William Sachse

1820-1899

"A Texan, Under Three Flags"

He arrived while Texas was still a Republic, saw it admitted to the Union, and during the Civil War, served in the Confederate Army.

        William Sachse, an old settler of Texas and an extensive landowner, was born in Herford, Prussia, December 16, 1820, was reared at a hotel, and at the age of twenty came to America, landing in New York in August, 1840; thence he went to Philadelphia, thence to Pittsburgh, thence to Missouri where he lived until 1844, and thence started for Texas, arriving here January 15, 1845. Others came with him, and the party first located in Collin County, but the Indians were very hostile and forced them back.

          Mr. Sachse found refuge in Lamar County and there made a crop; in the fall he returned to Collin and that county has been his home ever since. While in Lamar County he married (1845) and on his return to Collin secured 640 acres and commenced improving it at once. He was very successful as a farmer, rancher and trader, acquired 5,000 acres of good land.

Resource of these facts were obtained from

"Sachse Remembered 1840 - 1940" by © Mary Allene Jones

You can view the Sachse Family Tree at:

Sachse Texas part of the TX GenWeb Project

I am not sure who took this picture, I scanned it from the first Sachse four-color map that was distributed back in 1985. This scene was along Highway 78 about where Allsups or Paul's Grocery is today.  -Charlene

The Sachse Historical Society was given all reproduction and copyrights to the "Sachse Remembered 1840 - 1940" book by Author and Sachse descendant Mary Allene Jones and her family after her passing in 2004.

You may purchase the book for $25, by contacting Joe Stone, Treasurer of the  Sachse Historical Society at 972-495-1231.