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Note: Known as "Papaw" to children and grandchildren.
The Family Bible of Elo and Linda Buenger contains the following in the "Family Section" of the Bible:
Parents' Names:
Husband: Elo Alfred Buenger
Born: Sept. 23rd, 1893 - Columbus, Texas (He was actually born at Shaw's Bend)
Wife: Linda Emilie Otelia Richter
Born: Nov. 5th , 1893 - Shiner, Texas
Married: Nov. 10th, 1915 at 8 p.m. at the Lutheran Church, Yoakum, by Rev. Wolfsdorf. Sponsors Nellie Richter and Aug. C. Kramer
Children's Names:
Elo Alfred Buenger, Jr., born Oct. 6th 1916, Yoakum, Lavaca Co.
Lillie Evelyn Buenger, born March 9th1918, Yoakum, Lavaca Co.
Leona Lorene Buenger, born Aug. 16th 1919, Yoakum, Lavaca Co.
Marriages:
Elo Alfred, Jr. to Ruth Adele Buske Aug. 20th 1938 at 8 p.m. - First Evangelical Church, Houston, Texas.
Leona Lorene to Harrison Richard Dalzell June 22nd 1940 at 8 p.m. at Evang. Lutheran Church (Holy Cross Lutheran), Yoakum, Texas (by) Rev. Paul Bechter.
Leona Lorene to Clarence Carlton Coldewey Aug. 11, 1945 at home (107 Houston St.) by Paul Bechter.
Deaths:
Clarence Carlton Coldewey, Sept. 18, 1948
Mrs. Linda Buenger, Oct. 13, 1967
Elo Alfred Buenger, July 29, 1985
The following is from "The Colorado County Sesquicentennial Commorative Book" published in 1986:
SHAW'S BEND - Josiah Shaw, son of Joseph and Abigail, was born December 24, 1817, in Shelby County, Kentucky. Josiah Shaw and Delinda Jane Fitzgerald were married January 5, 1841 in LaGrange, Texas. The present Shaw's Bend was founded by Josiah Shaw on November 28, 1859. He bought one half labor (of land) and a quarter league plus other tracts of land from Freeman Pettus and J. Tumlinson. The Tumlinson grant was on the east side of the Colorado River. Mr. Shaw called his plantation "Sunnyside".
Senator M.S. Quay of Pennsylvania, one of the foremost politicians of his time, taught school as a young man at what was later called Shaw's Bend. He boarded at the house of Mr. Alexander Fitzgerald. They carried on a correspondence for many years.
Henry Kuhn was born on a farm at Mentz in 1861. The Kuhn family moved to Shaw's Bend when he was 10 and hauled lumber from a saw mill about 75 miles away to build a house. He went to school in a one room building on a hill near Kuhn's Creek. The school teacher was Josiah Shaw. This building was also used as a church and dance hall. The young people would square dance, polka and waltz to the music of an accordian and fiddle.
When Shaw's Bend was first setled, people were wondering what to call it. They had about decided on Sunnyside, the name of Mr. Shaw's plantation, but Henry Kuhn told them they should call it Shaw's Bend because Josiah Shaw was the first settler and he owned most of the land in the bend of the river.
As more people moved in, the small village had a store, cotton gin, dance platform and a blacksmith shop. A large school building was built for the whites and one for the blacks. There was never a post office called Shaw's Bend but there was one called Hillebrand with Hermann C. Hillebrand postmaster from September 29, 1893 until March 15, 1895, when there was rual service from Columbus.
The following is from "The Handbook of Texas Online":
SHAW'S BEND, TEXAS - Shaw's Bend is on Farm Road 1890 in a bend of the Colorado River five miles northwest of Columbus in north central Colorado County. The settlement was named for Josiah Shaw, who, with his wife Delinda Fitzgerald Shaw, established a large plantation named Sunnyside there in 1859. The community grew during the Civil War and by the 1870's had stores, a cotton gin, a dance platform, a blacksmith shop, several churches and schools for both white and black children. In 1893, a post office was established under the name Hillebrand, in honor of the first and only postmaster, Hermann Hillebrand. The post office closed in 1895, when mail began to be delivered regularly from Columbus. Before floods destroyed the bridge of the LaGrange Tap of the Texas and New Orleans Railroad, there was a flag stop and siding at Shaw's Bend for loading cotton.
Young people from the south side of the Colorado River often borrowed handcars from the railroad yards at Glidden and used them to attend Saturday night dances at the Shaw's Bend dance floor. The destruction of the railroad bridge and the subsequent abandonment of the LaGrange Tap, coupled with the fact that State Highway 71 bypassed the community, caused the businesses to move away during the early twentieth century. The area remained important for the production of cotton until restrictions on acreage caused the gins to close during the 1950s. By 1986, the primary crops were corn and pecans, and most of the land was used for grazing cattle. St. John's Lutheran Church and four cemeteries remain to mark the general location of Shaw's Bend.
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