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Grieving the sudden death of her beloved husband a few years after they lost their first child, Eda Kampmann Herff picks up an abandoned ledger and starts writing a diary on the first day of 1884. A century later, her granddaughter, Ilse Herff Frost yields to a grandson's pleading and writes her reminiscence. She recounts growing up in South Texas - Boerne and San Antonio - in the early 20th century. These two women were descendents of J[ohann] H[ermann] K[ampmann], one of the 19th century German settlers who brought their enterprise, culture and utopian ideals to the vivid Mexican city of San Antonio. JHK was a dynamic civic leader. He built several of the classic German houses in the city's King William District, along with [the] now historic business buildings downtown like the Menger Hotel. He also founded two breweries and a bank that later became a significant cornerstone in the Frost Bank organisation

In the first half of the 19th Century, our forebears arrived in Galveston and walked across to the rolling hills and sweet springs of Central Texas. From those first steps, five generations of women have nurtured land and children just north of Boerne. They are bright, persevering, creative wives, mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers. These are their stories.