by marlenetrestman | Jan 12, 2023
Szafir Siblings In 1882, Emil Szafir and his wife, Johanna Blumenthal Szafir, traveled from their native Hungary to America with their three children — Charlotte, Edmund, and Alex — stopping in New York before reaching Galveston, where Jacob was born. In...
by marlenetrestman | Jan 12, 2023
Cora Lee White Shortly after giving birth in 1888 to her eighth child Cora Lee, Laura Holt White died. A few months later, widower Charles White admitted his five eldest children (Joseph, Hattie, Ralph, Emma, and Goldie) into the Home from Greenville, Mississippi....
by marlenetrestman | Jan 12, 2023
Aschaffenburg Family Although the average length of stay was 7 years, some children lived in the Home only a short time, sufficient to enable struggling parents to regain stability. Although the precise circumstances are unknown, in April 1887 the board approved the...
by marlenetrestman | Jan 12, 2023
Bella Loeb In June 1887, ten-year-old Bella Loeb and her younger brothers George and Henry, Jr. were admitted to the Home from Donaldsonville, Louisiana following the death of their widowed mother Elizabeth McManus of Ireland. Before he died in the yellow fever...
by marlenetrestman | Jan 11, 2023
Joseph Sonnenberg Admitted in 1887 from Fort Worth, Texas, with older brothers Abraham and Israel, Joseph Sonnenberg’s description in the Home’s registry as “disorderly” gave little indication of his later heralded life in law enforcement....
