Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Upon Narcissa Willis' death in 1899, her daughter Beatrice put the home up for sale. [4] Libbie Moody, who lived in a home nearby the mansion, asked her husband, William Lewis Moody, Jr., to put in a bid for the mansion. After the Hurricane of 1900 devastated Galveston that September, many of the bidders pulled out of the sale. Moody won the ...
Texas Historical Commission "Broadway Cemetery Historic District, Galveston, TX". Historic Houston. November 18, 2015 "Details – Broadway Cemetery Historic District – Atlas Number 2014000340 – Atlas: Texas Historical Commission". atlas.thc.state.tx.us. Texas Historical Commission
Shearn Moody Jr., was born on May 23, 1933, to Shearn Moody Sr. and Frances Moody Newman in Galveston, Texas. [5] His father died in 1936, while he was an infant. [6] Moody was well known for eccentric behavior, such as building a slide from his bedroom window to a swimming pool, where he kept pet penguins, and wearing house slippers wherever he went. [3]
Walter Gresham (1841–1920), US Congressman from Texas's 10th congressional district; Maud Cuney Hare (1874–1936), pianist, musicologist, writer, and African-American activist; Robert B. Hawley (1849–1921), US Congressman from Texas's 10th congressional district; Louis (Blues Boy) Jones (1931–1984), R&B singer and songwriter
Location of Galveston County in Texas. This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Galveston County, Texas. There are 10 districts, 73 individual properties, and four former properties listed on the National Register in the county.
The Texas heiress who held a lavish “wedding of the century” for an estimated $59 million has shared a new update in their ongoing love story amid her husband's legal battle.
In 1872 he participated in the founding of the Galveston Cotton Exchange and served as the president from 1877 to 1882, 1884 to 1888, and 1898 to 1900. [2] In 1894 W.L. Moody and Company built the first dockside cotton compress in Texas. [2] With his son, William Lewis Moody Jr., he opened a bank. Moody Bank soon merged with the National Bank ...
Eliza and Henrietta Huszti, 32 — who are part of a set of triplets — went missing over three weeks ago after last being seen in the early hours of Jan. 7