Terms of Service

• House, 17th ^{(1) (2) (3)} Legislature
  1/11/1881 - 1/9/1883
  Republican
  

(1) D'Hanis, Texas is eight miles west of Hondo in western Medina County. The community is sometimes called New D'Hanis to distinguish it from the site of old D'Hanis one mile to the east. The original settlement was the third made by Henri Castro through his agent, Theodore Gentilz. Handbook of Texas Online .
(2) Castroville, Medina County. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004 2005.
(3) D'Hanis, Medina County, Republican. Pocket Directory of the Seventeenth Legislature of Texas 1881.

Biographical Notes and Resources

Resolutions and Journal entries

• H.J. Richarz. House Journal .

Other Resources

• Biographical sketch, Captain H.J. Richarz, pp. 202-205. Early Settlers and Indian Fighters of Southwest Texas 1900.
• "First Texas Ranger, Capt. Co. E Fort Inge Patrol Area, Laredo to Llano River. Fought the Kiowas and Comanches." Grave marker inscription, Capt. H.J. Richarz, burial in Richarz Cemetery, D'Hanis, Medina County. Find a Grave .
• Henry J. Richarz. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004 2005.
• Obituary, Captain Henry Joseph Richarz, The Hondo Anvil-Herald, 5/28/1910, p. 5, crediting Hondo Public Library. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
• H.J. Richarz mentioned in "Forgotten Rangers," Fall 2000. Texas Ranger Dispatch Magazine 2008.
• Heinrich Joseph Richarz, birth date 9/8/1823 in Eller, Dusseldorf, Rhineland, Germany; death date 5/21/1910 in D'Hanis, Medina County, Texas. Family group sheet, Medina County, TXGenWeb Project .

Committee Information

• 17th R.S. - 1881
• Comptroller's and Treasurer's Office, Examine  
• County and County Boundaries  
• Public Lands and Land Office  
• Roads, Bridges and Ferries