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Hannah Hankinsand their widows and orphans. and Carbon Chemicals Co.,Leo Bird, commander of theTRUE PIONEER PASSESCharles Henry Klyng Sr. Was One Of City’s First FamiliesCharles Henry Klyng Sr., a true La Marque pioneer, lived in only one house during his 50 years in La Marque.The house was the dne he built at 2400 Westward alter he and Mrs. Klyng had been married only four months.Last January 15 the home was the scene of a happy family reunion, the couple’s 50th wedding anniversary.Mr. Klyng had been in excellent health all of his life when he became ill only threeweeks ago and was taken to the John Sealy Hospital in Galveston.He died in that hospital Friday at the age of 79.Mr. Klyng was born in Galveston September 30, 1883. He lived there until after his marriage and continued to work there for several years after he and Mrs. Klyng moved to their La Marque home.Mrs. Klyng was the daughter of Jules Perthuis, who owned 300 acres in the La Marque Hitchcock area. Herfather gave Mrs. Klyng five acres of land on which they built their home.For four years after their marriage, Mr. Klyng worked in a wholesale shoe store in Galveston and his widow recalls how he used to commuteby bicycle and interurban tohis Galveston job.I can still see him peddling that old bicycle to the interurban,M she said. “I used to watch him as he went over the hills on his way to work.It doesn’t seem like so longCHARLES HENRY KLYNG SR lived for 50 yearsin the home he built in La Marque--one of the very first ones in this city of homes.ago. ’ ’Four years after they were married, Mr, Klyng established a truck farm on their five-acre La Marque estate. The La Marque pioneer raised all kinds of ^vegetables and sold them through the Hitchcock commission houses.Mrs. Klyng recalls that Hitchcock was a booming truck gardening center in those days.The four earliest familiesthat she can recall as neighbors were the Louis Margots, the Frank Anizans, the E.Bougerauds and a family named Keating, which lived at the site of the present Anderson Clinic.Mr. Klyng quit t ruck farming for a career as a carpenter, went to work for Amoco in1941 and retired in 1947.He was a baseball fan as long as anyone could remember. He used to follow the Galveston team In the old TexasLeague, and he was an avid fan of the Houston Colts in the(Continued on Rage 4)
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Mainland Times
La Marque, Texas, US
Wed, May 29, 1963
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