by marlenetrestman | Feb 10, 2024
Ben, Mollie, & Jacob Greenberg Polish-born Samuel (S.I.) Greenberg, the first service leader and shochet at Congregation Ahavath Achim in Tyler, Texas, died of pneumonia in 1905. Two years later, his wife, the former Jennie Bergman, sent to the Home their three...
by marlenetrestman | Feb 9, 2024
Bessie & Etta Berger In 1893, following the deaths of their parents, the causes of which were not recorded, two-year-old Bessie Berger and her one-year-old sister, Etta, were admitted to the Home from Birmingham, Alabama. Within a year, Bessie was discharged to...
by marlenetrestman | Dec 28, 2023
Kronenberg Siblings: Archie, Isadore, Louis, and Altie In September 1914, in Dallas, Texas, Rachel Yonack Kronenberg died during the birth of her fifth child. Her widowed husband, David, was unable to support the family and by December admitted the four eldest...
by marlenetrestman | Nov 22, 2023
Beulah Blondheim Native Virginian Solomon Blondheim and his wife, the former Gussie Brash of Florida, ran a restaurant on Greensboro Avenue in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. They had one child, Beulah, who was born in 1911. Three years later, Gussie died. On the recommendation...
by marlenetrestman | Oct 9, 2023
Louis & Rudolph Stein Born in Hawkinsville, Georgia, brothers Louis and Rudolph Stein were living in New Orleans with their mother, Annie Rothenberg Stein, when their father died. In March 1914, the board granted Mrs. Stein’s petition to admit 8-year-old...