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The Beseler family immigrated from Germany to Texas in 1848. Among the first handful of early residents in future Kendall County, they were captured on the 1850 census in Sisterdale: Carl Joseph, 36, and Augusta, 32, Beseler and their two sons, 12-year-old Carl Phillip and 10-year-old Ernest.
After having a 160-acre land grant surveyed around three miles west of Sisterdale in 1854, they moved there.
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