De George William CLOUDT

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.

http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/II/hvi11.html
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

4539. De George William CLOUDT ¹¹⁶ (Baron Von Pelden G. Moritz Friederich Wilhelm Cornelius CLOUDT¹⁰, Von Pelden G. Jost Friedrich Reinhard CLOUDT Chamberlain⁹, Von Pelden G. Mauritz Godfried CLOUDT⁸, Von Pelden G. Jost Wyrich Freyherr CLOUDT II⁷, Von Pelden G. Wyrich Adolph CLOUDT Drost⁶, Von Pelden G. Wilhelm Reiner CLOUDT⁵, Von Pelden G. Jost Wyrich CLOUDT I⁴, Von Pelden G. Wilhelm CLOUDT³, Van Gertruid WURM-\GUTTERSWICK², Heinrichs (Von)¹) 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

George married Augusta BINDEWALD,¹¹⁶ ¹¹⁹ daughter of BINDEWALD, on 18 May 1849 in Indianola-Port Lavaca, Calhoun, TX.¹¹⁶ ¹⁸³ Augusta 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

(Duplicate Line. See Person 4371, Augusta BINDEWALD)

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