And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
I grew up in Glasscock County Tx. Go to the base of the panhandle and count 4 counties to the east, and you will see it. Now about 30-40% german ancestry. When I was growing up in the 60's and early 70's, it was about 60%, mostly concentrated in St. Lawrence. All of them were cotton farmers who took their WW2 GI Bill money in land and bought up one of the old mega ranches that was sold off by the kids who did not want to run a ranch any more.
In the 1700's some Germans were in Wythe County, Virginia marrying each other. one of them came to South Georgia and married a Johnson which eventually resulted in me. Wonder why Virginia shows completely German-free Must not have been many of them.
The darkest is Gillespie county Texas and just to the south is Kendall county. Lots of Germans there. Back in the early 80's, canoeing the Guadalupe River, we were told not to go out on the bank. Some of the OT's then didn't speak much English, and considered it trespass.
Heritage I'm thinking... My grandma was born in Minnesota, Emma Bertha Shultz... a couple of centuries back (1880 something as I recall)
ReplyDeleteI grew up in Glasscock County Tx. Go to the base of the panhandle and count 4 counties to the east, and you will see it. Now about 30-40% german ancestry. When I was growing up in the 60's and early 70's, it was about 60%, mostly concentrated in St. Lawrence. All of them were cotton farmers who took their WW2 GI Bill money in land and bought up one of the old mega ranches that was sold off by the kids who did not want to run a ranch any more.
ReplyDeleteSo, the best bratwursts in the US are in southern ND?
ReplyDeleteAncestral home in SW ND. Grandma cooked a lot but never remember bratwurst.
ReplyDeleteThe dark red spot to the east is where Lawrence Welk was from so that says it all.
ReplyDeleteIn the 1700's some Germans were in Wythe County, Virginia marrying each other. one of them came to South Georgia and married a Johnson which eventually resulted in me. Wonder why Virginia shows completely German-free Must not have been many of them.
ReplyDeleteThe two dots along the southern Nebraska state line represents my ancestral home going back to 1878!
ReplyDeleteThe darkest is Gillespie county Texas and just to the south is Kendall county. Lots of Germans there. Back in the early 80's, canoeing the Guadalupe River, we were told not to go out on the bank. Some of the OT's then didn't speak much English, and considered it trespass.
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