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Recollections of Boerne and Kendall County, Family Histories by Edith A. Gray, 1949.  This book consists of material collected by Edith Agnes (Gilliat) Gray as a result of her appointment as the historian in 1949 for "Boerne's Centennial."  This book, published in 2003, is a supplement to her book, Recollections of Boerne and Kendall County, published in 1999. Over 200 family names appear in the book. 

Patrick Arthur Patterson was born in Houston, Texas when his parents were living in nearby Sugarland.  Patterson received his B.A. and M. Ed degrees from Elmira College in Elmira, NY.  He had a twenty-five year career as a Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation.  While an FBI Agent, he served in various locations in the U.S. and abroad working on complex criminal and intelligence investigations.  When he retired, he was a member of the Senior Executive Service of the FBI.  After his 2005 retirement, he and his wife moved to Boerne, Texas.  His life-long interest in history matches well with his life-long genealogical pursuits.  When he moved to Boerne, he found much had been written about the Kendall Family which had immigrated to Boerne shortly after Texas' independence from Mexico, but little was published concerning the exploits of their youngest son, Henry Fletcher Kendall.  Kendall's activities with the U.S. Cavalry in southwest Texas and Arizona could have been a model for John Wayne's hard-bitten characters found in John Ford's cinematic cavalry trilogy, Ft. Apache, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon and the Rio Grande.  Patterson felt compelled to document Kendall's unsung life in the U.S. Cavalry.

This book focuses primarily on the ancestors of the Marks, Fleischmann, Mareane, Looney, Patterson and Simpson Family who lived in the States of New York, Texas, Georgia and the Washington Territory.  The ancestors of these families found their roots in Germany, Scotland and Ireland before immigrating to the United States.  The research documented here reflects our family's connections to the American Revolutionary War, the Texas Revolution, the American Civil War, as well as World Wars I and II - moments in history that defined our nation and family heritage. Written by Patrick A. Patterson. Soft Cover, 224  pages.