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From: "Karen Conroy" <>
Subject: Re: [ORPHANAGES] Orphanage at Morgan's Point, Harris county, Texas,USA, during the late 1800s.
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 00:17:16 +0100
References: <656521.30498.qm@web32901.mail.mud.yahoo.com>


See if this site has any relevance. If you give their names they might be
in the orphanage in one of the censuses.

http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/daybyday/01-15-004.html

Karen
----- Original Message -----
From: "Betty W." <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 10:57 PM
Subject: [ORPHANAGES] Orphanage at Morgan's Point, Harris county, Texas,
USA,during the late 1800s.


> All of my life my parents, aunts and uncles told me that my maternal
> grandfather and his two sisters lived at an orphanage at Morgan's Point
> just north east of La Porte, Texas, USA. from 1866 until 1900. The girls
> left earlier than 1900 because one of their paternal uncles came from New
> York and took them there to meet their fathers family.
> All of the older generation (but one) are now dead (she is 99) , and
> Morgan's Point is almost totally covered with shipping containers, few
> homes and fewer historical markers.
> Does anyone out there have any solid evidence of where the home was, and
> what ever happened to the records? Was it swept away by the 1900 storm
> as was the St. Mary's
> home in Galveston? Right now I would just like to get conformation of
> the home being at Morgan's Point.
>
>
> Smile! GOD loves you....and So do I..Love ya,from: Betty
>
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