Bruce Campbell, back row center, visited the City of Dillenburg’s archives. Nia Ortman, an archivist assistant, Simon Dietrich, Dillenburg historian and volunteer Heinz-Georg Clös, seated, found a letter printed in the newspaper Dillenburg Weekly that Campbell’s great-great-great-grandfather wrote. – Submitted photo
Community, Gillespie Life
Farewell song of Fritze family
In 1845, my ancestors, the Fritzes of Dillenburg, Germany, made the decision to emigrate to the new Republic of Texas.
