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108 Circle Street, San Antonio, Tx.   Built in 1929 by Raymond F. Kagay.

Raymond F. and Imogene Kagay in front of residence at 108 Circle St., in 1958.

Two of Raymond's daughters ~ Betty Rae (front left) and Jeanne Kagay Cotham

(middle left), and Jeanne's son Christian M. Cotham,III (back left), with Imogene.

Taken in back of 108 Circle St. in 1947. Bottom right is neighbor Jeannie Menger. Middle right may be friend Patsy Seng (?).

Raymond F. and Imogene Rosette Kagay family in 1913, just prior to move to Mission, Tx from Richwood, Ohio. Children (from left to right) are Helen Janet (<1 yr), John Rosette (7 yrs), and Margaret Elaine (5 yrs), born in Richwood and Marysville, Ohio.

Higher resolution photograph of the John and “Tenia” Stuart Kagay family of 

Bremen, Ohio, taken abt. 1886, probably in Lancaster, Ohio.

Back Row (L-R): Elizabeth(Age 18), James Franklin(22), Clara Belle(24),

Jesse Stuart(12), Mary A.(17), Charles Edmund(20), and Lorena(14).

Middle Row: Father~ John Kagay(51),and Mother~ Christina “Tenia” Diana Stuart Kagay(43).

Front Row: William Henry(11), Raymond Frederick(3, Our grandfather), Ellen Leota(6), and Nina B.(8).

Raymond's siblings and their spouses, about 1940. Ohio.

(Identities as labeled on photo border.)

John and Tenia Kagay's farmhouse, near Bremen, Ohio, photographed in 1994, is still lived in by Kagay descendants. Most likely the birthplace of Raymond Frederick Kagay and his ten other siblings. Christian R. and Barbara Huffman Kagay, John's parents, are buried a short distance down a dirt road in a small wooded "Dunker" Cemetery. There are also Amish communities nearby.

Elizabeth, Leota, Helen, Lorena, Imogene and Raymond, 1958. (May be in the back yard of residence of Carter and Helen Kagay Watts on Pike Road in San Antonio. )

Jeanne Elizabeth Kagay in Mission, Texas, 1922. Raymond and Imogene Kagay moved their family from Marysville, Ohio to Mission, Texas (just across the border from Mexico) in 1914. They moved again, to San Antonio, in 1923. Pancho Villa was making his incursions across the border into Texas during this time period, and townspeople were put on alert from time to time, and sometimes urged to evacuate. Family stories have it that Raymond would instead get his guns ready at these times and ride it out. Below is a link to a narrative describing the pursuits of Pancho Villa.

http://www.hsgng.org/pages/pancho.htm

Jeanne Kagay, 1941. San Antonio, Texas.

Mary A. Kagay, one of Raymond's sisters. ca.1887. Bremen, Ohio.

Raymond on early Harley Davidson, ca.1905, Richwood, Ohio.

Postcard from Raymond to his sister Leota in Marion, Ohio, 1906. (a month before John Rosette's birth in Richwood)

"Orient, Ohio 11-7-06

Dear Sister- Just about to take a trip on the water so we thought we would say good bye, me and the dog. You had better come down and see us - (off) before cold weather. You can see everything from Friday eve until Sunday eve.  Lovingly, Ray"

Raymond and family business, ca.1905, Richwood, Ohio.

"Uncle Johnny", John Rosette Kagay, Raymond's son, with signature Mercury (later, Lincolns), at work on latest project, no doubt,  at residence on Oakview, ca. 1958. John was the manager of Alamo Cement in San Antonio for many years; also Chief Chemist and Vice President over a period of nearly fifty years.

Raymond Kagay with grand-children (from left) Susan Caruth (?), Tommy Hearn, Doug Hearn, and Cathy Hearn, in 1959, at cottages he built on Avenue F in Port Aransas, Texas.

 

Property of Hanse Kagy, ca. 1715, on the Connestoga River in Pennsylvania. Notice the steps sculpted out of the stone formation; may have been the entrance to a family house. Near Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

 

Grave of Barbara Stoner Kagy (1732-1813), wife of Henry Kagy (1728-1783), fourth son of "Hanse" Kagy. Henry's stone has deteriorated beyond legibility, but is of the same material (shale?) as Barbara's and has some of the same carving on it. This little unprotected and unkept Kagay graveyard is in the middle of a farmer's field next to Smith's Creek, near Quicksburg, (New Market area, Shenandoah Valley) Virginia. Notice the German wording on the inscription~ not too far removed from their Swiss roots. 

For more info on this area click here:  New Market, Virginia

 

John and Christina "Tenia" Diana Stuart Kagay, at cemetery near Bremen, Ohio. Many of the Stuart and Beery family relatives are buried nearby.

 

 

  

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