Joe and Lena Lewis, immigrated to the United States from Latvia in the early 1900s and raised their six children in a Orthodox Jewish home, supported by one of two kosher butcher shops in Houston.
Joe Lewis fought in the Russia- Japanese War in 1904. When he came back from the army, his mother had died and his father was already in the United States. He went to his cousins, the Heymans, who lived and worked on a dairy farm as the overseers, to work there. They had a daughter and Lena's father set her up with Joe and they got married.
Joe came to the United States in 1912 through Galveston. On the ship's records, his name was listed as Luria. He went to Houston to be with a cousin, Aaron Lewis. He changed his name from Luria to Lewis like his cousin.
Joe Harry Lewis was a kosher butcher and owned Joe Lewis and Sons Meat Market. Survivors: Wife: Mrs. Lena Lewis; two daughters, Mrs. Bert Scheinbrum of Waco and Mrs. Leslie Lippman of Schulenberg; four sons, Abe, Max L., Ben T., and Meyer H. Lewis of Houston; sister, Mrs. Philip Morris of Houston.
The first store was 1009 Rice (which is now Nagel Street). Then they had a store at 1914 Hamilton. Their son, Buddy, ran this store on his own for a while when they opened a second store at 3009 Blodgett, in the Riverside area right behind the TSU baseball field. Rabbi Max Geller was the shochet and would come to the butcher shop to kill chickens. He would kill them in the back and the sons and other help would pluck the chickens. Many people raised their own chickens and they could bring them to the shochet when he was at the market to have him kill them for about 10 to 15 cents. When they cleaned the chickens, they would collect all of the chicken guts in a big 50 gallon metal drum. They would take the drum to a dump on Patterson Street and dump everything. They got the meat from the Port City packing Co. on Calhoun Rd. Joe would pick out the live cows – he would use a stick and look the cow over. Then the shochet would kill the cow and mark the meat as kosher. Joe would sell the hind quarter to a local grocery store and keep the forward quarter for the kosher meat. Other shochets included Rabbi Yellen and Rabbi Horwitz.
Joe Lewis fought in the Russia- Japanese War in 1904. When he came back from the army, his mother had died and his father was already in the United States. He went to his cousins, the Heymans, who lived and worked on a dairy farm as the overseers, to work there. They had a daughter and Lena's father set her up with Joe and they got married.
Joe came to the United States in 1912 through Galveston. On the ship's records, his name was listed as Luria. He went to Houston to be with a cousin, Aaron Lewis. He changed his name from Luria to Lewis like his cousin.
Joe Harry Lewis was a kosher butcher and owned Joe Lewis and Sons Meat Market. Survivors: Wife: Mrs. Lena Lewis; two daughters, Mrs. Bert Scheinbrum of Waco and Mrs. Leslie Lippman of Schulenberg; four sons, Abe, Max L., Ben T., and Meyer H. Lewis of Houston; sister, Mrs. Philip Morris of Houston.
The first store was 1009 Rice (which is now Nagel Street). Then they had a store at 1914 Hamilton. Their son, Buddy, ran this store on his own for a while when they opened a second store at 3009 Blodgett, in the Riverside area right behind the TSU baseball field. Rabbi Max Geller was the shochet and would come to the butcher shop to kill chickens. He would kill them in the back and the sons and other help would pluck the chickens. Many people raised their own chickens and they could bring them to the shochet when he was at the market to have him kill them for about 10 to 15 cents. When they cleaned the chickens, they would collect all of the chicken guts in a big 50 gallon metal drum. They would take the drum to a dump on Patterson Street and dump everything. They got the meat from the Port City packing Co. on Calhoun Rd. Joe would pick out the live cows – he would use a stick and look the cow over. Then the shochet would kill the cow and mark the meat as kosher. Joe would sell the hind quarter to a local grocery store and keep the forward quarter for the kosher meat. Other shochets included Rabbi Yellen and Rabbi Horwitz.
Joe and Lena Lewis, immigrated to the United States from Latvia in the early 1900s and raised their six children in a Orthodox Jewish home, supported by one of two kosher butcher shops in Houston.
Joe Lewis fought in the Russia- Japanese War in 1904. When he came back from the army, his mother had died and his father was already in the United States. He went to his cousins, the Heymans, who lived and worked on a dairy farm as the overseers, to work there. They had a daughter and Lena's father set her up with Joe and they got married.
Joe came to the United States in 1912 through Galveston. On the ship's records, his name was listed as Luria. He went to Houston to be with a cousin, Aaron Lewis. He changed his name from Luria to Lewis like his cousin.
Joe Harry Lewis was a kosher butcher and owned Joe Lewis and Sons Meat Market. Survivors: Wife: Mrs. Lena Lewis; two daughters, Mrs. Bert Scheinbrum of Waco and Mrs. Leslie Lippman of Schulenberg; four sons, Abe, Max L., Ben T., and Meyer H. Lewis of Houston; sister, Mrs. Philip Morris of Houston.
The first store was 1009 Rice (which is now Nagel Street). Then they had a store at 1914 Hamilton. Their son, Buddy, ran this store on his own for a while when they opened a second store at 3009 Blodgett, in the Riverside area right behind the TSU baseball field. Rabbi Max Geller was the shochet and would come to the butcher shop to kill chickens. He would kill them in the back and the sons and other help would pluck the chickens. Many people raised their own chickens and they could bring them to the shochet when he was at the market to have him kill them for about 10 to 15 cents. When they cleaned the chickens, they would collect all of the chicken guts in a big 50 gallon metal drum. They would take the drum to a dump on Patterson Street and dump everything. They got the meat from the Port City packing Co. on Calhoun Rd. Joe would pick out the live cows – he would use a stick and look the cow over. Then the shochet would kill the cow and mark the meat as kosher. Joe would sell the hind quarter to a local grocery store and keep the forward quarter for the kosher meat. Other shochets included Rabbi Yellen and Rabbi Horwitz.
Joe Lewis fought in the Russia- Japanese War in 1904. When he came back from the army, his mother had died and his father was already in the United States. He went to his cousins, the Heymans, who lived and worked on a dairy farm as the overseers, to work there. They had a daughter and Lena's father set her up with Joe and they got married.
Joe came to the United States in 1912 through Galveston. On the ship's records, his name was listed as Luria. He went to Houston to be with a cousin, Aaron Lewis. He changed his name from Luria to Lewis like his cousin.
Joe Harry Lewis was a kosher butcher and owned Joe Lewis and Sons Meat Market. Survivors: Wife: Mrs. Lena Lewis; two daughters, Mrs. Bert Scheinbrum of Waco and Mrs. Leslie Lippman of Schulenberg; four sons, Abe, Max L., Ben T., and Meyer H. Lewis of Houston; sister, Mrs. Philip Morris of Houston.
The first store was 1009 Rice (which is now Nagel Street). Then they had a store at 1914 Hamilton. Their son, Buddy, ran this store on his own for a while when they opened a second store at 3009 Blodgett, in the Riverside area right behind the TSU baseball field. Rabbi Max Geller was the shochet and would come to the butcher shop to kill chickens. He would kill them in the back and the sons and other help would pluck the chickens. Many people raised their own chickens and they could bring them to the shochet when he was at the market to have him kill them for about 10 to 15 cents. When they cleaned the chickens, they would collect all of the chicken guts in a big 50 gallon metal drum. They would take the drum to a dump on Patterson Street and dump everything. They got the meat from the Port City packing Co. on Calhoun Rd. Joe would pick out the live cows – he would use a stick and look the cow over. Then the shochet would kill the cow and mark the meat as kosher. Joe would sell the hind quarter to a local grocery store and keep the forward quarter for the kosher meat. Other shochets included Rabbi Yellen and Rabbi Horwitz.
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