Kiolbassa - Aniol Home and Farm

In December of 1854, immigrants from Upper Silesia in Prussian Poland began arriving
in Texas. In Bexar County, approximately twenty Silesian families created the village of
Saint Hedwig eighteen miles east of San Antonio. Today, recognized as one of the
earliest Polish settlements in the U. S. it is located on FM 1346, in far eastern Bexar
County.

Valentine Aniol, one of the founding settlers of Saint Hedwig, Texas, in 1856,   purchased from C. G. Napier an undivided interest in two hundred acres of land near the center of the John Springer Survey or Survey #31.

In 1892, Valentine Aniol conveyed the property to his daughter Julia Aniol Rakowicz  and her husband John Rakowicz with the stipulation, “to furnish to the said Valentine Aniol   a room on the premises including support, medical attention and clothing during her (sic) natural life.”

In 1896, the property came into the Kiolbassa family when it was
purchased by Ignatz Kiolbassa from John and Julia Aniol Rakowicz.

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