Meixner Family History

Over the next few weeks I plan to post information that I have about the Meixner Family that came to Texas in 1881.  I hope it is of interest to at least a few folks out there.  If not I will at least enjoy doing it.

I started getting interested in my family history in about 1977-78.  I communicated with my parents and aunts  to try to determine what information they could give me.  Early on I got connected with my cousin Claudia Brown and together we researched the Meixner name in Germany.  We started here because we had an entry in a family bible that said Frank Meixner and Theresia Eigel were married in Absdorf, Germany.

Claudia lived in Bell County, Texas where our grandfather Frank Meixner and family had settled in 1881.  She was doing research in the courthouse for citizenship papers for Frank but had no luck.  Then in one of those moments of serendipity she asked if she could look through boxes in storage.  She was looking through stacks of papers in a box when she came across this document:

The information in this document would change our direction and ultimately lead us to the country of Bohemia.

More to follow in the next installment.