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...
by marlenetrestman | Dec 29, 2022
Stifft Siblings In 1869, after giving birth to her seventh child, Bertha Levendorf Stifft died. Her husband, Michael Stifft, a Polish veteran of the Mexican American war, admitted his five youngest children – Henrietta, Fanny, Peritz, Nathan, and David —...
by marlenetrestman | Dec 29, 2022
Cyrus Lazarus Born in 1858 in Goldingen, now part of Latvia, Cyrus Lazarus was admitted to the Home in 1869. In 1874, the board discharged Cyrus to his brother at Camden, Arkansas, where he married Ida Marx. Cyrus died in 1934 and was buried in Jewish Rest Cemetery in...
