by marlenetrestman | Dec 31, 2022
Lazar Schwartz Widow Babette Schwartz moved into the Home on the day it opened in February 1856, bringing her five children with her. Although the two oldest girls left in 1865, Babette and her three youngest children lived in the Home until 1868. Although much of...
by marlenetrestman | Dec 30, 2022
Frishman Siblings Russian immigrant Samuel Frishman owned a grocery store in Natchez, Mississippi, where he lived with his wife Rosa Blumenthal. In 1881, about a year after Samuel died, Rosa admitted five of their eight children into the Home, raging in age from five...
by marlenetrestman | Dec 30, 2022
Kenofsky Siblings Sarah Kenofsky Koenigsberger, c. 1900. Photos courtesy of Bruce Fabricant, Sarah’s grandson. Sarah Kenofsky Koenigsberger with her grandson Bruce Fabricant in 1945. Russian immigrant Martin Kenofsky arrived in America in 1859, settling in...
by marlenetrestman | Dec 30, 2022
David B. Davis Little is known of the life of Baer Benjamin Davis and his wife Hannah Goldberg before they settled in Leesburg, Texas. But while there, they lived with their three young sons, Abraham, Jacob, and David. In 1877, shortly after Benjamin died in 1877,...
by marlenetrestman | Dec 30, 2022
Ike Hochwald Isaac “Ike” Hochwald was living in Galveston, Texas when his mother died. Ike’s father, Rev. Israel Hochwald, a mohel, admitted his eight-year-old son into the Home in 1874. Three years later, the board discharged Ike to Lion Kahn in...
