While driving and almost to George’s home, and on the phone with my mom, she told me my Grandfather was buried in Lindsay TX, and only 5 minutes later I find myself driving through the small town of Lindsay, Texas. My mom has been our family genealogist for the last 45+ years.
But what are the odds that only 18.67 miles away from Coachgeo, on the same road as Whitesboro Texas, http://tinyurl.com/q74zta ; my great great Grandfather, Gustav A. Topf, 1840-1894 (53 years young), is buried at St. Peters Catholic Church. A German immigrant that came to America when he was 17, built a home, hotel, saloon, and farm in Iowa, then sold out and bought several (6) large blocks of land only four blocks from this very Church in 1893, died a year later.
So my trip was a win-win trip. Thank you George for letting me do this for you, if it were not for you, I wouldn't have met my Grandfather, very moving and Grandpa and I had a good talk, he's a very quiet person and let me do all the talkng.
Dave
