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This picture is of my Great-Grandfather Joseph F. Meyer, his daughter, my Grandmother Antonia Frances Meyer, her first son, Victor Ben Gerdes, Sr, and Victor's son Gilbert “Gibby” Gerdes, Sr., the father of Gilbert “Gibbo” Gerdes, Jr.
As the family stories go, Joseph owned the "Last Chance Saloon" in Hallettsville. He was born in Germany and immigrated on the Bark Friedrich Grosse from Bremen thru Galveston/Harrisburg, to LaGrange, arriving on October 18, 1853 when he was 11 years old. He died in Shiner. and is buried in the Meyer/Pagel Cemetery off FM530 on county road 134 in Lavaca County, Texas. Refer to the image of his obituary.
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