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A History of Central and Western Texas, Vol. 1
Buckley B. Paddock, 1911

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          FRITZ HOERSTER - One of the earliest of the pioneers of Mason
       county is FRITZ HOERSTER, a former stockman.  He was born in Prussia
       in 1841 and coming to America with his parents in 1846, they located
       in Fredericksburg, Texas, and were members of the German colony
       which founded that city.  In about 1856 the family moved to Mason
       county, and they located and lived for a number of years on a ranch
       on Willow creek, their residence there covering the period of the
       Civil war and the worst of the Indian troubles.  FRITZ HOERSTER
       served in the Confederate army throughout the Civil war period, he
       having enlisted at Fredericksburg in the First Texas Cavalry, and he
       served in both Texas and Louisiana.  After the close of the war he
       returned home, and in time purchased and improved a splendid ranch
       on the Llano river, about three miles above Castell, in the eastern
       part of Mason county.  His home and the center of his activities
       were at that ranch until he moved to Mason in 1906, selling his
       ranch and cattle interests in that year and retiring from an active
       business life.

          MR. HOERSTER married HANNAH LEIFESTE, born in Germany, but she
       was brought by her parents when an infant to the German settlement
       in Llano county, Texas.  Their four children are AMELIA, IDA, HULDA
       and CHARLIE.

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