San Antonio convert may have been temporary home of girls after 1900 storm devastated Galveston.
I am looking into my family history and wondering if you might be able to assist me. My great-grandmother, Esther Sampson, age 12, and her sister Cornelia, 6, were left in a convent in San Antonio while the family relocated from Galveston to San Francisco, after the hurricane. We have plates that were given as gifts when the nuns visited my great-grandmother in California that are stamped “SHC 1900.
Ring prompts search for Ursuline graduate With the city’s electric and gas plants flooded, telephone and telegraph wires down, water supply compromised and bodies of the dead to be found and burned, Galveston had serious public health issues along with a dearth of safe shelter. Bridges were washed out, and railroads made impassable by debris. People of means such as the Sampsons soon left by steamer — or even barge or sailboat — to seek safe haven elsewhere.
Transformation of Ursuline Academy As for your plate, according to several sites for china collectors, the green mark on the back — “H&Co.” with a line over an “L” — was used by Haviland & Co. from 1876-1889 to denote porcelain that was made in Limoges, France.
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