Southern Pacific Depot
7 January 1911: 1. Southern Pacific Depot, 650 E Commerce Street. 2. Mission Hotel (Joe Kneitz prop), 124 Heimann (until 1909).
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17 November 2025: 1. Sunset Train Station, 1174 E Commerce Street. 2. Conrad N. Hilton College, 122 Heiman St Ste 100 (Permanently Closed). 3. Staybridge Suites San Antonio Downtown 123 Hoefgen Avenue. 4. El Tigre St Paul Square, Lucy’s Vegan Bodega, Gigi’s Deli - 123 Heimann.
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Postmarked: 7 Jan 1911; San Antonio Tex.
Stamp: 2c Carmine George Washington #375 To: Mrs. Morris Tyng 38 Franklin Place Summit, N. J. Message: Jan´y 7 - Do not give the little package another anxious thought. There was no additional charge on it. Am indeed sorry you have been ill. With the best of New Year Greetings - Cousin Elizabeth. ¨Cousin Elizabeth¨could not have been 1st cousin as all those mentioned in the comprehensive history of the Cleveland family noted below named Elizabeth were born between 1817 and 1838, so could not be the author of the postcard. When she says cousin, she must be taking this term in the loosest sense. If she is buried in Moravian Cemetery as Morris was, there are 416 women born before 1895 (that is were at least 16 years old) and still alive in 1911. It seems most likely she is associated with John Hamilton Savage (1870-1947), the son of the recipient of the postcard, although her connections to the sprawling family could not be precisely determined.
Reference: The genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland families. An attempt to trace, in both the male and female lines, the posterity of Moses Cleveland ... [and] of Alexander Cleveland ... with numerous biographical sketches; and containing ancestries of many of the husbands and wives, also a bibliography of the Cleveland family and a genealogical account of Edward Winn of Woburn, and of other Winn families, by Cleveland, Edmund Janes, 1842-1902 |
Mrs. Tyng was Laura Hamilton, born in New Orleans, LA in 1845 where her father was trading maritime goods from Nova Scotia. Laura’s father was Charles Kennedy Hamilton (1815-1891), born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, but by 1840 living in Louisiana making a living as a 25 year old owner of a merchant brig there, the James, built in 1835. He married Laura’s mother, Margarette Magee Coolidge (1827-1881) 13 Mar 1841 in Boston, MA, and together they had developed a large tract of land on Staten Island, Hamilton’s Park, now a part of Castleton. Laura grew up there on the northeastern shore of Richmond County, NY a ferry ride away from Manhattan Island. On 20 September 1864 at St. George’s Rectory on Stuyvesant Park, New York City, she married John Dickinson Savage (1838-1876) and they raised three children in Summit, Union County, New Jersey: Constance (1868), Louise (1869), and John Hamilton (1871).
Laura’s son John Hamilton Savage (1870-1947) left New Jersey about 1903 to travel to Southeast Texas where he married Blanche Virginia Perry on June 7, 1904 in Houston. They moved to San Antonio, and he became the manager of the G. A. Moore Estate, working in the G. Bedell Moore Building in downtown San Antonio. This prime location at the corner of Avenue C (Broadway) and East Houston was at the center of a thriving metropolis, the largest in Texas at the time. Gregory Bedell Moore (1840-1908) was himself also from New Jersey, but came to East Texas and invested in the lumber business in 1877, later moving to San Antonio where he began to practice real estate. In his later years he mostly left the details of his Texas concerns to others and moved to Santa Barbara, CA where he died in 1908. Laura’s father-in-law, Stephen Higginson Tyng (1800-1885), was first rector of St. George’s Church as it rose on Stuyvesant Square Park in lower Manhattan. Laura’s husband Morris Ashhurst Tyng was a graduate of Williams College and Columbia University Law School. He taught Biblical History and Hebrew and Greek Literature at Kenyon College in Gambier, OH (1870-1874) and practiced law in Decatur, AL in the late 1880´s before returning to the Northeast and settling in Summit, NJ. |
Moore Building
from a Postcard
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St. George´s Church
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