Near this site was a town once known as Strunksville. It consisted of a store, post office, saloon and a horse and mule gin owned and operated by one of the first settlers of the town in 1854, Diedrich Strunk on April 12, 1868, the Lutheran Church . . . — — Map (db m213615) HM
Mitchell Family history in Lavaca County began with Bankston Mitchell (c. 1845-1914), a slave born in Virginia who moved to this area with plantation owner and military scout Isaac Newton Mitchell. Bankston and Maria (Johnson) Mitchell had a son . . . — — Map (db m213620) HM
Originally called Sublime Missionary Baptist Church of Christ, the Sublime Baptist Church first held services in 1853, four miles south of its present location at a place known as "Tick Hill," near Geiger Cemetery.
Services were held on . . . — — Map (db m213613) HM
Christoph Geiger, a Lutheran pastor from Germany who had arrived in the U.S. in 1860, was sent as a traveling missionary to this area in 1867. The original congregation of this church was organized on April 12, 1868, in a nearby village known as . . . — — Map (db m213611) HM