Who was Norman Hurd Conger of Texas?

Norman Hurd Conger and his family were Waco pioneers.

In Roger N. Conger’s article The Emigration of the N. H. Conger Family from Oneida, Illinois to Waco, Texas in 1870 published in The Southwestern Historical Quarterly in July of 1960, he writes:

“Gratifying a long-time ambition, N. H. Conger purchased one of the celebrated eleven-league Mexican land grants in McLennan County—the Miguel Rabago. Embracing upwards of fifty thousand acres of fertile pasture land, the grant ran from the Hill County line on the north almost to Waco, and some twently miles east by west.”

Conger children included daughter Clara (married to Charles M. Harvey in 1871) and sons Charles, Newt, and Ralph.

Several Conger family members are buried in China Spring Cemetery.