by marlenetrestman | Mar 10, 2025
Rose & Emanuel Sherman Living in New Orleans with their family, siblings Rose and Emanuel Sherman were the two youngest of seven children. Their mother died from appendicitis when Rose was one year and four days old. In 1925, shortly after their mother’s...
by marlenetrestman | Mar 9, 2025
Freda, “Junior,” Beatrice, and Joe Hyde “My mother was dying of cancer, and my father went off somewhere and they didn’t even know where he was. Left us in a house in San Antonio, Texas. We happened to have wealthy relatives, the Bennetts. And...
by marlenetrestman | Mar 9, 2025
Celia, Max, Sadie, & Yetta Redman In 1924, Meyer Redman, a peddler, his wife, Rosie, and their six children were living in Houston. Meyer, Rosie, and all but one of the children were natives of Poland. While traveling by automobile to sell his merchandise, Meyer...
by marlenetrestman | Mar 1, 2025
Louis & Sam Peters Twins Louis and Sam Peters were the youngest of six children born to Charles H. Peters and his wife, the former Rosa Ginsburg. In 1925, within a year after Rosa died, Charles admitted ten-year-old Louis and Sam to the Home from Beaumont, Texas....
by marlenetrestman | Feb 28, 2025
Sylvia, Bernard, Albert, & Herman Fox To improve his wife’s mental health after the loss of two children to measles, Samuel Fox moved with their four surviving children from Cincinnati, Ohio to New Orleans, where he ran a tailoring business on Rampart...
