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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 21:37:57 +0100
References: <149252.84292.qm@web32914.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Found Samuel there age 15 in the 1880 census. Karen
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From: "Betty W." <>
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Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 2:16 AM
Subject: Re: [ORPHANAGES] Orphanage at Morgan's Point, Harris county,
Texas,USA, during the late 1800s.
> Karen, thank you so very much. It sounds like that must have been the
> home I am looking for. The only drawback I see is that the two sisters
> were there too. One of them was Ten and the other was eight when they
> were sent there. Their brother lived with an uncle for the next four or
> five years before he was put into the home. The oldest was Sarah
> Harriette Riggs (called Hattie). Then there was Jacinto Cornelia (called
> Jessie ). Their much younger brother, my maternal grandfather Samuel
> Merritt Riggs was born in November of 1866 three months after his father
> Samuel Merritt Riggs died of wounds he had received in the civil war.
> Their mother was Sarah C. Jacinto Penn, b. Oct 6, 1838 in Cedar Bayou,
> Texas. Thank you again for the help.
>
> Smile! GOD loves you....and So do I..Love ya,from: Betty
>
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