Great veterans in Paris created the American Legion. Great veterans in Somerset and Texas continue that original mission.
100+ Years of Somerset, TX History
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There was growing amount of serious talk among both officers and enlisted that something needed doin'. Help in a variety of ways was due those individuals who served and survived this war. Even families, both of those buried in France and of those returning home, needed support. All needed help...now. But, what? And, by whom?
In the new century, 1900, Patrick Kenney’s coal (actually Lignite or “Brown Coal”) was still being hauled by mules and wagon from the Kenney mine at Bexar/La Colorada to Lytle. Here the International and Great Northern Rail Road (I&GN, pronounced by many — even when I was a kid — as the “Eye-n Gin”…say it real fast) picked up the wagon loads of coal for delivery to and sale in San Antonio where homes and businesses were heated or powered. (Kenney coal powered the Alamo Iron Works into the 1930s when a new, cleaner power source became available.) But I’m getting way to far ahead…, back in 1908, folks of the old, greater Von Ormy area (that included modern Somerset) or the original Old […]
"There between the clouds of dust come the soldiers of Joaquin de Arredondo. This is the frontier of Terror." 1867 poem by G. Prieto
A frequently forgotten document, Texas FIRST Constitution of 1813. See also First Declaration of Independence, 1813
NOTE: TEXAS’ FIRST DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, read aloud to the assembled public in Military Plaza, Presidio and Villa of San Fernando de Bexar (at what is now called the Spanish Governor’s Palace in San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas) on the APRIL 6, 1813 Source: Niles, H., Ed. (July 17, 1813). The Weekly Register, Vol. 4. (A transcription of this document was found on the Portal of Texas History accessed through Texas Historical Commission at https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth296840/. The Declaration of Independence together with the first Constitution of the State of Texas (April 17, 1813) can be found on pages 39-40 in the Documents of Texas History book, https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth296840/m1/52/.) Typist Peggy Weyel’s note: There are a few misspellings by modern standards. Examples: “conduced” and not “conducted,” “intrust” (1813) […]