Winnie Howard wrote: >Is Potter's Field now part of the cemetery on Broadway? Potter's Field is now called Oleander Cemetery and is located within the boundaries of the large cemetery system located at Broadway between 40th and 43rd Streets. I believe Oleander is the corner of Broadway and 43rd. Their cemetery records are held by the Galveston Parks & Recreation Department, but no written records exist prior to the 1900 Storm. The cemetery has also undergone at least two grade raisings. If there was a headstone prior to the 1900 Storm and it did survive, it is possible that it is buried now. > They were Lutheran. Where would baptismal records be? Any recorded in the 1870's? The congregrational records for the First Lutheran Church, which were kept in German, are housed on microfilm at the Galveston & Texas History Center at the Rosenberg Library. The baptismal records do go back to the 1870s. If you have specific names and approximate dates, the staff at the library will search the records and make copies for you. They do charge $5.00 to do this research. >He died at St. Mary's Infirmary in 1900. Could he have been Catholic since he went to St. Mary's or was that >the only hospital at the time? St. Mary's was one of two hospitals in Galveston at the time. The other was John Sealy, which was a teaching hospital owned by the University of Texas. Currently, John Sealy is the only one in Galveston -- they bought out St. Mary's about three years ago. The records for St. Mary's MAY BE accessible through the Galveston-Houston Catholic Diocese, PO Box 907,Houston TX 77002-0907. The Archivist there is Lisa May. Many people went to St. Mary's for treatment-- you did not have to be Catholic to receive care there. Shelly Kelly Galveston TX