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	Handbook of Texas Online: SERBIN, TX
		Serbin is on Farm Road 2239 seven miles southwest of Giddings in southwestern Lee County.
		Serbin Homecoming is held on Memorial weekend, and a Wendish Fest is held in the fall by the museum.
		In 2004 a series of events in Serbin commemorated the 150th anniversary of the arrival of the Wends in Texas and the formation of the church congregation.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/SS/hns33.html (649 words)

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		Above all, Texas is a nation in every sense of the word.-John Steinbeck Texas is a diversity of regional landscapes, which have resulted from the geography of the state's natural features, the varied cultures of the people who were "gone to Texas," and the history that has shaped the perceptions and myths of the state.
		Western Texas changed as the cattle drives were impeded by farmers and cattlemen in Kansas and other western states, and the introduction of barbed wire.62 The weakening of cattle prices in 1884 and the market crash of 1885, exacerbated by a blizzard, caused many to leave the industry.
		From the introduction of man to the Texas Prairie until well into the 20th century, the population of Texas was involved with agriculture in the form of hunting and gathering or cultivation.
	www.window.state.tx.us /tpr/forces/volume2/focii14.txt (17546 words)

	Texas Germanic Heritage
		In 1850, West Texas had enough German 'Forty-niners,' that is, 'grafs,' princes, dukes, barons, and counts, in it to stock Buckingham Palace.
		Even before the Texas Revolution, there had been some negotiation between the German princes and Mexico for the resettlement of German families in Texas, but generally this came to naught before the Texans won their independence.
		As a Confederate cavalry colonel, Buchel raised the 1st Texas Cavalry Regiment in 1861, and after the Battle of Sabine Pass, Gen. Magruder of Houston sent Buchel to Sabine Pass to command Confederate troops in Southeast Texas and Southwest Louisiana.
	www.wtblock.com /wtblockjr/texas.htm (5001 words)

	Texas Wendish Heritage Society & Museum, Serbin, Texas
		The museum, founded in 1980 by the Texas Wendish Heritage Society, was housed in an old school building.
		The mission of the Texas Wendish Heritage Museum, Archives, and Library (TWHM) is to preserve, interpret, and make available for study the history of the Texas Wends, one of the European ethnic groups which immigrated to Texas in the 19th century.
		The archives' primary collection focus is Wendish heritage in Texas from 1555 to 1990.
	www.museumsusa.org /museums/info/1167487 (744 words)

	Concordia's Wendish Heritage
		The chapel has a large baptismal font from a hill in Serbin, Texas, from which the immigrants took the rocks to build their first church-modeled after one which still stands in Klitten, Germany.
		Nearby is the Texas Wendish Historical Society's Museum, the largest such museum outside of Germany which keeps records of Wendish geneology as well as a substantial library of Wendish literature, plus attractive displays about the emigration.
		The roots of the Texas Wendish communities lie in regions of the former East Germany west of Poland and the Czech Republic between Leipzig and Berlin.
	www.concordia.edu /html/wendish/wendish.htm (635 words)

	Serbin, TX - Texas Florists, buy flowers from your local full service retail flower shops and florist serving Serbin , ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
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	www.flowershopnetwork.com /directory/TexasFlorists/Serbin.php (897 words)

	John Kilian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John was a leader of the Wendish-German colony in and around Serbin, Texas.
		It was during the years 1854 that about 550 Wendish Lutherans from Kilian's congregations in Prussia and also from Saxony called him to lead them to Texas.
		This move resulted in the establishment of Serbin.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pastor_John_Kilian (94 words)

	Wendish Texans
		Many Texas Wends simply consider themselves German, but in the Serbin area, considerable identity has been maintained through a revival of interest in earlier Wendish characteristics.
		The Texas Wendish Heritage Society was founded in 1971, when the group began its annual participation in the Texas Folklife Festival of the Institute of Texan Cultures, and the membership maintains a Wendish museum at Serbin.
		The Wends of Texas represent one of the strongest examples of cultural revival by later generations.
	www.texancultures.utsa.edu /publications/texansoneandall/wendish.htm (503 words)

	Family Tree Maker's Genealogy Site: User Home Page Genealogy Report: Descendants of Zoch
		Zoch, born February 26, 1873 in Serbin, Lee, Texas; 0; died June 7, 1960 in Texas; 0.
		Maria Zoch, born January 28, 1870 in Serbin, Lee, Texas; 0; died October 19, 1954 in 0.
		Hanna Zoch, born November 21, 1873 in Boons Creek, Fayette, Texas; 0; died November 30, 1873 in Boons Creek, Fayette, Texas; 0.
	familytreemaker.genealogy.com /users/h/e/t/Tonya-Z-Hettler/GENE1-0004.html (321 words)

	Ancestry Message Boards - Message [ German ]
		The Wendish migration to Texas was impelled, in part, by the Prussian insistence that the Wends (or Sorbs, as they called themselves) speak and use the German language, even to the extent of Germanizing their names.
		Erected by the State of Texas 1936." The Wendish group was reduced in numbers by illness and hardships of the journey.
		Near the cemetery is the Texas Wendish Heritage Museum which preserves the story of the Wends through permanent displays of relics, artifacts, and original buildings used by the early settlers.
	boards.ancestry.com /mbexec/message/an/topics.ethnic.German/227 (5122 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: WENDS
		This was the first Missouri Synod Lutheran church founded in Texas and is thus the mother church not only of the Wends, but of all conservative Lutherans in Texas.
		The Texas Wendish Heritage Society, founded in 1971, actively seeks to preserve and, whenever possible, revive remnants of the Wendish culture.
		Wendish Fest, an annual festival held at Serbin in September, celebrates the Wendish heritage of the area.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/WW/plw1.html (1263 words)

	Ancestors of Russell E. Schwausch - pafn04 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Buried in Lutheran Cemetery in Copperas Cove, Coryell, Texas.
		Buried in Zion Lutheran Cemetery at Walburg, Williamson, Texas.
		Serbin was in Bastrop Co. until 1874 when Lee Co. was created.
	www.netmastery.com /ancestors/pafn04.htm (247 words)

	Texas Highways - Magazine Index
		Museums at the University of Texas at Austin (Blanton Museum of Art, LBJ Library and Museum, Texas Memorial Museum), p.
		Serbin, Wendish Fest and Texas Wendish Heritage Museum, p.
		Serbin, Texas Wendish Heritage Museum and St. Paul Lutheran Church, p.
	www.texashighways.com /archives/index.php?searchyear=2004 (1869 words)

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		Serbin, Texas is between Bastrop and Giddings in
		They originally spoke a language more akin to Latin than to German but over time were essentially surrounded by German-speaking people and were German speakers by the time of the emigration to Texas.
		In Serbin, the old Wendish church has an unusual seating arrangement; men occupied the balcony, women and children sat in downstairs pews.
	www.hal-pc.org /~dcrane/txgenweb/serbin.htm (228 words)

	Walking George
		During his ten-year term as the director of the Texas Department of Corrections, Beto spearheaded many education and reform programs aimed at rehabilitating inmates.
		After retiring as head of the Texas prison system in 1972, he became a professor at Sam Houston State University's College of Criminal Justice until 1991.
		His most recent book, Johann Kilian, Pastor is a biography of the pastor of the Wends at Serbin, Texas.
	www.tamu.edu /upress/BOOKS/2005/horton.htm (408 words)

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		He graduated from La Grange High School in 1957 and served his country in the U.S. Army from 1957 to 1960, was a member of the Texas National Guard from 1961 to 1998, retiring as a Sergeant Major.
		He was united in marriage to Delores Weiser on July 29, 1962 in Serbin, Texas.
		He was an active member of St. Paul Lutheran Church, The Grove, Texas, having served on the Building Committee, as Treasurers, and on the Board of Elders.
	frghelp.homestead.com /pietschw.html (342 words)

	Listings Texas: Prairie-Lakes Region: Historical Organizations & Info
		Paul is on Farm Road 2514 and the shore of Lavon Lake, eleven miles south of McKinney in southern Collin County.
		Tarrant County (E-17) is in north central Texas.
		Valley View is on Spring Creek at the intersection of Interstate Highway 35, Farm Road 922, and the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe...
	listingsus.com /Texas/Prairie-Lakes-Region/Society/Historical/index21.asp (799 words)

	City is determined Concordia suitor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Lee County seat, one of more than seven Central Texas sites courting Concordia, is offering 12 potential tracts, each with at least 100 acres for a new campus.
		Serbin is also home to the Texas Wendish Heritage Museum.
		Texas State is trying to secure state money for a nursing school there.
	www.statesman.com /metrostate/content/metro/stories/05/23giddings.html (1203 words)

	The Bryan-College Station Eagle > Records > Obituaries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Schatte was born September 28, 1924 in Serbin, Texas, to Erich Albert and Ruth Schatte.
		Elizabeth G. Currie of New York, New York, a brother and sister-in-law Monroe and Lucille Schatte of Serbin, and a sister Wanda Shannon of Dallas.
		She was a homemaker and was retired after 20 years as a secretary with the Ground Maintenance Department at Texas AandM University.
	www.theeagle.com /region/records/obituaries/november2003/111703obits.php (1622 words)

	Serbin, Texas
		Historic Texas: The Past As It Is Today
		Texas : Towns A-Z / Ghost Towns / Central Texas S : Serbin
		For all the Prussians cared - the Wends could sail off to Australia or Texas.
	www.texasescapes.com /CentralTexasTownsSouth/SerbinTexas/SerbinTexasWends.htm (231 words)

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		Paul’s Lutheran Church in Serbin is a prime example of this pattern at work.
		The congregation was organized in 1854 by a group of Wendish emigrants who left their homes in southeastern Saxony to escape the rationalism and liberalism which prevailed in the state church.
		The church which Pastor Killian and his congregation built in Serbin was in many ways a reproduction of the Lutheran Church which they had left behind in the Saxon town of Klitten.
	www.osl.cc /ff/architechture.html (9070 words)

	Texas Wendish Heritage Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Wendish Heritage Museum is located in historic Serbin, Texas near the St.Paul Lutheran church and cemetery.
		The Museum preserves the story of the Wends, Slavic immigrants who came to Texas from Lusatia - an area now in the eastern region of Germany.
		Folk dress of Lusatia, the traditional Texas wedding dresses, and the uniquely beautiful Easter Eggs are a few of the colorful exhibits.
	gcjm.dyndns.org /sw/inhalt08/serbin/serbinen.htm (340 words)

	The Painted Churches of Texas - Serbin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In September of 1854, Pastor Johann Kilian and more than 500 Wendish immigrants left Hamburg, Germany to sail for Texas.
		This church is a double-decker!” Saint Paul’s boasts the tallest pulpit in Texas.
		The Serbin pipe organ is the one of six organs Pfeifer built in his lifetime.
	www.staustin.org /PaintedChurches/serbin (505 words)

	Zion Lutheran Church History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In the late 1870's, people of German-Wendish descent began migrating from Serbin, Texas in what is now Lee County toward the northeastern part of Williamson County, settling in the fertile farmland of what would become Walburg.
		Finding ample thickets for their wood supply and good water from nearby springs, they began to break and cultivate the land into farms.
		From nine charter members to 900 members today and from a handful of students to 163 today, Zion Lutheran Church and School continue to be a beacon to one and all at the top of the hill in Walburg, Williamson County, Texas.
	www.zionwalburg.org /C_Church_History.htm (300 words)

	Today in History - March 16 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		He was ordained on 23 October 1844 and served as a pastor at Lebanon, Wisconsin, from 1844 to 1860; at Carlinville, Illinois, from 1860 to 1876; and at Serbin, Texas, from 1876 to 1892.
		He served the Texas District as a circuit counselor, a member of the Public Relations Board, secretary for evangelism and vice-president.
		He served the Missouri Synod as a member of its Commission on Adjudication, Commission on Theology and Church Relations and Committee on Doctrine and Conciliation and as a representative to the Lutheran Council in the USA.
	chi.lcms.org /history/tih0316.htm (1215 words)

	Kilian brings Wends to TX
		As the result of further prosecution, several groups came to the USA, one group of 575 in 1854, settled in Texas at Serbin.
		The language is not in use, but Concordia University in Austin is based on Wendish tradition and some 10 percent of the faculty and student population has Wendish ancestry.
		There's a book about the Wends, "In Search of a Home: Nineteenth-Century Wendish Immigration" by George Nielsen, published by Texas A&M. There is a museum, Texas Wendish Heritage Museum, Rte 2, Box 155, Giddings, Tx 78942 and a web page at www.concordia.edu.ethn.htm.
	millennium.fortunecity.com /greendale/1096/Killian/wend.html (284 words)

	Texas Governor Rick Perry - September - Texas Music Events Calendar 2005
		GrapeFest is Texas' largest wine festival, a celebration of Texas wines and grape growing, and tribute to the City of Grapevine's name sake.
		Texas GATORFEST is truly the most unique festival in the state, combining the alligator and family fun for a good old Texas two-stepping good time!
		The Texas State Forest Festival was created to recognize the importance of the timber industry to East Texas.
	www.governor.state.tx.us /divisions/music/events/tmec_september.htm (8812 words)

	Tygo Search - Serbin
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	TSCHORNACK Family
		After their arrival in Texas, Johann and Hanna appear to have settled in the Frelsburg
		A "Johann HERENZ" who was born in 1827 in Klein Oelsa, died in Serbin, Texas in 1900.
		He was also in the group of Wends who travelled to Texas in 1854.
	members.aol.com /jlpmhp/TschornackFamily.html (459 words)

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	www.at-usa.com /Texas/Metro_Areas/Austin-San_Marcos/Localities (842 words)

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