Fritz THOM, Settin, Prussia (now Poland)
Fritz THOM (b. 1843, Prussia) m. ca 1869 to Johana Louise LEIDERMAN. In early 1880's this family left the town of Settin, which was then part of Prussia, and now is in Poland, just across the river from Germany. First landed in New Your, but within a shor time came to Houston, Texas, where the THOM family has remained ever since. Children are Paul Otto (b. 1870), Albertia (b. 1874; m. Frederick Louis HELMKE), Edith (b. 1879; m. Henry COOK), Otto (born aboard ship to America, ca 1881), Emil (b. 1883, New York), and William (b. 1885, Houston; d. 1935 in AR).