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Marker No: 382

Aluminum 18 x 28 Subject Marker

Geographic: 29.909008, -786400

Location: ​223-A Waring-Welfare Road, Welfare

Marker Text: ​Carl Joseph and Augusta Beseler and their two sons immigrated from Germany in Kendall County on a land grant in the 1850s. They settled in Kendall County on a land grant in  the 1850s. The community of Welfare was established on the Beseler land grant. The Beselers' son Ernst died in the Battle of Nueces. His brother Carl Philipp was instrumental in building Welfare into a railroad shipping point in the 1880s, Carl Philipp served as justice of the peace, postmaster, county commissioner, and tax assessor. The general store is among the few physical remnants of the community of Welfare. (1996)