EARLY SETTLERS OF KLEBERG COUNTY
Family Names A thru C

THE LIST BELOW IS A COMPILATION OF SOME FACTS EXTRACTED FROM THE FAMILY NARRATIVES PUBLISHED IN THE FOLLOWING BOOK: theKleberg County, Texas: a Collection of Historical Sketches and Family Histories American Revolution Bicentennial Heritage Project - 1976; Kleberg County Historical Commission, 1979.
NAME YEAR ARRIVED CAME FROM 1ST OCCUPATION
L. W. Adams, Sr. 1909 born Eagle Lake, TX Organized Railroad Shops
Clyde M. Allen & Jane Colston Allen 1908 Marble Falls, TX Furniture Business/Funeral Home
Frank Campbell Allen ------ Marble Falls, TX Furniture Business/Funeral Home
Ellen Virginia Campbell Allen 1909 Born 1855?-died 1958 Insurance
Joaquin T. Arrendondo & wife, Maria del Refugio Villarreal 1920 Mexico Work on King Ranch
Ballard Family 1909 Mathis, Tx Railroad Shops, Union Leader
William Macon Banner 1905 North Carolina Railroad engineer
Daniel Amos Barber 1921 Chambers Co.Tx; Bee Co. Tx Enrolled daughters in college
Louis Bartlett NA NA NA
P.G. Basden Family 1909, Riviera no previous residence listed Farming
Samuel J. Bayliss Family 1906 South Africa Worked for Diamond Mines in S.Africa
Henry Wallace Bludworth 1904 Flatonia, Tx Flato Interests
Ida Ruth Craig (Mrs. Henry Wallace Bludworth) 1913 Campbell, Tx Teacher
Apriano Bocanegra & wife, Feliciana Polanco 1909 Burgos, Tamaulipos, Mexico Farming
Henry Bolting 1907 Germany Blacksmith
Gay C. Brinson 1921 Hill County, TX Business
George Brister Family 1904 Campbellton, Tx Railroad Work
Henry and Clara Broderhausen 1912 Vincennse, Indiana Purchased Farm
Tom Brookshire 1923 Lufkin, TX Grocery Store
Bolar Austin Brown 1925 Lampasas County, Tx Store Salesman
J. J. Burges NA Skidmore, Tx NA
William Burris Family 1906 Mason, Texas Visited Relatives & stayed
Dr.Isaac Newton Campbell 1923 Alice, TX Practice Medicine
Don Isabel Bazan 1904 NA NA
Don Pedro Canal 1908 NA NA
Charles Rembert Cason 1912 (1929) Chesterfield Co., S.Carolina Railroad/Bldg. Construction
Rev. Hiram Chamberlain 1864 Monktown, Vermont Visited his daughter, Henrietta King
J. Van Chandler and wife, Helen Airhart 1916 Bishop, Tx Dentist
Don Pablo Chavez 1908 NA NA
Martin Christopher (Hans Christian Christoffer) 1905 Denmark Farmer/Dairyman
William Arnette Clampett Family 1905 Cuero, Tx Kingsville Lumber Company
G.H. Cogdill Family 1924 Smithville, Tx Railroad fireman/engineer
George B. Collins Family 1915 Ohio Farmer
H.T. Collins 1914 Cincinnati, Ohio Accountant
Thomas Marshall Colston 1908 Albemarle Co, VA School Superintendent
Russell J. Cook Family 1928 Miami, Tx Head of Agr. Dept, STSTC
James Taylor Cornelius 1913 Eastland Co. Tx Vegetable Farm/Trade
Robert Bartow Cousins 1924 Georgia original home President So. Tx. State Teachers College, Kingsville
Edward Hardage Crenshaw, Jr. 1913 Grayson County, Tx Railroad Attorney
Dr. Edward Cross Abt 1908 San Antonio, Tx Medical doctor/Retirement
Croxen Family 1913, Riviera Beach Illinois Vegetable Farmer/Postmaster
William Kitchner Cumberland Family 1904 born England, Smithville,Tx Purchased Farm
Don Calistro Curiel 1908 NA NA
James Patterson Custer 1904 Karnes City, Tx Wagoner
John M. Cypher 1907-08 Bastrop, Tx Business

SOURCE: Kleberg County Historical Commission, Kleberg County, Texas (Austin: Hart Graphics, 1979).

Note: NA means - Not Available

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