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About Us
Our names are Kay and Jack Huffman. Jack and I grew up in San Antonio, were high school sweethearts, and have been visiting the Stonewall area for family reunions since the 60s.
Kay's great-grandfather, Heinrich Lindig, his wife, Johanna, and a one-year-old daughter, Mina, immigrated to this country in 1868. After a three-month trip in steerage on a ship, they landed in Galveston and then took another smaller boat to Indianola. Like many other German immigrants, they then undertook the arduous trip by ox-cart to Fredericksburg. They were met by his uncle, Conrad Bock, who needed help with his land in the Cave Creek area.
Two more Lindig children were born at Cave Creek. After saving enough money, Kay's great-grandfather bought 489 acres of land in Stonewall in 1873 and built a one-room log cabin. In this log cabin in 1874, Kay's grandmother, Emilie Lindig, was born.
Emilie Lindig married Heinrich Knopp who was a blacksmith in Stonewall. Kay's father, Walter, was born in Stonewall in 1893. Walter did not speak English until he attended Fredericksburg High School.
The quilt retreat facility is named Emilie's Quilt Haus in honor of Kay's grandmother, Emilie. In approximately 1878, her great-grandfather built a larger dog-run style cabin with two rooms and two attic rooms above.
In 2006, we had the opportunity to purchase a house in the Stonewall area and we added the quilt haus building in 2007.
After building the quilt haus, Jack and I decided to move the original log cabin to our property and restore it. A tornado in the Stonewall had taken its toll on the small log cabin but we were able to rebuild it to what it looked like in 1873.
Luckily in 2001 prior to the tornado, the Stonewall Heritage Society had already moved the larger dog-run house next to Burg's Corner where it is now used for society meetings.