Cemetery records indicates native of Darmstadt. This is most likely the Grand Duchess of Hess-Darmstadt. 116
Source: Shifting Sands of Calhoun County
Among the group coming to Texas with the Fisher-Miller Colony that arrived in Indianola, Texas in 1846, were the five deCloudt brothers from Germany: Arthur, George William, Frederick, Richard, and Jost Wyrich. This family had for many years been owners of many acres of land in Germany, however, due to taxes, poor management and the ever present threat of war, these brothers sought fortunes in America. Not being affluent, they sought employment but found none in Indianola.
They went to Laredo, Texas and joined Company A, 6th Texas Rangers under Captain Mirabeau Lamar. Next, they went to Mexico and fought in the Mexican War under Generals Scott and Taylor in Vera Cruz. Also fought at Chapultepec and Churubusco, Mexico.
On returning to Texas, the brothers separated; Jost Wyrich returned to Germany; Frederick stayed in Indianola; Arthur and Richard went on to the Hill Country, settling at Rocksprings and Fredericksburg. Richard served as second sheriff of Gillespie County, later moving to Blanco, Kerr, Edwards and Bexar Counties.
The following paragraph in the Shifting Sands of Calhoun County, according to Kerrie Adams is not correct. The place being discribed is the Bindewald ranch house, mainly because the de Cloudt ranch house was destroyed sometime before 1947. The bindewald ranch house was 2 stories before Hurricane Carla in the early 1960's. and is next to the Cloudt ranch. The storm messed the top story up and Berlow took it down and made it a one story house.
George William landed on Texas soil and became a Texan. He was able to speak several languages, including fluent English. Evidently having engineering skill, he built his ranch house of Florida pine and it withstood all storms and hurricanes with no damage. For that day, it was large, with four rooms downstairs, with a large dining room and kitchen at one end of the hall. Upstairs was one large room, a window at each end and two dormers. It is still in full use as a home today.
George William stayed in Calhoun County and built a home on a bluff facing what was called Espiritu Santo Bay [commonly called spirit center bay, except that bay is 10 to 15 miles away from there, what she should have written was San Antonio Bay, ...the de Cloudt ranch is at the headwaters of San Antonio Bay or could say Mission Bay. You see there are 2 small bays in the headwaters of s.a. bay, one is Mission and the other is Hines but I think Hines is farther to the west side, and they both are in the path of where the Guadalupe River runs out.], between Long Mott and Seadrift. He married Augusta Bindewald Dieffenbach, a widow. They were the parents of six girls and one boy.
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Shortened version of INDIANOLA, TEXAS history: The port of Indianola, on Matagorda Bay in Calhoun County, was founded in August 1846 as Indian Point by Sam Addison Whiteqv and William M. Cook. In 1844 a stretch of beach near the point had been selected by Carl, Prince of Solms Braunfels, commissioner general of the Adelsverein, as the landing place for German immigrants bound for western Texas under the sponsorship of the society. The German landing area was referred to, briefly, as Karlshafen. In February 1849 the name of the growing town was changed to Indianola. Indianola was the county seat of Calhoun County from 1852 to 1886. In a short time, Indianola achieved the rank of the second port of Texas, a position it held until the catastrophic hurricane of September 16, 1875, devastated the low-lying city and caused great loss of life. The town rebuilt on a smaller scale and then was almost obliterated by the hurricane of August 20, 1886, and the accompanying fire. By 1887 the site had been abandoned.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: T. Lindsay Baker, Ghost Towns of Texas (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1986). Brownson Malsch, Indianola-The Mother of Western Texas (Austin: Shoal Creek, 1977). 116 119 123 173 184
4371. Augusta BINDEWALD 116 119 (Unknown1) was born on 12 Aug 1828 in Engebrod, , Hesse-Darmstadt,116 died on 2 Mar 1894 in TX 116 at age 65, and was buried after 2 Mar 1894 in DE Cloudt Cem., Victoria, Calhoun, TX.116 182
Noted events in her life were:
• She appeared on the census on 27 Jun 1860 in Indianola, Calhoun, TX. 116 129
• She appeared on the census in Jun 1870 in Indianola, Calhoun, TX. 116 130
• Augusta Bindewahl (original spelling): Augusta Bindewahl (original spelling). 116 Aka
Augusta married Carl DIEFFENBACH.116 119 Carl was buried between 1847.116
Marriage Notes: 20 May 1846
Birth Notes: Abt 1820
Death Notes: Bet 1847 And 1849
Burial Notes: And 1849 New Braunfels, Comal, TX
Noted events in his life were:
• He resided at ABT 1820 , , , HESS-DARMSTADT. 116
Augusta next married De George William CLOUDT,116 son of Baron Von Pelden G. Moritz Friederich Wilhelm Cornelius CLOUDT and Elisabeth USSHER, on 18 May 1849 in Indianola-Port Lavaca, Calhoun, TX.116 183 George was born on 22 Oct 1819 in Deverwiese Community, Aschendorf, Germany,116 died on 10 Feb 1888 in Long Mott, Calhoun, TX 116 at age 68, and was buried after 10 Feb 1888 in DE Cloudt Cem., Victoria, Calhoun, TX.116 182
Noted events in his life were:
• He has conflicting birth information of Alt. Birth, 2 Oct 1819 and Papenburg, Ostfriesland, Hannover. 116
• He was baptized on 1 Dec 1819 in Evangelisch Reformed Kirche, Mitling-Mark. 116
• He worked as a farmer BET 1860 AND 1880 Indianola, Calhoun, TX. 116
• He resided at 6 AUG 1887 Long Mott, Calhoun, TX. 116
• He appeared on the census on 27 Jun 1860 in Indianola, Calhoun, TX. 116 129
• He appeared on the census on 19 Jun 1880 in Long Mott, Calhoun, TX. 116 174
• He appeared on the census. 116 130 1870 Indianola, Calhoun, TX
• He appeared on the census in Jun 1870 in Indianola, Calhoun, TX. 116 130
Children from this marriage were:
4373 F i. Agnes CLOUDT 116 123 was born about 1852 in TX.116
Agnes married Albert MYLIUS 116 185 on 15 Dec 1868 in Long Mott, Calhoun, TX.116 122 183
4374 F ii. Antonio CLOUDT 116 was born in 1853 in TX.116
Antonio married Herman MYLIUS 116 after 17 Oct 1871 in Calhoun, TX.116 122
4375 F iii. Emma Christina CLOUDT 116 was born on 25 Mar 1854 in TX,116 died on 1 Aug 1935 in TX 116 at age 81, and was buried after 1 Aug 1935 in Bindewald Cem., Seadrift, Calhoun, TX.116 120
Emma married Rudolph BINDEWALD Jr 116 (b. 7 May 1851, buried After 19 Oct 1923) on 14 Apr 1875 in Indianola-Port Lavaca, Calhoun, TX.116
(Duplicate Line. See Person 2519, Rudolph BINDEWALD Jr)
4376 F iv. De Wanda C. E. CLOUDT 116 was buried after 16 Mar 1893 in Bindewald Cem., Seadrift, Calhoun, TX.116 120
Wanda married Herman A. LIEBOLD 116 123 (buried After 12 Apr 1915) on 22 Dec 1874 in Indianola-Port Lavaca, Calhoun, TX.116 122 186
4377 M v. De Maurice George William CLOUDT 116 was born on 13 Sep 1858 in Long Mott, Calhoun, TX,116 died on 6 Dec 1929 in Fowlerton, La Salle, TX 116 at age 71, and was buried after 6 Dec 1929 in DE Cloudt Cem., Victoria, Calhoun, TX.116 182
Maurice married Lenna Lou YEAMANS 116 (buried After 3 Jul 1891).
4378 F vi. De Hettie Marge CLOUDT 116 119 was born on 18 Apr 1862 in Long Mott, Calhoun, TX.116
Hettie married Louis Philip LIEBOLD 116 on 14 Sep 1880 in Indianola-Port Lavaca, Calhoun, TX.116
4379 F vii. De Frances Eleanor CLOUDT 116 119 123 was born on 4 Sep 1870 in TX 116 and died on 22 Nov 1960 in Calhoun, TX 116 at age 90.
Frances married Albert Victor BIERMAN 116 (d. Abt 1936) on 22 Feb 1895 in Calhoun, TX.116
(Duplicate Line. See Person 4316, Albert Victor BIERMAN)
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