Jason Hampton Kellner was a tall, handsome, 21-year-old man when he was tragically killed in a motorcycle accident on August 24, 1995. This is a tribute to him. He loved his family, and especially enjoyed going to the Kellner family reunion on the first Sunday in June of every year. Jason was very proud of his Texas heritage. He was a sixth generation native Texan.
I am looking for his relatives named KELLNER, SCHUL, HARMAN, EVANS, CAFFALL, ASHER, GARY, WEAVER, DRY, POND, LANKFORD, BRADEN, and CAROTHERS, who all eventually lived in Texas.
The Kellner family is from Karnes County, Texas, where they settled after coming from Magdeburg, Germany. The Schul family also came from Germany but settled in the area of New Braunfels, Texas. The Harman family is from Iowa. The Caffall family immigrated from Rickmansworth, England around 1860 and settled around Gonzales and Bandera Counties in Texas, St. Louis, Missouri, and Piute County, Utah. The Asher family was from Tennessee, but came to Gonzales Co., Texas by way of Illinois. The Weavers were from Georgia and the Ponds were from North Carolina and both families settled in Victoria County, Texas. The Lankford family was from Georgia. They moved to Florida before 1862, and then moved to the Austin, Texas area before 1891. The Braden's and the Carothers were from Mississippi and moved to Grandview, Texas before 1903, and then to the Robstown, Texas area sometime after 1923.
I have hit a roadblock, it seems, with Jason's 2nd-great-grandfather, Tom T. Evans, born June 14, 1866, died Dec. 13, 1903. He and his wife, Emma Caffall Evans, were married Dec. 19, 1894 in Karnes County, Texas. I have been unable, so far, to find much information about his parents, except that his father, George Evans was born about 1838 in Alabama, and his mother, Mary Ann Gary Evans, was born about 1848 in Mississippi to Rev. Isaac H. Gary and Sarah Little Manning Gary. I believe we are related to the Evans family that lived in the Junction, Texas area, but I cannot prove it.
It is my sincere hope to honor Jason, as well as all our ancestors with this research. I would really like to correspond with anyone who might have information pertinent to my search.
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