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Bicentennial Minutes with the Makers of Gillespie County were written for November by Miss Ella Gold for the Gillespie County Historical Society and Commission. The following were used during the preceding week over KNAF. November 10, 1976 An issue of the Wochenblatt of 1890 reports an accident that happened at Willow City in November of that year. W. Ricks, owner of the cotton gin at Willow City, had the misfortune of having his right hand caught in the feeder of the gin. The hand was severely injured but there was hope that full use of the hand would be regained. It may be of interest to note that the house in which the Ricks family lived at Willow City eighty-six years ago was torn down just a few months ago. It was a two-story white frame structure which stood quite erect throughout nearly a century. November 11, 1976 This is November 11 Veterans’ Day. Armistice Day, we used to call it, or, in Ger man, Waffen-still-stand ( weapons stand still). The cease fire concerned here came in 1918 at the 11th minute of the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month to end World War I. The war had been an awful one. Nearly all of us had someone near and dear directly involved in it. And on the homefront we were involved, too, financing the war, Red Cross work, etc. Many of us remember the meatless and wheatless days. We remember the satin banners displayed in church, blue stars on a white field bordered in red. The stars numbered the sons of the congregation in the armed forces and when the tragic word came that one of these sons had died, his blue star on the banner was changed to gold. The first commissioned of ficer from Texas to fall in battle was a son of Gillespie County; his name: Louis Jordan. Through the ages people have honored their war dead. The ancient Greeks and Romans did so; the people before them did so. Today, November 11, is a day of rededication for us; and it is a day of remembering; a day to say in our hearts: ‘Sleep well, Soldier; you are not forgotten.” November 12, 1976 November 12, 1869, is the date on which Pastor Gottlieb Burchard Dangers died. He commonly signed his name B. Dangers. He was the second Protestant minister of Freder icksburg, succeeding Pastor Basse in November of 1849. As he was needed, he served also as teacher, and he formed to have food for his family. He was a member of the first male quartette in Fredericks burg which became the nucleus of Fredericksburg’s first choir, directed by August Siemering. He composed music but his compositions remained un published. In his home was a grand piano brought along from Germany. The oldest available Protestant church records of this area were neatly recorded by Pastor Dangers from 1849 to 1869. During the time of his ministry, he baptized 1061 children, confirmed 525 and presided at the marriage of 187 couples and at the funerals of 256. In those days the bridal pair would sometimes walk miles to the Vereins-Kirche to be married by Pastor Dangers. At other times the Pastor would go to the home of the bride’s parents to marry the couple. It was while walking home from a wedding celebration in the country in 1869 that he was caught in a shower. The ex posure caused a cold and pneumonia, bringing about his Continued on page 9, sec. 2
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Fredericksburg Standard
Fredericksburg, Texas, US
Wed, Nov 17, 1976
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