Jacob, Ethel, & Louis Greenberg (974-976)

Jacob, Ethel, & Louis Greenberg “From ambuscade,” was the way the Fort Worth Record & Register described the December 1901 murder by shooting of Joe Greenberg, a farmer living near Fort Worth, Texas. His attacker, who had earlier claimed that...

Judith & Bella Ophirton (1477-1478)

Judith & Bella Ophirton In 1910, Lithuanian immigrant Leon (Heifer) Ophirton married Ida Schmidt, a native of Riga, in New York. They later moved to Birmingham, Alabama, where their two daughters, Judith and Bella, were born. A third daughter, Miriam, was born and...

Abraham (George) and Bessie Plotkin (1471 & 1472)

Abraham (George) & Bessie Plotkin In 1921, within a few months after the death of his wife, the former Rachel Levine, Russian immigrant tailor Jake Plotkin admitted the two youngest of their four children to the Home. Abraham, later known as George, was eight...

Ethel, Dorothy, & Thelma Rosenbaum (1466-1468)

Ethel, Dorothy, & Thelma Rosenbaum Lucille Malach, a native of Lithuania, married Harry Rosenbaum of Colorado in 1907. Harry’s work as a self-styled cattle buyer and junk dealer kept the couple traveling, including to Odgen, Utah, where daughter Ethel was...

Rogers & Morris Perlis (1463-1464)

Rogers & Morris Perlis Until 1921, David Perlis, a junk dealer, and his wife, the former Sarah Baum, lived in Memphis, Tennessee with their six children. That year, David died and Sarah placed her two youngest children, Isidore Rogers (6) and Morris (3) in the...