Lola Colosia

We were in Galveston several weeks back and took a self guided tour of the cemetary located on Broadway.   I have driven past that cementary countless times but I had never stopped in for a visit.

The big storm in 1900 officially made landfall on September 8, 1990, so I assume that Lola died in the flood.   She was sixteen years old. I did a search about her on the internet but only found references to her grave.  You can't help but wonder what kind of person she was.  I found myself thinking about her friends that might have survived.  It had to be pretty bad for a 16 year old to endure such a terrible Hurricane and flood back in 1900 but then even worse for a friend to die.  I was a teenager the first time I had experienced the death of a friend but I still can't imagine what it would be like to have been 16 years old in Galveston Texas in September of 1900.  There must have been kids who lost many classmates not to mention family members.  Hopefully the Seawall and modern warning systems will keep something like this from ever happening again.

Albert, Willie, and Eddie, all have thier date of death listed as September 8th, 1900.  It doesn't say how old they were but I have to assume they were brothers who apparantly died in the flood.   What a terrible day for anyone who was within several miles of this cemetary at the time.