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Heinrich Konrad Karl Leverkuhn

Waller, Waller County

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

Marker Details

Address Hegar Road
Location Description Leverkuhn Family Cemetery, Hegar community, between Hegar and Macedonia School roads, north of Magnolia Road
Marker # 11379
Dedicated 1979
Size, Type
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Latitude, Longitude 30.118139, -95.833719

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