by marlenetrestman | Jan 31, 2023
Isidore Mendelsohn Although the Home’s records do not reveal what caused the deaths of Julius Mendelsohn and his wife, the former Amalia Meyer, in New Orleans in 1878, yellow fever is a likely culprit. The epidemic that summer had claimed the lives of more than...
by marlenetrestman | Jan 22, 2023
Alphonse Julius Schlesinger In 1895, following the death of Isaac Schlesinger, a lawyer in Woodville, Mississippi, his widow Sarah Schwartz, admitted their three children – Alphonse, Judith, and Ida (“Ikie”) — into the Home. After nine years,...
by marlenetrestman | Jan 21, 2023
Hurwitz Sisters: Rachel, Ella & Annie In 1893, following the death of his wife Fannie Schoenbaum, Albert Hurwitz admitted his three Russian-born daughters — Rachel (5), Ella (7), and Annie (9) — to the Home from Montgomery, Alabama with the...
by marlenetrestman | Jan 17, 2023
Brown Siblings: Louis, Mathilda, Sadie, and Raphael In April 1891, widower Gus Brown admitted his four children to the Home from Bayou Sara, Louisiana. According to the records of Beth Israel Cemetery in Woodville, Mississippi, Gus’s wife, Mina Frank, died in...
by marlenetrestman | Jan 16, 2023
Leslie Greenwald In 1891, following the death of her husband, Emily Laser Greenwald admitted her three sons to the Home from Little Rock, Arkansas, where the local B’nai B’rith Lodge endorsed her petition. Like his older brothers before him, when Leslie...
