The Heinsohn Family in Texas

– Family Reunion –

Overview

The Diedrich and Elise Weishuhn Heinsohn descendants began our reunion tradition with a gathering at Cuero Municipal Park on August 14, 1955. The group voted to meet again the next year and elected Werner F. Kautz as president, Arthur Fenner as vice-president, and Alice Coldewey as secretary/treasurer. They held these offices until 1963. 

The descendants of Diedrich’s brothers and sisters attended the 1956 reunion at Cuero and it became known as the Wilhelm Heinsohn Reunion. In 1964 the reunion moved to the New Ulm Fireman’s Park.  The following year descendants of Gerhard, John, and Anton Heinsohn joined the gathering and the year after that those in attendance voted to rename it the Heinsohn Family Reunion. 1965 was also the year that Janice Heinsohn Sager was elected family historian and she continues in that position today. 

The reunion moved to the V.F.W. Hall in La Grange in 1971. The 1974 gathering was the largest when one hundred seventy-five people came for the twentieth reunion. The first Heinsohn Heritage Tour was held in 1998. The fiftieth reunion in 2004 was celebrated over an entire weekend with golfing, a heritage tour, picnic, barbecue and dance.

The next reunion will be at the VFW Hall in La Grange at 10 a.m. on Sunday, July 19, 2009. Please contact Rox Ann Johnson if you would like to receive a reunion notice.

Current Officers

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Overview • Current Officers • Past Reunions Revisited