The Hornburg Story

Johann Christoph Hornburt married Marie Dorothee Christine Catharina Harms on 25 August 1824, in Gifhorn, Germany. Christoph, his wife, and six children: Marie, Sophie, Henriette, Christoph, Heinrich and Carl, sailed brom Bremen, Germany in Oct. of 1845 on the ship Everhard, and arrived in Galveston, Texas in December of 1845. Descendants have lived mostly in Texas.