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The front of the old Hanhart place where first Fred & Agnes Hanhart and later
Fred William Sr. & Elsie Marie Sauer Hanhart raised their families
is barely visible through the brush that is growing in their old front yard.

The side of the house is more clearly visible.
The ground in this area used to be kept free of any growth and was a white sugary sand.

Part of the old log barn that was to the rear of the house is still visible.
Chickens roosted and laid eggs along some of the outer walls.

 This smaller house was first occupied by Agnes Hanhart after her husband's death and then by
Emma Annie Dieckmann Sauer Brunette (Elsie Marie Sauer Hanhart's mother) in her later years.
Although Mrs. Brunette died in 1961, the flower garden she lovingly took care of is evidenced by the
Easter lily that still blooms (some 40 years later) in what was once her front yard.

While the little house where Mrs. Hanhart and Mrs. Brunette once lived is long gone,
some of its furnishings from the Brunette era remain. One item,
a Gustav Becker mahogany regulator wall clock with white porcelain face and Roman numerals
(which was in pieces and not working) has recently been restored to its original condition.
This clock, a carved mahogany bed (which is in a relative's home in Atlanta), a large carved mahogany chifforobe,
and other furnishings were brought to Texas from Germany by Mrs. Brunette's parents,
Jacob & Marie Catharina Luedemann Dieckmann, when they immigrated in 1884.