Five Children in Orphanage (1910)
How one American family endured collapse, separation, and redemption across generations
In the early 1900s, industrial America transformed almost overnight.
Horse-drawn craftsmanship disappeared. Factories changed cities. Families fractured under economic pressure.
In Cincinnati, five siblings were placed into St. Joseph’s Orphanage while their parents struggled to survive in a world that no longer needed the old trades their father had mastered.
What began as a story of hardship eventually became something far larger:
a story of resilience passed from one generation to the next.
Decades later, one of those orphaned children would help build an orphanage for abandoned children in occupied Japan after World War II — transforming inherited suffering into compassion for others.
This journey traces one family through immigration, industrial upheaval, poverty, war, faith, endurance, and redemption — revealing how ordinary people carried extraordinary strength through the changing story of America.
MARY MORRELL FOLGER. (400 years ago)
The Long Grey Trail (Wilderness Road) details
The Connection to Ireland on the HENSLER side
How we are connected to GALWAY Ireland
Patrick O’Flaherty, 1846 Galway Ireland
His story here. Potato Famine and Ballinglass Incident
Ignatius Battaglia 1868 and Rosa Demma 1871
Battaglia family on Main Street in Covington
Paintings of Termini and the 1888 Cholera Epidemic
Battaglia Fruit and Vegetable Truck
Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Ecosystem 1900-1910
Adult baseball and football in the 1950’s
What Grandma Gray taught me. Read poem here. (and she always had a cookie in her sweater pocket)
Conrad Wagner at Vicksburg Mississippi 1863 Civil War
Grosswallstadt to Neuwallstadt (St Peter Catholic Church Franklin Co. Indiana)
Why they left? Germany 1815 through 1835
Both Sides Now (Ancestors at Vicksburg)
30,000 boys surrender (You boys got coffee?)
What about the 1864 Battle of Atlanta?
Ed Ruthman recalls 1915 before our entry into WW1
Uncle Paul Long Version and Photos
The Uprooted (book by Oscar Handlin)
The Uprooted and Keep Going Keep Loving
Houses where the Gray family lived (summary)
Houses where the Gray family lived (with pictures)
Snapshot of 1940 (Gray’s on Mt Hope, Hensler’s on Considine Ave)
Price Hill Incline History
Aunt Jean’s memory of the Incline
The Values of George and Dottie Hensler
Hensler Carroll Boller Hupp (89 slides)
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