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Leander Antonio’s (“LA” as he was often called) father, Niclous Musty, immigrated to the United States April 24, 1848 from Antwerp, Belgium on the ship Shakespeare. Niclous married Otillia Thil 1/1/1841. LA Mosty was born July 10, 1851 and married Elizabeth Bean 12/21/1881. They lived in hard times during the late 1800s. After the Civil War LA took a job with the Swift Company in Kansas City, Kansas. Later he began driving cattle from South Texas to Kansas and became known, according the San Antonio Express News, as the “Cattle King of Texas”. LA & his family, including Harvey Mosty, moved from Hepler, Kansas to Kerrville, Texas in 1894. The rest is history.
LA (Leander Antonio) Mosty 1851 - 1917
At the age of nine in 1894 Harvey Mosty, his siblings, father and mother, moved from Hepler, Kansas to Kerrville, Kerr County, Texas. He and his family were pioneers living in Kerr County, Kerrville and the surrounding area. He and his family literally brought horticulture into Kerr County and the Hill Country. His remembrances of the trip to Kerrville from Kansas, and the early days in both, are recounted in the transcripts of a diary my mother, Marie Annaletta Mosty Craft, had him write a few years before he died.
Harvey Mosty 1885 - 1958
Published by JCGraphix in November of 2025
Original text written by Harvey Mosty sometime in the late 1940s or early 1950s Transcribed originally by Marie Mosty Craft; digitally by James Bruce Craft in the 1990s