52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: Week 13 -- The Old Homestead

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My Goehring family has farmed and ranched the same land in Concho County, Texas, for 115 years. My great-grandfather John Lewis Goehring bought the property in 1903 along with his son/my grandfather John Frederick Goehring. My father was born in 1932 in the old house on the property and my parents were still living on the property in 1962 when I was born (although my birth occurred in a hospital 60 miles away). My parents still live on and work the same land today.


The original house (with modifications) on the property since 1903 purchase.

The house built by John Frederick Goehring in the early 1940s.

JFG's house in 2006, now in a new location dictated by Lake O.H. Ivie.

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