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Heinrich Konrad Karl Leverkuhn

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    (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.

This page last updated: 7/15/2008


 
   
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