Re: Morgans of West Texas
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Re: Morgans of West Texas
Evelin Morgan 1/19/01
I don't know if this has a connection with your family, but it's worth reading. I am just beginning research on the Levy family. My ancestor is Catherine(Kate)Levy, b. 1852 Va md William Bainbridge McCutchon, Jr b. 1846 La
Meyer Levy-A Polish emigrate of Texas and Louisianna:
Meyer Levy was himself an interesting person. He departed Europe in 1848, spending a short time in England, and then emigrated to the United States, abt 1850, landing at Norfolk,Va.He worked as a merchant trader thru the Southern States in the years before the Civil War, and appears to have traded at various points on the Brazos River in Texas, as early as 1858. After the outbreak of the conflict, Levy reportedly received a letter of Marque from the Confederacy, and operated as a privateer & Blockade runner, trading amoung Southern ports, England, and the West Indies. His family lived in New Orleans, La, during the war, and his wife, the former Jane Hart, of Georgia, is said to have been imprisoned by federal troops after they occupied New Orleans, on account of her impertinence to a Yankee officer. After the Confederacy collapsed, Levy returned to Texas, selling his ship to secure capitol in order to reablish his mercantile business. It was a store built with this money in Old Waverly, where planters met in Sept. 1866 to discuss their problems insecuring workers after slavery was abolished .
Pink Levy, was born in New Orleans, La , on Mar 1,1865. At the time, New Orleans was occupied by federal troops. He was born as a prisoner of war, as his mother had been arrested for taunting the Northern troops who guarded the city. Many ladies in New Orleans during this period found themselves in the same predicament as Jane Levy. Pink Levy married Millie Jacobs, had Hennie Jeanne b. 1905 md Joe Geller and Meyer b. 1909 md Betty Rosenzweig
Meyer Levy was described as being well over 6 feet in height, stooped in his later years, and weighing over 200lbs. He was clean shaven, but wore sideburns as "perous" a modified form of the forelocks worn by Jews in olden times.
Jane Levy died in Navasota, Tx in 1877. Meyer's 2nd wife, was Yetta ?, she died abt 1930. He had no children by his 2nd wife. The children of Meyer and Jane Levy were:
Sam md Rebecca Hyam, Pink md Millie Jacobs, Harry, Celia md Ike Kuperman, and Rachel
Meyer Levy's brothers and sisters were:
1) Herman -lived in Buffalo, Texas, and Houston, Texas, where he is buried in Beth Israel Cemetery, in Houston
2)Ernestina - married a Goodman, lived in Navasota, Texas
died in Houston, Texas (buried in Navasota, Texas)
3)Samuel- lived in Navasota, Texas
4) Mary- married ? Cohen , lived in Navasota,Texas and Dallas, Texas
5)sister married ? Landman, lived in Navasota, Texas and Fort Worth, Texas
6)sister married ? Aronstein, stayed in Europe, until reaching a very advanced age. She lived in Dusseldorf,Germany (She was buried in Houston, Texas)
7)brother, had a son, Leo Levy, who is renowed for having ridden a bicycle from New York to Los Angelas,Ca in the mid-1920's
8)Simon-lived in Navasota, Texas and is buried there
9)brother-father to Sam and Julius Levy, lived in Houston, Texas(He never left Europe)
On April 23, 1867, aboard the Steamship, C. W. Lord, with Mr. Ward as their Capt. The Galveston Daily News, stated that 110 emigrants arrived. The passenger lists for Galveston are not available for this time period, since many were destroyed during the storm of 1900. Several Levy's settled in Galveston, Texas. Several lost their lives in the Galveston storm.
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