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 WELFARE, TEXAS. Welfare is four miles southeast of
Waring in west central Kendall County. It was once known as Bon Ton
or Boyton, but when the post office was established in 1880, the
name was changed to Welfare, possibly for the German word "Wohlfarht,"
meaning pleasant trip. In 1887 the San Antonio and Aransas Pass
Railway Company completed the section of track between San Antonio
and Kerrville, giving Welfare easy access to markets.
The community had 275 residents by 1892 and continued to prosper
until the early twentieth century. The Welfare school had twenty
students in 1905 and served as the focus of a common school district
until 1952, when it was consolidated with the Comfort Independent
School District. Several years of drought, a fire, and the
appearance of the boll weevil made life difficult for area
residents. By the mid-1920s the population had fallen to
twenty-five. State Highway 87 bypassed the community in 1930, and
when the railroad was abandoned in 1970, Welfare was accessible only
by a county road. The post office was discontinued in 1976. The
population was reported at forty from the late 1940s through the
1960s, and at thirty-six from 1970 through 2000.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Kendall County Historical Commission, A History of
Kendall County, Texas (Dallas: Taylor, 1984). Garland A. Perry,
Historic Images of Boerne, Texas (Boerne: Perry Enterprises, 1982).
Photos compliments of
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