| Marker Number |
11379 |
| Atlas Number |
5473011379 |
| Marker Title |
Heinrich Konrad Karl Leverkuhn |
| Index Entry |
Leverkuhn, Heinrich Konrad Karl |
| Address |
Hegar Road |
| City |
Waller |
| County |
Waller |
| UTM Zone |
15 |
| UTM Easting |
226963 |
| UTM Northing |
3335266 |
| Subject Codes |
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| Marker Year |
1979 |
| Recorded Texas Historic Landmark |
No |
| Marker Location |
Leverkuhn Family Cemetery, Hegar community, between Hegar and Macedonia School roads, north of Magnolia Road |
| Private Property |
No |
| Marker Condition |
In Situ |
| Marker Size |
|
| Marker Text |
(July 22, 1842 -- November 11, 1915) German-born Heinrich Leverkuhn cane to Texas in 1857 and was a foragemaster for the Confederate army during the Civil War. He ran a store in Hockley after the war. In 1878 he became a farmer-rancher in "Foresouth Prairie", now Macedonia Community. He had a cotton gin, syrup mill, and blacksmith shop. Leverkuhn helped found Macedonia Methodist Church and McPherson School. He married Selma Kuhn (d. 1876) and Martha Rebecca Davis (1855-1906) and had fourteen children. Recorded - 1979 |
