HOSTYN, TEXAS. Hostyn overlooks the Colorado River near La
Grange in central Fayette County. In the 1830s the community,
then called Bluff, was settled by German settlers. Father
Michael Muldoon celebrated Mass in a dwelling at Bluff in the
spring of 1831. In November 1856 a group of Czech families
arrived at Bluff. Among them were Joseph Janda, Alois and
Benjamin Klimicek, Valentin Kolibal, František Koza, and
František Marak. The Czechs that moved to Bluff and those that
founded Dubina came over on the same ship. During the Civil War
John Lidiak, a Bluff resident, was hauling a wagonload of cotton
to Mexico when he met friends in Brownsville who talked him into
joining the Union Army; meanwhile his father, Joseph Lidiak,
fought with the Confederate Army. Both came home to Bluff after
the war and lived together on the farm. The two men are buried
side by side in the parish cemetery and were honored by the
United States government with two Civil War cannons. After the
war the community prospered, and more Cze