L. Lanterman of 3324 Yorktown St., 
2 CONT former city manager of the Walter Reade Theaters in Morristown, 
2 CONT died here yesterday (March 6, 1958) at Sarasota Memorial Hospital 
2 CONT after a long illness. 
1 NOTE A native of Morristown, he moved here several years ago after 
2 CONT serving as manager of the two Walter Reade Theaters in Morristown 
2 CONT for about 10 years. Prior to that, he was city manager for the 
2 CONT Reade Circuit in Long Branch, N.J. 
1 NOTE During his stay in Morristown, he was active in many civic groups 
2 CONT and served as president of the Lions Club. He worked with many 
2 CONT charitable groups in fund raising campaigns through special 
2 CONT shows at the theaters. They included the Sister Kenny Foundation, 
2 CONT Red Cross, Salvation Army, Cancer Society, Boy and Girl Scouts 
2 CONT and schools. 
1 NOTE His wife died here on Dec. 28, 1957. 
1 NOTE He is survived by four sons, Ralph Jr. and Robert of this place, 
2 CONT Thomas of Cleveland and John K. Lanterman of Morris Twp., N.J. 
2 CONT a sister, Mrs. James Cox of Morris Plains, N.J.; two brothers 
2 CONT Clarence of Asbury Park and Norman of Brielle, and four 
2 CONT grandchildren. 
1 NOTE Funeral arrangements are being completed here. 
1 NOTE A memorial service for Ralph was also said at his church in Morristown 
2 CONT on Sunday March 9, 1958, the Rev. Finley M. Keech officiating. 
1 NOTE The program for the day says Lanterman was a member of The First 
2 CONT Baptist Church from April 16, 1922 to March 6, 1958. 
1 NOTE A letter from Ralph Lanterman to his son Tom, Mary and K.G. Lanterman 
2 CONT reads: 
1 NOTE Dear Mary, Tommy & K.G., 
1 NOTE This is the second day that I have sat up along side the bed and I 
2 CONT am trying to get a letter to you and Jig. I don't know how much of 
2 CONT a letter this will be as I can't see with my glasses & I'm writing 
2 CONT this without my glasses. I don't know why my glasses are the way they 
2 CONT are. 
1 NOTE I sure have had a rough six weeks when I thought that it would only 
2 CONT be for a couple. I don't know how much longer it will be before I 
2 CONT get out but hope not to (sic) long.
1 NOTE I am getting so I can put the brace on by myself & it is a job to get 
2 CONT used to it.
2 CONT Before I can go home I'll have to know how to do it for myself.
1 NOTE Every time get out of bed I have to have the brace on. I have been 
2 CONT walking with a walker about 4 times a day and go about 200 feet, also go 
2 CONT to therapy 
2 CONT treatment each morning & that sure takes the pep out of you. 
1 NOTE I sure am beat when I come out of there. I seem to get a little 
2 CONT stronger each day so hope it won't be to (sic) long. 
1 NOTE I am getting tired so I will close this for now & will write again 
2 CONT soon. Just wanted to let you know how things were going. 
1 NOTE Drop a line when you can. 
1 NOTE Love to all 
1 NOTE Dad 
1 NOTE The letter was written in pencil on beige stationary with his name 
2 CONT and address at top. 
1 NOTE It was written on Tuesday March 4, 1958, two days before he died. 
1 NOTE                               SOURCES
1 NOTE Obituary from a Sarasota newspaper.
1 NOTE Flier from a memorial service held at the First Baptist Church 
2 CONT on Washington Ave. in Morristown. 
1 NOTE Telephone conversation with Marion Watson, Aug. 28, 1993. 
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1 NAME Luke Gerald /Schanzer/
1 SEX M
1 FAMS @F217@
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1 NAME Mary /Minious/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 PLAC Waterford, Ireland
1 DEAT
2 PLAC Galveston, Texas
1 OCCU Catholic
1 FAMS @F218@
1 NOTE ~BPLACE OF BIRTH: Waterford, Ireland~b
2 CONT ~UMarriage Record~u, ~I"St. Patrick Church"~i, Galveston-Houston 
2 CONT Diocese, 
2 CONT Roll No. 45, 1875. 
2 CONT ~BFATHER: Frederick Minious (#498)~b 
2 CONT ~UMarriage Record~u, ~I"St. Patrick Church"~i, Galveston-Houston 
2 CONT Diocese, 
2 CONT Roll No. 45, 1875. 
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1 NAME Daniel /Sheppard/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 PLAC Bristol, England
1 DEAT
2 DATE 18 Feb 1889
2 PLAC Galveston, Texas
1 CHR
2 PLAC New Catholic (Calvary)
1 CONF
2 PLAC Sailor
1 OCCU Catholic
1 FAMS @F218@
1 NOTE BIO:A copy of Daniel Sheppard's Certificate of Discharge from the
2 CONT Union Army during the Civil War states that he enlisted 
2 CONT on Aug. 1, 1864 and was discharged on Aug. 21, 1865 and 
2 CONT that he served on the USRS "Great Western" as 
2 CONT an "ordinary seaman on an ordinary ship." 
2 CONT The certificate is signed by H.C. Taylor, Chief of Bureau, 
2 CONT Navy Department, Bureau of Navigation, Washington, D.C. 
2 CONT May 2, 1902. 
2 CONT Certificate of Discharge, No. 313988
2 CONT Copy in the possession of David O. Brown of Austin 
2 CONT Texas. The certificate indicates that the original 
2 CONT was either lost or destroyed. That explains why 
2 CONT the date on the certificate is 1902. Apparently 
2 CONT family members wanting to confirm his service in the 
2 CONT Civil War did so after the fact. The copy of the 
2 CONT certificate also indicates that no money or claim against 
2 CONT the United States can be gained from the certificate. 
2 CONT Funeral Record for his daughter Sadie Sheppard found at 
2 CONT Malloy And Sons Funeral Home in Galveston indicates he was 
2 CONT born in Bristol, England. 
2 CONT ~BPLACE OF BIRTH: Bristol, England~b 
2 CONT ~UBaptism Record~u, ~I"Henry Patrick Sheppard"~i, St. Patrick Church, 
2 CONT ~BGalveston-Houston Diocese~b, Roll No. 43. 
2 CONT ~BDATE OF FIRST MARRIAGE: DEC 31 1875~b 
2 CONT ~UMarriage Record~u, ~I"St. Patrick Church"~i, Galveston-Houston 
2 CONT Diocese, 
2 CONT Roll No. 45. 
2 CONT ~BDATE OF DEATH: FEB 18 1889~b 
2 CONT ~UDeath Record~u, ~I"St. Patrick Church"~i, Galveston-Houston 
2 CONT Diocese, Roll 
2 CONT No. 45. 
2 CONT ~BCEMETERY: New Catholic (Calvary)~b 
2 CONT ~UDeath Record~u, ~I"St. Patrick Church"~i, Roll No. 45. 
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1 NAME Thomas Ray /Marshall/
1 BIRT
2 DATE 16 Aug 1990
2 PLAC Houston, Texas
1 INFO II
1 FAMC @F210@
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1 NAME Tobias /Mongan/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 29 Dec 1841
2 PLAC Co. Roscommon, Ireland
1 DEAT
2 DATE 26 Mar 1896
2 PLAC Galveston, Texas
1 CHR
2 PLAC Calvary, Lot B-2
1 BAPM
2 PLAC Emmet Benevolent, Hibernians
1 CONF
2 PLAC Saloon keeper
1 OCCU Catholic, St. Patricks
1 FAMS @F219@
1 FAMC @F041@
1 NOTE The below is based on stories from the March 25, 1896 Galveston Daily 
2 CONT News.
1 NOTE That night at Tobe Mongan's saloon was like most others for a 
2 CONT Tuesday night in March of 1896.
1 NOTE The gang from the Santa Fe Railroad was there, stopping off for 
2 CONT a few beers and to listen to the music of a local guitarist. So 
2 CONT too were the friends of Tobe Mongan's son-in-law, James L. 
2 CONT Williams. They were there to play cards. 
1 NOTE But this night was different in one very important respect. It 
2 CONT was the night the first Mongan of our clan in America was to die 
2 CONT a violent death, one at the hands of a man he trusted, James 
2 CONT Williams.
1 NOTE According to the Galveston Daily News, Tobe had a little trouble 
2 CONT at closing time getting Williams and his pals to leave. Nevertheless 
2 CONT he was successfull at about 1 a.m. in getting them to take their 
2 CONT party out to the sidewalk in front of the saloon on 37th and Post 
2 CONT Office.
1 NOTE Though he was successful, it apparently didn't sit well with Mrs. 
2 CONT Mary Mongan, who from her bedroom above the saloon, could hear the 
2 CONT men talking and carryng on. 
1 NOTE At one point Mrs. Mongan even yelled out of her window, threatening 
2 CONT to douse the young revelers with water if they continued singing. 
2 CONT That didn't bother them. In fact, one man is reported as yelling 
2 CONT back that she could throw  all the water she wanted because they 
2 CONT were under a shed. 
1 NOTE Eventually, though, Tobe came out and yelled something at Jim who 
2 CONT didn't like what he said. The two got into a fight and Jim pulled his 
2 CONT Colt, firing one time into Tobe's stomach.
1 NOTE "Jim, you shot, me!" witnesses recalled Tobe crying. "I've been shot. 
2 CONT The good Irish Catholic she was, Mrs. Mongan sent for a priest right 
2 CONT away --- gotta have the last rites, you know --- then a cop and then 
2 CONT a doctor. 
1 NOTE Tobe was taken to the hospital and operated on 11 that morning. 
2 CONT The slug that ripped through his intestines was removed and doctors 
2 CONT thought he'd make it. 
1 NOTE He lived one day longer. At his deathbed, on one side stood his 
2 CONT brother Michael on the other, his pal Jimmy Riley. The rest of the 
2 CONT family gathered round as the priest performed last rites.  He was 
2 CONT dead by 9 a.m. Thursday March 26. 
1 NOTE The funeral, the news reports say, was "one of the largest ever 
2 CONT witnessed in this city." No doubt, Tobe being a member of the 
2 CONT Ancient Order of the Hibernians and the Emmet Benevolent Association 
2 CONT helped. 
1 NOTE It also helped that he was a man of "sterling character" and one of 
2 CONT the Rev. Lee's "finest" parishoners. It probably didn't hurt either 
2 CONT that he was a saloon keeper and a native of Roscommon, Ireland. 
2 CONT He arrived in Galveston in 1872. (by boat? with brother?) 
1 NOTE What became of Jimmy Williams?
1 NOTE His charges were immediately upgraded 
2 CONT from assault with intent to commit murder to murder and a day or two 
2 CONT later was indicted with Tobe Mongan's murder. 
2 CONT He was later released on $2,500 bond, paid April 24, 1896, according 
2 CONT to documents at the Galveston County District Clerk's Office. 
1 NOTE Trial was on Tuesday, May 19, 1896, and according to testimony 
2 CONT reported the next day in the Galveston Daily News under the 
2 CONT headline, Williams Acquitted Of The Charge of Murder for Killing 
2 CONT His Father-In-Law Tobe Mongan, Only Took (Jury) A Few Minutes, No 
2 CONT Proof That He Fired The Fatal Shot, Williams' tale was as follows: 
1 NOTE Williams said he stopped by Mongan's saloon Tuesday afternoon while 
2 CONT workers repaired his "engine." It doesn't say what sort of engine, 
2 CONT but considering they all lived near the railroad tracks, it was 
2 CONT probably a train engine. 
1 NOTE That afternoon, Williams testified, a dog "snapped at one of his 
2 CONT children that (sic) was riding a wheel on the sidewalk" and he 
2 CONT went next door to get his gun. Then after a long day of drinking, 
2 CONT which included, he testified, a bottle of cognac between him and 
2 CONT Tobe, night fell. 
1 NOTE After the bottle of cognac, Williams testified, he remembered 
2 CONT nothing except the noise of prisoners in the jail. 
2 CONT Witnesses for Williams, including his wife, said they never saw 
2 CONT him drunk and Williams testified that he had always had a good 
2 CONT relationship with his father-in-law. 
1 NOTE None of the witnesses who testified for the state in Judge Cavin's 
2 CONT court said they saw Williams fire the shot. They only reported 
2 CONT hearing the scuffle and the shot fired. 
1 NOTE So following a lunch break and closing arguments that began at 3 
2 CONT p.m., the jury retired to make their decision. They returned with 
2 CONT a not guilty verdict. 
1 NOTE Written in the hand of the foreman John W. Harris, the document 
2 CONT on file at the District Clerk's Office reads as thousands others 
2 CONT like it have: "We, the jury, find the defendant not guilty." 
2 CONT After hearing the verdict, the news account says, "The accused 
2 CONT was escorted from the courtroom by a crowd of friends, who 
2 CONT were profuse in their congratulations to Williams and his 
2 CONT wife, each of whom carried a babe in arms, their children." 
1 NOTE Later records and obituaries indicate Bridget Williams 
2 CONT lived in Cleburne. Perhaps that explains the only story 
2 CONT Mary Margaret Mongan remembers sounding remotely like 
2 CONT the one recounted here. 
1 NOTE According to that story, told to her by her father, there 
2 CONT was an incident in which someone in the family was shot and 
2 CONT the one who did it was "run out of town." 
2 CONT Perhaps after the jury acquitted Williams, he and Bridget 
2 CONT were "run out of town." 
1 NOTE In fact, in a Houston Post obituary for Mollie Mongan Garvin, 
2 CONT Mrs. B. Williams is listed a living in Bakersfield, California. 
2 CONT The time of Mollie's death was May 30, 1952. 
1 NOTE According to records at Mt. Olivet Cemetery in Dickinson, Tobias is 
2 CONT buried in lot B-2 in Calvary Cemetery in Galveston. 
2 CONT A 9-10 foot monument, with his name and that of his other offspring 
2 CONT a son-in-law, wife and brother-in-law can be found at the cemetery. 
1 NOTE On it confirms that he was born in County Roscommon and that he was 
2 CONT born on Dec. 29, 1841. 
1 NOTE Mary Margaret Mongan also indicates that she remembers that her dad, 
2 CONT Tobias's grandson, remembers living near the railroad tracks at 
2 CONT one time --- before moving to 4408 Broadway as a kid with his father 
2 CONT Thomas. 
1 NOTE M.M. Mongan also remembers dancing the waltz with her grandfather, 
2 CONT Thomas Mongan,  at a place called the Brown Mule on 37th, near Post 
2 CONT Office Street. She thinks however it was closer to Winnie. 
1 NOTE       FROM THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF TOBIAS MONGAN
1 NOTE After some legalese confirming his death, it begins "...I Tobias 
2 CONT Mongan declare this to be my last will and testament. I hereby will 
2 CONT and devise to my wife Mary Mongan all the property owned and 
2 CONT possessed by me of every kind and description whatsoever to 
2 CONT have or dispose of as she may see proper in her own right forever. 
2 CONT I appoint Mary Mongan, executrix of my estate and I 1 RELIeve her from 
2 CONT giving bond on such..." 
1 NOTE                             This mark 
2 CONT                      Tobias   X   Mongan
1 NOTE From Page 243 of Book 31 of the Probate Minutes: 
1 NOTE His inventory: 
1 NOTE 1. NW Quarter of Block No. 456 and the improvements  ...... $6,500 
2 CONT 2. NW Quarter of Block No. 282                                       
2 CONT ...... $2,500 
2 CONT 3. Lot 10 and 1/2 of Lot 9 in Block 224                              
2 CONT ......    700 
2 CONT 4. Lot 8 in Block 515                                                     
2 CONT     ......  1,500 
2 CONT 5. Lot 8 in Block 22 in Hitchcock, Texas                            
2 CONT ......     70 
2 CONT Personal property:  Cash at Galveston National Bank     ......    550
1 NOTE Not bad, eh, for a guy who came to Galveston in 1872 and was 
2 CONT sworn in a citizen on Nov. 18, 1873?
1 NOTE                MORE STUFF ON TOBIAS MONGAN'S ESTATE
1 NOTE During his life in Galveston, as his obituary states, he amassed 
2 CONT quite a bit of property. More than that, though, were the buildings 
2 CONT that were erected on the property.
1 NOTE Besides the huge home at 4408 Broadway (Block 224) built after his 
2 CONT death, (see Mary Agnes Smith for detail on the home), he bought 
2 CONT property at 37th and Post Office (Block 456), 43rd and H, (Block 
2 CONT 282), and 35th and Market (Block 515). He also bought some 
2 CONT property in Hitchcock, as his will indicates, but thus far I haven't 
2 CONT had time to locate it. 
1 NOTE According County Deed Records this is what he paid for the property 
2 CONT mentioned above: 
1 NOTE 1. NW 1/4 of Block 456   .............  $1,408 on April 29, 1881 
2 CONT 2. SE 1/4 of Block 224   .............      66 in Galveston City stock 
2 CONT on April 16, 1883 
2 CONT 3. Lot 8  in Block 515   .............     650 on Feb.  21, 1887 
2 CONT 4. NW 1/4 of Block 282   .............     660 on Feb.  18, 1889
1 NOTE Most of this property was bought from the Galveston City Co. formed 
2 CONT in 1838 by the founder of the City of Galveston to develop their 
2 CONT enterprise: Block 456, 224 and 282. Block 515 was bought from James 
2 CONT S. and Fannie McFarland of Oswego Co., New York. 
1 NOTE In addition to the Broadway property, Tobias built on and developed 
2 CONT the property at 37th and Post Office. According to the assessors 
2 CONT abstracts in the Rosenberg Library Tobe built him quite a few homes 
2 CONT there: The store, saloon and home on the corner at 3627, 3625, 3623 
2 CONT and two separate but identical homes at 3619 and 3621 Post Office. 
2 CONT Several other structures were built at 3613 1/2 and 3617, as well 
2 CONT as 510, 512 and 514 37th Street.
1 NOTE This property was developed about the same time that his brother-in- 
2 CONT law John Smith, who built at the corner of 36th and Post Office, 
2 CONT built homes on his quarter of the block. The Carrolls, who were 
2 CONT later to affiliate themselves with the Mongan's through the marriage 
2 CONT of Margaret Carroll to Thomas Mongan, lived at 3607 Post Office, 
2 CONT as renters of John Smith for some time at the turn of the century. 
2 CONT Again I say, not bad for an Irish immigrant who lived in this 
2 CONT country only 25 years, eh? 
1 NOTE                   A COUPLE OF INTERESTING NOTES 
1 NOTE In the 1880 Census when Bridget, Thomas and Mollie were just kids, 
2 CONT Tobe and Mary had an 18-year-old white servant living with them 
2 CONT by the name of Tillie Middleston. 
1 NOTE Also, the only time, it appears, Tobias sold property was on Oct. 
2 CONT 29, 1888 to Michael Mongan. He sold him the west half of Lot 10 and 
2 CONT the east half of Lot 11 on Broadway next door for $400. But it seems 
2 CONT Michael never built on the property and by 1893 the property fell 
2 CONT into the hands of Frank Connolly. 
1 NOTE Since beginning my research on Tobe Mongan in 1992, I've long 
2 CONT speculated Michael Mongan of Winnie Street was his brother. Though 
2 CONT I've never found documented proof, I did find several coincidences: 
1 NOTE Baptismal records of their children which showed cross sponsorships 
2 CONT of people with the same names, an obituary for MM, which showed he 
2 CONT had three nieces and a nephew and others details. 
1 NOTE But the most convincing evidence comes from Avanelle Lane Durham, 
2 CONT MM's granddaughter. She notes, independent of anything I've done, 
2 CONT that the two were brothers and provides amazingly good detail on 
2 CONT his children and on my great grandfather's children. 
1 NOTE Her source could be her mother or other relative, but whatever it is it 
2 CONT certianly 
2 CONT is uncannily accurate for someone so distantly related and from 
2 CONT so far away (Indiana). 
1 NOTE It turns out her source was her mother. Though I still don't have a 
2 CONT document to prove it, there is little doubt now that Michael is Tobe's 
2 CONT brother. 
1 NOTE The document arrived in the mail a few days after May 10 1994. 
1 NOTE ALD sent me a copy of a handwritten note her mother compiled sometime 
2 CONT between 1964 and 1969 that states without a doubt that Michael's 
2 CONT brother was Tobias, Michael's mother was Mary Jennings and that 
2 CONT Tobias had five children, one of whom was Thomas, who had four 
2 CONT children.
1 NOTE She even noted that Eldred had no children and that 
2 CONT my grandfather Tobias had one son, Tobias Jr. 
1 NOTE Short of having a marriage or birth record for Michael that states 
2 CONT who his mother was, this is about the best proof, independent or 
2 CONT otherwise someone could have. 
1 NOTE Baptismal record for the Parish of Kiltullagh, in the Diocese
2 CONT of Tuam for the years 1839-1880, found on microfilm through 
2 CONT the Family History Center, Church of Latter-day Saints 
2 CONT (Mormons) shows a Toby Mongan being baptised by 
2 CONT the Rev. F. (looks like) Kearny on Jan. 30, 1842. 
1 NOTE His parents are identified as Thomas Mongan and Mary Jennings. 
2 CONT Sponsor was Mary Higgins. (A further search of that film show 
2 CONT a close kinship between Jennings, Higgins and Mongans.)
1 NOTE Ref no. for the film is British Film Area: 0926226. 
2 CONT Though there is no secondary confirmation that Toby is indeed 
2 CONT the Tobias Mongan I've been researching at this date (June 13, 
2 CONT 1993), it seems improbable that he could be any other. 
1 NOTE Some reasons: All records, including his own grave marker, 
2 CONT indicate he was born in Co. Roscommon, Dec. 29, 1841. The one 
2 CONT exception is his declaration of intent, which shows his birth 
2 CONT being in 1845. 
1 NOTE Second, for any Mongan to be baptised in Co. Roscommon one month 
2 CONT after the birth of Tobias Mongan, great odds would have to be 
2 CONT defied.
1 NOTE Furthermore, the odds of that Mongan being a "Toby" 
2 CONT born to a Thomas (the name Tobias gave to his first son) 
2 CONT and baptised one month after Tobias' birth in Co. Roscommon 
2 CONT become almost incredible.
1 NOTE Other support for this being the right one is according to 
2 CONT Griffiths Valuation for Ireland, which can be found on micro- 
2 CONT fiche at the Clayton Genealogical Library in Houston, shows 
2 CONT a Thomas and Michael Mongan living in House #1 next door 
2 CONT to a John Mongan in House #2, both of which was leased from 
2 CONT a Col. Fulke S. Greville in the Townland of Pollanalty 
2 CONT East in the parish of Kiltullah in the Baroney of Castlereagh 
2 CONT for the year of 1855. 
1 NOTE The point: Two of the male names were used by Tobias in America 
2 CONT and the name Michael was his brothers own. So it's conceivable 
2 CONT that Thomas Mongan named his second son after his brother. 
1 NOTE Finally, I checked parish records through the FHC/LDS film 
2 CONT archives for Mongans found in other parts of Roscommon County 
2 CONT for 1855: Kilbride Parish where a Micheal Mongan showed up on 
2 CONT Griffiths didn't pan out, nor did the parishs of Cam and Kiltoom 
2 CONT in which Griffiths recorded a Dennis and Dominick Mongan. 
1 NOTE The only other Mongan in Griffiths for Co. Roscommon was an 
2 CONT Andrew Mongan in the Parish of Roscommon and Kilteevan. I didn't 
2 CONT check film archieves for that parish because "Andrew" is a 
2 CONT foreign name and by then I had come across the Toby in Kiltullagh. 
1 NOTE Yet, I have no second confirmation of this Toby being The Tobias 
2 CONT which troubles me. Even more troubling is Michael Mongan, Tobe's 
2 CONT brother who was born in 1853 (if the age of death listed in his 
2 CONT obituary in the GDN can be believed), doesn't show up in the 
2 CONT baptismal records. 
1 NOTE One possibility, though, is the GDN got the age wrong, saying 
2 CONT his age at death was 59 in 1912, when in fact it was 69, which 
2 CONT would place his birth in 1843, two years after Tobe's.
1 NOTE A check of the baptismal records, low and behold, does have a 
2 CONT baptismal being performed on an offspring of Thomas Mongan and 
2 CONT Mary Jennings on March 1, 1843. Yet, the film is not clear, 
2 CONT nor is the handwriting legible, so it's not clear if the 
2 CONT child's name is "Michael." Though my best guess is it is "Thomas." 
1 NOTE Could Michael have been actually Thomas Michael Mongan? 
1 NOTE Finally for the record, because I don't think I've recorded it 
2 CONT anywhere else, the town Thomas Mongan and Mary Jennings lived 
2 CONT in at the time of the baptisms was Coolisher or Coolisker in 
2 CONT Kiltullagh Parish. 
1 NOTE    OTHER SOURCES MENTIONING OR REFERRING TO TOBE MONGAN 
1 NOTE 1900 Census for Galveston, in which his widow says they were married 
2 CONT 28 years. 
1 NOTE Galveston Daily News, March 24, 25, 26 etc, 1896 
1 NOTE Mortuary Record, 1896, Texas Room, Rosenberg Library 
1 NOTE Calvary Cemetary for lot location 
1 NOTE Rosenberg Library  for Death Certificate, (it's misfiled under 
2 CONT Morgan, though) 
1 NOTE Galveston City Directory for 1872 lists a T.E. Mangan, barkeeper 
2 CONT with J.H. Westerlage, 133 20th, res: Winnie between 22nd and 
2 CONT Tremont. (Could this be him?) 
2 CONT He's not in the 1874 or 1875-76 CD. 
2 CONT A T. Mangen appears in the 1876-77 CD as an employee of the gas 
2 CONT works, living on 37th, between Market and Post Office. (That must 
2 CONT be him.) 
2 CONT By the way: Galveston City Directories for the 1870s through 1882 
2 CONT can be found on microfilm in the Texas Room of the Rosenberg 
2 CONT Library in Galveston. 
1 NOTE Galveston City Directory for 1882-83: Mangan, Tobias, 
2 CONT groceries and beer, southside Market between 36th and 37th, 
2 CONT residence same. (The same directory indicates that Michael 
2 CONT Mongan was living with him. Mike was identifed as a laborer.) 
2 CONT This Michael must be his brother. 
1 NOTE Ken Lanterman has a copy of his death certificate, which 
2 CONT says he died at 9 in the morning 
2 CONT on March 26, 1896. Death certificate was signed by E(not legible) 
2 CONT Randall. 
1 NOTE Probate Minutes Book 31, page 239, Galveston County Clerk's Office. 
1 NOTE Family Bible, held by Tobias Thomas Mongan, II (1993). 
1 NOTE Mongan monument, Lot B-2 in Calvary Cemetery. (Ken Lanterman has 
2 CONT video tape of the monument as of March 1993.) 
1 NOTE Criminal Court Docket, Galveston, Texas: James Williams, case 
2 CONT 11102, Book 12, 270, 285, 285, May 19, 1896 (This is for 
2 CONT the indictment, bond, and trial documents. As of April 1993, 
2 CONT they were all in good, but yellowing condition at the courthouse.) 
1 NOTE Citings for Tobias' citizenship come from Naturalization Index for 
2 CONT Galveston, Texas: Tobias Mangan (again mispelled), Declaration 
2 CONT of Intent, Book X-1, pg. 86. Place of proceedings Criminal District 
2 CONT Court, Nov. 18, 1873. 
1 NOTE The actual documents provides additional information: 1) Tobias was 
2 CONT in fact born in Roscommon County and 2) he emigrated from Ireland in 
2 CONT May 1871. 
1 NOTE Galveston County Deed Records: Book 17, page 8, Block 456; Book 17, 
2 CONT page 43, Block 224; Book 17, page 88, Block 282; Book 61, page 472 
2 CONT for Block 515. These are for purchases. 
1 NOTE For the sale to Michael Mongan: Book 68, page 582, for west half of 
2 CONT lot No. 10 and east half of lot No. 11 in Block 224. 
1 NOTE The only U.S. Census he is in is 1880, Galveston's 6th Ward. There 
2 CONT his age is given as 35, which must be wrong. 
1 NOTE MOTHER: Mary Jennings (#385): 
2 CONT Baptismal Records, "Killtulagh Parish", Diocese of Tuam, 
1 NOTE LDS Film. 
1 NOTE Looks like Tobe was baptized by a Father Keveany or Kearny. 
2 CONT Baptismal Sponsor was Mary Higgins. 
2 CONT Higgins family were sponsors for many the offspring of John (R) Mongan 
2 CONT as well. J(R)M's wife was a Mary Higgins, in fact. 
1 NOTE Source that TM is Michael Mongan's brother: Avanelle Lane Durham. 
2 CONT ALD is the granddaughter of Michael Mongan. 
2 CONT Cemetery plots at Calvary were bought by Tobe in 1884-85. Shortly 
2 CONT after the death of his daughter Kate, he bought 12 plots for $60. 
1 NOTE A note on the cemetery card on file at Mt. Olivet in Dickinson, Texas 
2 CONT indicates thta on 6-9-1952 $300 were paid by Mr. W.M. Garvin for "p/c" 
2 CONT Not sure who W.M. Garvin is. Perhaps he is Mollie Mongan Garvin's 
2 CONT brother in law, as Mollie, as far as I know, didn't have a son. 
0 @I008@ INDI
1 NAME Mary Agnes /Smith/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 PLAC Co. Mayo, Ireland
1 DEAT
2 DATE 4 Sep 1917
2 PLAC Houston, Texas
1 CHR
2 PLAC Calvary, Lot B-2, Galveston
1 CONF
2 PLAC Store owner, landlord
1 OCCU Catholic
1 FAMS @F219@
1 FAMC @F042@
1 NOTE The best and most complete information on Mary Smith is
2 CONT found in the 1900 Census, where it shows she was born in 
2 CONT May 1852, married 28 years and in the United States for 
2 CONT the previous 36 years. 
1 NOTE That means she was 48 at the time, which is what she answered 
2 CONT on the census. But it's not clear whether she meant she was 
2 CONT married 28 years to Tobias Mongan at the time of his death, 
2 CONT which would place their marriage as being sometime in 
2 CONT 1868 when she was 16, or whether she meant it had been 
2 CONT a full 28 years since her marriage in 1872, a year before the 
2 CONT birth of Bridget in 1873. 
1 NOTE Until I find her marriage record, I will go with 1872 as the 
2 CONT year of their marriage. 
1 NOTE By the way, that Census that was taken when they lived at 
2 CONT 4408 Broadway, also shows she had five of her six children 
2 CONT living: Bridget, 27, and Thomas, 25, both of whom were living 
2 CONT elsewhere. Mollie, 20, Johnnie, 18, and Jennie, 14, were still 
2 CONT living with her.
1 NOTE Katie died after living only 3 days in 1884. 
1 NOTE The last U.S. Census in which she appears, 1910, Mary is living 
2 CONT at 2305 Texas Ave. in Houston with Mollie (Mongan) Garvin, 25, 
2 CONT a widow, Mollie's 3-year-old daughter, (her name is not legible) and 
2 CONT Jennie, 20.
1 NOTE Mary's age is given as 50 years. As you can tell, 
2 CONT either the census taker didn't care to verify or these women 
2 CONT weren't about to give their real ages. 
1 NOTE Interesting side note: Fred Garvin, Mollie's husband, was from 
2 CONT Tennessee, according to this census.) 
1 NOTE The earliest census record that I can find with both Tobias and 
2 CONT Mary Smith Mongan is 1880, when they were living at 3627 Post 
2 CONT Office in Galveston.
1 NOTE Living with them at the time were Thomas W. Mongan, 4, 
2 CONT Bridget, 6, Mary (Mollie), 9 months, and a white servant named 
2 CONT Tillie Middleston, 18. 
1 NOTE Tobias is 35 and Mary Agnes (Smith) Mongan is 28. (Her age appears 
2 CONT right, while Tobias is not telling the truth or whoever answered for 
2 CONT him isn't. He, if his gravestone is right, is 39. 
2 CONT (Another interesting note: Living next door is a Michael Smith, 31, 
2 CONT a boarder.)
1 NOTE                    OTHER INFO ON MARY AGNES SMITH 
1 NOTE Though they are not as "official" as the U.S. Census, 
2 CONT Galveston City Directories also have her listed after the shooting 
2 CONT death of her husband. 
1 NOTE The 1896-97 Galveston City Directory states that she is the widow 
2 CONT of Tobias Mongan and that she lives at 3627 Post Office and sells 
2 CONT groceries, operates a saloon and furnishes rooms at that same address.
1 NOTE The directory also indicates that her son Thomas Mongan lives with 
2 CONT her. He is listed as a clerk for the Santa Fe freight depot. 
2 CONT (Two years later, Thomas would marry Margaret Carroll.)
1 NOTE By the time the Galveston City Directory for 1909-10 comes out 
2 CONT Mary Smith Mongan has been living in her new home at 4408 Broadway 
2 CONT for 10 years --- if the 1898 city directory, which shows her living 
2 CONT there, is to be believed.
1 NOTE By now Bridget and her husband John Williams, the man who shot Tobe, 
2 CONT is long gone.
1 NOTE Thomas is living, according to the same directory, 
2 CONT at 3621 Post Office, and the only child living with Mary Smith Mongan is 
2 CONT "Miss Jennie Mongan," as the directory indicates.
1 NOTE Mollie must be in Houston married to Mr. Garvin. Jennie's age at this 
2 CONT time is 24 or 25.
1 NOTE Back at the old homestead on 37th and Post Office is a Patrick Mongan, 
2 CONT who according to his will, is the cousin of Tobe's son Thomas. More than 
2 CONT likely though he is Thomas' second cousin and Tobe's first.
1 NOTE The reason I say that is the ages don't jibe: Thomas in 1909 would 
2 CONT be 33 or 34, while Pat Mongan is in his early 60s. (SEE PAT MONGAN 
2 CONT FOR DETAILS.)
1 NOTE In 1910, as the census for Houston and Galveston show, Mary and 
2 CONT her daughters are in Houston and a Scottish (or Scots Irish?) family by 
2 CONT the name of McDonald is renting the home at 4408 Broadway.
1 NOTE Peter McDonald, 50, and his wife, Mary, 38, have seven children, ranging 
2 CONT in age from 17 to 4, and a lodger Edward E. Powell, 24, living with them.
1 NOTE The GCDs for 1911-1917 were not immediately available, but by 
2 CONT the time the 1918 directory comes out, Thomas William Mongan is 
2 CONT living in the home on 4408 Broadway.
1 NOTE Tobias Thomas Mongan, who dropped out of school in the 6th grade, 
2 CONT is 17, living with his folks and working as a repairman for the 
2 CONT Galveston Electric Co. Bernard was working with National Ship 
2 CONT Building.
1 NOTE Mary Margaret Mongan, TTM's daughter, says that she, her sister 
2 CONT Clementine, and Bubbie (Tobias Thomas Mongan II) actually lived in 
2 CONT the home for about 6 months one year, primarily to help Thomas 
2 CONT who was getting up in years.
1 NOTE MMM's recollection of the place, which is no longer standing, is 
2 CONT rather detailed. 
1 NOTE Coming up to the porch, which wrapped around to the back side door, 
2 CONT a visitor would encounter an ornate stained-glassed front door. 
1 NOTE Beyond the door, were the living room to the right, the stairs 
2 CONT straight ahead and hallway to the left, which led to the 
2 CONT kitchen. 
1 NOTE The kitchen was huge, with a walk-in pantry, where she and her 
2 CONT brother and sister would hide. To the left of the pantry was a 
2 CONT large broom closet.
1 NOTE Out the back door was a big field where the kids would play ball and the 
2 CONT outhouse stood as a reminder of times gone by. On both sides of the home 
2 CONT were large plum trees. 
1 NOTE According to Galveston County deed records, Tobias paid $66 
2 CONT in stock from the Galveston City Co. on April 16, 1883, for the 
2 CONT southeast quarter of Block 224, which is the corner of Broadway 
2 CONT and 44th Street today.
1 NOTE And according to the County Assessor Abstracts for the late 1890s, 
2 CONT the home was shaped like a fat "T" with the bottom of the T facing
2 CONT Broadway and fronting a porch. Behind the home were two square- 
2 CONT shapped buildings.
1 NOTE MMM says that the house remained in the family until after T.W. 
2 CONT Mongan died in 1948, when Aelred and Thomasine, who inherited it 
2 CONT sold it. 
1 NOTE A family Bible held by Tobias Thomas Mongan II has an entry 
2 CONT for the death of Mary Agnes Mongan, Sept. 4, 1917. That is 
2 CONT confirmed by her last will and testament and obituary in the 
2 CONT Galveston Daily News for Thursday, Sept. 6, 1917.
1 NOTE              MARY AGNES SMITH'S LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT 
1 NOTE After some legalese, it clearly states that she died in Harris Co. 
2 CONT on Sept. 4, 1917. But her "fixed place of residence was Galveston." 
1 NOTE Thomas William Mongan was named her testatrix.
1 NOTE The will begins on page 409 of Probate Minutes Book 65.
1 NOTE Excerpts:
1 NOTE To Thomas Mongan: East half of Lot 10 and the West 
2 CONT Half of Lot 9 in Block 224.  (This is the home on Broadway.) 
1 NOTE To Jennie Mongan: The east 35 feet and 10 inches of Lot 2 
2 CONT and west half of Lot 3 in Block 456. Also east half of Lot 3 
2 CONT and west half of lot 4 in Block 456. (37th and Post Office) 
1 NOTE To Mollie Mongan Garvin, a widow: Lot No. 1 and the west 7 feet off o 
2 CONT Lot No. 2 in Block 456 in the City of Galveston.  (37th and P.O.) 
1 NOTE To Mrs. Bridget Williams: Lots 7, 8 in Block 22 in Hitchcock and 
2 CONT lots 16, 17, 33 and 34 in Block 9 in the Houston Harbor Addition, 
2 CONT Harris Co. 
1 NOTE More: Jennie and Mollie were to divide her furniture equally. 
1 NOTE From the obituary in the Galveston Daily News. 
1 NOTE The funeral of Mrs. Mary Mongan, who died Tuesday at Houston, and 
2 CONT whose body was brought from there yesterday, took place yesterday 
2 CONT afternoon at 2 o'clock at St. Patricks Catholic Church, Rev. J.S. 
2 CONT Murphy, rector officiating. Interment was made in Calvary Cemetery. 
2 CONT Mrs. Mongan is survived by a brother, John Smith, a policeman, and a 
2 CONT son Thomas Mongan; by two daughters in Houston and one in Cleburne. 
1 NOTE From the obituary in The Houston Post for Sept. 5, 1917: 
1 NOTE Mrs. Mary Mongan, widow of the late Tobias Mongan, died after 
2 CONT a long illness at 6:10 Tuesday evening. The funeral will be 
2 CONT from 920 Crawford street at 10 o'clock Wednesday morning with 
2 CONT mass at the Annunciation Church at 10:15 o'clock. 
2 CONT The body will be taken to Galveston on the Interurban for 
2 CONT interment at Calvary cemetery, with further services at St. 
2 CONT Patrick's church.
1 NOTE Deceased is survived by one son T.W. Mongan of Galveston, three 
2 CONT daughters, Mrs J.L. Williams of Cleburne and Mrs. M. Garvin and 
2 CONT Mrs. L.J. LaRue of Houston and two brothers, John Smith and 
2 CONT Michael Smith of Galveston. 
1 NOTE Pallbearers will be E.B. Colgin, D.R. McNamara, John Tarpey, 
2 CONT Ed Walsh, M.W. Welsh and W.F. Clancey. 
1 NOTE A 9-10 foot tall monument to the Mongan family can be found 
2 CONT in Lot B-2 at Calvary Cemetery in Galveston. On it, besides 
2 CONT Mary's name and that of Tobias, Kate, Jennie, Fred Garvin 
2 CONT and Mollie, is the name of her brother Pat Smith, who died in 
2 CONT 1896 at the age of 33. The stone says he was born in Ireland. 
1 NOTE                                               SOURCES
1 NOTE Galveston Daily News, March 24, 25 and 26, 1896
1 NOTE U.S. Census for Galveston, 1880, Clayton Library in Houston, or 
1 NOTE The Rosenberg Library in Galveston. 
1 NOTE Census for 1900, Galveston Texas, Clayton Library in Houston. 
1 NOTE Census for 1910, Houston, Texas, Clayton Library In Houston (Vol. 68 
2 CONT Enumeration District 99, Sheet 4, Line 83.) 
1 NOTE Galveston City Directory for 1896-97, 1909-10. 
1 NOTE Galveston Daily News, (obit) Thursday, Sept. 6, 1917, and Wednesday 
2 CONT Sept. 5, 1917. 
1 NOTE The Houston Post, (obit) Wednesday, Sept. 5, 1917 
1 NOTE Houston City Directory 1917, address 920 Crawford 
1 NOTE Probate Minutes, Galveston County Clerk's Office, Book 65, 
2 CONT pages 406, 409, 410, 449. 
1 NOTE Galveston County Deed Records: Book 17, page 8, for the 
2 CONT Post Office Street property; Book 17, page 43, for the 
2 CONT Broadway Street property; Book 17, page 88, Block 282 or 
2 CONT the property later sold at 43rd and H; Book 61, page 472 
2 CONT for property at 35th and Market (Block 515); Book 68, page 
2 CONT 582 for property sold by Tobias and Mary to Michael Mongan 
2 CONT on Broadway (Property later fell into the hands of Frank 
2 CONT Connolly in 1893, this according to Assessor abstracts for 
2 CONT 1893.); Book 149, page 377, for property bought by Mary 
2 CONT Agnes Smith on 6-12-1897 on 45th and Broadway. (It was later 
2 CONT sold.)
1 NOTE Family Bible, held by Tobias Thomas Mongan II, (as of 1993). 
1 NOTE Cemetery headstone, Lot B-2, Calvary in Galveston. 
1 NOTE Funeral Record at Malloy and Son is of little help except to 
2 CONT confirm TW Mongan is her son (paid $64 for the funeral) and 
2 CONT that her middle name was Agnes.
1 NOTE FATHER: Patrick Smith, Sr. (#390):
1 NOTE Obituary for her Brother John Smith, Galveston Daily News, Sept. 
2 CONT 26, 27, 1932.
1 NOTE Obit has W.C. Smith (Son of Michael Smith) as a pallbearer. This 
2 CONT would permit the assumption that Michael Smith and Mary Agnes Smith 
2 CONT have the same father. 
1 NOTE MOTHER: Bridget Griffin (#389):
1 NOTE Marriage Record for her brother John, "St. Patrick Church", 
2 CONT Galveston-Houston Diocese, July 13, 1890, Roll No. 45. 
1 NOTE John Smith's death record at Malloy and Son confirms his mother's 
2 CONT and therefore Mary's mother's name. 
1 NOTE Baptismal record for Patrick Smith, son of Michael Smith and Ann Mc 
2 CONT Hale: Mary Agnes Smith's husband, Toby Mongan, was Patrick's godfather. 
1 NOTE Obituary for John Smith also indicates William C. Smith, another son 
2 CONT of Michael Smith was a pallbearer. 
0 @I009@ INDI
1 NAME Bridget /Mongan/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 15 Oct 1873
2 PLAC Galveston, Texas
1 DEAT
2 DATE 26 Aug 1962
2 PLAC Bakersfield, California
1 CONF
2 PLAC Housewife
1 OCCU Catholic
1 FAMS @F220@
1 FAMC @F219@
1 NOTE BIO:Bridget Mongan, the wife of James L. Mongan, ended up living in
2 CONT Cleburne, Texas at the time of her mother's death in 1917. 
2 CONT She also disappears from the Galveston City Directory for 
2 CONT the years following her father's death in 1896. 
2 CONT This needs to be checked still, but's its possible she moved 
2 CONT up to Cleburne after her husband's conviction for the 
2 CONT murder of her father in 1896. 
2 CONT Bridget, who survived her younger brother Thomas, also received 
2 CONT quite a bit of property in her mother's will. (See biography of 
2 CONT Mary Agnes Smith). 
2 CONT From her obituary, The Houston Post, Aug. 27, 1962. 
2 CONT WILLIAMS 
2 CONT Mrs. Bridget Williams, 87, wife of the late James L. Williams, died 
2 CONT in Bakersfield, Calif. Sunday. Survivors: Son. J.T. (Togie (sic)) 
2 CONT Williams, Bakersfield; daughter, Mrs. V.F. Halliburton, Kansas City, 
2 CONT Mo.; granddaughters, Mrs. Robert Gatlin, Pacoima, Calif., Mrs Walter 
2 CONT A. Hay, Houston; three great-grandsons. Services Tuesday Misch 
2 CONT Funeral Home, Bakersfield. EARTHMAN'S, 2420 Fannin, CApitol 3-4541. 
2 CONT Marriage Records, County Clerk's Office, Galveston County
2 CONT Galveston Daily News, accounts of her father's death 
2 CONT Galveston Daily News, accounts of her brother's death, 1948 
2 CONT The Houston Post, Sept. 5, 1917, mentions that she is a 
2 CONT resident of Cleburne. 
2 CONT Birthdate comes from family bible and her St. Patrick's baptism record 
2 CONT on file at the Galveston-Houston archives in Houston. Baptism record 
2 CONT also confirms her father was from Co. Roscommon and her mother was 
2 CONT from Co. Mayo. Her sponsors were Michael Smith (probably her mother's 
2 CONT brother) and Catherine Hussy. 
2 CONT Support for the year of her marriage comes from the 1900 census which 
2 CONT states she was married 8 years at the time. 
2 CONT Place of death comes from the State of California Department of Health 
2 CONT statistics on microfiche at the Clayton Library in Houston. Under 
2 CONT Williams for deaths in the years 1960-69 he lists a Bridget from 
2 CONT county no. 15. According to the key "15" is for Kern County which is 
2 CONT where Bakersfield is located. I discovered this in reverse order not 
2 CONT knowing if the "Bridget Williams" was our Bridget who lived in 
2 CONT Bakersfield at the time of her brother's death in 1948. 
2 CONT The registrar number for her death certificate is 1403 and her 
2 CONT state file number is 84303. 
0 @I010@ INDI
1 NAME James L. /Williams/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 PLAC Alabama
1 CONF
2 PLAC Train engineer
1 FAMS @F220@
1 NOTE Place of birth and his birth month and year come from the 1900 census
2 CONT for Galveston, enumeration district 125, sheet 11, line 58. 
2 CONT The census also indicates both parent were born in Alabama and that 
2 CONT he, Bridget and the children lived at 3414 Ball Ave. at the time the 
2 CONT census was taken. 
0 @I011@ INDI
1 NAME Mary "Mollie" Monica /Mongan/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 7 Sep 1879
2 PLAC Galveston, Texas
1 DEAT
2 DATE 30 May 1952
2 PLAC Houston, Texas
1 CHR
2 PLAC Calvary, lot B-2, Galveston
1 OCCU Catholic
1 FAMS @F221@
1 FAMC @F219@
1 NOTE BIO:Mollie, like her sister Bridget, is mentioned in the Galveston
2 CONT Daily News, March 26, 27, 1896, Sept. 5, 1917, and Dec. 15, 1948. 
2 CONT Tobias Thomas Mongan, II, said he believes Mollie's husband 
2 CONT Fred P. Garvin died in World War I. That is highly possible, as 
2 CONT she is listed as the widow of F.P. Garvin in the Houston city 
2 CONT directory for 1917 and in the will of her mother during that 
2 CONT same time period. 
2 CONT Her address in the 1917 Houston city directory is 920 Crawford. 
2 CONT Her mother Mary Agnes (Smith) Mongan lived at that address in her 
2 CONT final days. 
2 CONT From a Houston Post obituary dated about May 31, 1952: 
2 CONT MRS. MOLLIE MONGAN GARVIN, 72, Cotton Hotel, died 10 a.m. 
2 CONT Friday in a Houston hospital. Survivors: Daughter. Mrs. Wentworth 
2 CONT M. Gaston, Houston; sister Mrs. B. Williams, Bakersfield, Calif.; 
2 CONT four grandchildren. Services 10 a.m. Saturday. Earthman's, 10:30 a.m. 
2 CONT Saturday Annunciation Church. Burial, Calvary 1 CEMEtery, Galveston. 
2 CONT Pallbearers: T.J. Ahern, L.J. LaRue, R.S. Gaston, (is he a grandson?) 
2 CONT Charles R. Fox, Tulane Gordon, T.J. Rynd. Earthman Funerals. 
2 CONT From the Galveston Daily News June 28, 1905: 
2 CONT Garvin-Mongan Nuptials 
2 CONT At 4:30 p.m. Wednesday evening a quiet wedding at St. Patrick's Church 
2 CONT took place which bound together for life Miss Mollie Mongan and the 
2 CONT late Tobias Mongan, and was born and raised in St. Patrick's parish. 
2 CONT Mr. Garvin is an engineer on the Santa Fe road (sic). Mr. George 
2 CONT Buest was best man and Miss J. Mongan the bridesmaid. The happy couple 
2 CONT left for North Texas, and on their return in two weeks hence will se 
2 CONT ttle down at home 3619 Postoffice street. 
2 CONT Among the few invited guests were Mr. and Mrs. E.H. Walsh and 
2 CONT daughter,Janice of Houston, Mrs. J. Hussey, Mr. and Mrs. John Smith 
2 CONT and family, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Mongan and family, Mr. and Mrs. 
2 CONT J.L. Williams of Cleburne, Tex.; Tobias and Lee Williams. 
2 CONT Carriages were in waiting to convey the friends to the station. A 
2 CONT large number accompanied the young couple and with rice both at the 
2 CONT house and at the station, good wishes were plentifully showered upon 
2 CONT the bridal couple. Miss Jennie Mongan saw the happy couple as far as 
2 CONT Houston, where she will spend a few months with friends. 
2 CONT ~BDATE OF FIRST MARRIAGE: JUN 28 1905~b
2 CONT ~UMarriage Record~u, ~I"St. Patrick Church"~i, Galveston-Houston 
2 CONT Diocese, 
2 CONT Roll No. 45. 
2 CONT Marriage Records, Galveston County Clerk's office Book I. 
2 CONT Her birthdate in the family bible and on her tombstone is supported 
2 CONT by her baptism record from St. Patrick's. It's on file in the 
2 CONT Galveston-Houston Diocese archives in Houston. Her sponsors were 
2 CONT Laurence O'Connor and Bridget O'Connor (Any relation to Richard O 
2 CONT O'Connor?). 
0 @I012@ INDI
1 NAME Laura /Young/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1867
2 PLAC New Jersey
1 DEAT
2 PLAC New Jersey
1 FAMS @F227@
0 @I013@ INDI
1 NAME Fred P. /Garvin/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 10 Dec 1877
1 DEAT
2 DATE 20 Aug 1906
2 PLAC Galveston, Texas
1 CHR
2 PLAC Calvary, Lot B-2, Galveston
1 OCCU Catholic
1 FAMS @F221@
1 NOTE ~BDATE OF DEATH: AUG 20 1906~b
2 CONT ~UDeath Record~u, ~I"St. Patrick Catholic Church"~i, 
2 CONT Galveston-Houston 
2 CONT Diocese, Roll No. 45. 
0 @I014@ INDI
1 NAME Jennie /Mongan/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 6 Sep 1885
2 PLAC Galveston, Texas
1 DEAT
2 DATE 10 Jan 1925
2 PLAC Houston, Texas
1 CHR
2 PLAC Calvary, Lot B-2, Galveston
1 OCCU Catholic
1 FAMS @F019@
1 FAMC @F219@
1 NOTE BIO:In the obituary for her mother in The Houston Post, Sept. 5, 1917,
2 CONT she is identifed as Mrs. Leo J. LaRue. A look in the Houston 
2 CONT City Directory for 1917 shows she lived in #5 of the Ivanhoe Apts. 
2 CONT No address is given. Her husband is listed as a chief clerk for 
2 CONT Texas Co. (Texaco??). 
2 CONT From a Houston Post obituary from around Jan. 10, 1925: 
2 CONT LARUE --- Funeral services for Mrs. Jennie Larue, 39, who died 
2 CONT at her residence, 1513 Austin street, at 1:45 p.m. Saturday will 
2 CONT be held at 8:45 a.m. Monday at the Church of the Annunciation, 
2 CONT Rev. G.T. Walsh officiating. The body will be forwarded to 
2 CONT Galveston by the Earthman Undertaking company at 1:45 p.m. 
2 CONT Monday. Burial will be in Calvary 1 CEMEtery in Galveston. 
2 CONT Mrs. Larue is survived by her husband, two sisters, Mrs. J.L. 
2 CONT Williams and Mrs. M. Garvin, both of Houston, and a brother, 
2 CONT T.W. Mongan of Galveston. 
2 CONT Pallbearers will be J.W. McCann, W.J. McInnerney, Ed F. Hale, 
2 CONT Earl Dreyling, W.I. Derden, and J.H. Borches. 
2 CONT This obituary seems to indicated she left no children. 
2 CONT Galveston Daily News March 26, 27, 1896 for the death of her
2 CONT father Tobias Mongan. Galveston Daily News Sept. 5, 1917 for the 
2 CONT death of her mother and The Houston Post for the same date, 
2 CONT although she is listed there as Mrs. L.J. LaRue. 
2 CONT City Directory of Houston, 1917. 
2 CONT Her birthdate on her St. Patrick's baptism record on file at the 
2 CONT Galveston-Houston diocese archives in Houston contradicts the family 
2 CONT bible, which records her birth on Sept. 28. Here it's the 6th. 
2 CONT And it has to be because her baptism took place on Sept. 27. Making 
2 CONT this record valuable is it is one of only a few that shows a close 
2 CONT connection between Michael Mongan of Winnie Street and Tobias Mongan. 
2 CONT Michael and Bridget (Mullen) Mongan are Jennie's sponsors. Incident- 
2 CONT ally, there is no baptism record where Michael Mongan of AVE K is 
2 CONT a baptism sponsor of Tobe Mongan's kids. 
2 CONT Her marriage date and location (Annunciation Church in Houston) is 
2 CONT recorded in the margin of her baptism record. It notes also that 
2 CONT a James or John Ryan and Catherine Coffey were witnesses to her 
2 CONT wedding. 
0 @I015@ INDI
1 NAME Johnny /Mongan/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1 Dec 1881
2 PLAC Galveston, Texas
1 DEAT
2 DATE 8 Sep 1900
2 PLAC Galveston, Texas
1 OCCU Catholic
1 FAMC @F219@
1 NOTE His birthdate, taken here from a family bible, is confirmed by his
2 CONT St. Patrick's baptism record on file in the Galveston-Houston diocese 
2 CONT archives in Houston. His sponsors were John Smith, his mother's 
2 CONT brother and Mary Hussy (note: a Catherine Hussy was sponsor for his 
2 CONT sister Bridget.) 
0 @I016@ INDI
1 NAME Aelred /Mongan/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 12 Jan 1899
2 PLAC Galveston, Texas
1 DEAT
2 DATE 15 Jun 1988
2 PLAC Sweeny, Texas
1 CHR
2 PLAC Mt. Olivet, Dickinson
1 CONF
2 PLAC Clerk for AT&SF
1 OCCU Catholic
1 FAMS @F015@
1 FAMC @F078@
1 NOTE BIO:[2.5x3.5]Aelred about 1985.
2 CONT Both her birthdate and marriage date are confirmed in her baptismal
2 CONT record on file with the Galveston-Houston Diocese in Houston. Her 
2 CONT sponsors were John Mongan and Mary Mongan. 
2 CONT Note: She served as witness to Lauren Smith's marriage to Louis 
2 CONT Hamilton Hill. 
2 CONT Also the certificate has her as Margaret Aelred. Meaning to me she was 
2 CONT named after her mother. 
0 @I017@ INDI
1 NAME Thomasine /Mongan/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 24 Aug 1909
2 PLAC Galveston, Texas
1 DEAT
2 DATE 10 Nov 1987
2 PLAC Sweeny, Texas
1 CHR
2 PLAC Mt. Olivet, Dickinson
1 CONF
2 PLAC Housewife
1 OCCU Catholic
1 FAMS @F244@
1 FAMC @F078@
1 NOTE BIO:[2.5x3.5]Thomasine about 1985.
2 CONT TW Mongan's family bible has her birthday as Aug. 24, 1909. But the
2 CONT baptismal record shows she was born on Aug. 25, 1910 and was baptised 
2 CONT at St. Patrick's Church in Galveston on Sept. 12, 1910. So unless they 
2 CONT held off getting her baptised for a year the certificate must be 
2 CONT correct. 
2 CONT Note: The certificate also shows that her middle name was Catherine 
2 CONT and her sponsers were Bernard Carroll, her mother's brother, and 
2 CONT Mary Agnes Smith, her father's cousin and daughter of John Smith. 
0 @I018@ INDI
1 NAME Bernard J. /Mongan/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 24 Nov 1903
2 PLAC Galveston, Texas
1 DEAT
2 DATE 24 Aug 1969
2 PLAC La Marque, Texas
1 CHR
2 PLAC Forest Park East, League City
1 OCCU Catholic
1 INFO Sr.
1 FAMS @F222@
1 FAMC @F078@
1 NOTE Confirmation on his birthdate comes from his baptismal record on file
2 CONT with the Galveston-Houston Diocese in Houston. Baptised on Dec. 13, 
2 CONT 1903, he was sponsored by Patrick Mongan and Catherine Carroll. 
2 CONT Note: The certificate has his name backward, calling him John Bernard. 
0 @I019@ INDI
1 NAME Alamo "Alma" /Ralston/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE Sep 1902
1 DEAT
2 DATE 25 May 1966
2 PLAC La Marque, Texas
1 CHR
2 PLAC Forest Park East
1 OCCU Catholic
1 FAMS @F222@
0 @I020@ INDI
1 NAME John L. /Lanterman/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 29 Jun 1863
2 PLAC Morristown, N.J.
1 DEAT
2 DATE 18 Jan 1927
2 PLAC Morristown, N.J.
1 CONF
2 PLAC Merchant of some sort
1 OCCU Baptist
1 FAMS @F227@
1 FAMC @F249@
0 @I021@ INDI
1 NAME Bernard J. /Mongan/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 25 Dec 1927
2 PLAC Galveston, Texas
1 CONF
2 PLAC Refinery worker
1 OCCU Catholic
1 INFO Jr.
1 FAMS @F223@
1 FAMC @F222@
1 NOTE BIO:[2.25x2]B.J. in 1986 at a dinner honoring aunts Thomasine and Aelred.
2 CONT Source for marriage date comes from David Wayne Mongan.
0 @I022@ INDI
1 NAME Jo Jo /Monych/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 4 Nov 1927
2 PLAC Galveston, Texas
1 FAMS @F223@
1 FAMC @F107@
1 NOTE Source for dates and parents' names comes from David W. Mongan.
0 @I023@ INDI
1 NAME David Wayne /Mongan/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 16 Jan 1957
2 PLAC Texas City, Texas
1 BURI
2 PLAC Grandson of Bernard J. Mongan, T.T. Mongan's brother.
1 CONF
2 PLAC Banker
1 FCOM
2 PLAC 713-538-4187
1 OCCU Catholic
1 FAMS @F224@
1 FAMC @F223@
1 NOTE David Mongan is source for his wedding date.
0 @I024@ INDI
1 NAME Marilyn Susan /Mongan/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 14 Jul 1949
1 OCCU Catholic
1 FAMS @F036@
1 FAMS @F108@
1 FAMC @F223@
1 NOTE David W. Mongan, source for her new last name.
0 @I025@ INDI
1 NAME Karen /Boyle/
1 SEX F
1 FAMS @F134@
0 @I026@ INDI
1 NAME Austin Carr /Mongan/
1 BIRT
2 DATE 11 Jun 1987
2 PLAC Houston, Texas
1 OCCU Catholic
1 FAMC @F134@
0 @I027@ INDI
1 NAME Katherine /Mongan/
1 BIRT
2 DATE 5 Jun 1989
2 PLAC Houston, Texas
1 OCCU Catholic
1 FAMC @F134@
0 @I028@ INDI
1 NAME Paula Sophia /Johnson/
1 SEX F
1 FAMS @F225@
0 @I029@ INDI
1 NAME Edgar Ross /Maxey/
1 SEX M
1 FAMS @F225@
0 @I030@ INDI
1 NAME Mary Bridget /Cotter/
1 SEX F
1 FAMS @F226@
0 @I031@ INDI
1 NAME Clementine /Birkmeyer/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 21 Jul 1902
2 PLAC Galveston, Tx.
1 DEAT
2 DATE 20 Jan 1970
2 PLAC Galveston, Tx.
1 CHR
2 PLAC Calvary, section D
1 BURI
2 PLAC Finshed 3rd-grade
1 CONF
2 PLAC Housewife
1 OCCU Catholic
1 FAMS @F238@
1 FAMC @F089@
1 NOTE Unlike many kids who know their grandmother almost from birth,
2 CONT I only knew "Mamaw" as we called her on infrequent visits 
2 CONT to Galveston from wherever my father was stationed or whenever 
2 CONT they would come "up" and visit us. 
1 NOTE I did, however, live with her from the Christmas holidays in 
2 CONT 1966 until Feb. 20, 1967, while my father wrapped up his retirement 
2 CONT in Connecticut. By Feb. 20th we were living in Alta Loma, now 
2 CONT Santa Fe.
1 NOTE A little more than three years after we settled in Texas, she became 
2 CONT sick.
1 NOTE A day or two before her death, she talked with my mom 
2 CONT about a few snow flakes that were falling that January day in Alta 
2 CONT Loma and the chance snow would fall in Galveston.
1 NOTE Then just before hanging up, Mamaw remarked about how a blackbird had 
2 CONT perched itself in her windowsill. 
1 NOTE Birds. One of the first memories I have of my grandmother is her small 
2 CONT pudgy body bent over our bird cage at our home in Norfolk, Va., singing 
2 CONT in a high-pitched voice, "Hello, pretty bird. Hello, pretty bird." 
1 NOTE Mamaw liked birds. She also liked to talk.
1 NOTE That's one of the things I liked most about her. While all the other old 
2 CONT folks would treat me like a kid or a pain in their ass, she would talk to 
2 CONT me like I was on her level and had known her all my life. 
1 NOTE She loved talking about family more than anything and while it may 
2 CONT have seemed trivial to those who might have heard us talking it 
2 CONT was like hearing tales of long ago to me. 
1 NOTE She told me once, while I sat at the foot of her bed in Galveston, about 
2 CONT her mother who was a Wenzel and how her mother, who I later learned was a 
2 CONT Hermann, would stand at one end of the island and wave a white sheet each 
2 CONT night before going to bed, just to let everyone know everything was 
2 CONT alright. 
1 NOTE She also told me during that same conversation that her mother's father 
2 CONT was a grocery store owner and let Indians stay in his attic and would 
2 CONT spend lots of time up there eating cheese and talking with them. 
1 NOTE One Sunday night after Ed Sullivan and after she had filled me and 
2 CONT Kevin full of coke in the small bottles and M&Ms served in small 
2 CONT glass dishes with bumps on the outside that made the candy look 
2 CONT bigger when you looked through them, the conversation turned to 
2 CONT crime for some reason. 
1 NOTE She told two stories: one about my uncle Toby getting chased down 
2 CONT by a black kid (she never said "nigger," which my grandfather would 
2 CONT say as easily as he would one of his kids names). Toby ran into 
2 CONT the back yard, a trumpet in its case in one hand, school books in the 
2 CONT other.
1 NOTE The kid, she said, was crazy. The story has no point, it's just a 
2 CONT vivid memory. 
1 NOTE The other story was about a man who tried breaking into their front 
2 CONT door one night and my grandfather running into the bedroom, pulling 
2 CONT out a rusted old pistol and waving it through the beveled glass of 
2 CONT their front door. 
1 NOTE "He was going to shoot the man and pull him into the house," I 
2 CONT remember her saying. "He thought that if he pulled him into his 
2 CONT house he could say he broke in and was justified. But I told 
2 CONT him not to. I wouldn't be able to look at my front porch again 
2 CONT without seeing a dead man on it." 
1 NOTE But Mamaw was far from squeamish. 
1 NOTE One night, while  getting ready to take my bath in their old footed 
2 CONT tub, I was removing an ID bracelet I'd gotten for Christmas. It was 
2 CONT the coolest present besides my bike I got that year.
1 NOTE As I was putting the bracelet on the back of the commode it slipped into 
2 CONT the toilet, just as it was flushing. 
1 NOTE I yelled out something, and in ran Mamaw. Before I knew it, her 
2 CONT hand thrust deep into the toilet bowl, grabbed on to the bracelet 
2 CONT and pulled it out. 
1 NOTE Before I could put it back on though, she soaked it in rubbing 
2 CONT alcohol. The toilet wasn't even dirty. 
1 NOTE Alcohol. She had more bottles of rubbing alcohol in her bathroom 
2 CONT and kitchen than in all of John Sealy Hospital, which is an 
2 CONT indication of her fixation with cleanliness. 
1 NOTE Whenever she'd give you a coke or the adults a beer, out came a 
2 CONT Kleenex from one of her pockets and before you could take the 
2 CONT drink from her, she rub the top of the bottle clean. 
1 NOTE She also wrapped the door knobs in Kleenex. I always thought that 
2 CONT was strange, but later one spring Saturday or Sunday, while 
2 CONT I was playing outside, I found out why --- or so my mother tells 
2 CONT me. 
1 NOTE Pawzee worked on the railroads and for some reason she got it in 
2 CONT her head that he was fooling around on her. Maybe it was true. 
1 NOTE Who really knows? 
1 NOTE But that day they rolled up in the shell driveway of our house in Alta 
2 CONT Loma in their black 1964 Chevrolet Impala and Mamaw wouldn't get out of 
2 CONT the car. Pawzee walked inside and said something to my mother and they 
2 CONT both came back outside. 
1 NOTE "The woman's crazy and I'm tired of it," Pawzee said to my mother. "I've 
2 CONT brought her to stay with you.''
1 NOTE With that he then began to walk down the shell road, leaving her 
2 CONT to sit in the car her arms folded, black pill box hat place atop 
2 CONT her netted jet-black hair, eyes staring out over the hood of the 
2 CONT Impala. 
1 NOTE Somehow, Pawzee got tired of walking and came back to the house. 
1 NOTE By then, they were both inside and my mother was making peace 
2 CONT between them.
1 NOTE The Kleenex on the door knobs and the alcohol, I learned later was 
2 CONT because she feared Pawzee would bring home germs and infect her. 
1 NOTE She was a woman ahead of her time. In this age of AIDS, who would 
2 CONT have questioned her. But for that time, it seemed a little extreme. 
1 NOTE Why he would have fooled around on her is beside me. Old pictures 
2 CONT I've seen of her make her appear like a china doll.
1 NOTE One picture, I don't know where it is now, shows her at the piano, her 
2 CONT perfectly round face, black hair drapped around her face in the flapper 
2 CONT style, 
2 CONT and a huge ear-to-ear grin. 
1 NOTE The piano is significant. She supposedly had an "ear" for music. 
2 CONT Relatives say she could play any instrument after hearing a song. 
2 CONT I've been told she particularly liked the piano and banjo.
1 NOTE It's interesting to note that that musical ability apparently found 
2 CONT its way into the genetic makeup of my cousin Toby. If I'm not 
2 CONT mistaken, he too has the talent, which I rememeber seeing him 
2 CONT demonstrate on piano. 
1 NOTE Though I never saw her play an instrument, I do know that she loved 
2 CONT listening to music. Her favorites on Sunday were Lawrence Welk, 
2 CONT Frank Sinatra and Wayne Newton. I remember her liking the song 
2 CONT "Danke Schoen" by Wayne Newton and "Strangers In the Night" by 
2 CONT Sinatra. 
1 NOTE But she was no musical fuddy duddy. I remember watching the Doors 
2 CONT at her house on Ed Sullivan's TV show and she said she liked the 
2 CONT music. Light My Fire, I remember was a cover of the more sedate 
2 CONT original of Jose Feliciano's. Maybe that was it.
1 NOTE Another aspect of her I remember well is that she was superstitious, 
2 CONT much like her Irish husband, who used to cross his fingers and 
2 CONT cross his arms behind his back to ward off perceived evil.
1 NOTE I wonder if her superstitious nature has to do with a recent story 
2 CONT my mother told me about Mamaw's birth. 
1 NOTE It seems when Mamaw was born she had what folks called a "veil" on 
2 CONT her face, a piece of transparent skin attached to her forehead, covering 
2 CONT the length of her face. 
1 NOTE The story goes that such a veil blesses the newborn with special 
2 CONT powers and is in itself good luck, especially to men at sea. Recognizing 
2 CONT they had something of value my great grandfather Henry S. Birkmeyer sold 
2 CONT the veil of lucky skin to a sea captain. 
1 NOTE As for whether it brought the captain luck, no one knows, but as 
2 CONT for bringing Mamaw special powers, I've just recounted one, her 
2 CONT ability to play music by ear. 
1 NOTE Another incident that makes it hard to discount the "powers of the 
2 CONT veil story" -- if you let your imagination run wild for a second -- 
2 CONT is what happened while the priest was saying rosary at her wake. 
1 NOTE Two glass candle holders, one placed at the head of her casket, the 
2 CONT other at the foot, shattered within seconds of each other. The first 
2 CONT loud pop of broken glass rattled some of the people, but the second 
2 CONT loud pop downright made everyone in the parlor at Malloy & Son 
2 CONT Funeral Home gasp out loud.
1 NOTE Afterward, everyone made some comment about it and my mother, either 
2 CONT teasing or telling the truth, said "She always said she'd come back & 
2 CONT haunt us from her grave." 
1 NOTE I don't know why but whenever I think of my grandmother's death 
2 CONT I think of that cold January morning in 1970 and the black bird 
2 CONT perched in her window. 
0 @I032@ INDI
1 NAME Ladislav K. /Siller/
1 SEX M
1 FAMS @F226@
0 @I033@ INDI
1 NAME Henry /Birkmeyer/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 PLAC New Orleans, La.
1 DEAT
2 DATE 28 Dec 1916
2 PLAC League City, Texas
1 CHR
2 PLAC League City Cemetery (?)
1 CONF
2 PLAC Tinner
1 OCCU Catholic
1 FAMS @F228@
1 NOTE BIO:From the Census record of 1900 taken in Galveston:
2 CONT Residence: 3716 Broadway 
2 CONT Wife: Clementine Birkmeyer, born 1-1842 in Louisiana. Her father 
2 CONT was born in Louisiana and her mother was born in France. 
2 CONT For Henry: Born 11-1842 in Louisiana. Father and mother both born 
2 CONT in Germany. 
2 CONT From the 1879 City Directory of New Orleans: 
2 CONT Birkmeyer, H.S. tinner, G.W.W. Goodwyn; Laurel corner Berlin 
2 CONT From the 1880 City Directory of New Orleans: 
2 CONT Birkmeyer, Henry, Tinner, residence, southside Laurel between Milan 
2 CONT and Berlin. 
2 CONT The only other Birkmeyer's listed prior to that in New Orleans 
2 CONT is a August Birkmire (note different spelling, he may not be related) 
2 CONT at Burdette Carlt. This is from a 1853 city directory. 
2 CONT From a 1840 census record there is this listing: 
2 CONT Birkmire, S. Orleans 130 New Orleans. That means on Page 130 of the 
2 CONT census for Louisiana you'll find this record: 
2 CONT Birkmire, S. age between 20-30, wife, between 20-30, daughter 
2 CONT under 5. 
2 CONT Henry Birkmeyer doesn't appear in the Galveston Census record for 
2 CONT 1910, which raises the question of where did he go? 
2 CONT He may not be in the Census Record for 1910 because he more than 
2 CONT likely died between 1900 and 1910. Reason? He is listed in the 
2 CONT City Directory for Galveston for 1909-1910. At the time he is listed 
2 CONT as living with his son Henry Sebastian Birkmeyer Jr. at 3402 Winnie. 
2 CONT No other city directories between 1910 and 1917 were avialable, so it 
2 CONT is not certain if he died later. But it's highly probable that the 
2 CONT directory is a two-year directory and he may have died in 1910 
2 CONT after the directory was published and before the 1910 Census. 
2 CONT By the way, he was listed in every city directory where he      was 
2 CONT as a tinner, except for the 1909-1910, in which he is listed as a 
2 CONT fireman with the Galveston Water Works. 
2 CONT In fact, he is listed in the 1896-97 city directory for Galveston 
2 CONT as a tinner for Fredrick and Keats. At that time he lived, where 
2 CONT the 1900 Census found him, 3716 Broadway. 
2 CONT Also there was some question in my mind as to when Henry came to 
2 CONT Galveston. Well it seems it has to have been some time between 
2 CONT 1880, when he is in the N.O. 1880 C.D. ,  and 1882-83, when he 
2 CONT is listed as a resident of the northwest corner, on the west side 
2 CONT of Avenue I (Sealy) and 33rd Street. 
2 CONT Things to check: Death records for 1910. 
2 CONT Galveston Census record for 1900, Soundex for 1900,
2 CONT City Directory for 1880 of New Orleans. 
2 CONT Death record for Alex V. Birkmeyer, 1905 in Galveston County. 
2 CONT Galveston City Directory of 1882-83 
2 CONT Galveston City Directory of 1896-97 
2 CONT Galveston City Directory of 1909-10 
2 CONT He doesn't appear in the Galveston City Directory for 1919. 
2 CONT ~BNAME: Henry Birkmeyer (#131)~b 
2 CONT ~UU.S. Census for Galveston, 1880, 1900~u. 
2 CONT City Directory for New Orleans, 1879 
2 CONT The Lohec Family geneology: For marriage and death dates. 
0 @I034@ INDI
1 NAME Justine Clementine /Lagall/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 10 Jan 1842
2 PLAC New Orleans, Louisiana
1 DEAT
2 DATE 2 Jan 1918
2 PLAC League City, Texas
1 CHR
2 PLAC League City Cemetery
1 CONF
2 PLAC Housewife
1 OCCU Catholic
1 FAMS @F228@
1 FAMC @F062@
1 NOTE BIO:From Clementine (Lagall) Birkmeyer's obituary in the
2 CONT Galveston Daily News, Jan. 3, 1918: 
2 CONT BIRKMEYER --- Houston, Tex. Jan. 3 --- The funeral of Mrs. 
2 CONT H.S. Birkmeyer, aged 75, who died Wednesday at League City, 
2 CONT was held at that place this afternoon. The interment was 
2 CONT in the League City 1 CEMEtery. She is survived by three sons. 
2 CONT For more details on Clementine Lagall see Henry Birkmeyer's 
2 CONT biography. 
2 CONT Obituary, Galveston Daily News, Jan. 3, 1918.
2 CONT ~BNAME: Justine Clementine Lagall (#132)~b 
2 CONT ~UThe Lohec Family~u, ~I"A genealogy of the Lohec and allied 
2 CONT families"~i, 
2 CONT Ronald Eugene Lohec, ~BREL~b. 
2 CONT U.S. Census for Galveston, 1880 and 1900. 
2 CONT ~BPLACE OF BIRTH: New Orleans, Louisiana~b 
2 CONT ~U1880 Census for Galveston~u. 
2 CONT Death Record, Galveston County, 1918 
2 CONT ~BDATE OF BIRTH: JAN 10 1842~b 
2 CONT ~UU.S. Census, 1880 for Galveston~u, ~I"It gives month and year"~i. 
2 CONT The Lohec Family genealogy at the Clayton Library gives full date. 
2 CONT ~BPLACE OF DEATH: League City, Texas~b 
2 CONT ~UGalveston Daily News~u, ~I"Obituary"~i. 
2 CONT ~BPLACE OF DEATH: League City, Texas~b 
2 CONT ~UGalveston Daily News~u, ~I"Obituary"~i, Jan. 3, 1918. 
2 CONT Lohec Family genealogy. 
2 CONT ~BDATE OF DEATH: JAN 2 1918~b 
2 CONT ~UDeath Record~u, ~I"Galveston County"~i, 1918. 
2 CONT Lohec Family genealogy. 
2 CONT ~BMOTHER: Josephine Bailly (#451)~b 
2 CONT ~UThe Lohec Family~u, ~I"A genealogy on file at the Clayton 
2 CONT Library"~i, 
2 CONT Ronald Eugene Lohec. 
2 CONT ~BFATHER: George Gulvant Lagall (#452)~b 
2 CONT ~UThe Lohec Family~u, ~I"A genealogy at the Clayton Library "~i, 
2 CONT Ronald 
2 CONT Eugene Lohec. 
2 CONT ~BFIRST SPOUSE: Henry Birkmeyer (#131)~b 
2 CONT ~UU.S. Census records~u. 
2 CONT ~BPLACE OF FIRST MARRIAGE: New Orleans, Louisiana~b 
2 CONT ~UThe Lohec Family~u, ~I"A genealogy at the Clayton Library"~i, 
2 CONT Ronald 
2 CONT Eugene Lohec. 
2 CONT ~BDATE OF FIRST MARRIAGE: JAN 10 1866~b 
2 CONT ~UDiary of Emma T. Lohec, grandmother of Ronald~u, ~I"Reference in 
2 CONT The 
2 CONT Lohec Family genealogy"~i. 
0 @I035@ INDI
1 NAME Eugene August /Birkmeyer/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 21 Dec 1869
2 PLAC New Orleans, La.
1 DEAT
2 DATE 23 Sep 1922
2 PLAC Galveston, Texas
1 CHR
2 PLAC Body was shipped to El Paso
1 CONF
2 PLAC Plasterer
1 OCCU Catholic
1 FAMS @F229@
1 FAMC @F228@
1 NOTE BIO:From a death notice in the Galveston Daily News, Monday Sept. 25,
2 CONT 1922. 
2 CONT It says there that the body of Birkmeyer was transported to 
2 CONT El Paso, where his family moved "about a year ago," after dying 
2 CONT at his brother's home Henry Sebastian Birkmeyer's home in Galveston. 
2 CONT It listed six surviving children, all living in El Paso: Romaine, 
2 CONT Clement, Joseph, Melda, Edna and Eugene Jr.  It also mentions his 
2 CONT brothers Henry and C.L. Birkmeyer, who lived at that time in Houston. 
2 CONT The notice also mentions that he was born in New Orleans. 
2 CONT Another death notice from a clipping of unknown origin reported 
2 CONT in The Lohec Family genealogy, Appendix I: 
2 CONT (Ronald Lohec notes in his genealogy that the death was reported 
2 CONT from another source to be Sept. 23, 1922.) 
2 CONT LIFELONG RESIDENT OF GALVESTON DIES, AGED 52 
2 CONT Eugene August Birkmeyer, 52, years old, a lifelong resident of 
2 CONT Galveston, died last night at 7:55 o'clock at the home of his 
2 CONT brother, H.S. Birkmeyer, 1101 Thirty-Seventh Street. 
2 CONT Recently Mr. Birkmeyer had been residing in El Paso, where he 
2 CONT went with his family about a year ago, for the benefit of his 
2 CONT wife's health. He had returned to Galveston about six weeks ago 
2 CONT having found the climate of El Paso unsuited to him. 
2 CONT Born in New Orleans, he came to Galveston when about 7 years old 
2 CONT and had live here continually up to the time of his going to 
2 CONT El Paso. He formerly was in the grocery business at Thirty-eigth 
2 CONT Street and Avenue K and was well known about the city. He was a 
2 CONT member of the plasterer's union. 
2 CONT Decedent is survived by his wife; six children, Eugene Jr., Edna, 
2 CONT Clement, Melda, Joseph and Romaine Birkmeyer, all of El Paso; and 
2 CONT two brothers, H.S. Birkmeyer of Galveston and C.I. Birkmeyer of 
2 CONT Houston. 
2 CONT Funeral arrangements are being held in abeyance, pending the 
2 CONT arrival of his wife from El Paso. 
2 CONT Note: Ronald Lohec adds a note to this obituary saying that 
2 CONT "An index of deaths in Texas reported the death of Eugene 
2 CONT Birkmeyer's wife, Ella Milton, in El Paso on April 24, 1937." 
2 CONT This contradicts a marriage record I found in the Galveston- 
2 CONT Houston Diocese Archives that indicates Eugne August married 
2 CONT a Pearl Isabell Compton. My guess is that Ella Milton is 
2 CONT a mistake. 
2 CONT Source for him being the son of Henry Birkmeyer and Clementine
2 CONT LeGarne (should be Lagall)   Co. Mortuary Record for the years 
2 CONT June 1918-Dec. 31, 1926, page 84, entry line 532 
2 CONT Lohec Family Genealogy for the second obit. 
2 CONT ~BNAME: Eugene August Birkmeyer (#133)~b 
2 CONT UObituary  u,  I"Galveston Daily News" i, SEP 25 1922. 
2 CONT ~BDATE OF BIRTH: DEC 21 1869~b 
2 CONT ~UDeath Record~u, ~I"Galveston County"~i, Rosenberg Library. 
2 CONT ~BMOTHER: Justine Clementine Lagall (#132)~b 
2 CONT ~UDeath Record~u, ~I"Galveston County, Rosenberg Library"~i. 
2 CONT ~B1 CEMETERY: Body was shipped to El Paso~b 
2 CONT ~UObituary~u. 
2 CONT ~BFIRST SPOUSE: Pearl Isabell Compton (#493)~b 
2 CONT ~UMarriage Record~u, ~I"St. Patrick Church"~i, Galveston-Houston 
2 CONT Diocese, 
2 CONT Roll No. 45, Aug. 1889. 
0 @I036@ INDI
1 NAME Alex V. /Birkmeyer/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE Feb 1877
2 PLAC New Orleans, La.
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1 Oct 1905
2 PLAC Galveston, Texas
1 CONF
2 PLAC Fireman on SF RR
1 OCCU Catholic
1 FAMS @F230@
1 FAMC @F228@
0 @I037@ INDI
1 NAME Eugene August /Birkmeyer/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE Mar 1898
2 PLAC Galveston, Texas
1 DEAT
2 PLAC Utah (?)
1 INFO Jr.
1 FAMS @F231@
1 FAMC @F229@
1 NOTE ~BDATE OF BIRTH: 3-?-1898~b
2 CONT ~UCensus 1900~u. 
2 CONT ~BMOTHER: Ella Milton (#485)~b 
2 CONT ~UThe Lohec Family~u, ~I"Genealogy"~i, Ronald Eugene Lohec. 
2 CONT ~BNAME: Eugene August Birkmeyer, Jr. (#135)~b 
2 CONT ~UObituary for his father~u, ~I"Galveston Daily News"~i, SEP 10 1922. 
2 CONT ~BNAME: Eugene August Birkmeyer, Jr. (#135)~b 
2 CONT ~UObituary for his father~u, ~I"Galveston Daily News"~i, SEP 24 1922. 
2 CONT Clement Ernest Birkmeyer, Jr. says Eugene A. Birkmeyer, Jr. lived in 
2 CONT Utah. CEB, Jr. is also the source for information that EAB, Jr.'s 
2 CONT wife was named Virginia. 
0 @I038@ INDI
1 NAME Edna /Birkmeyer/
1 SEX F
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1960
1 FAMS @F126@
1 FAMC @F229@
1 NOTE ~BNAME: Edna Birkmeyer (#136)~b
2 CONT ~UObituary for her father~u, ~I"Galveston Daily News"~i, SEP 10 
2 CONT 1922. 
2 CONT ~BMOTHER: Ella Milton (#485)~b 
2 CONT ~UThe Lohec Family~u, ~I"Genealogy"~i, Ronald Eugene Lohec. 
2 CONT ~BNAME: Edna Birkmeyer (#136)~b 
2 CONT ~UObituary for her father~u, ~I"Galveston Daily News"~i, SEP 24 
2 CONT 1922. 
2 CONT Source for husband's name: Clement Ernest Birkmeyer Jr. 
0 @I039@ INDI
1 NAME Clement /Birkmeyer/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 21 Jul 1903
1 DEAT
2 DATE 6 Feb 1975
2 PLAC Amarillo, Texas
1 FAMS @F232@
1 FAMC @F229@
1 NOTE ~BNAME: Clement Birkmeyer (#137)~b
2 CONT ~UObit for Justine Clementine Legall (Birkmeyer)~u, ~I"Galveston 
2 CONT Daily 
2 CONT News"~i. 
2 CONT The Lohec Family genealogy 
2 CONT ~BMOTHER: Ella Milton (#485)~b 
2 CONT ~UThe Lohec Family genealogy~u, Ronald Eugene Lohec. 
2 CONT ~BNAME: Clement Birkmeyer (#137)~b 
2 CONT ~UObituary for his father~u, ~I"Galveston Daily News"~i. 
2 CONT ~BNAME: Clement Birkmeyer (#137)~b 
2 CONT ~UObit for his father~u, ~I"Galveston Daily News"~i, SEP 24 1922. 
2 CONT Son, Clement Ernest Birkmeyer, Jr., is the source for wife's name and 
2 CONT birth and death dates. 
0 @I040@ INDI
1 NAME Melda /Birkmeyer/
1 DEAT
2 DATE 28 Oct 1990
2 PLAC California
1 FAMC @F229@
1 NOTE ~BMOTHER: Ella Milton (#485)~b
2 CONT ~UThe Lohec Family genealogy~u, Ronald Eugene Lohec, Clayton Library, 
2 CONT Houston, Texas. 
2 CONT ~BNAME: Melda Birkmeyer (#138)~b 
2 CONT ~UObit for her father~u, ~I"Galveston Daily News"~i, SEP 23 1922. 
2 CONT Death date and place comes from CEB, Jr. who also notes that Melda 
2 CONT was slightly retarded and was cared for by Edna until Edna's death 
2 CONT of cancer in 1960. Melda moved to California, he doesn't say where, 
2 CONT maintained an apartment until ill health forced her to move to a 
2 CONT nursing home. 
0 @I041@ INDI
1 NAME Joseph /Birkmeyer/
1 SEX M
1 FAMS @F233@
1 FAMS @F234@
1 FAMC @F229@
1 NOTE ~BNAME: Joseph Birkmeyer (#139)~b
2 CONT ~UObituary for his father~u, ~I"Galveston Daily News"~i, SEP 10 1922. 
2 CONT ~BMOTHER: Ella Milton (#485)~b 
2 CONT ~UThe Lohec Family~u, ~I"Genealogy"~i, Ronald Eugene Lohec. 
2 CONT ~BNAME: Joseph Birkmeyer (#139)~b 
2 CONT ~UObit for his father~u, ~I"Galveston Daily News"~i, SEP 24 1922. 
2 CONT CEB, Jr., Joseph's nephew, recalls that he was married twice and 
2 CONT divorced once but never had any kids of his own. Although his second 
2 CONT wife brought three kids into their marriage. He also notes that 
2 CONT Joseph is dead as of his letter March 17, 1994, but doesn't say when. 
0 @I042@ INDI
1 NAME Tobias Thomas /Mongan/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 17 Oct 1901
2 PLAC Galveston, Tx.
1 DEAT
2 DATE 19 Oct 1974
2 PLAC Galveston, Tx.
1 CHR
2 PLAC Calvary, section D
1 BURI
2 PLAC Finished 6th-grade
1 BAPM
2 PLAC Union, Democrat
1 CONF
2 PLAC Railroad engineer
1 FCOM
2 PLAC None
1 OCCU Catholic
1 FAMS @F238@
1 FAMC @F078@
1 NOTE                                  SOURCES
1 NOTE His baptism record from St. Patrick on file with the Galveston-Houston
2 CONT diocese archives shows that his sponsors were Mary Carroll, an aunt, 
2 CONT and looks like "Michael Collerain." 
0 @I043@ INDI
1 NAME Romaine /Birkmeyer/
1 SEX M
1 FAMS @F131@
1 FAMS @F235@
1 FAMC @F229@
1 NOTE ~BNAME: Romaine Birkmeyer (#140)~b
2 CONT ~UObituary for father~u, ~I"Galveston Daily News"~i, SEP 10 1922. 
2 CONT ~BMOTHER: Ella Milton (#485)~b 
2 CONT ~UThe Lohec Family~u, ~I"Genealogy"~i, Ronald Eugene Lohec. 
2 CONT ~BNAME: Romaine Birkmeyer (#140)~b 
2 CONT ~UObit for her father~u, ~I"Galveston Daily News"~i, SEP 24, 1922. 
2 CONT CEB, Jr. identifies a Jackie as Romaine's husband but fails to give 
2 CONT his last name. 
0 @I044@ INDI
1 NAME C.I. /Birkmeyer/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 PLAC New Orleans, La.
1 DEAT
2 DATE 4 Jun 1946
2 PLAC Harris Co., Texas
1 FAMS @F236@
1 FAMC @F228@
1 NOTE ~BFIRST SPOUSE: Alice Snell (#486)~b
2 CONT ~UThe Lohec Family~u, ~I"Genealogy"~i, Ronald Eugene Lohec, Clayto 
2 CONT Library, Houston, Texas. 
2 CONT ~BPLACE OF DEATH: Houston, Texas (?)~b 
2 CONT ~UThe Lohec Family~u, ~I"Genealogy"~i, REL. 
2 CONT Guessing the death occurred here as REL places C.L. in Houston. 
2 CONT Also according to state death records a Clement Ignacious Birkmeyer 
2 CONT died in Harris County on June 4, 1946. 
0 @I045@ INDI
1 NAME Robert Stanley /Lanterman/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 2 Oct 1934
2 PLAC Morristown, New Jersey
1 DEAT
2 DATE 6 Jun 1994
2 PLAC Sarasota, Florida
1 CHR
2 PLAC Springfield, Florida
1 CONF
2 PLAC USAF, comptroller in Ohio
1 OCCU Baptist
1 FAMS @F237@
1 FAMC @F216@
0 @I046@ INDI
1 NAME Joelene Patricia /Jones/
1 SEX F
1 FAMS @F237@
0 @I047@ INDI
1 NAME Keith /Lanterman/
1 FAMC @F237@
0 @I048@ INDI
1 NAME Stacey /Lanterman/
1 FAMC @F237@
0 @I049@ INDI
1 NAME Ralph Louis /Lanterman/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 15 Mar 1923
2 PLAC Morristown, N.J.
1 CONF
2 PLAC Auto parts, dealer owner
1 OCCU Baptist
1 FAMS @F239@
1 FAMC @F216@
0 @I050@ INDI
1 NAME Judy /Lanterman/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 24 Aug 1946
2 PLAC Morristown, New Jersey
1 FAMS @F242@
1 FAMC @F239@
0 @I051@ INDI
1 NAME Mathilde /Andrews/
1 SEX F
1 FAMS @F240@
0 @I052@ INDI
1 NAME Sarah J. /Konkle/
1 SEX F
1 FAMS @F249@
0 @I053@ INDI
1 NAME Francisco /Silveria/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1840
2 PLAC Lisbon, Portugal
1 DEAT
2 DATE 24 Nov 1929
2 PLAC Galveston, Texas
1 CHR
2 PLAC Calvary, Galveston
1 OCCU Catholic
1 FAMS @F240@
1 NOTE BIO:His obituary from the Wednesday, Nov. 27, 1929 edition of the
2 CONT Galveston Daily News: 
2 CONT Silveria --- Funeral services for Frank Silveria, 89, who died 
2 CONT Sunday morning at 11:30 o'clock at St. Mary's Infirmary, will be 
2 CONT held at 2 o'clock this afternoon from the late residence, 1114 
2 CONT Fifteenth Street, thence to Sacred Heart Church. Rev. M.S. 
2 CONT Chataignon will officiate and interment will be at Calvary 
2 CONT Cemetery under the direction of F.P. Malloy & Son. 
2 CONT Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. J.B. Wisrodt of Galveston 
2 CONT and Mrs. Katie Boxwell of Los Angeles; two sons, Jeff and 
2 CONT Archie Silveria, the latter from Kansas; two grandsons, four 
2 CONT grandaughters and a step-son, Henry Johnson of Houston. 
2 CONT Funeral Record at Malloy And Sons for the year of his death:
2 CONT Shows he was born in Portugal, but doesn't indicate parents. 
2 CONT Besides the obituary on Frank Silveria, who we know is Fausteen's 
2 CONT father, there is a passenger list in the Clayton Library for passen- 
2 CONT ger's arriving in New Orleans before 1900 that has a Francisco 
2 CONT Silveria, age 14, of Portugal, embarking in Antwerp. 
2 CONT His destination was San Francisco and he arrived in N.O. on May 3, 
2 CONT 1887 on the S.S. Nantes with a Manuel Silveria, age 43. 
2 CONT The Frank Silveria on the passenger list can not be Francisco in 
2 CONT this obituary because the ages don't add up. The question to be 
2 CONT resolved is, could Manuel have had a middle name, Francisco 
2 CONT perhaps? 
2 CONT Manuel was 43 at the time of arrival. That would have put his 
2 CONT birth at 1844. That still doesn't jibe quite exactly. 
2 CONT More research is necessary. 
0 @I054@ INDI
1 NAME Kate /Silveria/
1 SEX F
1 CONF
2 PLAC Landlords
1 OCCU Catholic
1 FAMS @F241@
1 FAMC @F240@
0 @I055@ INDI
1 NAME W. /Boxwell/
1 SEX M
1 FAMS @F241@
0 @I056@ INDI
1 NAME Edwin /Silveria/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 8 Dec 1913
2 PLAC Galveston, Texas
1 CONF
2 PLAC Armed services
1 OCCU Catholic
1 FAMC @F167@
0 @I057@ INDI
1 NAME Archie /Silveria/
1 BIRT
2 PLAC Galveston, Texas
1 OCCU Catholic
1 FAMC @F240@
0 @I058@ INDI
1 NAME Gary Frank /Celli/
1 BIRT
2 DATE 30 May 1954
2 PLAC Galveston, Texas
1 OCCU Catholic
1 FAMC @F100@
0 @I059@ INDI
1 NAME Florence /Murphy/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 22 Jan 1922
2 PLAC Morristown, New Jersey
1 DEAT
2 DATE 23 Aug 1993
2 PLAC Sarasota, Florida
1 CONF
2 PLAC Housewife
1 FAMS @F239@
0 @I060@ INDI
1 NAME Merrill /Wiese/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 31 Dec 1943
2 PLAC Windom, Minnesota
1 CONF
2 PLAC Car dealership owner
1 FAMS @F242@
0 @I061@ INDI
1 NAME Jehiel T. /Lanterman/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1825
2 PLAC New Jersey
1 DEAT
2 DATE ABT 1916
2 PLAC Newton, New Jersey
1 CHR
2 PLAC Union Brick, Blairstown, N.J.
1 CONF
2 PLAC Farmer
1 OCCU ?
1 FAMS @F249@
1 FAMC @F260@
0 @I062@ INDI
1 NAME Cathy Jean /Mongan/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 11 Oct 1951
2 PLAC Galveston, Texas
1 OCCU Catholic
1 FAMS @F037@
1 FAMS @F109@
1 FAMC @F223@
1 NOTE Source for info on second marriage is David Wayne Mongan.
0 @I063@ INDI
1 NAME Richard /O'Connor/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 26 Jan 1932
2 PLAC Galveston, Texas
1 BURI
2 PLAC Aunt Thomasine's only son.
1 CONF
2 PLAC U.S.A.F. Col. ret.
1 FCOM
2 PLAC 316-721-9414
1 OCCU Catholic
1 INFO Jr.
1 FAMS @F243@
1 FAMC @F244@
0 @I064@ INDI
1 NAME Richard /O'Connor/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1 Jul 1906
2 PLAC Galveston, Texas
1 DEAT
2 DATE 17 Jul 1970
1 INFO Sr.
1 FAMS @F244@
0 @I065@ INDI
1 NAME Mary Ruth /Birkmeyer/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 7 Nov 1931
2 PLAC Galveston, Texas
1 CONF
2 PLAC Secretary, UTMB med school
1 OCCU Catholic
1 FAMS @F246@
1 FAMC @F245@
0 @I066@ INDI
1 NAME Edith /Bennett/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 PLAC Galveston, Texas
1 DEAT
2 PLAC Alta Loma, Texas
1 CHR
2 PLAC Grace Memorial, Hitchcock, Tx.
1 OCCU Catholic
1 FAMS @F245@
0 @I067@ INDI
1 NAME Elijah J. /Birkmeyer/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 2 Nov 1905
2 PLAC Galveston, Texas
1 DEAT
2 DATE 17 Sep 1986
2 PLAC Santa Fe, Texas
1 CHR
2 PLAC Grace Memorial, Hitchcock
1 CONF
2 PLAC Ferryman
1 OCCU Catholic
1 FAMS @F245@
1 FAMC @F089@
1 NOTE BIO:[3.5x3.5]E.J. Birkmeyer and Edith (Bennett) Birkmeyer at 50th
2 CONT anniversary, Feb. 18, 1978. 
2 CONT If there was anyone in particular who was responsible for bringing 
2 CONT Tom and Mary Lanterman to Santa Fe, then Alta Loma, it was "Uncle 
2 CONT Lodge," as he was called. 
2 CONT He had come to the mainland in the 1960s and built a small, but 
2 CONT modern brick home on Avenue J after retiring from the Highway Deptart- 
2 CONT ment and the Galveston Ferry. 
2 CONT Perhaps my mother's closest uncle, he introduced us to a realtor 
2 CONT in Alta Loma when my father retired from the U.S. Coast Guard in 1967. 
0 @I068@ INDI
1 NAME Charles "Mop" /Brown/
1 SEX M
1 DEAT
2 DATE 17 Mar 1994
2 PLAC Galveston, Texas
1 BAPM
2 PLAC LABEL5: FOE, Santa Fe, Texas
1 CONF
2 PLAC BB scout/bottler
1 OCCU Catholic
1 FAMS @F246@
0 @I069@ INDI
1 NAME Glenda Ray /Birkmeyer/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 6 Feb 1938
2 PLAC Galveston, Texas
1 CONF
2 PLAC Housewife
1 OCCU Catholic
1 FAMS @F247@
1 FAMC @F245@
0 @I070@ INDI
1 NAME John Henry /Baccinelli/
1 SEX M
1 CONF
2 PLAC Builder
1 OCCU Catholic
1 FAMS @F247@
0 @I071@ INDI
1 NAME Elijah /Birkmeyer/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 17 Aug 1941
2 PLAC Galveston, Texas
1 CONF
2 PLAC Refinery worker
1 OCCU Catholic
1 INFO II
1 FAMS @F248@
1 FAMC @F245@
0 @I072@ INDI
1 NAME Margaret A. /Snover/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 PLAC Blairstown, N.J.
1 DEAT
2 PLAC Blairstown, N.J.
1 CHR
2 PLAC Union Brick, Blairstown, N.J.
1 FAMS @F260@
1 FAMC @F002@
0 @I073@ INDI
1 NAME Lila /Carr/
1 SEX F
1 FAMS @F248@
0 @I074@ INDI
1 NAME Elijah /Birkmeyer/
1 OCCU Catholic
1 INFO III
1 FAMC @F248@
0 @I075@ INDI
1 NAME Tammy /Baccinelli/
1 BIRT
2 DATE 12 Mar 1958
2 PLAC Galveston, Texas
1 CONF
2 PLAC MHMR employee
1 OCCU Catholic
1 FAMC @F247@
0 @I076@ INDI
1 NAME John Henry /Baccinelli/
1 BIRT
2 DATE 9 Mar 1960
2 PLAC Galveston, Texas
1 OCCU Catholic
1 INFO Jr.
1 FAMC @F247@
0 @I077@ INDI
1 NAME Mark /Baccinelli/
1 BIRT
2 DATE 29 Oct 1961
2 PLAC Galveston, Texas
1 OCCU Catholic
1 FAMC @F247@
0 @I078@ INDI
1 NAME Deana /Baccinelli/
1 BIRT
2 DATE 11 Nov 1972
2 PLAC Galveston, Texas
1 OCCU Catholic
1 FAMC @F247@
0 @I079@ INDI
1 NAME Suzanne /Brown/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 17 Jul 1967
2 PLAC Galveston, Texas
1 CONF
2 PLAC Nurse
1 OCCU Catholic
1 FAMS @F060@
1 FAMC @F246@
0 @I080@ INDI
1 NAME Charles Wallace /Maxwell/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1 Jun 1937
2 PLAC Galveston, Texas
1 CONF
2 PLAC Shell Oil Co.
1 OCCU Catholic
1 INFO II
1 FAMS @F250@
1 FAMS @F251@
1 FAMC @F145@
0 @I081@ INDI
1 NAME Rose Marie /Bates/
1 SEX F
1 FAMS @F250@
0 @I082@ INDI
1 NAME Maggie /Angelone/
1 SEX F
1 FAMS @F251@
0 @I083@ INDI
1 NAME John /Lanterman/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 12 Jun 1784
2 PLAC Blairstown, N.J.
1 DEAT
2 DATE 22 Jan 1869
2 PLAC Blairstown, N.J.
1 CONF
2 PLAC Farmer
1 OCCU ?
1 FAMS @F260@
1 FAMC @F271@
0 @I084@ INDI
1 NAME Lou Ann /Maxwell/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 17 Aug 1945
2 PLAC Galveston, Texas
1 CONF
2 PLAC Pharmacist
1 FAMS @F252@
1 FAMS @F253@
1 FAMC @F145@
0 @I085@ INDI
1 NAME Richard /Murillo/
1 SEX M
1 FAMS @F252@
0 @I086@ INDI
1 NAME (?) /Bruck/
1 SEX M
1 FAMS @F253@
0 @I087@ INDI
1 NAME Marilyn Lenore /Maxwell/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 9 Dec 1948
2 PLAC Galveston, Texas
1 CONF
2 PLAC Insurance sales
1 OCCU Catholic
1 FAMS @F254@
1 FAMS @F255@
1 FAMC @F145@
0 @I088@ INDI
1 NAME Willy /Frieze/
1 SEX M
1 FAMS @F254@
0 @I089@ INDI
1 NAME Jay /Royer/
1 SEX M
1 FAMS @F255@
0 @I090@ INDI
1 NAME Rosemary Lucille /Maxwell/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 4 Feb 1954
2 PLAC Galveston, Texas
1 CONF
2 PLAC Legal secretary
1 OCCU Catholic
1 FAMS @F256@
1 FAMC @F145@
0 @I091@ INDI
1 NAME Greg /Bossow/
1 SEX M
1 FAMS @F256@
0 @I092@ INDI
1 NAME Cynthia Anne /Maxwell/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 18 Aug 1957
2 PLAC Galveston, Texas
1 FAMS @F257@
1 FAMC @F250@
0 @I093@ INDI
1 NAME Richard /McDaniel/
1 SEX M
1 FAMS @F257@
0 @I094@ INDI
1 NAME Mercy /Luse/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 31 Oct 1761
2 PLAC Blairstown, N.J.
1 DEAT
2 DATE 18 Apr 1815
2 PLAC Blairstown, N.J.
1 CHR
2 PLAC Union Brick, Blairstown, N.J.
1 CONF
2 PLAC Local office holder
1 FAMS @F271@
1 FAMC @F014@
0 @I095@ INDI
1 NAME Catherine Marie /Maxwell/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 9 Mar 1960
2 PLAC Galveston, Texas
1 CONF
2 PLAC Secretary, saleswoman
1 OCCU Catholic
1 FAMS @F258@
1 FAMC @F250@
0 @I096@ INDI
1 NAME Douglas /Tagliabue/
1 SEX M
1 FAMS @F258@
0 @I097@ INDI
1 NAME Charles Wallace /Maxwell/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 17 Apr 1961
2 PLAC Galveston, Texas
1 CONF
2 PLAC Store manager
1 OCCU Catholic
1 INFO III
1 FAMS @F259@
1 FAMC @F250@
0 @I098@ INDI
1 NAME Lesna /Bawcom/
1 SEX F
1 FAMS @F259@
0 @I099@ INDI
1 NAME Christopher Daniel /Maxwell/
1 BIRT
2 DATE 5 Nov 1970
2 PLAC Houston, Texas
1 OCCU Catholic
1 FAMC @F250@
0 @I100@ INDI
1 NAME Theresa Lynne /McDaniel/
1 BIRT
2 DATE 22 Oct 1980
2 PLAC San Antonio, Texas
1 FAMC @F257@
0 @I101@ INDI
1 NAME Christina Marie /McDaniel/
1 BIRT
2 DATE 28 Jul 1991
2 PLAC San Antonio, Texas
1 FAMC @F257@
0 @I102@ INDI
1 NAME Brett Aaron /Tagliabue/
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1 Dec 1987
2 PLAC Houston, Texas
1 OCCU Catholic
1 FAMC @F258@
0 @I103@ INDI
1 NAME Garrett Ryan /Tagliabue/
1 BIRT
2 DATE 26 Dec 1990
2 PLAC Houston, Texas
1 OCCU Catholic
1 FAMC @F258@
0 @I104@ INDI
1 NAME Kimberley Ann /Murillo/
1 BIRT
2 DATE 9 May 1966
2 PLAC Galveston, Texas
1 FAMC @F252@
0 @I105@ INDI
1 NAME Mary Margaret /Mongan/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 7 Apr 1928
2 PLAC Galveston, Tx.
1 BURI
2 PLAC Ball High School, Galveston, Tx.
1 BAPM
2 PLAC Democrat
1 CONF
2 PLAC Housewife
1 OCCU Catholic
1 FAMS @F111@
1 FAMC @F238@
1 NOTE BIO:[3.25x4.25]Confirmation day.
2 CONT It's too early to tell this tale... 
2 CONT [3.5x3.5]Graduation day, May 1947. 
2 CONT But as you can see... 
2 CONT [7.25x5.75]Wedding day, Oct 8, 1948. From left in back: Mary Louise 
2 CONT Bartels, uncle Toby Mongan, mom, dad (come on smile), Pawzee. In front 
2 CONT from left: Mary Louise (Wenzel) Birkmeyer, Thomas W. Mongan holding 
2 CONT Bobby Celli, and Mamaw. 
2 CONT She turned out pretty swell. 
2 CONT [3.25x3.25]Dinner time. 
0 @I106@ INDI
1 NAME Jacob /Lanterman/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 31 May 1751
2 PLAC Blairstown, N.J.
1 DEAT
2 DATE 13 Oct 1829
2 PLAC Blairstown, N.J.
1 CONF
2 PLAC Farmer, local official
1 OCCU Presbyterian
1 FAMS @F271@
1 FAMC @F013@
0 @I107@ INDI
1 NAME Jeffrey /Royer/
1 BIRT
2 DATE 2 Jul 1985
1 FAMC @F255@
0 @I108@ INDI
1 NAME Amanda /Bossow/
1 BIRT
2 DATE 8 Oct 1986
2 PLAC Houston, Texas
1 OCCU Catholic
1 FAMC @F256@
0 @I109@ INDI
1 NAME Helen /Maxwell/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 14 Sep 1907
2 PLAC Galveston, Texas
1 OCCU Catholic
1 FAMS @F032@
1 FAMC @F215@
1 NOTE Birthdate and wedding date both come from her baptism record in the
2 CONT Galveston-Houston diocese archives in Houston. 
0 @I110@ INDI
1 NAME Arthur /Maxwell/
1 BIRT
2 PLAC Galveston, Texas
1 FAMC @F215@
0 @I111@ INDI
1 NAME Woodrow Pabst /Maxwell/
1 BIRT
2 PLAC Galveston, Texas
1 FAMC @F215@
0 @I112@ INDI
1 NAME George R. /Maxwell/
1 BIRT
2 PLAC Galveston, Texas
1 OCCU Catholic
1 FAMC @F215@
0 @I113@ INDI
1 NAME Harry Daniel /Maxwell/
1 BIRT
2 PLAC Galveston, Texas
1 OCCU Catholic
1 FAMC @F215@
0 @I114@ INDI
1 NAME Gana Patiya /Thomas/
1 BIRT
2 DATE 29 May 1991
2 PLAC Los Angeles, California
0 @I115@ INDI
1 NAME Carroll "Butch" /Dudley/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 19 May 1940
2 PLAC Galveston, Texas
1 DEAT
2 DATE 8 May 1985
2 PLAC Bogalusa, Louisiana
1 CHR
2 PLAC Grace Memorial, Hitchcock
1 CONF
2 PLAC Construction
1 FAMS @F261@
1 FAMS @F262@
1 FAMS @F263@
1 FAMC @F156@
0 @I116@ INDI
1 NAME Catherine /Dills/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 PLAC New Jersey
1 DEAT
2 PLAC New Jersey
1 CHR
2 PLAC Union Brick
1 CONF
2 PLAC Housewife
1 FAMS @F002@
0 @I117@ INDI
1 NAME Patricia Jeanne /Dudley/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 3 Mar 1944
2 PLAC Galveston, Texas
1 FAMS @F264@
1 FAMC @F156@
0 @I118@ INDI
1 NAME James /Austin/
1 SEX M
1 FAMS @F264@
0 @I119@ INDI
1 NAME Lena /(?)/
0 @I120@ INDI
1 NAME Vincent /Guzzi/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE Feb 1857
2 PLAC Italy
1 DEAT
2 DATE 21 Sep 1908
2 PLAC Galveston, Texas
1 FAMS @F265@
1 NOTE BIO:The story of Vincent Guzzi is a sad one. Born in Italy and
2 CONT coming to America in 1882  at the age of 25 he sought him- 
2 CONT self a wife. Her name was Lena Newmann. She was born 
2 CONT in Galveston, Texas. 
2 CONT He should have looked a little harder if family lore is 
2 CONT correct. 
2 CONT Vincent and Lena had several children, five in all. They were: 
2 CONT Josephine, the great grandmother of Peggy Dudley Lanterman, 
2 CONT Charles John Alexander Guzzi, b. June 29, 1894, Frank David Guzzi, 
2 CONT b. Dec. 1897, Louis Emil, (weird huh, she had a Louis as a brother 
2 CONT and later married a Louis Dudley) b. SEP 1899. 
2 CONT Anthony Guzzi died at the age of 4. He never lived to see the 
2 CONT infamous day his father was gunned down. 
2 CONT Also living in the house was Nick Guzzi, Vincent's brother. 
2 CONT Nick, according to the 1900 Census, was a 41, two year younger 
2 CONT than Vincent. He also had the ominous occupation of salesman 
2 CONT (being a Lanterman, the one writing this, that has an spooky ring). 
2 CONT Vincent was a simple merchant. As to how our great government 
2 CONT Census takers differentiated between a merchant --- one who 
2 CONT sells --- from a salesman --- one who sells --- is beyond my 
2 CONT comprehension. But then that bureaucrats for you. 
2 CONT The deed is done. 
2 CONT According to Alice Jane Guzzi Pratt, the daughter of Charles mentioned 
2 CONT above, his loving wife and even more loving mother-in-law (young men 
2 CONT see story about Tobias Mongan for what in-laws are good for) told him 
2 CONT his horse was loose. 
2 CONT Not wanting to lose a good horse, Vincent, said to be a smallish man, 
2 CONT ran after the steed. 
2 CONT But he got no further than his property line. Waiting for him outside 
2 CONT his home at 728 Ave. D., was the man who would take his life and 
2 CONT run off with his wife (nice rhyme eh?) and children to Nashville, 
2 CONT Tenn. 
2 CONT Who was the man who shot Vincent Guzzi? Well, according to Alice Pratt 
2 CONT it was a man called Nix, thought to be a medical student at the 
2 CONT island's University of Texas Medical Branch. 
2 CONT But it sure is a coincidence that a man named Nick (remember him, the 
2 CONT salesman) lived with Lena and Vincent. 
2 CONT Could it have been brother Nick? Stay tuned genealogy fans. 
2 CONT So what happened to Lena and Nick ... um ... Nix? you may ask. 
2 CONT According to Alice Pratt, they lived out the remainder of their 
2 CONT lives in Nashville. What a song!! 
2 CONT Have any doubts about the Nashville connection? Margaret Dudley 
2 CONT Lanterman says her grandfather Louis Dudley II says he remembers 
2 CONT visiting Nashville with his mother Josephine Guzzi Dudley and his 
2 CONT father Louis Earnest Dudley. 
2 CONT Things that need to be checked to confirm all this: Death record 
2 CONT for Vincent Guzzi. (See mortuary records index from 1900 on.) Just 
2 CONT for starters. 
2 CONT 1900 Census for Galveston, Texas.
2 CONT Alice Jane Guzzi Pratt, Dickinson, Texas, daughter of 
2 CONT Charles Guzzi 
0 @I121@ INDI
1 NAME Alexis /Birkmeyer/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE Nov 1892
2 PLAC Galveston, Texas
1 OCCU Catholic
1 FAMC @F089@
0 @I122@ INDI
1 NAME Louis /Birkmeyer/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE Oct 1895
2 PLAC Galveston, Texas
1 DEAT
2 DATE 28 Apr 1931
2 PLAC Galveston, Texas
1 OCCU Catholic
1 FAMC @F089@
1 NOTE ~BCAUSE OF DEATH: Suicide, poisoning~b
2 CONT ~UFamily lore: Legless and suffering a broken heart.~u. 
0 @I123@ INDI
1 NAME Louise /(?)/
1 SEX F
1 FAMS @F230@
0 @I124@ INDI
1 NAME George /Snover/
1 SEX M
1 FAMS @F002@
0 @I125@ INDI
1 NAME Edwin H. /Birkmeyer/
1 BIRT
2 DATE Mar 1900
2 PLAC Galveston, Texas
1 FAMC @F229@
1 NOTE CEB, Jr. says his father never mentioned a brother by this name. He
2 CONT adds that perhaps Edwin died in infancy. Perhaps my info is wrong. 
0 @I126@ INDI
1 NAME Alice Jane /Boniface/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 5 Nov 1881
2 PLAC New York, New York
1 DEAT
2 DATE 24 May 1953
1 FAMS @F266@
1 FAMC @F207@
0 @I127@ INDI
1 NAME William /Smith/
1 SEX M
1 FAMS @F266@
0 @I128@ INDI
1 NAME Frederick Franklin /Boniface/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 23 Nov 1883
2 PLAC Morristown, New Jersey
1 DEAT
2 DATE 10 Apr 1951
1 FAMS @F267@
1 FAMC @F207@
0 @I129@ INDI
1 NAME May T. /(?)/
1 SEX F
1 FAMS @F267@
0 @I130@ INDI
1 NAME Addison Octavius /Boniface/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 20 Jul 1885
2 PLAC Morristown, New Jersey
1 DEAT
2 DATE 11 Oct 1946
1 FAMS @F268@
1 FAMC @F207@
0 @I131@ INDI
1 NAME Eleanor McK. /(?)/
1 SEX F
1 FAMS @F268@
0 @I132@ INDI
1 NAME Mary Parker /Boniface/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 25 Feb 1887
2 PLAC Morristown, New Jersey
1 DEAT
2 DATE 26 Oct 1968
1 FAMC @F207@
0 @I133@ INDI
1 NAME William James /Boniface/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 2 Aug 1888
2 PLAC Morristown, New Jersey
1 DEAT
2 DATE 2 Mar 1895
1 FAMC @F207@
0 @I134@ INDI
1 NAME Edmund Arthur /Boniface/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 9 Jul 1890
2 PLAC Morristown, New Jersey
1 FAMS @F269@
1 FAMC @F207@
0 @I135@ INDI
1 NAME Elizabeth /Peterson/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 30 Jun 1719
2 PLAC Blairstown, N.J.
1 DEAT
2 DATE 30 Nov 1798
2 PLAC Blairstown, N.J.
1 CHR
2 PLAC Union Brick, Blairstown, N.J.
1 FAMS @F013@
0 @I136@ INDI
1 NAME Evelyn C. /(?)/
1 SEX F
1 FAMS @F269@
0 @I137@ INDI
1 NAME Raymond Irving /Boniface/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 11 Aug 1892
2 PLAC Morristown, New Jersey
1 DEAT
2 DATE 25 Jan 1917
1 FAMS @F270@
1 FAMC @F207@
0 @I138@ INDI
1 NAME James Ernest /Bockoven/
1 SEX M
1 FAMS @F272@
0 @I139@ INDI
1 NAME Paul Rutherford /Boniface/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 17 Jan 1895
2 PLAC Morristown, New Jersey
1 DEAT
2 DATE 30 Sep 1970
1 FAMS @F273@
1 FAMC @F207@
0 @I140@ INDI
1 NAME Olga S. /(?)/
1 SEX F
1 FAMS @F273@
0 @I141@ INDI
1 NAME Philip Taylor /Boniface/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 21 Jul 1901
2 PLAC Morristown, New Jersey
1 DEAT
2 DATE 25 Aug 1959
2 PLAC Morristown, New Jersey
1 FAMS @F274@
1 FAMC @F207@
0 @I142@ INDI
1 NAME Cecilia /Clarke/
1 SEX F
1 FAMS @F274@
0 @I143@ INDI
1 NAME Dorothy Woodward /Boniface/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 4 Oct 1902
2 PLAC Morristown, New Jersey
1 DEAT
2 DATE 12 Sep 1979
2 PLAC Rahway, New Jersey
1 FAMS @F275@
1 FAMC @F207@
0 @I144@ INDI
1 NAME Francis /Schmidt/
1 SEX M
1 FAMS @F275@
0 @I145@ INDI
1 NAME Sarah Mildred /Boniface/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 24 Feb 1904
2 PLAC Morristown, New Jersey
1 FAMS @F276@
1 FAMC @F207@
0 @I146@ INDI
1 NAME Johan Peter /Lanterman/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1714
2 PLAC Wurttemberg, Germany
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1794
2 PLAC Blairstown, N.J.
1 CONF
2 PLAC Farmer, miller
1 OCCU Unaffiliated, Presbyterian
1 FAMS @F013@
1 NOTE BIO:  Of Johan's origins in Germany, very little is known.
2 CONT According to some early family historians, he said he came from Wurt 
2 CONT temberg Province in the Black Forest area near the Rhine and French 
2 CONT border. 
2 CONT However, from other sources we get an idea of what life in Germany 
2 CONT was like in the 1700s. Hard times in the aftermath of the Thirty Yea 
2 CONT rs War, high taxes, vineyard crop failures and conscription of labor 
2 CONT all led to an exodus of young Germans to America. 
2 CONT The route was by boat down the Rhine to Rotterdam, where passage 
2 CONT on English ships could be arranged. So probably    in the cold, early 
2 CONT Spring of 1738, Johan Peter --- whom  his friends called "Peter" 
2 CONT --- gathered clothing, food and bedding and embarked. 
2 CONT He was 24 and had a fair education. The ride down the Rhine was no 
2 CONT pleasure trip. The boat fare covered only transportation and 
2 CONT passengers had to fend for themselves for food and sleeping 
2 CONT arrangements, camping on shore each night. 
2 CONT The Atlantic crossing was hardly any better and many people became 
2 CONT ill and died. 
2 CONT Johan's arrival in Philadelphia is documented by papers still 
2 CONT there. One of these is the pledge of allegiance to the government, 
2 CONT required of all immigrants at that time, in the following words: 
2 CONT "At the courthouse of Philadelphia, September 20, 1738, present 
2 CONT Clement Plumsted, Sam'l Hassel, Thomas Grifith, Andrew Hamilton, 
2 CONT Esqrs: The Palatinates whose names are underwritten imported on the 
2 CONT ships "Nancy" and "Friendship", William Wallace and Henry Beach, 
2 CONT Commanders, from Rotterdam but last from Dover in England, did this 
2 CONT day take and subscribe to the oaths to the government, viz:. ..." 
2 CONT Johan Peter's signature is the sixth of a long list, of which a 
2 CONT facsimile is reproduced here: 
2 CONT [6x4.5]Johan's will and signature. 
2 CONT His signature (last name only) also appears on the "Nancy's" 
2 CONT passenger list. In both cases, the curl mark over the third letter 
2 CONT of the last name is plain and definitely indicates a U, according to 
2 CONT scholars of German script of the era. Thus he signed his name 
2 CONT Lautermann at this time. 
2 CONT One theory is that due to frequent mistaking of the U for an N as 
2 CONT time went by, he eventually adopted Lanterman as the Anglicized 
2 CONT spelling. A few descendants, however, adhered to the Lautermann 
2 CONT spelling. (e.g., his grandson William, #2 in Lantermans In America). 
2 CONT Little is known about Johan's first 20 years in America. He met 
2 CONT and about 1739, married Elizabeth Peterson, whose family is said to 
2 CONT have antedated Johan in America (but another tradition has him 
2 CONT meeting her on board the ship.), and they may have first settled 
2 CONT along Papakating Creek in Wantage Township, Sussex County, N.J. 
2 CONT [5.5x4.25]Blairstown and Knowlton, N.J. 
2 CONT Nothing definite is known about Elizabeth's family, although she 
2 CONT is said to have had a brother, Daniel, who associated with Johan in 
2 CONT operating a grist mill. Johan apparently had no particular 1 RELIgious 
2 CONT affiliations and his wife is credited with influencing him to become 
2 CONT the faithful Presbyterian that he was in later years. 
2 CONT There are conflicting stories about his early occupations, the 
2 CONT most persistent of which is that he engaged in the construction and 
2 CONT operation of water-powered flour mills. But first he had to clear 
2 CONT some land, build a one-room cabin, and plant crops to support his 
2 CONT family. The country was wild and rugged, still inhabited by some 
2 CONT Indians as well as by wolves and panthers, and almost everything 
2 CONT had to be made by hand, with some help from settlers. 
2 CONT Johan apparently moved about, possibly into lower New York state 
2 CONT and eastern Pennsylvania, perhaps building and selling log houses 
2 CONT and mills, then moving on to a new site. The first definite records 
2 CONT begin about 1773 after some of his children had grown up and 
2 CONT married, when he purchased 166 acres of former William Penn 
2 CONT land in what was then called Knowlton, a mile or so south of 
2 CONT present day Blairstown, N.J. 
2 CONT There he established a farm near a settlement known as Union 
2 CONT Brick, where he spent the rest of his life. The name was by 
2 CONT association with Union Brick Church, which Johan and several 
2 CONT of his sons helped build on land donated by Benjamin Luse and 
2 CONT Walter Brown. 
2 CONT [7.25x5.25]From Lanterman's in America. 
2 CONT This building along with the others has long since disappeared, 
2 CONT but the cemetery associated with the church is still maintained in 
2 CONT excellent condition and well worth a visit. 
2 CONT Another church in whose cemetery Lantermans were buried was the 
2 CONT Yellow Frame Church. This was located in upper or northern 
2 CONT Hardwicke Township, a few miles northeast of Blairstown. All 
2 CONT traces of it and its cemetery are now gone. 
2 CONT Johan is reputed to have supplied grain and other provisions to 
2 CONT Washinton's army during the Revolutionary War, and at least two of 
2 CONT his sons served in the army. He became a U.S. citizen through 
2 CONT naturalization in 1768, by act of the N.J. legislature. 
2 CONT [2.5x3.5]Shannon Lanterman salutes him on July 3, 1986. 
2 CONT Johan and Elizabeth had six sons and six daughters who grew up and 
2 CONT married. The older ones moved away. Peter, the third son, went west 
2 CONT to Penn., thence to Fleming, Kentucky, about 1818 moved to Spring 
2 CONT Creek, Ill., about six miles west of the center of present day 
2 CONT Springfield. 
2 CONT Some of the history of this branch is recorded in a Lanterman-Robb 
2 CONT book, which, unfortunately, contains several errors -- one which 
2 CONT places Peter's birthplace in Germany --- but Johan's will specifically 
2 CONT mentions this son, Peter. 
2 CONT Jacob, the seventh child, inherited his father's farm and was an 
2 CONT executor of his estate. Abraham, the 10th child, acquired a nearby 
2 CONT farm and is said to have operated a hotel in Union Brick. 
2 CONT W.F. Lanterman  March 1973 
2 CONT CHILDREN OF JOHAN PETER LANTERMAN 
2 CONT 0 JOHAN PETER LANTERMAN & ELIZABETH PETERSON 
2 CONT 1 John Lanterman & (1) Susannah Weybrandt 
2 CONT 248   "   "          (2) Mary Saladay 
2 CONT 260 Mary Lanterman & _______ Crawn 
2 CONT 261 Anna Lanterman & Isaac Jayne 
2 CONT 262 Daniel Lanterman & (1) Maria Derenberger 
2 CONT 342   "       "        (2) Catherine Williamson 
2 CONT 343 Christina Lanterman (d infant; name reused at #905) 
2 CONT 344 Peter Lanterman & Aletta Applegate 
2 CONT 619 Jacob Lanterman & Mercy Luse 
2 CONT 806 Isaac Lanterman & Sarah Jolly (?) 
2 CONT 836 Sophia Lanterman & Samuel I Brown 
2 CONT 837 Abraham Lanterman & (1) Sarah Ogden 
2 CONT 903    "       "        (2) Erma Catherine Snyder 
2 CONT 904 Elizabeth Lanterman & _______ Wilkison (?) 
2 CONT 905 Christina Lanterman II & Daniel Brown 
2 CONT 906 Sarah Lanterman & Joseph Manning 
0 @I147@ INDI
1 NAME William /Schaefer/
1 SEX M
1 FAMS @F276@
0 @I148@ INDI
1 NAME Paul /Smith/
1 SEX M
1 FAMS @F277@
1 FAMC @F266@
0 @I149@ INDI
1 NAME Ruth D. /(?)/
1 SEX F
1 FAMS @F277@
0 @I150@ INDI
1 NAME Alice /Smith/
1 SEX F
1 FAMS @F278@
1 FAMC @F266@
0 @I151@ INDI
1 NAME Alvin /Koelsch/
1 SEX M
1 FAMS @F278@
0 @I152@ INDI
1 NAME Charles /Smith/
1 SEX M
1 FAMS @F279@
1 FAMC @F266@
0 @I153@ INDI
1 NAME Gwenyth S. /(?)/
1 SEX F
1 FAMS @F279@
0 @I154@ INDI
1 NAME Addison /Smith/
1 SEX M
1 FAMS @F280@
1 FAMC @F266@
0 @I155@ INDI
1 NAME Marguerite C. /(?)/
1 SEX F
1 FAMS @F280@
0 @I156@ INDI
1 NAME Harriet /Smith/
1 SEX F
1 FAMS @F281@
1 FAMC @F266@
0 @I157@ INDI
1 NAME John Karl /Lanterman/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 13 May 1928
2 PLAC Morristown, N.J.
1 DEAT
2 DATE 10 Feb 1992
2 PLAC Morristown, N.J.
1 CONF
2 PLAC Art supply salesman
1 OCCU Methodist
1 FAMS @F024@
1 FAMC @F216@
1 NOTE BIO:[1.75x1.75]Photo cropped from picture of JKJr.'s eagle scout
2 CONT ceremony. 
0 @I158@ INDI
1 NAME Clarence /Rauter/
1 SEX M
1 FAMS @F281@
0 @I159@ INDI
1 NAME Evelyn /Smith/
1 SEX F
1 FAMS @F003@
1 FAMC @F266@
0 @I160@ INDI
1 NAME Stanley /Spier/
1 SEX M
1 FAMS @F003@
0 @I161@ INDI
1 NAME Irving /Smith/
1 FAMC @F266@
0 @I162@ INDI
1 NAME Doris /Boniface/
1 SEX F
1 FAMS @F004@
1 FAMC @F267@
0 @I163@ INDI
1 NAME Douglas /Campbell/
1 SEX M
1 FAMS @F004@
0 @I164@ INDI
1 NAME Edmund /Boniface/
1 SEX M
1 FAMS @F005@
1 FAMC @F269@
0 @I165@ INDI
1 NAME Doris W. /(?)/
1 SEX F
1 FAMS @F005@
0 @I166@ INDI
1 NAME John K. /Boniface/
1 INFO II
1 FAMC @F269@
0 @I167@ INDI
1 NAME Nellie E. /(?)/
1 SEX F
1 FAMS @F270@
0 @I168@ INDI
1 NAME Elizabeth /Young/
1 SEX F
1 CONF
2 PLAC Teacher, Housewife
1 OCCU Methodist
1 FAMS @F024@
0 @I169@ INDI
1 NAME Ruth Ropes /Boniface/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 28 Feb 1898
2 PLAC Morristown, New Jersey
1 DEAT
2 DATE 25 Jun 1980
2 PLAC Morris Plains, N.J.
1 FAMS @F272@
1 FAMC @F207@
0 @I170@ INDI
1 NAME Beatrice /Boniface/
1 FAMC @F273@
0 @I171@ INDI
1 NAME Paul /Boniface/
1 INFO II
1 FAMC @F273@
0 @I172@ INDI
1 NAME Robert /Bockoven/
1 FAMC @F272@
0 @I173@ INDI
1 NAME Helen /Bockoven/
1 FAMC @F272@
0 @I174@ INDI
1 NAME Donald /Bockoven/
1 FAMC @F272@
0 @I175@ INDI
1 NAME Phillip /Boniface/
1 INFO II
1 FAMC @F274@
0 @I176@ INDI
1 NAME Betty /Boniface/
1 FAMC @F274@
0 @I177@ INDI
1 NAME Mary /Boniface/
1 INFO II
1 FAMC @F274@
0 @I178@ INDI
1 NAME Dorothy /Schmidt/
1 FAMC @F275@
0 @I179@ INDI
1 NAME John Karl /Lanterman/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 12 May 1950
2 PLAC Morristown, N.J.
1 CONF
2 PLAC Art supply store owner
1 OCCU Methodist
1 INFO Jr.
1 FAMS @F035@
1 FAMC @F024@
0 @I180@ INDI
1 NAME Barbara /Schmidt/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 12 Apr 1931
2 PLAC Morristown, New Jersey
1 DEAT
2 DATE 6 Nov 1962
2 PLAC Sarasota, Florida
1 CONF
2 PLAC musician/domocologist
1 OCCU Christian
1 FAMS @F092@
1 FAMC @F275@
0 @I181@ INDI
1 NAME Wilma /Schaefer/
1 FAMC @F276@
0 @I182@ INDI
1 NAME Margaret E. /Griffithes/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 6 Jul 1846
1 DEAT
2 DATE 29 Aug 1870
2 PLAC New York, New York
1 CHR
2 PLAC Greenwood, Brooklyn, Lot 19721
1 FAMS @F208@
0 @I183@ INDI
1 NAME Sarah Elizabeth /Chase/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 26 Dec 1847
1 DEAT
2 DATE 11 Mar 1879
2 PLAC New York, New York
1 CHR
2 PLAC Greenwood/Brklyn/lot 19721/187
1 FAMS @F209@
0 @I184@ INDI
1 NAME Robert /Smith/
1 FAMC @F277@
0 @I185@ INDI
1 NAME Wallace /Smith/
1 FAMC @F277@
0 @I186@ INDI
1 NAME Walter /Smith/
1 FAMC @F277@
0 @I187@ INDI
1 NAME William /Koelsch/
1 FAMC @F278@
0 @I188@ INDI
1 NAME Nancy /Koelsch/
1 FAMC @F278@
0 @I189@ INDI
1 NAME Marion /Smith/
1 FAMC @F278@
0 @I190@ INDI
1 NAME Karen Lee /Crooker/
1 SEX F
1 FAMS @F035@
0 @I191@ INDI
1 NAME Clifford /Smith/
1 FAMC @F279@
0 @I192@ INDI
1 NAME Drew /Smith/
1 FAMC @F279@
0 @I193@ INDI
1 NAME Wilma /Smith/
1 FAMC @F280@
0 @I194@ INDI
1 NAME Haril /Smith/
1 FAMC @F280@
0 @I195@ INDI
1 NAME Thomas /Rauter/
1 FAMC @F281@
0 @I196@ INDI
1 NAME James /Spier/
1 FAMC @F003@
0 @I197@ INDI
1 NAME Doris /Boniface/
1 INFO II
1 FAMC @F005@
0 @I198@ INDI
1 NAME John K. /Boniface/
1 INFO III
1 FAMC @F005@
0 @I199@ INDI
1 NAME Ella Louise /Boniface/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 11 Jul 1873
2 PLAC New York, New York
1 DEAT
2 DATE 20 Feb 1955
1 FAMC @F209@
0 @I200@ INDI
1 NAME Joseph Randolph /Boniface/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 18 Feb 1875
2 PLAC New York, New York
1 DEAT
2 DATE 3 May 1954
1 CONF
2 PLAC SpAmWar vet, Marines, San Juan
1 FAMC @F209@
1 NOTE Reference to his involvement in the battle of San Juan Hill comes from
2 CONT a 1904 news article in the Morristown Daily Record announcing the 
2 CONT birth of probably Sarah Mildred Boniface, b. Feb. 24, 1904. 
0 @I201@ INDI
1 NAME Timothy Jason /Lanterman/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 13 Feb 1977
2 PLAC Hanover, N.H.
1 OCCU Methodist
1 FAMC @F035@
0 @I202@ INDI
1 NAME Emma Susan /Boniface/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 14 Oct 1876
2 PLAC New York, New York
1 DEAT
2 DATE 8 Jul 1956
1 FAMC @F209@
0 @I203@ INDI
1 NAME Grace Evelyn /Boniface/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 20 Nov 1878
2 PLAC New York, New York
1 DEAT
2 DATE 28 Jul 1965
1 FAMS @F097@
1 FAMC @F209@
0 @I204@ INDI
1 NAME Abbie /Boniface/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 17 Jul 1868
2 PLAC New York, New York
1 DEAT
2 DATE 22 Jul 1938
1 FAMS @F006@
1 FAMC @F208@
0 @I205@ INDI
1 NAME George /De Groot/
1 SEX M
1 FAMS @F006@
0 @I206@ INDI
1 NAME Mike /Mongan/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 PLAC Ireland
1 DEAT
2 DATE 8 Sep 1900
2 PLAC Galveston, Texas
1 CHR
2 PLAC Unknown
1 CONF
2 PLAC Laborer
1 OCCU Catholic
1 FAMS @F007@
1 FAMS @F058@
1 NOTE BIO:Is this the Mike Mongan, who was holding Tobias' hand as
2 CONT he lay dying in March of 1896? 
2 CONT Or is this another relative and Michael Mongan, father 
2 CONT of Tom W. Mongan, Sr., Pat, James, Michael, Jr. et al, 
2 CONT the brother? 
2 CONT Here are some facts to consider and keep in mind until I get 
2 CONT definite proof. But until then I will operate under the assumption 
2 CONT that this Mike Mongan is another relative and Michael Mongan is 
2 CONT the brother of Tobias. 
2 CONT 1. Mike Mongan (#295) is living at 4418 Ave K with his wife 
2 CONT Kate, age 50 in 1900, son John, age 23, and his wife 
2 CONT Luantha (Buck) Mongan, age 22. Except for Luantha, 
2 CONT all were born in Ireland and immigrated to the U.S. in 
2 CONT 1881, this according to the 1900 census. 
2 CONT (So it seems this John is not the John of Tobias and now 
2 CONT it appears there were two John Mongans who died in the 
2 CONT 1900 Storm. The GDN for Oct. 7, 1900 show the Mongans 
2 CONT at 4418 K died. I have yet to confirm, the Mongan family 
2 CONT bible which shows Johnnie Mongan, as he was called, died 
2 CONT also in the 1900 Storm.) 
2 CONT 2. Michael Mongan (#405) lived much of his time at 43rd and Winnie. 
2 CONT And in one of his census reports he claims to have been born in Aug. 
2 CONT 1839, a birthdate, that, while it contradicts the age given in his 
2 CONT obituary, is much closer to that of Tobias. 
2 CONT 3. There are only three other Mongan's listed in the City Directory 
2 CONT for 1882-83, besides Tobias Mongan, Pat, Martin and Mike. While 
2 CONT Pat and Martin are listed living with a John May, Mike is living 
2 CONT with Tobias. 
2 CONT Pat I discovered in other probate records is the brother of Martin 
2 CONT and the "cousin" of Thomas W. Mongan, who lives at 3621 Postoffice 
2 CONT at the time of Pat's death. The funeral, according to Pat's obit, 
2 CONT was held at 3621. 
2 CONT 4.According to probate documents for Mike #295, shortly after the 
2 CONT 1900 Storm, Tobias' son, Thomas W. Mongan, pays a $1,000 bond 
2 CONT to be temporary administrator for the estate of Mike Mongan. 
2 CONT The inventory of Mike Mongan's estate includes the west half of 
2 CONT lot 11 and the east half of lot 12 in block 164, worth $350 and 
2 CONT a bridge warrant worth $50. This property would be on Ave. K. 
2 CONT TW applied in October of 1900 for the temporary status and was 
2 CONT granted it on Nov. 21, 1900. 
2 CONT But for some reason TW 1 1 RELInquished his temporary status to Pat 
2 CONT Mongan on September 21, 1901. By October 25, 1901, Pat had 
2 CONT filed for temporary status by paying a $1,000 bond. 
2 CONT Later after Pat dies, his will is probated and as part of his 
2 CONT inventory he leaves his "cousin" Thomas W. Mongan, the same 
2 CONT property he received from TW in 1901. Pat also left his 
2 CONT brother Martin $5. 
2 CONT But from Pat's obituary, it appears Martin has died as it says 
2 CONT he has no other living relatives, besides Thomas W. Mongan. 
2 CONT 5. All this is a long way of saying Michael Mongan and Mike Mongan 
2 CONT were clearly two different people, one dying in 1912 and the other 
2 CONT in the 1900 Storm, and that Tobias'son temporarily took possesion 
2 CONT of Mike's property, handing it off to a cousin, whom Thomas later 
2 CONT buried and that though Tom W. Mongan, Sr.'s obituary says he arrived 
2 CONT in Galveston about 1879, that must be wrong because there is no 
2 CONT listing for Michael Mongan in 1882, other than the one living with 
2 CONT Tobias. 
2 CONT Some reasons Micheal #405 is Tobias' brother: 
2 CONT A. 
2 CONT Michael Mongan's obit says he was born in Roscommon and he named his 
2 CONT first-born son Thomas William Mongan. As I have documented elsewhere 
2 CONT Thomas Mongan and Mary Jennings are the father of Tobias. 
2 CONT It could have been common for Michael to name his son after his dad 
2 CONT just as Tobias did. Right? 
2 CONT No way to counter that --- other than I never found a Michael Mongan 
2 CONT baptised in 1853 or 54, the year Michael would have been born 
2 CONT according to his obit in 1912. 
2 CONT But then again, Michael's census data for 1900 says he was born in 
2 CONT Aug. 1839 and unfortunately the LDS Family History Center doesn't 
2 CONT have baptismal records for Kiltullagh parish on microfilm that 
2 CONT far back. The LDS's archives only begin in Sept. 1839. 
2 CONT B. 
2 CONT Michael Mongan's obit lists as surviving him three nieces and a 
2 CONT nephew. Mollie, Bridget, Jennie and Thomas would fit that bill. 
2 CONT But so too would the offspring of his wife's siblings, living in 
2 CONT Galveston, if in fact they did, or back in Ireland. 
2 CONT So, it appears despite the close relationship Tobias' son had 
2 CONT with Mike #295 regarding his will, Michael #405's birthdate and 
2 CONT close relationship he and Tobias had regarding the sponsoring of 
2 CONT each other's children into the Catholic Church seem to make Michael 
2 CONT #405 the prime candidate as Tobias' brother. 
2 CONT City Directory, 1882-83, 1896-97.
2 CONT Probate documents, Book 37, pp. 135, 136, Book 38, p. 128, 
2 CONT Book 39, p. 80, Book 40, pp. 228, 392, Book 59, p. 80: 
2 CONT Galveston County Clerk's Office. 
2 CONT Pat Mongan's obituary, GDN, 5-14-1913. 
2 CONT An Oct 9th 1900 edition of the GDN for proof Mike's family died 
2 CONT in the 1900 Storm. 
0 @I207@ INDI
1 NAME Margaret /Hermann/
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 17 Oct 1844
2 PLAC Loraine, France
1 DEAT
2 DATE 10 Feb 1924
2 PLAC Galveston, Texas
1 CHR
2 PLAC Calvary
1 CONF
2 PLAC Housewife
1 OCCU Catholic, St. Joseph
1 FAMS @F008@
1 FAMC @F044@
1 NOTE           FROM HER OBITUARY: Galveston Daily News, Feb. 11, 1924
1 NOTE WENZEL --- At 9 p.m. Feb. 10, Mrs. Margaret Wenzel, age 81, widow of the 
2 CONT late Lewis (sic) Wenzel. She came to Galveston in the year 1851. She 
2 CONT leaves to mourn her loss a daughter, Mrs. H.S. Birkmeyer, Sr.; one 
2 CONT sister, Mrs. R. (Rudolph) Bullacher and a brother D. Hermann Sr.; seven 
2 CONT grandchildren, 
2 CONT and three great-grandchildren. Funeral Monday at 4 o'clock at the home of 
2 CONT her daughter Mrs. H.S. Birkmeyer, Sr., 1101 37th St. Interment in Calvary 
2 CONT 1 CEMEtery. Father John S. Murphy officiating. San Antonio and Houston 
2 CONT newspapers please copy.
1 NOTE In her will probated on May 24, 1924, Margaret Hermann Wenzel left to her 
2 CONT daughter Mary Birkmeyer everything on 37th street except to Margaret, the 
2 CONT wife of her dead son, Louis, 1111 37th and to her grandson Louis, son of 
2 CONT her dead son, Louis, 1111 1/2 37th.
1 NOTE (What happened to her son Andrew???)
1 NOTE Margaret A. Wenzel also appears in the 1910 Census. She gives her age as 
2 CONT 65, is a widow and said she immigrated to the U.S. in 1855.
1 NOTE The address is 1103 37th Street. Others living with her included Adeila 
2 CONT F. Garner, 25, a widow, born in Louisiana of German parents, Adeila's 
2 CONT 3-year-old daughter Maora, whose father was born in Tennesse, and a 
2 CONT Margaret T. Wall, Adeila's sister, age 20, born in Texas of German 
2 CONT parents.
1 NOTE Her name appears in Baptismal Record of St. Joseph Catholic Church, 
2 CONT 1860-1900, and in a Galveston City Directory for 1882-83. In the 
2 CONT Baptismal record she is cited as the mother of Mary Louise Wenzel, Andrew 
2 CONT Henry Wenzel and Louis Davidson Wenzel. Though the city directory doesn't 
2 CONT indicate, she is apparently a widow by then since she is listed as the 
2 CONT head of the house at west side of 37th street between avenues K and L. 
1 NOTE Mary Margaret Mongan Lanterman also says she remembers meeting 
2 CONT many Hermanns as a young girl. 
1 NOTE                                                  SOURCES
1 NOTE 1870 Census, Galveston, 4th Ward, ED 287, p. 6, lines 8-14. 
2 CONT The record shows a 25-year-old Margaret living with 
2 CONT her father and mother, husband Louis Wenzel, 27, daughter 
2 CONT Mary (Wenzel) Birkmeyer, 1, and brothers David, 14, and 
2 CONT John 5. 
1 NOTE The census also shows that she and husband were both 
2 CONT born in Germany, she in Prussia and he in Saxony. 
1 NOTE The writing is not too clear on the Census. So it is 
2 CONT not certain what her father's name is. But it appears to be 
2 CONT either Martin, Mathias or Matthew. 
2 CONT Galveston Daily News, obituary, Feb. 11, 1924. 
2 CONT Probate Book 76, p. 309. 
2 CONT 1910 Census Galveston, Supplementary, 1103 37th Street. 
0 @I208@ INDI
1 NAME Louis /Wenzel/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE ABT 1842
2 PLAC Saxony, Germany
1 DEAT
2 PLAC Galveston, Texas
1 CONF
2 PLAC Hardware store owner
1 OCCU Catholic, St. Joseph
1 FAMS @F008@
1 NOTE                                            Louis Wenzel's Story
1 NOTE The story on Louis is that he was a hardware store owner who used to deal 
2 CONT with the Indians on Galveston Island. The Indians, incidently, he let 
2 CONT live in an attic space over his home or store. This story comes from 
2 CONT Clementine Clare Birkmeyer, his granddaughter, to her grandson Kenneth 
2 CONT Gene Lanterman. 
1 NOTE There is also a story, though not yet confirmed (3-20-1993) that he shot 
2 CONT himself to death.
1 NOTE As for when he died, I'm still not sure but it must be some time after 
2 CONT 1878, since he is listed in the 1878-79 Galveston City Directory as a 
2 CONT grocer living at 37th and K. It also had to occur after he conceived 
2 CONT Andrew Wenzel in late 1873 (Andrew was born May, 1874.
1 NOTE That means his death came between late 1873 and 1878.
1 NOTE Determining when Louis arrived in Galveston is just as difficult.
1 NOTE The earliest availble city directory 1859-60 shows his in-laws already 
2 CONT here, but not him. The first time he appears in available city 
2 CONT directories is 1867, where he is listed as living at No. 68 and 70, 20th 
2 CONT Street opposite the market. The same information his reported in the 1878 
2 CONT directory.
1 NOTE We know he is already in Galveston by 1869 because that is when his 
2 CONT daughter Mary is born. So it appears Louis arrived sometime between 1860 
2 CONT and 1867.
1 NOTE But I'm still not certain when he arrived in the U.S. from Germany. 
1 NOTE It could be the mid-1850s along with two families of Wenzels that came 
2 CONT through Galveston and settled in the New Braunfels, Comal County area.
1 NOTE According to a ship's manifest for the Minna, a ---- Wenzel, wife and 
2 CONT son, arrived in Galveston, Texas, on Nov. 3, 1854. They were from 
2 CONT Ruckersdorf. It doesn't say the port of departure. 
1 NOTE And the manifest for the Hampden shows the family of F.A. Wenzel, which 
2 CONT included 10 people ranging in age from 8 to 56, arrived in Galveston 
2 CONT on April 1, 1854.
1 NOTE The family was from Lichtenhagen, Prussia. Later in the census records 
2 CONT for 1860, they say they are from Saxony.
1 NOTE (The source for both immigrant information is New Homes in A New Land: 
2 CONT German Immigration to Texas, 1847-1861 by Ethel Hander Geue. The book can 
2 CONT be found in the Rosenberg Library in Galveston and the Clayton Library in 
2 CONT Houston.)
1 NOTE It could be that Louis Wenzel arrived in the U.S. long before these two 
2 CONT families. According to a History of Comal County, an 1850 Census lists 
2 CONT yet another Wenzel family from Bavaria, headed by a Margarethe Wenzel. 
2 CONT When and where she arrived, I don't know.
1 NOTE It's pretty clear that Louis moved to Galveston alone as a man in his 20s.
1 NOTE Assuming he was about 11 when he came Texas (this based on the arrival 
2 CONT dates of the two Wenzel families), or was 6 or 7 (if he came from the 
2 CONT Margarethe Wenzel family)  he would have been 21 or 25 by the mid-60s 
2 CONT when he arrived in Galveston.
1 NOTE Nevertheless, I still haven't been able to locate him in Texas or 
2 CONT anywhere before 1867. One thing's for certain, he wasn't in Comal County 
2 CONT in 1860, as its census lists three Wenzel families, one headed by F.A., 
2 CONT another by Margarethe and a third headed by her son Ignaz.
1 NOTE The Census Index for Texas, 1860, lists only the Wenzels Comal County. 
2 CONT However, in the 1870 index it does list a Julius Wenzel in Marion County, 
2 CONT p. 441,  3.W. Jefferson. But as we know, by then Louis is married and 
2 CONT living in Galveston. The question now is where did Julius come from.
1 NOTE There is also no record of any, any Wenzels in Louisiana for 1860 and 
2 CONT 1870.
1 NOTE So what does all this mean, we know Louis is in Galveston in 1867, was 
2 CONT born about 24 years earlier in Saxony and died sometime between 1873 and 
2 CONT 1878 in Galveston. He may have arrived with the F.A. Wenzel's in 1854 at 
2 CONT the age of 11 but somehow moved out of that house by the time of the 1860 
2 CONT Census at the age of 17. Or he may have arrived long before in the late 
2 CONT 1840s at the age of 6 or 7 but moved out of state with a relative by 1850 
2 CONT (he's not in the Comal census, nor are there any other Wenzels in the 
2 CONT state index at that time.).
1 NOTE Or he could have arrived in 1854 from Ruckersdorf with "---- Wenzel, wife 
2 CONT and son" and moved out of state during the 1860 Census with his family 
2 CONT only to return as an adult in 1867.
1 NOTE Much is left to be investigated. Some possibilities: Census records for 
2 CONT Ruckersdorf, Germany, and Lichtenhagen, Prussia, prior to 1854; other 
2 CONT state indexes for Wenzels for 1860 and 1850. A marriage record to 
2 CONT Margaret Hermann or his death record may also identify his father.
1 NOTE                                               SOURCES
1 NOTE Baptismal Record of St. Joseph Catholic Church, 1860-1900,
2 CONT Texas Room of the Rosenberg Library, Galveston, Texas. 
2 CONT Family lore. 
2 CONT 1859-60 Galveston City Directory, microfiche at the Clayton Library. 
2 CONT (Shows he wasn't here then).
2 CONT 1878-79 Galveston City Directory, microfilm at the Rosenberg 
2 CONT Library, Texas Room. 
0 @I209@ INDI
1 NAME Louis Davidson /Wenzel/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 26 Nov 1870
2 PLAC Galveston, Texas
1 DEAT
2 DATE 5 May 1916
2 PLAC Galveston, Texas
1 CHR
2 PLAC Calvary Cemetery
1 BAPM
2 PLAC LABEL5: St. Patrick's Catholic Church
1 CONF
2 PLAC Engineer for GH&H Railway
1 OCCU Catholic
1 FAMS @F009@
1 FAMS @F010@
1 FAMC @F008@
1 NOTE BIO:The following obituary comes from the Galveston Daily News,
2 CONT May 5, 1916: 
2 CONT WENZEL --- The funeral of Lewis D. Wenzel, who died Thursday 
2 CONT night, will be held this morning at 10 o'clock from the 
2 CONT residence of his sister, Mrs. H. Birkmyer, (sic) 3309 Avenue 
2 CONT I. Decedent was well known in railroad circles, having 
2 CONT been a fireman and engineer for the Galveston, Houston 
2 CONT & Henderson Railway. Previous to his death he was employed 
2 CONT as fireman for the city waterworks at Alta Loma. The following 
2 CONT will act as pallbearers: E.J. Owens, George Silvernaigel, 
2 CONT George Barker, John Katchraber, Alex Lohec and Harvey 
2 CONT Bentley. Rev. Father Cotter of St. Patrick's Catholic 
2 CONT Church will officiate. Interment will be in Calvary Cemetery. 
2 CONT Obituary comes from the Galveston Daily News, May 5, 1916.
2 CONT His birth date comes from a book at the Rosenberg Library's 
2 CONT Texas Room for baptisms and marriages for the St. Joseph's 
2 CONT (German) Catholic Church. 
2 CONT ~BNAME: Louis Davidson Wenzel (#298)~b 
2 CONT ~USt. Joseph Catholic Church~u, ~I"Baptisms, Marriages and 
2 CONT Burrial