Thanks, yes, I have had some people helping me to try to locate Ella and everything has been checked trying to find Ella in the census all over Texas and no luck with one her age that could be her. I just keep on running into dead ends. Thanks, Jane Little McEndree ----- Original Message ----- From: Genie <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 11:25 AM Subject: Re: [TXDALLAS] POORHOUSE Information > Have you checked the Ella Andersons in TX in the > 1880 census at familysearch.org? > > Also, I believe there were some orphanages in > Dallas in the late 1800s. > > --- janemc <[email protected]> wrote: > > Were there any poor houses in Dallas County in > > the 1870's? Did orphans wind > > up there ever back then? My great grandmother > > and her brother were abandoned > > by their parents down by the Trinity River > > bottoms between Wilmer and Ferris > > in Ellis county. Wilmer being in Dallas County. > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. > http://mailplus.yahoo.com > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >