by marlenetrestman | Jan 16, 2023
Korn Siblings Rabbi Jacob Korn, a scholar, linguist, and conservatory-trained cantor, married Anna Bernstein, the daughter of the chief rabbi of Breslau, Germany. By 1891, several years after coming to America, the family settled in Woodville, Mississippi, where Jacob...
by marlenetrestman | Jan 16, 2023
Adolph & Edouard Henriques Although the Home’s original constitution limited eligibility to orphans and half orphans (meaning at least one parent deceased), the board frequently side-stepped this requirement when compassion dictated in cases of parental...
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...
